Short & Mid-length
Programme IFFR 2025
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 63 minutes.
Overview of films
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The Last Harvest
Nuno Boaventura Miranda | 22' | Cabo Verde | World premiere
A portal into the intertwined lives of three Cape Verdean individuals living in Lisbon. -
Levantamuertos: Cumbia for the Dead
Jose Eduardo Castilla Ponce | 19' | Mexico | World premiere
A bizarre road-movie amusingly led by zombies and cumbia. -
A Light Unseen
James Sansing | 10' | USA | International premiere
The beautiful and near-invisible world of spiderwebs as you’ve never seen before! -
Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut
Ari Benjamin Meyers | 18' | Italy | World premiere (festival)
An encounter with a musician whose art was born to reach beyond our world. -
Máthair
Keira Greene | 16' | United Kingdom | International premiere
A personal investigation into matrilineal lines reveals a system of obfuscation and institutional oppression. -
Medical Field Guide or Rules of Engagement with Native E-girls
Andran Abramjan, Jan Hofman | 22' | Czech Republic | International premiere
An object of interest emerges for a drone operator in this unearthly video game animation. -
Metabolism
Misho Antadze | 12' | Netherlands | None
A thought-provoking documentary that briefly observes consumption-oriented industrialisation from farm to table. -
le mirage des mains ultra réalistes
Guillaume Vallée | 14' | Canada | International premiere
Hands become symbols of the complicated ways in which male bonds are formed. -
A Monster with Its Mouth Agape
Steven McInerney | 10' | United Kingdom | European premiere
An experimental homage to Butoh and its late master Yoshito Ohno. -
My Brother, My Brother
Saad Dnewar, Abdelrahman Dnewar | 15' | Egypt | World premiere
Twin brothers trace their bond from their mother’s womb to the moment they’re heartbreakingly separated. -
Neican: “Western Cyprus”
Pastinaca Videotapes Plantation | 14' | Kazakhstan | World premiere
Incredible found footage rescued from old Chinese VCR tapes forgotten by contemporaneity. -
The Non-Actor
Eliza Barry Callahan | 18' | USA | World premiere
Following sudden, unexplained hearing loss, Elliot reconfigures her relationship with her (sonic) environment and herself.