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Indigenous sci-fi, green-produced in Leith. Set in 2084, Itu Ninu offers a quietly radical vision of a smart city where climate migrants Ángel and Sofía live under constant surveillance. Amidst the concrete towers, under watchful, ever-present digital eyes, Ángel tends rooftop gardens and preserves seeds. When he discovers that Sofía shares his Mixtec heritage, they begin exchanging handwritten letters, each looped stroke an act of resistance against digital erasure. 

Filmed as a green production in Leith, Itu Ninu embraces natural light, second-hand sets, and minimal emissions. Fly-on-the-wall camerawork and evocative visuals reveal a world where language becomes a lifeline. The film celebrates Indigenous futurism, honoring ancestral knowledge while imagining new worlds. In its understated reflection, Itu Ninu poses urgent questions about migration, identity, and the power of words, reminding us that connection—written, spoken, shared—can thrive even in the most policed spaces.

🎤 Followed by live Q&A with director Itandehui Jansen and producer/actor Armando Bautista García.

💬 This film is subtitled. Post-film Q&A will be live captioned (CART). Learn more about access at the festival →

Director: Itandehui Jansen | Country: Mexico/UK | Year: 2023 | Running Time: 72 min | Language: English, and Mixtex with English subtitles | Rating: 12A

About the filmmakers:

Itandehui Jansen is a filmmaker born in Oaxaca, Mexico, and trained at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Her award-winning documentaries and short films have screened at IDFA, Slamdance, London Short Film Festival, ZINEBI, and the Morelia International Film Festival. Her short The Last Council earned multiple international accolades and a Diosa de Plata Mexican Film Critics Award nomination. A Berlinale Talents and Torino Film Lab alumna, she is currently Associate Professor of Film at Screen Academy Scotland in Edinburgh.

Armando Bautista García is a writer and producer with an M.A. in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he studied with a scholarship from the Ford Foundation. He crafts plays, short stories, and screenplays in Spanish and Indigenous languages, supported by CONACULTA, Mexico’s National Council for Culture and the Arts, and programmes like Berlinale Talents Script Station, Cine Qua Non Lab, and the ImagineNative Fellowship. His credits include Tiempo de lluvia (2018) and Itu Ninu (2023), which won multiple awards including Best Emerging Feature at Oaxaca FilmFest. Itu Ninu is set for 2025 release in Mexico with Benuca Films.

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The World We Make is Shaped by the Stories We Tell

BAFTA-winning Mark Jenkins crafts a “recycled” short from past films, archive footage, and local collaboration, mapping energy from sunlit seas and peat bogs through coal, nuclear, and wind. Created in response to the Orkney Creative Landscape Futures workshop, it’s a reflection on place, process, and how small stories—rooted in land and sea—can shape what comes next.

🎤 Followed by live Q&A with director Mark Jenkins.

💬 This film is subtitled. Post-film Q&A will be live captioned (CART). Learn more about access at the festival →

Director: Mark Jenkins | Country: UK | Year: 2025 | Running Time: 16 min | Language: English with subtitles | Rating: 12A

About the filmmaker:

Mark Jenkins is a BAFTA Scotland-winning editor and filmmaker working across arts and commercial sectors. He has received two personal BAFTA Scotland awards, with his edited films earning four more, 39 festival prizes, and an Oscar shortlist for Best Animated Short (2023). Based in Orkney since 2007, his work has screened internationally. In 2018, he co-founded Kolekto with artist Rebecca Marr, producing cultural heritage projects in film, audio, and photography while continuing to teach film editing at postgraduate level.

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