“A sea mist shimmers in the dawn. Still air. Dew sparkles on the shingle. A solitary magpie perched in the driftwood. The chill soon warmed away by the sun. Nico singing “Little Valentine”. Gild the angels' helmets.” (Jarman, 1991)

This is the entry for September 25, 1989 from Derek Jarman's Modern Nature. A diary that follows Jarman's garden - the one of his plants and the one of his life. Thirty-five years later, BEAST is trying to get closer to the love and beauty that sprang and still emanates from this space - the physical and the ethereal. A place that, although surrounded by - and marked and haunted by - sadness, bitterness, loneliness, tragedy and death, shines with (and in) light: it (over)lives.

This section is designed with a selection of films of resistance, of affections, of connection to the political, of connection with the expansion of the sensory and with the latent magics of the present. In a constant search for a look, for care, for a vision of the future, in sharing. 

Thus, this section includes the screening of a program curated by Sunny Bunny, consisting of five Ukrainian queer short films. 
The section also includes the screening of two feature films: Such Feeling and Afterwater. With the desire to create “a space, to be heard, (...) that's what really matters”, as we are told in Such Feeling. And if “there is a geography of miracles”, as you can read about Dane Komljen's “Afterwater”, let's set out, together, on the uncertain quest that might lead us to that destination(s).