Short & Mid-length

Overview of films

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  Visão do Paraíso

  • Short & Mid-length

  Leonardo Pirondi | 16' | Brazil | International premiere

  The desire to expand physical frontiers links the age of expeditions with contemporary virtual reality.
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  VITA

  • Short & Mid-length

  Mox Mäkelä | 27' | Finland | World premiere

  Mox Mäkelä’s cryptic triptych follows time-crossing trains, gathering armies and Karelian women singing humanity’s doom.
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  La voz rosa

  • Short & Mid-length

  Marieke Elzerman | 25' | Netherlands | World premiere

  A process of learning where empathy and self-awareness are intertwined in a beautiful feminine-universe fresco.
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  Vultosos cumes

  • Short & Mid-length

  Diogo Salgado | 20' | Portugal | World premiere

  A young Portuguese migrant worker travels through the night to richly hued and distant mountains.
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  wandering through secret storms

  • Short & Mid-length

  Christina Battle | 7' | Canada | Dutch Premiere

  Images of women doing office work are mixed with redacted FBI notations. Does freedom exist?
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  Warsha

  • Short & Mid-length

  Dania Bdeir | 14' | France | None

  Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
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  Watching Words Becoming a Film (TXT.FLM #3)

  • Short & Mid-length

  Herman Asselberghs | 6' | Belgium | Dutch Premiere

  Only words on screen: Asselberghs bridges political, avant-garde cinema and the ubiquitous telephone text message.
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  Water Hazard

  • Short & Mid-length

  Alexander David | 23' | France | World premiere

  Evocative and mellow, Water Hazard explores queer identity with a delicate and empathetic eye.
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  When the Wind Rises

  • Short & Mid-length

  Chen Hung | 18' | Taiwan | International premiere

  A lone activist’s struggle against the local oil refinery plunges a village community into doubt.
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  white city

  • Short & Mid-length

  Cathy Lee Crane | 11' | USA | European premiere

  Esoteric vignettes compose this poetic elegy for loss during the AIDS pandemic.
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  A White Screen Is Visible

  • Short & Mid-length

  Sohaib Bouaiss | 9' | Netherlands | None

  The sensations and perceptions experienced in parasomniac states are brilliantly rendered in this hypnotic dream exploration.
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  Why Are You Image Plus?

  • Short & Mid-length

  Diogo Baldaia | 9' | Portugal | World premiere

  A jewel of irony and a precise satire of the almighty Catholic Church.