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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La nostra habitació
Jaume Claret Muxart | 28' | Spain | World premiere
A weary radio host begins a new programme in this considered and melodious vignette. -
Ohio Sonata
Lluís Galter | 16' | Spain | World premiere
An infinite soap opera made from stock images in an impostorous Ohio. -
Partition
Diana Allan | 61' | Palestine | World premiere
Diana Allan weaves footage from colonial archives: an invitation to consider how truths are purposely changed. -
A Patriot of These Woods
Karel Doing | 10' | United Kingdom | World premiere
Karel Doing’s “phytographic” technique is used to bring life to a marvellous world of plants. -
Père et fille
Quentin Papapietro | 36' | France | World premiere
Fatherly love presented with intelligence and a great sense of cinema. -
Persistence & Loss
Joseph Clark | 3' | Canada | Dutch Premiere
Strobing images of logging compose this hypnotic palimpsest of deforestation and movie magic -
Ponay (or You Are Not F***ing Welcome)
Hesome Chemamah | 27' | Thailand | World premiere
To finalise a gender identity draft exemption, Cherry has to return to their conservative home. -
Prayer for Tending Death
Elyla | 12' | Nicaragua | World premiere (festival)
A performance, fusion of tradition and queer, to evaporate the violent masculinity of cockfighting. -
Puro andar
Luciana Decker Orozco | 12' | Bolivia | World premiere
An evocative experimental exploration that slips through the guts of humans and the Earth. -
The Rain Will Weep
Damir Čučić | 25' | Croatia | World premiere
A superbly edited panopticon of absurdist viral videos exchanged during the pandemic lockdown. -
Razor Head
Tom Chomont | 6' | USA | Dutch Premiere
A man shaves another in this erotically charged 16mm experimental vignette. -
a river holds a perfect memory
Hope Strickland | 17' | United Kingdom | World premiere
A cinematic passage across waterways in Northern England and Jamaica reveals hidden meaning and connection.