CLASSE is a project of transmission, compromise, blending and mixing, invented pedagogies and radical imagination that combines a public programme with the creation of an ongoing working group, moving through the Short Theatre 2025’s programme and beyond.
Every day for 10 days, artists, poets, activists, philosophers and researchers are invited to give a short talk starting from a specific word / issue / practice.
Discover all the other appointments that constitute the public programme of CLASSE.
Liryc Dela Cruz will also present at Short Theatre 2025 the open studio A Land in a Land.
Liryc Dela Cruz is a filmmaker and artist from South Cotabato, Philippines, currently based between Rome and Paris. His work moves across fiction, documentary, installation, and performance, rooted in the intimate geographies of labour, migration, and postcolonial memory. Through contemplative cinema, decolonial aesthetics, and collective authorship, Dela Cruz explores the invisible architectures of care, hospitality, and refusal—often centring the lived experiences of Filipino domestic and care workers in Europe.
His debut feature Come la Notte (Where the Night Stands Still) premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival (Perspectives) and has since been screened internationally. He was recently awarded the Golden Goblet Award – Best Director (Asian New Talent) at the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival.
Dela Cruz’s works have been presented and performed at, among others, the Locarno Film Festival, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Santarcangelo Festival, Mattatoio in Rome, Venice Biennale, and Film at Lincoln Center. He is the founder of Pelircula and a member of Collettivo Il Mio Filippino, a transdisciplinary platform for collaborative practices of memory and resistance. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts in Paris, where he is developing his second feature film alongside a series of installations and performances.
part of CLASSE, project by AREA06 promoted by Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Cultura, winner of the Avviso Pubblico Roma Creativa 365. Cultura tutto l’anno in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura