BLOCK 3. Of Humans and Animals
Set of films
76 min
- duration: 21 min
- country/year: Switzerland, Belgium/2025
- director: Lasse Linder
- cinematography: Robin Angst
- editor: Daniel Loepfe
- production: Philipp Ritler, Valentin Leblanc, Delphine Duez / Dynamic Frame GmbH, White Boat Pictures
- selected festivals and awards: 2025 - Locarno Film Festival, 2025 - IDFA Amsterdam
>>> A film to watch in Block 3. Of Humans and Animals
Training, Take-Off, Grand Prix. Legacy is one of the most valuable and celebrated horses in show jumping. In pursuit of victories, she is flown between competition venues across the globe. Air Horse One follows Legacy on her long journeys in the business class of equine air travel.
- duration: 14 min
- country/year: Belgium/2026
- director: Marthe Peters
- cinematography: Marthe Peters
- editor: Marthe Peters, Leon Decock
- production: Marie Logie / Auguste Orts
- selected festivals and awards: 2026 - Berlinale
>>> A film to watch in Block 3. Of Humans and Animals
In a small interior space where bodies constantly yearn for sleep, the filmmaker seeks in her beloved Henry something soft and tender to inhabit, a little fur to retreat into. Between bedsheets and freckles, a love declaration emerges, a fragile collage tracing a pathway between intimacy, vulnerability, and warmth. An ode to our captive pets, and to the intimate worlds where we learn to live and to rest.
- duration: 26 min
- country/year: Czech Republic/2025
- director: Kartikeya Saxena
- cinematography: Ya Ching Yang
- editor: Shawrya Kumar
- production: Kartikeya Saxena / FAMU
- selected festivals and awards: 2026 - Visions du Réel IFF Nyon
>>> A film to watch in Block 3. Of Humans and Animals
A whimsical filmmaker turns to his austerely rational mother, a zoologist, for help filming animals. Along the way, they meet a gorilla terrified of cameras, penguins haunted by their own shadows, and a sleepless anaconda. As memories of wild tigers and pet rabbits resurface, the zoologist is compelled to question her relationship with animals.
- duration: 15 min
- country/year: France, Puerto Rico/2026
- director: Alba Jaramillo
- cinematography: Rami Ghorra, Alba Jaramillo
- editor: Alba Jaramillo
- production: Surya Daniel / Premier Cri
- selected festivals and awards: 2026 - Visions du Réel IFF Nyon
>>> A film to watch in Block 3. Of Humans and Animals
Night falls on the island of Zuania, once a military base, now a coveted tourist destination in the Caribbean. Turtle hatchlings head for the sea as a ferry packed with visitors arrives. A guide leads us inland, where another species of free-roamers is proliferating.
- Air Horse One
- Air Horse One
- dir. Lasse Linder, Switzerland, Belgium 2025, 21 min
- Henry Is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep
- Henry Is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep
- dir. Marthe Peters, Belgium 2026, 14 min
- Amma, Do Giraffes Cry?
- Amma, Do Giraffes Cry?
- dir. Kartikeya Saxena, Czech Republic 2025, 26 min
- Guided Tour
- Guided Tour
- dir. Alba Jaramillo, France, Puerto Rico 2026, 15 min
