Azerbaijan

Pari Banu is a trans artist with an interdisciplinary and contemporary approach to her work. In her interview, she explains the connection of her inspiration to city planning. She also talks about queer oppression and her struggles while living in Baku. Authoritarian and phobic spaces leave many queers with no choice, and Pari Banu is one of those who left the city to seek a safer and more secure space where people respect her identity. She explains the issue further in the interview.

Ukraine

Evolved as an audiovisual collaboration, ‘Spectre’ is an artistic depiction of megalopolis tension on an individual. A reflection on urbanization and overpopulation in hyperbolized scale. A ghost of the foreseeable future questioning a significance of one’s role in the giant mechanism. Shot mostly in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Azerbaijan

The film addresses the struggles of queer artists due to the ongoing oppression and phobia against LGBTI+ youth. The situation in the country leaves many with mental health problems and generally adds up to the lack of motivation that has been there due to the lack of financial and moral resources. Increasing hate crimes against the community threaten many young people and shrinking public safe spaces leave LGBTI+s behind. The film is a self-protest against the ongoing situation and addresses the poor realities of the country regarding queers.

Russia

The earthquake-proof individual residential building "LOTOS" is a quickly erected, capital, fireproof and earthquake-proof house with a minimum consumption of such material as reinforced concrete, while ensuring a minimum construction cost. For this purpose, the flat walls of a large-panel house are replaced by thinner curvilinear ones, which have high rigidity and stability under the influence of seismic loads. In many regions of the world it is possible to solve the problem of providing the population with comfortable affordable housing by this method.

Georgia

The absolute absence of cultural institutions and events in the city of Bolnisi creates a sterile environment for the community, the city is in a small vacuum where every fifth house is for sale.

Georgia