This program brings together six short films that speak from the margins—through memory, resistance, spirituality, and displacement. Created in the Amazon, along the Pacific coast of Ecuador, or in Northern cities by migrant and diasporic filmmakers, these works are grounded in diverse creative methods: animation, archives, rituals, stop-motion—many of them shaped through collective and community-based processes.

Together, they offer counter-narratives that challenge dominant imaginaries and reclaim cinema as a space for healing, political vision, and radical imagination. La Sur Real invites us to move across territories and timelines where other ways of remembering—and resisting—come alive on screen.

LIGHT AND COLD CONVERSATION: ATLANTIC, ALGORITHMIC AND VISIBILITY

China 2025 \ Short Film \ 13 min

Directors: Juntao Yang, Kang Xing

— A speculative audiovisual journey inspired by Drexciya’s myth of an underwater race born from the bodies of African slaves thrown into the ocean. The film merges archival textures and algorithmic landscapes to question visibility, memory, and racialized histories.

Language: English

THE VOICE OF HUITO (LA VOZ DEL HUITO)

Peru 2025 \ Short Film \ 17 min

Directors: Rita Sánchez, Joaquina Izaguirre, Mara Corrales

— Luis Tayori, a Harakbut descendant from the Peruvian Amazon, revisits childhood memories and ancestral knowledge to reflect on colonial encounters and Indigenous resurgence. A powerful testimony about land, memory, and continuity.

Language: Other

THE RITUAL OF THE BLACK SAINT (LAS CANTORAS DEL SANTO NEGRO)

Ecuador 2025 \ Short Film \ 11 min

Directors: MUllu, Afro Comunicaciones

— Every November 3rd, Afro-Ecuadorians gather to sing, pray, and resist oblivion in celebration of San Martín de Porres. Centered on Roberta, a trans community leader, this film honors Black and queer devotion as a political and cultural act.

Language: Spanish

CAMPING

Canada 2025 \ Short Film \ 7 min

Directors: Sacha Kai Michaud, Alyssa Ashmore, Nicole Calfchild

— This stop-motion animation tells the story of Shawna, a young woman navigating homelessness. Created collaboratively with people who have experienced displacement, the film reclaims storytelling as a means of community voice and survival.

Language: English

I DON´T LOVE BERLIN (NO AMO BERLÍN)

Colombia 2020 \ Short Film \ 13 min

Director: Alex Ríos

— An exciting journey through the false illusion of freedom, conscience and ecology in one of the most important capitals of Europe. Revealing the colonial, racist and extractivist context. The film is the result of research conducted by the director together with migrants in the streets of Berlin, in search of information about colonialism, migration and the current relations of Berlin and Germany with the countries of the global south.

Language: Spanish

THE SOLITUDE OF HEAVENLY BODIES

Belgium 2025 \ Short Film \ 10 min

Directors: RV

— Between dream and disillusionment, this experimental piece reflects on the transitions from childhood wonder to adult solitude. With poetic visuals and a haunting tone, it examines the fragility and irony of the human condition.

Language: English