Short & Mid-length

Overview of films

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  Dialectics

  • Short & Mid-length

  Four films engaging in complex dialectics with enormous social and political consequences.
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  Afternoon Hearsay

  • Short & Mid-length

  Peng Zuqiang | 19' | China | International premiere

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

  • Short & Mid-length

  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.
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  Am I Mourning What I Never Lost?

  • Short & Mid-length

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

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

  • Short & Mid-length

  Koraphat Cheeradit | 25' | Thailand | World premiere

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

  • Short & Mid-length

  Darren Dominique Heroux | 9' | Canada | World premiere

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

  • Short & Mid-length

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

  Dual-channel portrait of two Afro-Taiwanese men confronting issues of belonging and identities beyond fixed categories.
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  DINAMO: Exposure

  • Short & Mid-length

  For this programme, distributors are invited to submit works that address ‘exposure’.
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  DINAMO: Obscurity

  • Short & Mid-length

  For this programme, distributors are invited to submit works that address ‘obscurity’.
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  Black Strangers

  • Short & Mid-length

  Dan Guthrie | 8' | United Kingdom | No premiere

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

  • Short & Mid-length

  Ángel Molina | 16' | Paraguay | International premiere

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

  • Short & Mid-length

  Zhou Zhenyu | 14' | China | World premiere

  A mysterious spectral figure wanders the ruins of a future that never materialised.