curated by Laura Bianco Selection #1 FILMS BY THE RESIDENT ARTISTS . Madeline (I Am Not) Canada | 1' directed by Allison Beda A dance film poem about identity and connection (or lack thereof). 30 Love Canada | 5' directed by Allison Beda 30-LOVE is a dance film poem that chronicles a long distance relationship and its demise. A simple voice-over narration of the emotional arc of one of the lovers is combined with the film of a tennis match ‘dance’ and a musical score, which i

curated by Laura Bianco This year's residency brings to Tranås two international filmmakers and two Swedish artists! Allison Beda Experimental humourist filmmaker, Conceptual Sculptor and Dada Gallerist who loves joyful guerilla art interventions, turning difficult life experiences into comedic works of art, and working with what you have. Allison Beda’s film art is deeply personal, darkly comic, subversively feminist and Allison’s conceptual sculptures question what art is a

Soetkin Verstegen is an independent film maker and animator from Brussels. Her films Mr Sand (2016) and Freeze frame (2019) and Beautiful figures (2023) traveled to numerous festivals and received jury awards at Clermont-Ferrand, Ann Arbor, Annecy, Fantoche and Animafest Zagreb. She was a fellow at MacDowell, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, ZHdK's a-i-l programm, Saari residence and AniDox:Residency. She freelanced on stop motion productions and is a

curated by Laura Bianco and Erica Elfstrom Selection #1 YOU AND I Two films like private letters. Tell you about: the birds and the bees, sagittarius rising Sweden | 14' 58" directed by Pollyanna Popermajer To the images of awakening spring, a woman talks to a man. She reflects on his actions towards her, her old self and the new. By saying goodbye to what once was, she accepts her altered new self. But with anger of what was taken from her, she's determined to seek justice.

Every year, we have some talks with some of the filmmakers who are presenting their films at the festival. You can find the film talks from past editions of the festival, on our YouTube channel.

This project, conceived by Dominic Williams and Laura Bianco, wants to create connections between poets and filmmakers who participate in the festival. ​ We asked some poets to write something (prose or poem) in response to some of the films that are part of the selection. Poets are free to approach this task as they wish (watching the entire film with audio, without audio, focusing on a particular sequence or on some single frames...), in short, there are no precise rules. W

Maxime Coton (1986) is a writer and media artist living and working in Brussels. In 2004, he published a poetry collection at Tetras Lyre editions, one of the editorial references of the genre in Belgium. It became the first step of a devotion to literature in different forms and media, because books are needed but not enough. Since then, he has published several books, awarded with various prizes. His practice beyond writing includes musical performances, film poems and digi

curated by Laura Bianco and Erica Elfstrom Selection #1 FIRE The four elements in films. Fire feared and sought. The Hollow USA | 14' 37" directed by Jean-Jacques Martinod and Bretta C. Walker synopsis: A reclusive glass artist lives in solitude within the dense, misty forests of Southern Appalachia and the infernal fires of a foundry. A cinematic study on mountain alchemy and its relationship to fire. Extended Presences Belgium | 12' 30" directed by Margaux Anne Ali Dauby s

curated by Laura Bianco and Erica Elfstrom Selection #1 LIVING MASCULINITY Some ways of living masculinity. Reasonable Canada | 4' directed by Justin Beaulieu Three inner voices collide through a narration: An analytical thinker, a proud rebel and a wounded child tell the story of a lingering father-son conflict. While the rebel fantasizes of confronting his father once and for all, the thinker seeks to prove to himself that he is indeed right. The injured child, meanwhile, o