Who defines the ideal citizen, and who decides where the boundaries between belonging and exclusion lie? Moving through speculative futures, historical technological dreams, ancient myths, and collective fantasies, the films in this programme explore the visible and invisible forces that shape our lives and societies—and the stories we create to challenge them.

Across these works, the corporation, the machine, the vampire, and the mandragora become powerful figures through which to question our ideas of care, progress, community, and our relationship with the natural world. They reveal what often remains hidden beneath everyday life: corporate interests disguised as care, the promises and dangers of technology, the unseen violence of urban transformation, and forgotten relationships between humans and plants.

Drawing on science fiction, folklore, horror, and fantasy, the programme uses imagination to make the unseen visible. These films invite us to look beyond the realities we take for granted and imagine different ways of living together.