“Baħar Biss (Just Sea)” a film by Franziska von Stenglin | Thursday, 29th of January at 7:00 pm
1Shanthiroad Studio
Dear friends, please join us for a screening of
“Baħar Biss (Just Sea)”
a film by Franziska von Stenglin
Thursday, 29th of January
7:00 pm
1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Abeer Gupta and Franziska von Stenglin.
Baħar Biss (2024) was commissioned by the Malta Biennale and screened at festivals including IFFR, Cinéma du Réel, Dok Leipzig, Gijón International Film Festival, and the Sharjah Film Platform, and will be shown as part of the artist film screenings at the Kochi Biennale in February 2026. Set against the towering cliffs of Gozo, Malta, Baħar Biss traces a fisherman’s quiet reckoning with ecological loss, vanishing traditions, and a sea emptied of life. Through sparse narration, haunting sound, and meditative images, the film unfolds as an elegy for fragile ecologies and ancestral practices eroded by industrial modernity.
Franziska von Stenglin is a Berlin-based artist and filmmaker, born in Munich and raised between the Czech Republic, Senegal, India, and Germany. Her work spans film, photography, and installation, weaving personal biography with local myths and archives to explore memory, ecology, and shared human experience across borders.
Abeer Gupta is a curator and filmmaker, currently curator at Arthshila and director of Achi Association India. His practice engages questions of ecology, conservation, and representation across art, design, and architecture, with a research focus on the western Himalayas, particularly Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir. He has curated and contributed to numerous exhibitions and publications in India.