TINY, LONELY FISH FLOATING IN DARK WATER brings together a mosaic of urban gazes across continents, weaving everyday situations and collective anecdotes into cinematic vignettes. From neon-lit nights in 1980s Tokyo to the fractured infrastructures of New York, from the rhythms of a Mexico City neighbourhood to the quiet vastness of Ulaanbaatar’s empty high-rises, these films observe how people navigate urban space and each other. Together they orbit the many hearts of disparate cities, probing identities, intimacy, and resilience in search of forms of belonging that surface, fracture, and reconfigure within the shifting currents of urban life.
Films (list in running order):
Double or Nothing, Tokay
Switzerland, 10 min
Inspired by a 1980s Tokyo anecdote, real estate shark Akio Kashiwagi spirals into illegal gambling, battling insatiable greed.
Family Sunday (Domingo Familiar), Gerrardo Del Razo
Mexico, 16 min
In a Mexico City neighbourhood, extortionists tighten their grip on local shopkeepers, as pressure builds across the community.
Acid City, Jack Wedge
USA, 13 min
A documentary-fiction hybrid follows a crew exploring a surreal acidic city, blending real interviews across NYC with imagined lives.
Ambush (Kameen), Yassmina Karajah
Canada, Jordan, 20 min
A pop-up techno club disrupts Amman as two strangers confront desire, distance, and an inevitable encounter.
Pankaja, Anooya Swamy
India, USA, 14 min
Pankaja and her daughter navigate the bureaucracy and chaos of Bangalore’s slums, desperately searching for her missing husband.
A South Facing Window, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Mongolia, France, 20 min
On the brink of divorce, a young couple in Ulaanbaatar clash in traffic while searching for meaning in emptiness.
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