Film Fest Ghent presents a retrospective of Portuguese filmmaker and writer Isadora Neves Marques. Her oeuvre addresses many urgent themes, such as biopolitics, gender, and technology. She calls her work subtle sci-fi that, through criticism, attempts to imagine a better future.

In The Bite, not only are mosquitoes blood-sucking parasites, but extractivism is too: large-scale natural resource extraction specifically aimed at the global market. Marques points out the environmental problems and land destruction that result from it in South America.