This year, ENFF highlights film art with its new festival section Between Film & Art. We present a series of outstanding films by emerging talents and established makers exploring the edges of film language with bold artistic vision. Followed by discussions with the filmmakers and programmer Temra Pavlović.

This section will have two screenings: on November 21 at 19:30h at Nest, The Hague, and on November 30 at 15:00h in Filmhuis Den Haag within the ENFF festival program.

We screen: Projekt (Germany/Nigeria, 25 min) by Dane Komljen about the International Trade Fair in Lagos as a transhistorical conglomerate where utopia transforms. Let Us Flow (Georgia/UK, 63 min) by Sophio Medoidze on the persistence of tradition in the Georgian Tusheti mountains, which won the New Cinema Award at the 2023 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival; and as well Medoidze’s Xitana (Georgia/UK, 2019, 6 min), which captures ancient ritual in resistance to the pressures of modernity. Lifelike (USA/Croatia, 6 min) by Dora Budor, recently shown at the Whitney Biennial in New York, depicts the libidinal economy in a psychic and physical blur. Like a Sick Yellow (Kosovo, 23 min) by Norika Sefa, awarded best short documentary at the Sarajevo Film Festival, a poignant mental spiral in film form; Both Ears to the Ground (France/Russia, 29 min) by Naïmé Perrette, about the (in)visible expressions of sinkholes in the Urals. By Svetlana Romanova, Hinkelten (Russia, 15 min), from the Yakutian Arctic: a poem in fragments searching for visual-cultural sovereignty; and Gaze is a Bridge (Croatia/Netherlands, 22 min) by Katarina Zdjelar, who creates a space through a complex woman’s gaze that reaches through time and space.