Ziad Chakaroun

On the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. Through literature, myth and local entanglements, the frontier between reality and fiction, and the seen and unseen, no longer apply.

In Mondial 2010 Lebanese artist Roy Dib presents an impossible love story between two men. His is a road movie that explores the institutional borders of the modern day Middle East.

Toño works as a local policeman in his town. He is clumsy and his neighbors laugh at him, so he asks his old teacher at the academy for help. What he finds is a town full of tensions, with a day laborers' strike that doesn't help.

Eight years after the interrail described in Orange Color Days, this film presents another trip with a similar starting point: a Finnish girl is asked to do the train trip that a woman took forty years ago, repeating the same actions. At first everything seems pleasant and inconsequential. But the journey takes a turn when she meets Ziad, a Syrian who must reach southern Spain to identify the body of his drowned brother.