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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

  • Pantelleria

    MASBEDO | 19' | Italy | World premiere

    The bombing of Pantelleria during WWII triggers a compelling investigation into truth and fabrication.
  • Paradiso, XXXI, 108

    Kamal Aljafari | 19' | Germany | Dutch Premiere

    Disquieting, found-footage collage of heroic images of modern warfare – depictions that obscure the reality.
  • Pastry Friday

    Josef Dabernig | 12' | Austria | World premiere (festival)

    Subtle, funny, cynical, yet deeply human look at guests in a small-town pâtisserie in Moravia.
  • Per una selva oscura

    Emmanuel Lefrant | 8' | France | Dutch Premiere

    The dark forest beloved of poets, cinematically recreated in a timely, materialist and apocalyptic vein.
  • Porcupine

    Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý | 13' | Belgium | World premiere

    A young man broadcasts poses from an urban ruin: a portrait of our times.
  • Procuro teu auxílio para enterrar um homem

    Anderson Bardot | 21' | Brazil | World premiere

    Brazil, 1870. A tangled story of power, lust and freedom unfolds, where nothing is tangible.
  • Prosinečki

    Adrian Duncan | 21' | Ireland | World premiere

    Archival poetic analysis of the aesthetics of football conceived through the image of Robert Prosinečki.
  • recortes

    Kimberly Forero-Arnias | 10' | Colombia | World premiere

    A documentation of indigenous flora and fauna that builds on personal relationships, going beyond just observation.
  • Scented Rooms

    Shauheen Daneshfar | 30' | Iran | World premiere

    Deeply meditative, poetic ode to Iran’s silenced history of poetry, performance, artistic freedom and expression.
  • Sekai

    Tsukada Marina | 38' | Japan | World premiere

    Warm, intimate portrait of two separate lives coming together in a night-time moment of hope.
  • Sinisukka 1948

    Mervi Kytösalmi-Buhl | 6' | Germany | Dutch Premiere

    An experimental dance choreography that goes beyond human bodies and into a micro-universe of relational aesthetics.
  • Sisters

    Marisa Hoicka | 2' | Canada | World premiere

    A found footage road trip with two sisters who run wild before their paths diverge.