Two DocNomads films selected to Beldocs, Serbia
Annette Jacob’s How to Download a Forest and Violeta Mora’s Oscurana will be presented at the 19th Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival held between 20 and 26 of May in Belgrade, Serbia.
By Annette Jacob (India) • 18' • 2026
Moving through herbariums and expedition sites in Portugal, the film reveals the Sisyphean task of data collection and knowledge production. Everyday people set out to find a little more about the world and each new information expands our world infinitely. The title gestures toward an impossible task: to categorise and hold the living world within an archive. Driven by preservation, we are challenged by history and forced to admit that something always escapes our systems. How to Download a Forest is a human story and about how small we are. It slowly becomes clear that the world does not need us to know it, but we keep trying anyway.
In Beldocs catalogue
By Violeta Mora (Honduras) • 21’ • 2025
The sunset brings the darkness and transforms the field into a gloomy terrain. The lack of light announces the sound of footsteps immersing themselves in the field, ready to walk without pause toward a place that is unknown. The darkness evoques those Central American migrants who decided to leave their places walking through landscapes despite the danger.
In Beldocs catalogue