Discover the films in our festival programme – from timed screenings to durational loops. Moving images you can enter, leave, and return to, resonating over time and in dialogue with other currents across the festival.

Within the programme of By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road, moving images circulate as ongoing presences, returning currents, and shared points of attention across the festival’s time·spaces.

Petna Ndaliko Katondolo ’s Katasumbika runs long-durationally in repetition as a film one listens to as much as one watches. It reflects on mineral extraction and colonial afterlives in eastern DR Congo by braiding together sound and image that sustains so-called “development”.

Tianzhuo Chen ’s Ocean Cage moves through mythic and performative registers, staging the ocean as a charged container where ritual, choreography, and constraint collide. On his journey, Juan Covelli 's follows the Colombian river ATRATO as a living subject and legal entity.

Alongside durational presences, the program gathers films that follow extracted matter and speech as they mutate into techno-fossils. Including Air Conditioner by Fradique, Neptune Frost by Saul Williams, After the Abyss (excerpt) by Keiria Shishay, Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project by Matt Wolf, Who’s Afraid of Ngũgĩ and AI: African Intelligence by Manthia Diawara*, Wisisi Nit Meke* by Arief Budiman, Bonny Lanny and Harun Rumbarar on West Papuan Wisisi music, and a trilogy on chip infrastructures across Taiwan, Dresden, and the United States.