Short & Mid-length
Programme IFFR 2026
Just as long as it takes. The Short & Mid-length film programme offers a unique showcase of films under 64 minutes.
Overview of films
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(for once I dreamed of you)
Kate Solar | 6' | Canada | International premiere
A dreamlike reverie takes motifs from Romantic poetry (nature, light, loss), subjecting them to fragmentation. -
20/68 Schatzi
Kurt Kren | 3' | Austria | No premiere
Master Austrian structuralist Kurt Kren moves from busy, unbridled abstraction to an ultimate pictorial shock. -
Bare Witness
In this diverse compilation, films are in dialogue with each other on how bearing witness becomes a direct action of resistance. -
Meta-morphing
To wear a mask, to perform and finally to morph in something/someone else: identity as an eternal movement. -
3cm of Complexity
Anna Vasof | 21' | Austria | International premiere
Intelligently playful and ever-surprising, Anna Vasof unearths the unfamiliar in the familiar and vice versa. -
The Long Goodbye
Stories of longing, searching and missing in the wake of migration told from those left behind. -
44 Houses
Kari Fisher, Isaac Forsland | 6' | Canada | European premiere
The filmmaker, accompanied by family members, revisits and records impressions of houses where she lived. -
Soft Focus
Portraits exploring characters’ relationships to each other, their communities, shared spaces and themselves. -
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Playing Ourselves
A diverse selection of perspectives on performativity in our very online, very mediated lives. -
