Shorts: The Future is Unwritten

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Through speculation, fabulation and magical realism, these four films - from four corners of the globe - revel in the power and possibilities of poetic truth, expanding the frontiers of the documentary form.


The Footnote
Lun Ji Wei Lai Shi
Xiang Fu / Macau, Portugal / 2025 / 24 / World Premiere
In 2023, as China gradually lifts its COVID-19 restrictions, a female pharmacist navigates the desolate city in this pivotal post-pandemic moment.

Space to Breathe
Juicebox P. Burton / USA / 2025 / 21 / World Premiere
Happy Abolition Day! The last prison in the USA has just been closed under the 2036 Reparations and Reconciliation Act. How did we get here?

Cat Rong Po
Mao Rong Po
Shaojun Wang, Sebastian Molina Ruiz / China, Hungary, Mexico, Belgium / 2025 / 9 / World Premiere
Liu Liu is living in a strange new land. While his mother looks after the shop, he goes exploring. Encountering a ghost monster, a fierce battle begins.

The Dam
La presa
Manuel Ojeda / Cuba / 2025 / 20 / World Premiere
A mysterious fish, rumoured to be three metres long, swims behind a dam. Tingo is obsessed with catching this shadowy creature and proving everyone wrong.

In this show

Intro
5 mins
The Footnote
24 mins
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Space to Breathe
21 mins
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Cat Rong Po
9 mins
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The Dam
20 mins
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Q&A
30 mins

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Shorts: The Future is Unwritten + Q&A
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The Light - Screen 6
Q&A with directors Xiang Fu, Juicebox P. Burton, Shaojun Wang and Sebastian Molina Ruiz.
Shorts: The Future is Unwritten + Q&A
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Curzon - Screen 2
Q&A with directors Xiang Fu, Juicebox P. Burton, Shaojun Wang and Sebastian Molina Ruiz.

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