Identities & migration
Stories of displacement, belonging and self-construction. This theme explores multiple identities, migration, borders and the connections between here and elsewhere.
Thématiques
Questions that run through our societies.
Through cinema, pont.E explores questions about how we live together, represent ourselves, pass things on and inhabit the world.
These themes grow out of screenings we have already created and the encounters they sparked. They are not a catalogue: together, they map an evolving territory for reflection.
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Questions that move through us.
Bodies, gender & representation
The body as an intimate, social and political space. Gender, norms, beauty, sport, dance and representation question how bodies are seen, experienced and set in motion.
Territories & environments
From landscapes to the spaces we inhabit, this theme explores our relationships with territories, ecosystems and other forms of life, as well as the transformations shaping them.
Society, struggles & resistance
Films looking at power relations, inequality and social change. Work, rights, childhood, violence and resistance become starting points for thinking about our shared world.
Intimacy, relationships & existence
Families, love, separation, memory, ageing and mortality: stories rooted in intimate experience that question our relationships with others and the ways we inhabit existence.
Arts, cultures & imaginaries
Music, cinema, humour, dance, celebrations and creative practices open spaces where cultures circulate and are reinvented. A theme devoted to artistic practices and the imaginaries they bring to life.
A few films,
a few encounters
The films also tell
the story of pont.E.
Across the screenings, films from Switzerland, Brazil and elsewhere have explored these questions through different forms and perspectives.
Here are some works previously screened by pont.E and the conversations they helped shape.
Cendres de Volcan
Maria Nicollier
In the Swiss village of Valangin, a wealthy Moroccan man wants to build a mausoleum in memory of his wife. Hassan’s extravagant project clashes with his sister-in-law’s Protestant austerity. Beneath its comedic tone, the film traces a path toward shared mourning.
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O CONTROLE DOS ZUMBIS
Gabriel Marzinotto
Pedro’s family could never have imagined that a zombie was imprisoned in the basement of the house they had just bought. What was meant to be a new home turns into a battle against the undead, amid purification rituals and enraged humans. Now, whoever holds the control will own the house.
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Youngvodka_
Léa Hall
Put on your thong, slip into fishnet stockings — click. 230 likes. Like many other young women, Nicole presents herself scantily dressed and provocatively on her Instagram account. I wondered: why? Now I’m going to ask her.
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Um filme de baixo orçamento
Paulo Leierer
Blending institutional film, documentary and making-of, the film follows scientists from the “Brazilian Institute for Alternative and Second-Importance Research” as they struggle with a lack of funding and try to keep their dreams alive.
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