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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Synergetic

Overview of films

  • Die grosse Pumpelei

    Peter Könitz | 11' | Germany | None

    A humorous silent film of a man who looks for love in the personals section. An impromptu visit becomes more than he bargained for.

  • Guisado on Sunset

    Terence Nance | 4' | USA | European premiere

    Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot. The kind you can’t quite remember right, until it starts to look like something else.

  • The Hot and the Cold

    Juan David González Monroy, Anja Dornieden | 45' | -

    OJOBOCA uses film and slide projectors for anaglpyh 3D images, stroboscopes and music to evoke a magical world in answer to an unhappy history.

  • Hub Tones

    Jenn Nkiru | 9' | United Kingdom | None

    Through Hub Tones, Kamasi Washington hopes to connect with his ancestors, merging Freddie Hubbard with African rhythms. Jenn Nkiru visually communicat

  • I Felt Like the Sound of a Harp

    Laura Phillips | 17' | United Kingdom | World premiere (festival)

    Chemist Humphry Davy’s experimentation with nitrous oxide serves as a source of inspiration for this multilayered play of chemistry and celluloid.

  • Les Indes galantes

    Clément Cogitore | 6' | France | None

    Les Indes galantes (1735) by Jean-Philippe Rameau scores a krump dance battle, allowing for a political reclamation of classicism and art by those oft

  • Kmêdeus

    Nuno Boaventura Miranda | 55' | Cabo Verde | World premiere

    Intriguing story of a mysterious homeless man called Kmêdeus (EatGod) who lived on the island of São Vicente, Cabo Verde. A lunatic or an

  • Kung Fu Trailers

    Graeme Hogg | 15' | USA | None

  • Letter to the Free

    Bradford Young | 19' | USA | European premiere

    Inspired by some of the greatest musical recordings and performances ‘behind bars’, this film is about second chances, forgiving mistakes, rehabilitat

  • The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland

    Karrabing Film Collective | 27' | Australia | None

    This irreverent genre mash-up explores possible perspectives for young Aiden in a not-too-distant future destroyed by poison.

  • Night Time Go

    Karrabing Film Collective | 32' | Australia | None

    Documentary and fiction mix to tell the little-known true story of the Karrabing ancestors’ resistance and escape from an internment camp.

  • Not (a) Part

    Vicky Smith | 6' | United Kingdom | None

    An animation of dead bees contact-printed directly onto negative film, a dirge for the rapid decline of these essential creatures.