Bliss Point

Director: Gerard Ortín Castellví

Year: 2022

Looking at recent technological transformations in contemporary industrial agriculture. During the day, the greenhouse is a cinematic device, an automated film set optimized for the mass production of fruits and flowers. At night, the factory the greenhouse becomes an oneiric chamber where plants, animals and machines form new entanglements.

Director: Gerard Ortín Castellví

Year: 2022

Machines are checking and sorting nature in an industrial greenhouse. Human hands only intervene to straighten anything that is crooked, plant delicate items, or clean the mechanics to ensure things continue to run smoothly. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

Director: Eamon Bourke

Year: 2026

Filmmaker Eamon Bourke lost his mother, Sue, when he was three and has no memory of her. When his father decides to sell the remote Lake District home where she died, Eamon returns with his camera to document the house and its clearing. Among Sue’s belongings - diaries, poems, photographs and tapes - he discovers a box of damaged cassette recordings. After painstakingly repairing them, he uncovers something extraordinary: his mother’s voice. Through these intimate audio diaries, Sue speaks candidly about motherhood, sings to her children, and captures fleeting family moments Eamon never knew. One final tape records her describing the onset of hepatitis, days before she fell into a coma and died in 1983. Another, more haunting still, features three-year-old Eamon calling out to his unconscious mother in hospital, in a desperate attempt to bring her back. As Eamon pieces together this archive, he confronts the enduring impact of early loss, speaking with his father and sisters while retracing the emotional landscape of his childhood. Set against the vast beauty of the Lake District, a deeply personal exploration of grief, memory and love - an attempt to recover what was lost, and to finally say goodbye.