On The Circuit

Moving between personal recollection and cinematic reflection, Abdellah Taïa’s Cairo Streets traces an intimate journey through a city marked by absence and desire.

Brought to life by Japanese guro animation traits, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears until their game takes an unexpected turn in Jocelyn Charles’ festival hit God is Shy.

In Blue Heart, the final instalment in Haitian filmmaker Samuel Suffren’s paternal trilogy, doubling becomes a continual quest: a return to himself through the figure of his father.

In Their Eyes, screen recordings testify to the experience of online micro-workers from the ‘Global South’: their job is to train AI for self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the ‘Global North’—a labour process that, by design, steers towards a real abstraction, and a looping nightmare.

Does performing daily routines before a camera shift the meaning of your work? Recreating labour in informal Moroccan mining pits in collaboration with the town’s residents, Randa Maroufi’s L’mina draws from Bertolt Brecht’s alienation effect.