21. UNDER|DOX 08 – 14 OKT 2026

A young French woman believes she has arrived in San Sebastián in search of mirages that have appeared along the coast. On a boat, she meets a Portuguese woman (Rita Azevedo Gomes), who tells her the story of two sisters who once lived in that same city. One story contains another; an old painting depicts one of the women and a man, but in motion; and binoculars used the wrong way round open doors onto images that are not there.
From its very title, ”The Mirage” is a film about the act of looking, about the visible and about what our gaze constructs from external reality. It is also a film built around long sequence shots that open themselves to the unexpected and grow in complexity as the narrative advances: reflections within reflections, variations and versions of the same character, and even different temporalities coexising within a single sequence shot. Thus, in a certain way, the entire film appears as one great mirage. – FID Marseille

Bingham Bryant
PT, US, DE 2026 | German Premiere
70min | Portuguese, Spanish, French | 16mm