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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 64 minutes.

Still: Piccin gemellone, dir. Tibor Koehne

Overview of films

  • RE:EXPOSURE

    Vicky Smith | 7' | United Kingdom | No premiere

    Investigating the idea of skin – body and image – and the effects of time and light.
  • Roseblood

    Sharon Couzin | 8' | USA | No premiere

    A dance film using the means of cinema to fragment and reassemble a woman’s gestures.
  • Scaling

    Mike Hoolboom | 5' | Canada | No premiere

    IFFR regular Mike Hoolboom offers a beguiling presentation of cinematic impermanence in photographic double exposure.
  • Scrub Solo 1: Soloneliness

    Antonin De Bemels | 8' | Belgium | No premiere

    A dancer’s unusual motion is “scrubbed”: transformed by a stuttering manipulation of image and sound.
  • See Through the Hollowed Blue Hellebore

    Jiayi Chen | 18' | USA | World premiere

    Southeastern Alaska’s landscape and indigenous language play together in sweet contemplation about place.
  • Shadows

    Sreileak Prum | 17' | Cambodia | World premiere

    As two friends rehearse a script, they might discover something new about each other.
  • SightNotSeeing

    Sheungman Yim | 11' | Hong Kong | World premiere

    Shot from a rooftop in Kowloon City, this one-shot comedy transforms street into stage.
  • Smoke & Mirrors

    Tris Vonna-Michell | 8' | Sweden | No premiere

    Artist Tris Vonna-Michell delivers a free-associative monologue about audiovisual archives and personal experiences.
  • La Smorfia

    Jean Ruggirello | 5' | France | World premiere

    La Smorfia is a carousel of accidents that plays with our idea of perception and surprise.
  • Sola Fata

    Timoteus Anggawan Kusno | 22' | Indonesia | World premiere (festival)

    A colonial explorer’s illusion is slowly falling apart.
  • Soñar una serpiente

    Maria Ardila, Liliana Correa | 14' | Colombia | International premiere

    A surprising and shifting family tale about snakes, sensuality and altered libidos.
  • Soudain l’été

    Axelle Vinassac | 11' | France | International premiere

    In Soudain l’été, the filmmaker’s sentimental life becomes a perfect experimental romantic comedy.