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.
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. -
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.