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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Short & Mid-length

Overview of films

  • La sangre

    Joaquín León | 15' | Spain | World premiere

    La Sangre acknowledges how miraculous it is to make it through adolescence.
  • Scented Rooms

    Shauheen Daneshfar | 30' | Iran | World premiere

    Deeply meditative, poetic ode to Iran’s silenced history of poetry, performance, artistic freedom and expression.
  • Schlafsand

    Elias Bötticher | 14' | Switzerland | World premiere

    Schlafsand uses pictorial beauty to address the political and social blindness surrounding climate change.
  • Scylos

    Maaike Anne Stevens | 22' | Netherlands | None

    On the Sahara’s rim, a man ponders the turn his life has taken. Meanwhile, German scientists unravel the earth’s history.
  • Sekai

    Tsukada Marina | 38' | Japan | World premiere

    Warm, intimate portrait of two separate lives coming together in a night-time moment of hope.
  • Shadows of Ourselves

    Pedro Serrazina | 9' | Portugal | World premiere

    A shadowy sand animation about the stranger as a source of fear.
  • Shavi Kvebi

    Vladimir Grishechkin | 39' | Georgia | World premiere

    A realistic and allegorical story about aimless people who left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
  • shifting bodies to fluid fiction

    Daniela Gutmann, Daniela Gutmann | 4' | Austria | Dutch Premiere

    A harmoniously erotic and essential exploration of where one body ends, and another begins.
  • Shunyata

    Lichun Tseng, Robert Kroos | 13' | Netherlands | None

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
  • The Silence of Iron

    Mariana de Melo | 15' | Brazil | World premiere

    An exploration into the impact of the mining industry on the identity of Minas Gerais.
  • Silence

    Amirali Navaee | 17' | Iran | World premiere

    As a theatre play about the life of an ancient Iranian mystic awaits its contemporary premiere, old sentiments arise.
  • Silent Panorama

    Nicolas Piret | 5' | Belgium | World premiere

    Meticulous animation about a search through the Ardennes, drawn on a single piece of paper.