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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

  • Statues Also Die?

    Thais Fernandes | 12' | Brazil | World premiere

    A lively children’s survey that manages to shake off the heaviness of the past.

  • The Stench of Eternal Bog

    David Tse, Rory Pippan | 8' | Australia | International premiere

    Small-town Australia’s disaffected youth bubble and burst under the stench of seeping, creeping eternal bog.

  • Submergido

    Ariel Añez | 14' | Mozambique | World premiere

    A son shares a mysterious connection with his father who disappeared during the war in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.

  • Super, Natural

    Kyath Battie | 7' | Canada | European premiere

    Juxtapositions between images and within each frame tells the story of Vancouver Island’s imperilled beauty.

  • Tamashi

    Ashima Shiraishi, Jess X. Snow | 13' | USA | World premiere

    Multi-generational healing through butoh and bouldering in the desertified Payahuunadü valley of California.

  • Thunderhead

    Una Jongenelis | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Thunderhead deploys a range of styles to visualise the monsters in our heads.

  • Tra Fasi

    Charity Charly | 20' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Shavero missed a scene, so he created one. Punk’s not dead, not in Paramaribo either.

  • TRACE

    Alexandra Pavlovskaya-Lokchine | 12' | Russia | World premiere (festival)

    A displaced man tries to return, but his hometown has turned into a ghostly, alienated place.

  • Transformation by Holding Time (Landscape)

    Paul de Nooijer | 3' | Netherlands | No premiere

    The staging of a beguiling visual paradox: photographed images gradually blot out a real landscape.

  • Trivakra

    Sofia Angst | 10' | Brazil | International premiere

    An alchemical and hypnotic trip of molecular metamorphosis.

  • Trizas

    Luciana Decker Orozco | 15' | Bolivia | World premiere

    A journey through the fragments of art awakens the distant past with an aura of strangeness.

  • Última vez hace mucho tiempo

    Santiago Martín | 24' | Venezuela | World premiere

    A delicate autobiographical portrait about absences, distances and love.