“Gentle and immersive. A visual feast
that weaves together stories, rituals, and songs with the everyday life in Fez’s parks and gardens. “
Sarah - Programmer
Australian Premiere
Journey through the gardens and water systems of the walled city of Fez, once central to the city’s cultural and social life, now largely abandoned.
Uniquely personal, the award-winning documentary Gardens of Fez spotlights the integral role the city’s gardens play connecting history, community and culture. Through the eyes of a schoolteacher remembering the gardens and streams of the past, an architect developing a play, and a poet, gardener and dancer trio cultivating stories, rituals and songs, Fez is revealed as a city of memory and imagination.
Director and researcher Heidi Vogels combines Moroccan nature and culture, weaving through the narrow streets and slivers of green within the ancient city to remember natural places that have been neglected or simply vanished.
Netherlands | Documentary | Heidi Vogels | 50’
Screening with…
From The Mountain, We See The Mountain
In the midst of the Patagonian Andes, an Indigenous forest is recovering from a fire, with animals and humans emerging from a landscape scarred by colonisation.
Blurring the line between fiction and reality, moving between scenes of everyday life and haunting whispered myth, this powerful documentary challenges audiences to interrogate what is real, what isn’t and what stories we want to hold on to.
Balancing elements of myth, sci-fi and thriller, filmmaker Julian Garcia Long conjures a land reckoning with monsters it did not create.
Belgium | Documentary | Julián García Long | 32”
16:15 - 18:00, Sun 25 October
Champagne Video Bar
$16. Tickets available via Humanitix.