Artists’ Film International - Dream States

Artists’ Film International (AFI) presents Dream States - a programme of artists' films from around the globe that dismantle reality and envision alternative futures.

Dream States brings together 16 films that delve into dreaming as both a transformative state and a radical act. Films will be screened by AFI partners worldwide throughout 2025 and 2026, including these screenings at Tramway.

Tramway is screening the full programme across two evenings, with our selected film Neyinka and the Silver Gong by Kialy Tihngang concluding Screening 1:

At the intersection of personal consciousness and external realities, the programme explores the emancipatory potential of dreams, altered states, and cinematic illusion. Reflecting upon shared histories, the artists’ eclectic and surreal dreamscapes - utopian and dystopian, intimate and collective - position cinema as the crucible of dream-making and a vehicle for changemaking.

From 35mm film to animation, archival materials, special effects, and AI-generated imagery, AFI’25 harnesses moving-image to destabilise dominant perspectives.

Tramway is screening the full programme across two evenings:

Screening 1 - 26/02/26

The Pond, Mykolas Valantinas

Sobre si mismo (About itself), Melisa Zulberti

Colorless, Abdul Hamid Mandgar

Leymusoom Garden: New Sun, Heesoo Kwon

Lullaby’s Fault, Mykolas Valantinas

Untitled, Cocoy Lumbao

Look Up! I’m No Canopy - I’m a Messenger, Sanja Anđelković

Neyinka and the Silver Gong, Kialy Tihngang

Screening 2 - 27/02/26

Wild Geese 2: Wilder Geese, Elinor O’Donovan

Dystopian Patterns, Isabelle Nouzha

Dyke Dreams, Anette Gellein

SERPENTINA A. Per un mūsēum senza tempo, Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Dear Chalam, Babu Eshwar Prasad

Rehearsals for Peace, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan

Levitations, Dalia Al Kury

The Fortress, Sin Wai Kin

AFI'25 is curated by Forma in collaboration with 16 international organisations.

Recommended for ages 18+

Audience notes
Please be advised that these screenings contains content of a sensitive nature, including references to war, displacement, cultural oppression, violence (implied and symbolic), death, trauma, sexuality, and identity-based discrimination. Some films also explore themes of psychological distress and political conflict, which may be distressing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

Header image: Sin Wai Kin, The Fortress, 2024. Film still. Co-commissioned by Lahore Biennale Foundation and Forma. Supported by The British Council and Shane Akeroyd. Courtesy and the artist. Selected for AFI’25 by Forma and Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK.