Valletta

Marie Helene Pereira is a Curator and cultural practitioner from Dakar, Senegal. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is profoundly interested in the politics of identity and histories of migration.

- Intertide' by Renzo Spiteri - It Isn't Easy, But It Is' by Mariana Hahn

Smadj, a virtuoso on the oud and an electronic music innovator, forges a distinctive musical realm by seamlessly blending influences from the East and the Mediterranean Sea. His unique style, a pioneering force within the realm of electronic music, imparts a special hue to the traditional yet contemporary Mediterranean soundscape, drawing on diverse musical traditions from Turkey to the Maghreb.

Two worlds collide when Sam (40), a people smuggler, reluctantly saves Amal, a 12-year-old girl whose whole family has gone missing in the Syrian war. Amal believes that they are on their way to Sweden so she sets out on a journey to find them. Sam hesitates but is troubled by the thought of leaving the girl alone in a no-man’s land, and gets dragged in.