The Chorus that Carries

Bringing together fables, archival echoes, the sound of water and polyphonic voices, this programme explores how voice and storytelling amplify fragments of history, preserve traces of loss, and carry collective memory and whispered dissonance across generations.

O River, We Forced You to Chew Up Their Crops, dir. Philip Rizk, Egypt 2026, 18 min.

Three intergenerational fables rooted in Nubian cosmologies confront the erasures wrought by the Aswan High Dam, tracing the rupture between people, the Nile and ancestral knowledge passed down through stories.

You dreamt you saw yourself but couldn’t see your face, dir. Shireen Seno, Philippines/USA 2026, 7 min.

This lyrical elegy transforms water, memory and scattered ashes into a meditation on loss, where acts of remembrance and filmmaking become intertwined processes of becoming.

Endless Sunlight, dir. Tyson Houseman, Canada 2026. 8min

Across five generations of matriarchal lineage, Kokum Penny Roan's testimony becomes a powerful living record of indigenous defiance against settler colonial oppression.

The Centre Cannot Hold, dir. Ufuoma Essi, UK/France 2026, 40 min.

Through speculative poetic narrative and tactile 16mm imagery, Corsica’s serene landscape gradually uncovers the island’s complex histories of belonging.

Total runtime: 73 min.

O River, We Forced You to Chew Up Their Crops, dir. Philip Rizk, Egypt 2026, 18 min.