Short & Mid-length
Overview of films
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Riff-Raff
Mariah Teixeira, Nanda Félix | 24' | Brazil | International premiere
Struggling to get on with her day, Carmen faces up to a city tense with conflict, brutality and looming violence. -
a river holds a perfect memory
Hope Strickland | 17' | United Kingdom | World premiere
A cinematic passage across waterways in Northern England and Jamaica reveals hidden meaning and connection. -
El rodeo
Carlos Melián Moreno | 30' | Cuba | World premiere
A family speaks of the past and dances with their sorrows. The morning brings a strange visitor carrying a cage. -
Roseblood
Sharon Couzin | 8' | USA | No premiere
A dance film using the means of cinema to fragment and reassemble a woman’s gestures. -
Ruletista
Lukas Valenta Rinner | 21' | Austria | International premiere
An inhabitant of a failed social utopia finds attempts to end her life rendered impossible. -
As sacrificadas
Aurélie Oliveira Pernet | 21' | Switzerland | None
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET -
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears
Nastja Säde Rönkkö | 14' | Finland | Dutch Premiere
A poem with three narrators: a teardrop, a droplet of blood and a bead of sweat. -
La sangre
Joaquín León | 15' | Spain | World premiere
La Sangre acknowledges how miraculous it is to make it through adolescence. -
Scaling
Mike Hoolboom | 5' | Canada | No premiere
IFFR regular Mike Hoolboom offers a beguiling presentation of cinematic impermanence in photographic double exposure. -
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. -
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.