Here to There – 2025

Wednesday, April 9, 1:00 PM

Iranian Yellow Pages
Director: Anna Snowball, Documentary, UK, 12 min
Striving to build a successful life in London, Reza places an ad in a peculiar newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight.

The Melting
Director: Lananh Chu, Experimental, USA, 20 min
Commemorating the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the U.K. in 2019, The Melting, addresses the unbearable catastrophe of migration, surveillance technologies, and thermal violence.

No Se Ve Desde Acá
Director: Enrique Pedráza-Botero, Documentary, USA, Colombia, 20 min
A spatial exploration of Miami and the endless pursuit of the American Dream, in an era of immigrant mass mobilization and the absurd dominance of wealth and border security.

What Goes Up
Director: Samar Al Summary, Documentary, USA, 30 min
A road trip to trace the impact of two Iraqi pilots’ crashes, exploring the fall of people, governments, and the longing to return home, when home has been reshaped by powerful forces.

Unwanted Kinship
Director: Pavel Mozhar, Documentary, Germany, 30 min
The reports by civilian victims of the Russian and Belarusian occupation in Ukraine contain descriptions of torture and repression. Taking these as a basis, a filmmaker investigates on the streets of his Berlin neighborhood and confronts the question of what this war has to do with him and what responsibility he bears.