An eye for experimental innovation and the details of beauty threaded through the rhythms of daily life characterise the filmmaking of Marcin Malaszczak. Born in Poland and now based in Berlin, his quietly surreal and haunting feature debut Sieniawka was shot in the titular small town in the border zone between Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic - a place known for its checkpoint and psychiatric institution, where time takes on a different dimension and patients smoke at open windows. Premiering at this year’s Berlinale, his second feature The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills draws together snippets of conversations across generations to form a beguiling tapestry of ephemerality.