Short & Mid-length

An affecting meditation on the pain experienced by refugees forced to live in limbo.

Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.

Flowers are stuck down and covered by tape: a wry comment on 20th-century modernist art.

An incisive monologue about the ways violence, terror, and contradiction reveal themselves at borders and checkpoints.

A parody of disco music and dance treated with live video multiplications of images.

Our protagonist cuts the power on customers in arrears, until a new signal is transmitted.

Online war game becomes a battle ground for a female gamer, but the violence isn't virtual.

Two exiled beings exchange tales of kin, connection, and loss while awaiting reincarnation in a forest.

A look into a novel economy of online domination and the new faces of sex work.

A young Bolivian shoeshiner mythologises his own story to cope with a harsh, everyday reality.

An exploration of how architecture shapes the relationship between two students from different social backgrounds.

A faux-folklore lullaby to revive two dead volcanoes discovered in the Waddenzee.

Steeped in black and white, Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish confronts conflict, maternal loss, and intergenerational sorrow.

Pensive impressions of landscape, religion and ancestry give texture to this deeply meditative exploration of a homeland.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An intimate, animated migration through the difficult, emotionally uneven roads in the search for self.

An immersion into the surreal dreams and visions of a young woman haunted by loneliness.

Dystopian cyberpunk sci-fi, Russian-style, returns with a vengeance in this inventive, allusive, experimental, morbid tale.

With the arrival of a successor, a lonely surgical-assistant robot is confronted with its waning relevance.

A report from the frontlines of everyday life in the USA, replete with guns and joy.

‘Professional dog walker’ Rose invites a film crew to tour the home she has been squatting.

When a great love leaves her, Odina must reorient herself and learn to live without looking back.

A surprisingly whimsical and humorous tale of displacement caused by an earthquake in Indonesia.

A reflection on the perils triggered by cultural appropriation and stereotypical representations of black bodies.

A study of the interaction between landscape and military technology in the San Francisco Bay.

Five wildly different stories about people displaced from their village.

A cosmic, textured study of flowers via photochemical reaction.

A peasant woman in rural China faces the repressive bindings of her environment.

Monserrat takes her friend Francia along on a quest to find housing (and cause trouble).

In the aftermath of death, what becomes of the books we leave behind?

Cinema as sound-and-light show: Grasshopper enchants empty urban spaces via a mysterious machine.

Rotterdam regular John Gianvito with a sensitive, homebound film diary recorded in the pandemic years 2020-2022.

Intriguing porno erotica: a woman picks up grieving people at funerals and overwhelms them further.

A disinterment of College F (aka Tolstoy College), an anarchist pedagogical space operating between 1969 and 1985.

A silent meditation on a woman's fingers by Super-8 master Jaap Pieters.

Observational meditation on growing militarisation of today’s society shot by acclaimed experimental documentary filmmaker, Boris Poljak.

A disturbing study of our subconscious, with a man losing his grip on reality.

Between figurative and abstract, this one-man show is like Busby Berkeley for the digital age.

Feminist rendering of a Korean birth dream through the tin-foil lithographic imagining of a mighty she-horse.

Subtle but effective hybrid of animation, documentary and experimental film dealing with animal rights issues.

Dividing the body and the tools it uses: Anna Vasof’s neo-Švankmajer avalanche of digital gags.

An ode to queer artist Nazario Luque, who devoted his life to love and freedom.

Le jour ou j'étais perdu seduces the audience with its ambiguity and continuous shifts of perception.

Faded Super-8 images accompany an Inuk Elder's memories in this powerful invocation of Inuit life and mythology.

Mekala Session takes on the role of bandleader for the legendary Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in LA.

Not exactly a music video, but a queer-anarchist audio-visual manifesto from radical Austrian duo KLITCLIQUE.

Ruggirello’s absurdist cross between cinema and sculpture is a slapstick comedy made with strange objects.

A simple corner turns into a generative space with plenty of surprises for our senses.

A hauntingly evocative, experimental rumination on the effects of colonialism on human desire.

Relationship between a woman and her deceased mother illuminates the strength, struggles and transcendence of black womanhood.

In a dream, a woman becomes an animal. In a memory, another recalls her abortion experience.

The filmmaker navigates between a trans identity forged in the city, and rural family roots.

A comical tale of vampires hitchhiking to Spain, and the woman who encounters them.

A disquieting exploration of the Salton Sea – haunted by traces of catastrophic US nuclear testing.

A collection of photographs of Marseille dockworkers; a compelling homage to Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène.

A humorously tragic animation about a post-graduate job search amid the ennui of hometown culture.

An immense and interconnected network of subterranean natural phenomena is illuminated using analogue film techniques.

An impressionistic animation conjuring kitchen culture and the distance between a Chinese mother and an American daughter.

A woman alone inside her high-rise Doha apartment: a stylised depiction of experiences and longings.

Playful, unconventional black-and-white film that sees a man undergoing a transformation after his wife’s death.

Dominique van Olm combines home movie footage from her Dutch grandfather with contemporary, poetic images.

A meditation on creativity and childhood as universal human bonds transcending time and space.

The bombing of Pantelleria during WWII triggers a compelling investigation into truth and fabrication.

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

Subtle, funny, cynical, yet deeply human look at guests in a small-town pâtisserie in Moravia.

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

A young man broadcasts poses from an urban ruin: a portrait of our times.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A couple candidly converses about art while the filmmaker’s animated drawings parade on the screen.

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

An abandoned garment factory is reconstituted and reimagined as a labyrinth of labour.

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

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

A work of strange, almost perverse sensuality, organised in clusters of analogies and contrasts.

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

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

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

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

A process of learning where empathy and self-awareness are intertwined in a beautiful feminine-universe fresco.

The sensations and perceptions experienced in parasomniac states are brilliantly rendered in this hypnotic dream exploration.

A jewel of irony and a precise satire of the almighty Catholic Church.

Contemporary gastarbeiter comedy with a strong feminist undercurrent, an homage to Yugo-land.