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A husband and wife, both queer, live together but as if in two different worlds. A programme guides them along every day: how to wash up, how to behave, all pointing toward a specific reproductive goal. Between satire and the surreal, "Future Flowers" is reflects the economic and productive imperatives imposed in hetero-directed dreams.

Hao Zhou is a filmmaker from southwest China. An alum of the Cinéfondation Résidence and Berlinale Talents, Zhou has directed an indie feature "The Night", which premiered at the Berlinale Panorama. Zhou's short film "Frozen Out" was a Student Academy Awards gold medal winner and screened at Fribourg, BFI Flare, and many other festivals. Currently Zhou is working on multiple queer narrative and nonfiction projects.

In the summer of 2023, the government of Jiujiang launched the Gan Tang Lake Cleansing Project. Within weeks, this ancient lake with over two millennia of history was drained. Nearby in Gan Tang Park, a boy wakes up in the rain. There, the destiny of Gan Tang awaits.

Tianming Zhou (Alaric) works with lens-based media, sound, and installation. He explores the in-between of physical and conceptual landscapes. His works have been showcased at Antimatter, Mimesis, Interfilm, Experiments in Cinema, Non-Syntax, Leiden Shorts, RPM Festival, etc.

Both my parents and grandparents had told about their experiences of witnessing dragon and strange astronomic as kids. These things became part of my childhood memory which I still hold onto deeply. I believe there are some kind of lives and energy that are beyond human existence. They are totems which evolved into symbols throughout thousands of years. Whereas modern science , under the coverage of logic, made every one of us a superstitious bystander. Truth is like an enormous broken flower fading on earth. How do these incidents relate to casual bystanders? The mystery of these beliefs is best understood by peasants, who have intermingled with the land and nature for thousands of years. But are they still there, or are they hidden in a secret way? This is what I have been looking for. It is unique and belongs to everyone. As Nietzsche wrote in “Also sprach Zarathustra”: “You and I even in the mountains we seek something different. I came here to seek more safety, because it is still the strongest tower and will”.

ZHOU YULONG photographer & Artist b. 1978 2000: Worked as Art director of Ogilvy&Mather Co. 2002: Founded DTMPHOTO studio Based in Shanghai

This film is about the nature of existence and memory. Seventy years ago, on a night, a musician was shot dead on stage in a nightclub in Shanghai, a story found by a Frenchman on an old newspaper today. Although the musician was long forgotten in the history,this French gentleman makes his way to Shanghai in the hope of finding the traces of the musician's existence. In a shabby old apartment, he reads aloud the novel written by Patrick Modiano, calling the spirits that used to live here.His voice evokes the response of the Shanghai musician. All of a sudden, it seems to him as if they share the same memories, details and breath. As Modiano puts it: "there was nothing to set us apart from the others, those Sundays in August.”

Zhou Hongbo graduated from Beijing Film Academy, with a master’s degree in 1999. His graduation film, A Fish Who Wants to Fly, was selected for Cannes Film Festival 2000, Cinefondation. Since then Zhou has made several features and documentaries which were screened at various international film festival.

Can a horse save a life? In Clondalkin (Dublin) that’s exactly the case. In a district with a lot of problems and not may of prospects, young people face drugs, prison and crime as their only path. But some of them manage to escape thanks to an unusual hobby. They tame wild horses and become… urban cowboys. When 14-year-old Dylan hits a bad streak in his life, he finds comfort in Shelly, a white mare that quickly becomes his whole world. Even though taming wild horses is illegal in Ireland and Shelly’s hooves are not used to the concrete streets, their unlikely friendship grows stronger.

Born in 1981, he graduated from the Lodz National Film School and from the Wajda School in Warsaw. The short documentaries and fiction films he has made so far have received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and have won many prestigious awards. His documentary Rogalik got IDFA nomination in 2012. It has also been shown and awarded at festivals such as Zagreb Dox, Alcine Festival (First Prize), and festivals in Oberhausen, Beijing, Bucharest, Cracow and others. Apart from directing, Pawel Ziemilski is involved in social animation, organizing workshops for so-called troubled youth.

A drifting conversation takes place in the interior of the former residence of the Pope of the Enlightenment in Bologna, Italy. LUMI – Trio was conceived and filmed in bird's-eye long takes combining fictional narration, staged documentary and re-enactment. Although they have different origins -Omar was born in Ghana and raised in Italy, Yakub emigrated from Nigeria, Bianca is Italian- the three friends are coming of age in the same city and their shared desire to explore the world makes them aware of the arbitrary limits imposed by their passports. Their languid talks range from quarantine to desires for escape, from projections about the future to mutual attraction, discovering that some prejudices still separate the group of “us” from “ the others”.

Anna de Manincor | ZimmerFrei Born in Trento (Italy), lived in various cities - for work and for choice - including Bologna, Marseille, Brooklyn, Bari, Brussels and a Greek island of the Dodecanese. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and Sassari (Sardinia). Since 2000 works within the collective ZimmerFrei, founded with sound designer Massimo Carozzi and artist Anna Rispoli and realized several documentary films, video installations, soundwalks, performances and public art projects. Exploring the boundaries between public space and private territories, ZimmerFrei portrays everyday situations of living and working, seeking for sudden and unstable epiphanies. ZimmerFrei’s recent works are dedicated to urban and rural contexts in transformation, observing temporary communities taking shape, fading away or transforming again. Most of the film works are created on site thanks to residence production grants (Belgium, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Greece and China) or with international co-production (Italy-France-Belgium). Since 2011, the long term working cycles by ZimmerFrei have been produced with European funds, in the frame of InSitu Network (Temporary Cities: 6 documentary films), Open Latitudes (Family Affair, live format with local participants in 8 European cities) and Atlas of Transitions (Saga, doc in 4 episodes).

Five authors from different regions of the world read the novel The Shape Of Things To Come by H.G. Wells together and then started writing. The visual artist Tobias Yves Zintel transforms their texts into an experimental video. How have human beings shaped the planet? And, in turn, how has the planet shaped human beings through large-scale climatic changes? And what form will our life together take on if we no longer place the human being above all others?

In his artistic practice Tobias Yves Zintel (1975, Passau, Germany) draws on different genres as film, theater, performance, installation and music. Through conscious border crossings he re-arranges and re-mixes selected parts from these fields and creates narrative documentaries between fact and fiction. In his films, he focusses on existential questions about human identity - its rituals and belief systems and how these are influencing the experience of reality. He also works as artistic/scientific Associate in the Department of fine Arts at the KHM in Cologne.

TOBIAS YVES ZINTEL wird 1975 in Passau geboren. Er studiert Konzeptkunst an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München bei Joseph Kosuth. Seine filmischen Arbeiten integrieren verschiedene Genres wie Performance, Dokumentation, Installation, Musik und Theater. In einer eigenwilligen Bildsprache kreiert er Filme, die uns groteske Szenarien, rätselhafte Aktionen und entrückte Universen vorstellen. Seine filmischen Arbeiten werden bundesweit und international gezeigt, u.a. bei Videonale.14, Kunstmuseum Bonn (GER), Glasgow International (GB), Video Roam@Honor Fraser (USA), Doris MacCarthy Gallery (CA), RIPBM@Palais de Tokyo (FR), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (GER). Regelmäßig arbeitet Zintel am Theater und Oper, u.a. an den Münchner Kammerspielen (Doing Identity Festival, Bunny Hill I und II, Hauptschule der Freiheit), Deutsche Oper Berlin, Neumarkt Theater Zürich & am Theater Basel. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

TOBIAS YVES ZINTEL wurde 1975 in Passau geboren. Er studierte Konzeptkunst an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München bei Joseph Kosuth. Seine Videoarbeiten werden bundesweit und international gezeigt, darunter Einzelausstellungen in München (Galerie Barbara Gross), Los Angeles (USA), Glasgow (GB), Amsterdam (NL) und Ausstellungsbeteiligungen u.a. bei der art cologne (Köln), aando fine arts (Berlin), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (München). Regelmäßig arbeitet Zintel am Theater, u.a. an den Münchner Kammerspielen (Doing Identity Festival, Bunny Hill I und II, Hauptschule der Freiheit), am Theater Basel und Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Tobias Yves Zintel was born in 1975 in Passau in Germany. He studied from 1996 to 2003 at the catholic University of Eichstätt and with the LMU of Munich, then, from 2003 to 2007, he attended the Joseph Kosuth courses at the Academy of visual Arts in Munich. He works exclusively with the filmic medium, by producing interaction between the music, the performance, the theatre, film and art. He is co-founder of the artistic production ?Interesting Productions? with Bo Christian Larsson and Murena. He lives and works in Berlin, and in the Bavarian forest and Munich.

Tobias Yves Zintel est né en 1975 à Passau en Allemagne. Il étudie de 1996 à 2003 à l?Université catholique d?Eichstätt et à la LMU de Munich, puis il suit les cours de Joseph Kosuth à l?Académie des Arts visuels de Munich. Il travaille exclusivement sur le médium filmique, en faisant l?interface entre la musique, la performance, le théâtre, le film et l?art. Il est co-fondateur de la production artistique ?Interesting Productions? avec Bo Christian Larsson et Murena. Il vit et travaille à Berlin, dans la forêt bavaroise et Munich.

The film work by Tobias Yves Zintel integrates various genres such as performance, installation, music, and theater. He makes films in an idiosyncratic visual language, confronting us with scenes of grotesqueries, mysterious actions, and sublime universes. Mental Radio, the film?s title, is taken from the title of a book written in 1930 by Upton Sinclair, which describes the experiments conducted with his wife, who had telepathic powers. Besides the attempt to trace the inexplicable things in a family constellation, Zintel also grapples with the question of how to deal with the mentally ill in our society.

Tobias Yves Zintel, born in 1975 in Passau, lives and works in Berlin. He studied under Joseph Kosuth at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.

Der Film Traumberuf Realität, entstanden während des Interventionsprojektes ?Hauptschule der Freiheit? der Münchner Kammerspiele, ist eine filmische Reflexion über die Lebensperspektiven junger Menschen. Befragt werden zehn Absolventen einer Münchner Hauptschule zu ihren beruflichen Hoffnungen und Wünschen; sowie zu den scheinbar notwendigen Kompromissen, die der Arbeitsmarkt an sie heranträgt. Spürbar wird die Malaise einer postindustriellen Gesellschaft, in der schwindende Lohnarbeitsplätze subtile und offensichtliche Deformationen verlangen, ohne eine glaubwürdige Zukunft zu bieten. Sekundiert von einem Bildungssystem, das, statt die Menschen in ihrer Substanz zu stärken, sie als Erfüllungsgehilfe des Arbeitsmarktes biografisch degradiert. Dagegen stellt ?Traumberuf. Realität.? eine einzige Frage: Wie würdest du gern mit deinem Leben umgehen? - und kontert die Tristesse des somnambulen Arbeitnehmers mit persönlichen Träumen und Wünschen. Die Suchkriterien lauten: Wo ist die Würde und das Selbstbewusstsein? Wo ist der Respekt? Welches Potential, welche Kreativität und welche Leidenschaft werden unterdrückt und verschwendet? Und welche Perspektiven und Möglichkeiten könnten wir entwickeln? Könnten?

CV Tobias Yves Zintel wurde 1975 in Passau/Deutschland geboren. Von 1996 bis 2002 studierte er an der katholischen Universitaet Eichstaett und der LMU München. Von 2002-2007 studierte er in der Klasse von Joseph Kosuth an der Akademie der bildenden Künste. Er arbeitet mit Video und Fotografie an der Schnittstelle von Musik, Performance, Theater, Film, Video und Kunst. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und im Bayerischen Wald. CV Sebastian Weber wurde 1976 in Leipzig/Deutschland geboren. Er studierte Schauspiel an der Berliner Hochschule für Schauspielkunst ?Ernst Busch?. Seit 2000 arbeitete er in diversen Theater-, Film- und Fernsehproduktionen und gehörte von 2004 bis 2009 dem Ensemble der Münchner Kammerspiele an. Dort arbeitete er u.a. mit den Regisseuren Johan Simons, Andreas Kriegenburg und René Pollesch zusammen. Er lebt und arbeitet in München.

Tobias Yves Zintel greift in seinen filmischen und performativen Arbeiten auf Methoden und Mittel des Experimentalfilms, der Theaterinszenierung, der Musikproduktion und -aufführung sowie der Installationskunst zurück. Die so entstehenden Montagen beschreiben bewusst eine Grenzüberschreitung zwischen Fakt und Fiktion, zwischen Dokument und Fragment. Das zugrunde liegende Material rekurriert dabei stets auf Aspekte der Kunst- und Filmgeschichte, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft wie auch der Alltags- und Popkultur. Bei den Arbeiten stehen Fragen der Subjektkonstitution im Zentrum – präziser: Die Handlungsweisen und Rituale sowie die Wissens- und Glaubenssysteme, welche den Prozess der Subjektwerdung begleiten.

Film made from found footage to showen as loop. Phone rings waking up dreams and memories.But where is dreams and where is just memories in this mixup world...

Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania.Lives in New York and Ireland.His films were shown in many film festivals and museums in Europe and Americas.His films are in the collections of Museum of Modern Art New York, Cinemateque Francaise,The Oesterreichicies Film Museum in Vienna,Marcel Duchamp Estate,Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris,Anthology Film Archives New York

Julius Ziz est née en Lituanie. Il vit à New York et en Irlande. Ses films font partie des collections du Museum of Modern Art New York, de la Cinémathèque française, de l'Oesterreichicies Film Museum à Vienne, de la Marcel Duchamp Estate, du Musée d?art moderne de la ville de Paris, de l?Anthologie Film Archives de New York.

A short film about the world, as seen through the eyes of a boy.Sitting by a river he examines the environment of the bacteria living in the water, he attentively scruitinises the microbes through a magnifying glass, which doubles up as a kind of keyhole through which the boy peeps through into a big abstraction.

Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania.His film were shown in many international film festivals including Rotterdam,Montreal,Edinburgh,Berlin, Nyon,San Paulo,Karlovy Vary Etc.His films are in collections of MoMA(NYC),French Cinemateque,Austrian National Film Museum,Anthology Film Archives,etc Louis Benassi start making films in 90` in London.Also he was programing for Edinburgh International Film Festival,The Institute of Contemporary Art London,Arts Foundazione Morra Naples.

Storm over London is a film that seemingly uses the tropes of narrative however the film hesitates to make a conclusion instead it take us into a journey of speculation.There is a storm brewing in London, there are riots in the streets. Who is that person laying on the bed? And what's all this about a fly. Storm over London is an enigmatic,surrealist detective story with a touch of Kafka.

Julius Ziz born in Lithuania now works and lives in Paris. From 1992 till 1997 he worked at Anthology Film Archives (NYC) program curator and organizer. His films were shown in many international film festivals including Rotterdam, Edinbourgh, Nyon, Montreal, San Paulo, Karlovy Vary. His films are in collections of Museum of Modern Art(NYC), Cinemateque Francaise, The Oesterreichiscies Film Museum(Vienna),Marcel Duchamp Estate, Anthology Film Archives. Julius Ziz made over 20 short films and 3 full length documentary films including Meanwhile A Butterfly Flies, The Window, And Pig Was Born, Silence Sea and Marcel Duchamp Louis Benassi born in Glasgow 1961,lives and works in London. He began making experimental films in the early 90's. He went on to program and curate artistic films for several international film festivals including Edinbourgh International Film Festival, The Institute of Contemporary Art London and other London based institutions and cinemas. He is also visiting tutor at The Chelsea School of Art and The Royal College of Art London. Louis Benassi has exhibited his films and photographs frequently. He made Esoteria Hysteria (2000), Midnight deconstruction(2008), Black Umbrella(2011),The Arc Arial Trilogy(2011), Memories of an unbeaten childhood(2012 together with Julius Ziz), La La Leni(2013),B Movie(2013)

A wrongly imprisoned man is taken to be executed. At the very last moment, he manages to escape. He wants to see his home one last time before dying. On his way, the Man, like a wild animal, hides away from people, becoming more and more a part of the wilderness that surrounds him. Julius Zizz`s disturbing new short film balances between beauty and menace. It suggests that there may be grace in being threatened, tracked and hunted: it posits evil in the power of the pursuer and shows how that power infects innocence. Shot in bright sun and light-dappled forests, THE WOLF, speaks of the horror of mankind in the ravishing face of nature. It is a remarkable work about how society defines itself in terms of whom it excludes, a fearful portrait of tribalism. Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art

Director Julius Ziz bio Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania in 1970. He studied film at the Tbilisi Film Academy, Georgia. From 1992 to 1997 Ziz worked at Anthology Film Archives in New York as exibition/archive coordinator. Julius Ziz has made the following films: THE WINDOW(1989) WE ARE STILL WAITING(1991) THIS SKY OF NEW YORK (1991) SILENCE ,SEA AND MARCEL DUCHAMP (1994) THE POETS (1995) THE MOMENT(1995) UNFINISHED(1995) UNFINISHED No2(1995) pilot HOW I WAS CONCEIVED(1998) AND PIG WAS BORN (2000) HOW MANY STEPS TO HEAVEN (2000) ELDORADO (2001) MEANWHILE, A BUTTERFLY FLIES (2002) HE TURNED HIS FACE AGAINS THE WIND (2004) THE WOLF (2008) In 1995, Ziz created a new movement in cinema, the Three Image Film (the first International Three Image Film Expo was at Anthology Film Archives in 1996). In 1995 all of his films were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The same year THREE IMAGE FILMS and UNFINISHED were included in Anthology of American Short Avantgarde Film 1921-1995, a program curated by Jonas Mekas for traveling exposition in Europe and US. Julius Ziz?s films have been worldwide exhibited in international film festivals, cinemas and are in collections of the French Cinématèque, the Austrian National Film Museum, Museum of Modern Art(New York), Marcel Duchamp Museum in France, Museum of Modern Art of City of Paris(Paris), Anthology Film Archives (New York). In 2005 all his film became part of film collection of Museum of Modern Art (New York). In 1996/97 he collaborated with Zoe Lund (Ms 45, Bad Liutenant by Abel Ferrara) on the screenplay HOW I WAS CONCEIVED and a film which was made for a show at the French Cinématèque in 1997. In 1999 his film SILENCE, SEA AND MARCEL DUCHAMP was shown at the Whitney Museum as part of exhibition AMERICAN CENTURY Part II, 1950-2000. In 2000 Julius Ziz made the film AND THE PIG WAS BORN(ET LE COCHON FUT NE) for the exhibition ?VOILA? at the Musée d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. AND THE PIG WAS BORN was shown at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2001, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2001, Montreal International Film Festival 2001 and others. Ziz has also written several plays and a jazz opera.His jazz opera ?Island of Freedom? was perform at Zebelon jazz club in New York (2005). He curated first John Casavetes retrospective in New York (Anthology Film Archives, 1995). He co-curated with Sophie Fenwick Antonin Artaud in/and Cinema (Anthology Film Archives, 1996.) With Fabiano Canosa he co-curated the first complete Bunuel retrospective in the US (Anthology Film Archives, 1997). In 2000, his art work was in a group show at the M&A Contemporary Art Gallery in the Haag (Holland). Julius Ziz in 2001 finished a film full length docudrama called ELDORADO about the Lithuanian immigration to Brazil in the late twenties. Premiered in Rio de Janero International Film Festival (2001.).The film was shown in cinemas in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. In 2002 Julius Ziz finished a film on Jonas Mekas full length documentary ?Meanwhile, A Butterfly Flies? produced by Rosangela Miletti French Connection(Paris). The film was shown at The Rotterdam International Film Festival(2003), Edinbourgh International Film Festival(2002), Cork International Film Festival(2003),Nyon International Documentary Film Festival(2003),Vilnius International Documentary Film Festival(2004),Venice Biennale (2005) and others. In 2OO9 Museum of Modern Art (New York) planning Julius Ziz?s films show.

Earth has been abandoned for a long time and humanity has found refuge in outer space. Three archaeologists return to Earth to investigate the origin of a mysterious five tone signal…

Yorgos Zois was born in Athens. He studied applied Math and Nuclear Physics in N.T.U.A. and film direction at Stavrakou Film School, Athens and at U.d.K, Berlin. His debut short film, Casus Belli, premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival in 2010 and participated in the official competition of numerous international film festivals (Rotterdam, Clermont Ferrand, Tokyo Short Shorts, Palm Springs, LA Short Fest etc) winning multiple awards and distinctions. His second short film, Out of Frame, premiered at the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012 and won the EFA award for the Best European short film and was nominated for Best Short film of the European Film Academy Awards 2012. His first feature, Interruption, premiered at the Orizzonti Competition of the 72nd Venice Film Festival

(out of frame) In Greece the advertisement in exterior billboards has been recently forbidden. As a result there are hundreds of blank billboards that don?t show any messages. But the empty frames are now the message. And Greece is out of frame.

Yorgos Zois was born in Athens. His first short film, CASUS BELLI, premiered in Venice in 2010 and participated in the international competition of the most important film festivals world-wide, winning several first awards. It was theatrically distributed in Greece and France and was broadcast by several TV stations around the globe. His second short film, TITLOI TELOUS (Out of Frame), premiered at Venice IFF 2012.

Two tailors who emigrated to Germany from Kabul sewed a suit for Moira Zoitl. All the circumstances surrounding the manufacture of the suit mirror the process of emigration, which Mr. Anwari talks about. The tailoring of the suit appears as an analogy to traveling.

Moira Zoitl, born in Salzburg, Austria, lives and works in Berlin. Her work reflects on issues like migration, city development, gender and questions of (auto)biography and identity. Selected exhibitions include: The Third Guangzhou Triennial, 2008, ?Other Possible Worlds - Proposals on this Side of Utopia?, NGBK Berlin, 2011 www.moirazoitl.com