Artists’ Film International - Dream States
Artists' Film International presents Dream States - a programme of artists' films from around the globe that dismantle reality and envision alternative futures.
About Artists’ Film International - Dream States
| 26th Feb 2026 to 27th Feb 2026 | |
| 7pm - 9pm | |
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Tramway 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow South Side G41 2PE |
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| £3 / £2 concessions | |
| Visit the event website here |
Please Note: each evening is ticketed separately
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.
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