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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Ruletista
Lukas Valenta Rinner | 21' | Austria | International premiere
An inhabitant of a failed social utopia finds attempts to end her life rendered impossible. -
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
Nastja Säde Rönkkö | 14' | Finland | Dutch Premiere
A poem with three narrators: a teardrop, a droplet of blood and a bead of sweat. -
La sangre
Joaquín León | 15' | Spain | World premiere
La Sangre acknowledges how miraculous it is to make it through adolescence. -
Shadows of Ourselves
Pedro Serrazina | 9' | Portugal | World premiere
A shadowy sand animation about the stranger as a source of fear. -
Shavi Kvebi
Vladimir Grishechkin | 39' | Georgia | World premiere
A realistic and allegorical story about aimless people who left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. -
shifting bodies to fluid fiction
Daniela Gutmann, Daniela Gutmann | 4' | Austria | Dutch Premiere
A harmoniously erotic and essential exploration of where one body ends, and another begins. -
Silvesterchlausen
Andrew Norman Wilson | 12' | USA | World premiere
On New Year’s Eve strange and beautiful things take place in the Swiss Appenzell. -
Sinking Feeling
Zachary Epcar | 21' | USA | International premiere
Yuppies recall their sweaty, heaving, panting commute when their train gets stuck in a tunnel. -
Skeyesee
Jimmy Schaus | 3' | USA | World premiere
A serene domestic mise en abyme where natural and digital worlds collide. -
Slip
Martine Syms | 3' | USA | Dutch Premiere
Digital alter-ego Kita tells a cautionary tale about emailing while you drive. -
spaces as traces
Shi Yun Teo | 9' | United Kingdom | World premiere (festival)
An essay on the reinvention of the spiritual in contemporary virtuality -
Still Lives
Elli Vuorinen | 6' | Finland | European premiere
Still life awakens in this experimental stop motion vignette about the mundane challenges of modernity.