{"id":60977,"date":"2025-04-19T15:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&p=60977"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:51:24","slug":"other-grounds-film-festival-reykjavik-iceland","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/other-grounds-film-festival-reykjavik-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"OTHER-GROUNDS FILM FESTIVAL – REYKJAV\u00cdK, ICELAND"},"content":{"rendered":"

READ ABOUT ALL FILMS HERE<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Colonial narratives are deeply woven into our timeline, spaces, and surroundings. The crises we face today\u2014environmental, social, and political\u2014are also crises of perception, imagination, and relational intelligence. How do we loosen the grip of ego-centric paradigms? Trapped in an anthropocentric, capitalist worldview, we struggle to see beyond the systems that shape our reality. How do we create space for other ways of being, knowing, and relating\u2014ways that existed before, often silenced, when we lived in deeper connection with nature?<\/span><\/p>\n

Recognizing the need for diverse voices and knowledge systems, we can, through experience and honest dialogue, enrich our intentions and practices for cultivating an ecology of belonging. Around the world, Indigenous communities, ecological practitioners, and many others are working to protect nature and the more-than-human world. The Nature Rights movement seeks to legally, politically, and socially uphold the protection of life, ecosystems, and biodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, we may be ready to unlearn and relearn\u2014together with humans, other-than-humans, and the land. It is time to open pathways for learning new ways of relating to the world. Other-Grounds Film Festival is an intercultural, collective initiative exploring what it means to be human on Earth and our responsibilities in an ecology of relationality.<\/span><\/p>\n

A combination of films, roundtables, and conversations, Other-Grounds Film Festival brings together diverse ways of knowing, amplifying voices that advocate for sustainability, collective consciousness, Rights of Nature, and more-than-human perspectives\u2014where an eco-centric existence is seen as an evolutionary goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Program:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

DAY 1. (02.05) Community:<\/b>
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\n17:30: Doors open
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18:00: Opening Ceremony with short speech, drinks and snacks<\/span><\/p>\n

18:10:
\nFILM:<\/strong> The River is Me
\n<\/span>Director: David Freid
\n<\/span>Country: United States, Aotearoa (New Zealand)| Year: 2018 | Runtime: 17 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

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18:27:<\/span>
\nFILM:<\/strong> E\u00e1lat
\n<\/span>Director: Elle Ma\u0301rja Eira
\n<\/span>Country: Sa\u0301pmi,(Norway) | Year: 2021 | Runtime: 32 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

19:00 Break<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

19:10 Round-table on Rights of Nature, nurtured by <\/span>Dr. Angela Sn\u00e6fellsj\u00f6kuls Rawlings<\/span>, <\/span>Ole Martin Sandberg<\/span>, <\/span>Vena Naskrecka<\/span>,<\/b> \u00d3lafur P\u00e1ll J\u00f3nsson\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

20:00 Closing word
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DAY 2. (03.05)\u00a0Knowledge-gathering:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

12:30: Doors Open\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

13:00:
\nFILMS:<\/strong>\u00a0The Church Forest of Ethiopia
\n<\/span>Director: Jeremy Seifert
\n<\/span>Country: Ethiopia, United States | Year: 2020 | Runtime: 9 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

FILM:<\/strong> Honouring Darkness
\n<\/span>Director: Juan Camilo
\n<\/span>Country: Iceland, Colombia | Year: 2018 | Runtime: 18 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

13:30 Break<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

14:00:
\nFILM:<\/strong> Mamu
\n<\/span>Director: Aephie Chen
\n<\/span>Country: Taiwan, United Kingdom | Year: 2024 | Runtime: 15 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

+ Interview with the MAMU director Aephie<\/span><\/p>\n

15:00: Break<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

15:15:
\nFILM<\/strong>: ICE
\n<\/span>Director: Christoph Matt, Bernhard Poscher, Sympoietic Society art collective
\n<\/span>Country: Austria | Year: 2023 | Runtime: 6 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

FILM:<\/strong> Qulleq
\n<\/span>Director: Aka Hansen
\n<\/span>Country: Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) | Year: 2023 | Runtime: 3 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

FILM:<\/strong> Shangri-La
\n<\/span>Directors: Seoyeon Ha and Leon Meschede
\n<\/span>Country: Mongolia, South Korea, Germany | Year: 2023 | Runtime: 23 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

16:00:\u00a0Break<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

16:30: The Sounds of Mongol Nutag with KHAIRKHAN\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

17:30:<\/span> Short Closing word<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n