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SYNTHETIC POLITICS

SYNTHETIC POLITICS

AMIR OVADIA STEKLOV | GERMANY | 2026 | 11 MIN | ENGLISH EST

AMIR OVADIA STEKLOV | GERMANY | 2026 | 11 MIN | ENGLISH EST

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Subtitles: English

NOV 22 / 13:00Cinéma Public505 Rue Jean-Talon E. Montréal, QC H2R 1T6 (métro Jean-Talon)

Synopsis

This AI-generated film about AI filmmaking satirizes the idea of apolitical cinema. Featuring Slim Vaders, it examines power, pornography, deepfakes and technological domination, asking who controls artificial intelligence and whether those systems reproduce existing political and social hierarchies.

Filmmaker Bio

Amir Ovadia Steklov is a Jerusalem-born filmmaker and animator based in Berlin whose work explores identity, queerness, migration and belonging. A Berlinale Talents 2024 alumnus and European Film Academy member, he graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in 2013. His films have screened internationally, including The New Jews, Bi The Way, Don't Be a DICK! and Between Two Walls. Steklov also runs The Glass Prince, a post-production studio specializing in animation, VFX and editing.

Director's Statement

I was shocked by the tone-deaf remarks of Wim Wenders at the 2026 Berlinale when asked about empathy toward Gaza. […] Synthetic Politics is an inevitable result of coming to terms with my new reality as a Jewish non-Zionist filmmaker in Berlin 2026. […] I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could make a smart essay film about AI, art, and politics while using AI locally. I wanted to try and make a film in my unique style of essay-comedy-erotic filmmaking with a progressive queer political touch.

Writer

Amir Ovadia Steklov

Cast

  • Slim Vaders
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