Whatever will be, will be. Please, no. Outside forces threaten the characters of these films but they will stand, even if victory is bitter or means you will live to die another day. 

Where Russia Ends appropriates found footage from the 1980s to exorcise modern-day Russian imperialism – that eternal return. Left-Handed Pen shows in real time how a mother will do everything for her son’s future –  no matter the cost. Lumen Naturae is about overcoming grief, trading one death for one life in the most unexpected way.

In Exit Through The Cuckoo’s Nest, a soldier refuses to pull the trigger and is thrown into another kind of battlefield. In Let Them Eat Cake, you’ll see Jeff Bezos like never before, working in a pastry shop as a monstrous, cannibalistic, Willy-Wonka-like avatar of capitalism that never tires. And let’s have a glimmer of hope with the lady of Hasta la Futura, whose sweet melancholy is an antidote to this modern, rubbish and bureaucratic world. This is war. This is cinema as an army of dreamers.

Foreword by the programme curator: These films are about resistance, unbridled energy and fortitude – it’s them against the world!