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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Short & Mid-length

Overview of films

  • 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.