Short & Mid-length

Overview of films

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  Breaking the Frame

  • Short & Mid-length

  Five films pushing beyond the boundaries of the image in very different ways.
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  Evacuations

  • Short & Mid-length

  Lilli Carré | 7' | USA | European premiere

  Black-and-white xeroxes explode with colour and movement that fades away without a trace.
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  (Un)Occupied

  • Short & Mid-length

  Five films questioning ideas of private property, ownership and displacement.
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  Feeling Defensive (Part 1)

  • Short & Mid-length

  Pilvi Takala | 16' | Finland | World premiere (festival)

  A filmmaker enters military training to deconstruct how the non-negotiable role of defence is fostered in society.
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  FELT

  • Short & Mid-length

  Blake Williams | 15' | USA | International premiere

  An absorbing stereoscopic vision of the US territory in hopeless times.
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  A Flock of Rotations

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  Jung An Tagen | 11' | Austria | World premiere

  Vertigo in vectors: relentless spirals and chromatic flickers warp audiovisual perception.
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  Forget the Director, This Is Emmy’s Cut!

  • Short & Mid-length

  Marion Desmaret | 11' | Uganda | World premiere

  With his wit and sharp commentary, Uganda’s legendary Video-Joker, VJ Emmy, transforms local cinema halls into places of communion.
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  gestures toward Plant Vision

  • Short & Mid-length

  Sarah Abbott | 10' | Canada | No premiere

  Can plants see? A lyrical cinematographic evocation of how plants are photo-sensitive to light.
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  The Ghost of Wittgenstein

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  Ira Schneider | 9' | USA | No premiere

  A little Wittgenstein goes a long way in this playful tussle of words and images.
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  God Sleeps on Sundays

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  Naishe Nyamubaya | 18' | Zimbabwe | World premiere (festival)

  A traditional healer finds herself in a fierce rivalry with a Christian preacher determined to seize her land for his new church.
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  Greetings from Rhodes

  • Short & Mid-length

  Viera Čákanyová | 25' | Slovakia | World premiere

  A satirical take on tourism during the ecological crisis, with some carefully placed dinosaurs.
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  happy eyescream

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  Okada Shiika | 15' | Japan | European premiere

  Strange, slightly absurd animation, in which Tsumire struggles with her brother’s influence and her self-image.