Between Film and Art

Filmhuis Den Haag | Saturday 30 November | 15:00 hours

The second part of ENFF’s new festival segment, Between Film and Art. Join us on 30th November at Filmhuis in The Hague for three outstanding experimental films that push the boundaries of cinematic language with bold artistic vision.

This screening includes a Q&A with the directors Norika Sefa (Like a Sick Yellow) and Sophio Medoidze (Let Us Flow). Enjoy a cocktail after the screening at 17 hours.

Like a Sick Yellow

Norika Sefa | 2024 | 23 min | Kosovo

A mesmerizing tale crafted from the rhythms of archival VHS footage from a Kosovan family. Winner of Best Short Documentary at the Sarajevo Film Festival this year.

An immersion into Nora’s memories, where realities merge, and the bad and the beautiful intertwine until everything blends and something else is formed — a tragedy foretold.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION): International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024 – World Premiere in Tiger Short Competition | Beldocs, 2024 – Best Short Film | Docufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2024 – Main Prize in National Competition | Sarajevo Film Festival, 2024 – Best Short Documentary Film 

Lifelike

Dora Budor | 2024 | 6 min | United States, Croatia

With a vibrating pleasure device attached to the camera, Lifelike depicts the increasing abstraction of contemporary life through relentless pulses and blurs. It finds the “libidinal economy” embodied in Hudson Yards, New York—the largest and most expensive private development in U.S. history.

Capturing the fusion of finance capitalism, art, and urban development, Lifelike offers a striking portrayal of contemporary alienation, challenging subjective perception through rhythmic dissonance and visceral disruption. Set to an improvised score by UK Brad, its guiding tempo is “stuplimity” — a fusion of boredom and astonishment, excessive excitement, and extreme desensitization.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION): Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Let Us Flow

Sophio Medoidze | 2023 | 63 min | Georgia, United Kingdom

Winner of the New Cinema Award at the 2023 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. In Georgia’s remote Tusheti mountains, ancient traditions clash with modernisation as a filmmaker explores sacred spaces, gender roles, and a community at a crossroads. 

A long poem to the mountains, Let Us Flow explores the significance of ritual, the maintenance of community ties, and the impacts of modernization and migration on rural landscapes. Shot over several years, the film uses innovative audio-visual techniques and sound composition to make visible the symbolic and physical division of sacred spaces within the community. It offers a nuanced perspective on a culture where ancestral shrines are only accessible to men.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION): TATE Modern, London (solo presentation: Sophio Medoidze: Kotori), 2022 | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 2023 – New Cinema Award | EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, 2023 | Kasseler Dokfest, 2023 | Interseccion, 2023 – International competition | Beursschouwburg, 2023 | Tbilisi International Film Festival, 2023