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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Short & Mid-length

Programme IFFR 2023

Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.

Still: Issues with My Other Half

Overview of films

  • Site of Passage

    Lucy Kerr | 7' | USA | Dutch Premiere

    A typical sleepover sequence involving a group of teenage girls transformed into a mysterious ritual.
  • Smashing Monuments

    Sebastian Diaz Morales | 50' | Indonesia | World premiere (festival)

    Members of the Indonesian art collective ruangrupa approach official monuments and strike up a conversation.
  • SMRT Piece

    Charlotte Bee Her Hong | 5' | Singapore | International premiere

    A couple candidly converses about art while the filmmaker’s animated drawings parade on the screen.
  • Speech for a Melting Statue

    Collectif Faire-Part | 10' | Belgium | World premiere

    A poet anticipates the removal of a colonial statue, while anti-racist demonstrators occupy Brussels streets.
  • Stillness of Labor

    Chris Larson | 8' | USA | World premiere

    An abandoned garment factory is reconstituted and reimagined as a labyrinth of labour.
  • Swimming in a Sea of Trauma

    Ugochukwu Azuya | 7' | Nigeria | World premiere

    A ghost story with nightmarish echoes concerning the traumatic memories of the Nigerian Civil War.
  • Tabernacle

    Dante Capone | 13' | USA | International premiere

    Our hapless wanderer is caught up in a Christian sect with hellish ambitions. 
  • Ultramint

    Hirose Tadashi | 10' | Japan | Dutch Premiere

    A work of strange, almost perverse sensuality, organised in clusters of analogies and contrasts.
  • Untitled Part 9: This Time

    Jayce Salloum | 6' | Afghanistan | Dutch Premiere

    Images of Bamiyan in Afghanistan alternate with children telling crazy stories. A chronicle of displacement.
  • Vacation

    James Mercer, Yifan Jiang | 25' | USA | Dutch Premiere

    A lo-fi tech folkloric tale about a naïve student stranded on volcanic shores.
  • Vienen las grietas

    Daniel Mateo Vallejo | 18' | Colombia | International premiere

    Nature beckons Keisi, driving a sensuous, vivid and liberating exploration of identity and queer expression.
  • Visão do Paraíso

    Leonardo Pirondi | 16' | Brazil | International premiere

    The desire to expand physical frontiers links the age of expeditions with contemporary virtual reality.