Cinema has always been drawn to analysing and exploring the anatomy of relationships, in all their diversity and uniqueness. Although the innocent charm of first meetings and love at first sight often delights audiences, it is usually in the worn-out corners, in the familiarity of gestures and gazes, and in the inevitable need for individuality and freedom that dramatic curiosity lies. When relationships crack, when emotional bonds shatter, it is through distance and a newly discovered sense of isolation that a different form of connection begins to grow. Consisting as much of playful, self-reflexive exercises as of highly stylized formal experimentation, the thematic selection “Still Together” offers a collection of films that explore the ambiguous emotional space that opens up after couples separate – paradoxically binding them through shared experiences of drifting away, estrangement, and – in some cases – an unquenchable sense of affection: residues of joint memories, engraved in the psyche over time, whether they want it or not.
