AnafiFF 2026
Parallel Programme
“To document is to learn how to die” - Curated by Katerina Markoulaki & Raisa Desypri
This pressure of the real upon consciousness is especially acute for the maker of aesthetic objects.
Tim Carpenter- To photograph is to learn how to die (2022).
From documentary to essay film to docufiction, we indulge into the archiving and de-accessing process. In this 5 avant garde slot, we wonder around the ancient greek ruins,Epirus mountains, the pro-Nakbha Palestinian fields, Serifos early 20th century miners and Heraklion Archaeological Museum, posing questions on the institutional management of history and the creative role of documenting, destruction, materiality and most important resistance.
“REALITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION” - Curated by Stelios Christophorou
A body appears on screen.
A room that watches.
A figure suspended between myth and code.
These films move through different technological languages, yet share a common ground: the instability of presence. The image is no longer a trace of something that happened, but a site where reality is constructed, mediated, and at times entirely fabricated. Rather than approaching technology as a tool, the programme treats it as a condition, one that shapes how we see, desire, remember, and perform ourselves. Algorithms, surveillance systems, virtual spaces, and digital networks become invisible architectures through which bodies, emotions, and identities are continuously negotiated. What remains uncertain is not only what we are looking at, but who, or what, is looking back.
“Pixelated and Queer” - Curated by Sarnt Utamachote
With selected short films from the last 20 years of XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin (founded in 2006 by Bartholomew Sammut), Pixelated and queer looks at the changing nature of cinematic mediums, from 2D videogames, internet culture, and analog Super 8, to dubbing techniques, virtual expanded realities, TikTok, and social media. Corresponding to ANAFI 26's theme “How soon is now”, the question of what is contemporary: in this case, cinematic mediums, can be explored, in how queer cinema has gone through for the last 20 years.With selected short films from the last 20 years of XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin (founded in 2006 by Bartholomew Sammut), Pixelated and queer looks at the changing nature of cinematic mediums, from 2D videogames, internet culture, and analog Super 8, to dubbing techniques, virtual expanded realities, TikTok, and social media. Corresponding to ANAFI 26's theme “How soon is now”, the question of what is contemporary: in this case, cinematic mediums, can be explored, in how queer cinema has gone through for the last 20 years.
