Program 3

Tamás, after his father's death, inherits a white van and with it, his father's business. Tamás dislikes both animals and people, but he’s forced to drive around the post-communist concrete buildings of Budapest in his mobile pet cremation van anyway

In Chrysanthemum, Jingyuan Luo approaches the case of a Chinese "suicide jumper," living and reliving the trauma of a death made invisible by the state that had caused it. In wordless grief the flower of mourning blooms.

Esther and Adam vow to stop speaking to their chain-smoking father until he quits. Soon, Esther begins to struggle with the pact.

March 2020: João has no one to spend the lockdown with. Alone in his small apartment, an HIV-positive gay man watches Vienna’s empty streets as his longing for connection clashes with responsibility. Stigma, sex, and solitude on 16mm.