7th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival

The films in this selection move beyond treating nature as a surface to be represented, instead approaching it as a process unfolding through its own internal dynamics. Through microstructures, vegetal imagery, and interspecies transitions, unexpected connections emerge across layers of life. As the movements of microorganisms translate into sound, and coordinates into leaf surfaces, nature becomes not merely something observed but something that asserts itself as a subject. Image and sound cease to be tools that record nature and instead evolve into structures that operate alongside it. The films in Ecocinema I invite the viewer not to look at nature, but to think with it.

Three light-touch, open-hearted films that discover unexpected vitality within familiar spaces.

These three films explore the body as a site where the physical and the metaphysical are in constant confrontation.

Voices absorbed into the walls of a house, remnants of suppressed desires, the persistent presence of identities silenced into submission. Both films remind us that survival is not only a bodily condition, but that carrying desire and memory is itself a form of resistance.

Images that refuse to look away. A train carrying sleeping bodies through an endless night. A film that clings to the quiet persistence of witnessing as the world continues to move on. An exile confronting unanswered questions of departure. A former child actor walking through a forest at night to reckon with what execution images have done to a generation. In these films, resistance is not a slogan—it is what remains when everything else is taken away.