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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

  • Baba

    Mbithi Masya | 15' | Kenya | Dutch Premiere

    A six-year-old boy uses the power of his imagination to protect himself against a harsh reality.

  • Blank Photograph

    Hsu Che-yu | 20' | France | World premiere

    Hsu Che-yu blends digitally animated crime scenes with the tale of Taiwanese terrorist Yung Ru-Men.

  • Bloom

    Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado | 17' | Spain | World premiere

    An exploration of the phantom island San Borondón, taking us above the earth and underwater.

  • Blues

    Larry Gottheim | 9' | USA | Dutch Premiere

    A bowl of blueberries slowly disappears: light, colour, action, time – cinema. Gottheim’s first one-take film.

  • Can’t Help Myself

    Anna Ansone | 19' | Latvia | International premiere

    Unglamorous beach work in Riga is poignantly juxtaposed with the extravagant promises of self-help gurus.

  • Casa de bonecas

    George Pedrosa | 16' | Brazil | World premiere

    Three prophets of pink seduce us with their glistening bodies and dark desires. Squish. Slap. 

  • Cave Painting

    Siegfried A. Fruhauf | 15' | Austria | World premiere

    Cave textures fused with filmic materiality. A ride for the senses, bridging primitive and avant-garde.

  • Center, Ring, Mall

    Mateo Vega | 18' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A dreamy 16mm triptych about the lost promises of urbanity.

  • Chomp It!

    Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen | 12' | Singapore | World premiere

    Two crocodile-people are cooling down at a swimming pool. But are they even the same species?

  • Civic

    Dwayne LeBlanc | 19' | USA | International premiere

    Booker’s unannounced homecoming to South Central L.A. arouses ambivalent feelings, especially within himself. 

  • Conviértete en quien eres

    Agustin Iezzi | 11' | Argentina | World premiere

    The unassuming, poetic portrait of a domestic space during pandemic times: a rotoscopic, yin-yang dance.

  • Eulogy for an Effigy

    More than park decorations, statues become emblems for the neighbourhoods they adorn. But emblematic of what?