Smoke and Mirrors

White drawings on light-sensitive material. This film about the ambivalence of memory builds a bridge to our childhood ability to find everyday magic in the smallest objects.

Exploding tomatoes, bullet-riddled walls, snails looking for houses. A return to a childhood during the Bosnian War where beautiful memories lie next to traumatic ones.

A nocturnal drive through Helsinki produces astonishing connections: Rarely have the Eurovision Song Contest, nuclear bombs and a notorious NATO commando exercise been that close to each other.

At nightfall, the dangerous march across the US border begins. A cinematic approach to the experience of Central American migrants on the run.

An AI cannot play ping pong. Nor is it possible with a former friend who now votes for Trump. A conversation about physical absence and political alienation.

Kyiv, before 24 February 2022. A family is trying to make ends meet – though the fridge is permanently empty and the electric metre has sharp teeth. Then bombs hit the building across the street.