Experimental Doc is a program born out of curatorial attempts to trace the boundaries and characteristics of the experimental approach — something increasingly present in contemporary non-fiction cinema. Conceptually, experimentation resists standard definitions and categorization. That’s why this program aims to explore and at least outline the diversity of its potential in documentary: through form, artistic language, and modes of storytelling.
The films engage in a subtle, half-heard polylogue — about loss and rediscovery, preservation and destruction, paranoia and hope.
🎤 Films are screened in their original language, without Ukrainian subtitles.
❗ These films may contain potentially triggering or disturbing elements, such as,
🔞 Recommended Age:12+
Curators: Maria Vasilyeva
THERE ARE MANY DOORS IN MY MOTHER'S APARTMENTS
Director: David Kind
Country: Germany
Duration: 18
An unnamed protagonist looks through family album photos — idyllic beach vacations, playful moments with siblings. Yet the voiceover reveals a different story: one of violence and abuse, hidden in plain sight for years. There are many doors in my mother's apartments explores the lasting impact of trauma and the complex dynamics of violence that its victims can never fully escape.
NO GOD NO FATHER
Director: Paul Kermarec
Country: France
Duration: 12
This fiction documentary explores the intimate and unusual relationship a young man forms with the Internet. Where the absence of a father figure left him searching for guidance, he finds an unexpected mentor in Google. From learning everyday tasks like shaving to discovering deeper knowledge, the algorithm becomes much more than just a search engine, blurring the lines between the real and the virtual.
LES FABRICANTS
Director: L.R. Phillips, Diane Verspeeten
Country: France
Duration: 18
From the empty carcasses of post industrial France, a new city came into existence. This city was made up of people who summoned an extra degree of imagination, resourcefulness and cultural identity, in order to create lives that fulfilled the same universal components we all require to call a place a home. Les Fabricants is a short film that captures a city in transition, from the communities that reclaimed it from an industrial vacuum, to the people who have discovered it as a place to realise their creative aspirations, to the inevitable regeneration that we now see forever transforming pieces of its infrastructure into a landscape of the future. This film is a motion painting with a veritable soundscape of voices, music, mechanics and nature, that portrays a brief and unique moment in modern urban history, delicately unveiling the humanity, nature and infrastructure that fabricate the soul of a city: Roubaix.
EQUAL DUST
Director: Jani Peltonen
Country: Finland
Duration: 14
NATO's nuclear exercise, a tracking shot through nocturnal Helsinki and the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest entries show what the end of the world looked like in the 1980s.
LIKE A SICK YELLOW
Director: Norika Sefa
Country: Kosovo
Duration: 23
An immersion into a Nora’s memory, where realities merge, the bad and beautiful intertwined until it’s all mingled and something else is formed. A tragedy foretold.