official selection 7th edition
narrative
YOLK by Jack Kelsey
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A Young Chef, Under The Supervision of an Older Chef, Struggles To Crack An Egg.
BLEEDING by Dany Horiuchi
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Mollie, a young woman in her twenties, is struggling with her mental health. She writes a diary entry, pouring out all the emotions she can’t express aloud. Her words reveal the depth of her isolation and the hopelessness of feeling all this pain bleed out of her without anyone noticing.
THE WOLF AND THE CAT by Jean-Sébastien Bernard
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Loup, a 13-year-old deaf boy, is spending his summer holidays camping with his mother, Lea. Their all-encompassing relationship will be disrupted by the arrival of a lifeguard and a teenage girl in their lives.
WHAT YOU LACK by Sara Bermejo
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Teresa wakes up in a clinic after undergoing several procedures. From this moment on, a countdown begins to reunite with an old love.
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ON THE TRACKS by Daniel Riccio
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In the quiet countryside of the 1930s, two strangers face an ultimatum: only one of them can board the upcoming reain
YOU GOT MY BACK? by Menna Fite
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With whom would you share the big secret of your life?
THE SHOWMAN by Cristian Martinez
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On the night of the 23-F coup d'état in Spain, a family receives an unexpected visit from "The Showman", a man who has suffered an accident and needs help. Soon, the family discovers that their guest plans to showcase his artistic talent in a performance full of games, morbid fascination and blood.
29th OF FEBRUARY by Diego Fandos
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Tomás wants to celebrate his ninetieth birthday but he has no one to invite.... except his staunchest enemy. A sad comedy, a hopeful drama about the situation of many of our elders.
CITY OF PIGS by Juan Angel Hernandez
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In a future where world leaders are appointed by lottery Lenny Hicks, a former rockstar, becomes Prime Minister of the UK against his will. Forbidden to resign by law Lenny decides to become the worst possible leader in order to be kicked out of office. Unfortunately, he will discover that the more stupid he acts the more popular he becomes.
experimental
BIBLIOTHEQUE BABETTE by Aldo Ayllon
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A librarian, overwhelmed by the monotony of her routine and tormented by existential problems, experiences confusion due to lack of sleep. The line between reality and her hallucinations begins to blur, plunging her into a state of bewilderment.
ARIES by Paul Rodgers
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Family photos are reanimated to create a meditation on birth, death, and the cycle of life.
DEAR KEVIN by Kate Ferguson
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A desire for connection compels a woman to realign with her true self.
BEGIN by Reina Rouzaud
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begin is a dreamy avant-garde exploration of the emotions we as humans face on a day-to-day basis, working through the pain, the loneliness, vulnerability, joy and hard real truths of it all and coming out on the other side. What hardships we all might face but never voice aloud.
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BROKEN TOKEN by Paul Rooney
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A single female voice sings a folk ballad, inspired by a song found in a Victorian song collector’s manuscript in a Plymouth, UK, museum archive. She sings of waiting, in her summer garden, for the return home of her love from the war. As she waits, three veterans pass, and she asks them: “When you were fighting in distant lands, did you think of the home you had left?”
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TIME IS MAN MADE by Joey Culver
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Time is Man Made is about our connection to time.
HU LI JING : THE FOX SPIRIT by Alena Saveleva
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In a distant wild forest in China, there dwelt Hu Li Jing, the Fox Spirit.
Once bored with her own immortality, she decided to challenge her liminal, partly demonic and partly human, essence. Through the ritual of abstinence from hunting for men's hearts for one thousand days, she rediscovers her femininity.
But stepping into the human world piecefully, she gets misunderstood and faces violence.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S GREAT? by Kathryn Mockler
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"Do You Know What's Great?" is a commentary on our tendency to detach from the problems of the world and find solace in passive observation and indifference.
DINOSAURIA, WE by Maxime-Claude L'Ecuyer
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Dinosauria we, is an experimental short film, that explore the consequence of human kind corruption, ultra capitalism and the exploitation of natural ressources in a dystopian post-apocalyptic vision of the end of the world imagine by poet Charles Bukowski.
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animation
KILL THE HORSE by Xiaorou Guo
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The killing in the grass made His/her frantic to find the horse they had been talking about. He/She saw the thorn in the fool's nipple, the secret of the tribe's beliefs, the glimmer of light in the flood! The sound of the horse rang out from the ashes
I WISH I WAS THRE by Flora Martyr
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Whilst relaxing abroad on a solo holiday, a woman receives a series of phone calls from the hospital. She decides to ignore these in effect to enjoy her vacation, but her imagination gets the better of her. An unpleasant time ensues, with the growing realisation that she needs to confront her fears.
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THE FUGLY DUCKLING by Bob Harper
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Follow this fugly little duckling on his journey of self-discovery and revenge in this irreverent skewering of the Hans Christian Andersen classic tale!
IN THOUSAND PETALS by Louise Bongartz
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A young married woman collects the sweet memories of her romance. On closer inspection, she leaves bits of herself behind...
ROSES by ANDi LAND
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The self-destructive nature of seeking love and
validation from external sources.
GARU & PONKI by Cristhian Jallier
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When their therapist announces a trip to the town of “The Forgotten” to work on their bad behavior, cousins Garu and Ponki laugh and make fun, believing their parents will send them to a luxury resort instead, as usual. What they don't know is that this time their irreverence will lead them to a less glamorous, and possibly perpetual, adventure!
FEAR IS A ROSE by Isabel Stub
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A shadow knight explores an interdimensional palace while being chased by the roots of an ever-growing rose.
documentary
FEUERWERK by Timothy George Kelly
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A baby is born, eight years later he holds a firework for too long. People dance, kiss and vomit on the streets. Dogs tremble in bathroom corners. A planet fades into oblivion. But how much longer can this once-chaotic city of fun and freedom keep the fire going?
WATCHING HIM FADE by Patrick Matthew
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Patrick Matthew films and directs a short documentary about his father Adrian, who continues to struggle with the grief of losing his brother several years ago. As Patrick and his mother grow increasingly concerned about Adrian’s dependence on alcohol and smoking, the film reveals how the weight of this loss continues to shape his life.
OBLITERATE by Gaetan Saint-Remy
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Brussels metro, rush hour. Snippets of thoughts from passengers who recall 22 March 2016, the day of the suicide attack in the Brussels metro. Time itself seems to stand still. Or almost
MOTORBIKES AND THE COUNTRYSIDE by Mar Martin Hidalgo
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Motorbikes and The Countryside is an essayistic documentary short film about waiting, memories, religion and freedom. Based on El Lolo's instance in prison, the piece explores how correspondence and waiting dialogue, over time, with memories.
LA FENETRE by Lucas Ortiz Estefanell
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A visually immersive documentary short that blurs the line between reality and the synthetic, exploring our perception of truth through the impact of AI on art and cinema.
EXIT THROUGH THE DEBT SHOP by Jan Schekauski
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This is the inside story of revolution - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when debt, corruption and protest collide. Exit through the Debt Shop follows the eccentric cat Déjà Vu in Kenya, who becomes a documentary filmmaker trying to capture one of the most corrupt rulers on camera, until a series of dramatic events lead the cat to want to become president of the country himself.
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