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Do you know this place? Thanks to cinema, time and distance and familiar surroundings can be warped, sublimated and turned upside down. These films are about strange journeys to utopias and foreign locations\u2026 sometimes next door.<\/p>\n
In Back to Mamanville<\/i>, home movies, fiction, memories and \u201cUnheimliche\u201d are layered to renew the \u201chomecoming\u201d subgenre. Society of Clothes<\/i> imagines a Magritte-like world where your wardrobe has a life on its own \u2013 but without bodies to wear it. In Displaced<\/i>, what if a videogame was a way to comprehend the very nature of exile in a time of war?<\/p>\n
Geneva, Switzerland, has never looked weirder and unnerving in the vampire film I Wish You to Love Me, I Wish to Love You<\/i>. Buurthuis 2<\/i> is a monster film set in a mundane Dutch community house. And Unknown Continent<\/i> is less that faraway land of milk and honey than this inner, emotional state where you don\u2019t know whether you\u2019re going or leaving.<\/p>\n
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