Across islands, archives, museums, photographs, rituals, and intimate domestic spaces, the films in this programme investigate how histories of colonialism, extraction, and systemic violence persist in the present. Fragments in the shape of discarded objects, inherited statues, forgotten photographs, personal memories, and acts of burning, question who has the authority to preserve history and whose narratives are allowed to endure.

Together, these works propose alternative forms of witnessing, where beings, everyday objects, and personal gestures become carriers of silenced histories. They challenge institutional systems of value and knowledge, revealing how colonial and historical legacies continue to shape ideas of authenticity, ownership, memory, financial worth, and belonging. Moving through cyclical, fractured, and embodied understandings of time, the films uncover the violence concealed beneath ordinary landscapes and familiar images.

Rather than seeking a singular or objective truth, this programme embraces history as a fragmented and contested terrain, shaped by multiple voices, memories, and ways of knowing. Moving between fact and speculation, remembrance and imagination, the films propose truth as a collective collage—one that challenges dominant (hi)stories and opens space for more plural ways of remembering, relating, and imagining the future.