Short & Mid-length

Overview of films

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  Lodo

  • Short & Mid-length

  Joseph Specker Nys | 15' | Brazil | World premiere

  A tale about creation as a vital act of resilience told through an extraordinary stop-motion animation.
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  The Muscles Are Tense

  • Short & Mid-length

  Mahshid Mahboubifar | 16' | Germany | World premiere

  A visual essay on police violence at a Berlin demonstration against the genocide in Gaza.
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  My God, My Country

  • Short & Mid-length

  Kristóf Sólyom | 13' | Hungary | World premiere

  On a Budapest football pitch, three writers explore love, friendship, and dreams in the shadow of an impending war.
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  Natimorto

  • Short & Mid-length

  Ibrahem Hasan, Leandro HBL | 12' | Brazil | International premiere

  A liberating essay on rebirth from deeply rooted, painful origins.
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  No-da-ji Land

  • Short & Mid-length

  Izzy Lee | 10' | South Korea | World premiere (festival)

  Hybrid documentary exploring the haunting influence of history in an abandoned mining village.
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  o

  • Short & Mid-length

  Francisca Alarcão | 14' | Portugal | World premiere

  o is a gem that coalesces exquisitely textured images with irony and beauty.
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  Obi Is a Boy

  • Short & Mid-length

  Dika Ofoma | 17' | Nigeria | International premiere

  Obi returns home for his mother’s funeral, forcing him to confront his fractured relationship with his estranged father.
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  Oh Be a Fine Girl Kiss Me

  • Short & Mid-length

  Alice dos Reis | 7' | Portugal | World premiere

  History and fiction intertwine in this playful account of four nuns who mapped the heavens.
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  Omen

  • Short & Mid-length

  Peter Rose | 11' | USA | No premiere

  Veteran experimentalist Peter Rose alternates ominous views of nature scarred by civilisation and subterranean passageways.
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  OVERWORK

  • Short & Mid-length

  Céline Berger | 10' | Germany | International premiere

  A riveting, rhythmic reworking of 1980s educational 16mm films from the German Federal Employment Agency.
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  Piccin gemellone

  • Short & Mid-length

  Tibor Koehne | 19' | Germany | International premiere

  Identical twins are divided by the age-old question of private property in this contemporary tale.
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  Planetario

  • Short & Mid-length

  Sofía Poncini | 9' | Argentina | International premiere

  An imaginative tale about the loss of innocence through astronomy and existential fears.