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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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 63 minutes.

Still: Piccin gemellone, dir. Tibor Koehne

Overview of films

  • (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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Afternoon Hearsay

    Peng Zuqiang | 19' | China | International premiere

    Peng Zuqiang takes us on a sensorial journey into the past of a country defined by rapid transformation.
  • Ako Kantu

    Ganza Moise | 17' | Rwanda | World premiere

    A Valentine’s Day special episode takes an unexpected turn when a sensationalist YouTuber interviews a local charismatic thief.
  • Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?

    R. James Edwards | 3' | Canada | World premiere

    A biting, stylised reflection on the experience of being Deaf in a bureaucratic, medicalised world.
  • Ashes and Echoes

    Koraphat Cheeradit | 25' | Thailand | World premiere

    Three intertwined stories exploring our search for identity, in spite of parental and societal expectations.
  • Au hasard

    Darren Dominique Heroux | 9' | Canada | World premiere

    Blue or red glasses determine the film you will see, an allegory for our polarised age.
  • Awake Before Your Gaze

    Lin Yi-Chi | 20' | Taiwan | International premiere

    Dual-channel portrait of two Afro-Taiwanese men confronting issues of belonging and identities beyond fixed categories.
  • Black Strangers

    Dan Guthrie | 8' | United Kingdom | No premiere

    Dan Guthrie imagines himself as the mirror of a “black stranger” who died in 1719.
  • Bolero rojo

    Ángel Molina | 16' | Paraguay | International premiere

    A heartwarming drama that explores the feelings of a queer singer.