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  • Anchor Points (Canada) by Victor Quijada, Samuel Greffe

    Anchor Points is a documentary-style art film by Rubberband that retraces the trajectory of Victor Quijada from street dancer to contemporary choreographer. Through archival footage and visual effects, it examines his personal and artistic evolution and introduces the foundational Rubberband Meth...

  • Eîdòn (Italy) by Simone Bardi

    From the depths of memory, a mysterious voice recounts the triumphs and growing shadows of the Po Delta, where a balance has been broken, perhaps forever. Amidst the mists of the past and the uncertainties of the present, the ecological resilience of a family of fishermen from the Sacca di Scardo...

  • The Best in the World (France) by Marion Standefer

    The Best in the World follows Mouctar, a Guinean migrant navigating a new life in Paris. He enrolls in a non-profit school for migrants in Paris, where he meets Marion, an American social worker who runs an after-school theater workshop, which he eagerly joins. During interviews for the thesis Ma...

  • The Egotist (Portugal) by Alice M. Horta

    The Egotist is a shortfilm based on This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Poor and tired, Amaro finds himself in the need of moving. Along the way he takes part in conversations that make him reflect on his changing position in society and on the anxieties of a young adult.
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  • No Longer / Not Yet (France) by Jacquelyn Elder

    No Longer / Not Yet is an intimate observational documentary focusing on the very few moments just before a performer steps on stage. In this interval of time and space leading up to a performers first step on stage we are "no longer" rehearsing, and "we are not quite yet" on stage. Understanding...

  • The Feast (Georgia) by Mariam Bitsadze

    "The Feast" portrays the life of a Georgian housewife who spends a day preparing a sumptuous supper for her husband's friends. Despite her efforts, she feels like an outsider and struggles to integrate into the group. As the day progresses, she confronts the societal expectations placed upon her ...

  • Donkey Skin (Morocco) by Taha Aziz

    In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, 16-year-old Ilyas, a determined young boy from a rural Amazigh village, embarks on a perilous journey to find medicine for his ailing mother. With nothing but his donkey as his companion, his path crosses that of Abla, a privileged young woman from th...

  • Loser (Taiwan) by Mali Chen

    In the heart of a decaying city, a discarded inflatable doll awakens in a trash bin—singing. Picked up by a homeless man and thrown into a rickety cart, it joins a band of broken toys and lifeless objects. As the cart rumbles through alleys and forgotten streets of Los Angeles, the trash begins t...

  • Naval Ode (Portugal) by Fu Le

    The poem Naval Ode - "Ode Maritima" - by Fernando Pessoa captures the movement of separation between the dock and the ship, and thus the distance – between the inside and the outside, between myself and the other. The text is embodied by a mysterious and suspended dance, imbued with nostalgic de...

  • Humanization (Sweden) by Giulio Musi

    Anna lost her child in an accident. Estranged from mundane life she has stopped feeling physical pain. Numb, she decides to end her life throwing herself out of a window. Miraculously Anna survives and wakes up in a nursing home where she befriends a nurse and a young boy. Slowly Anna starts to c...

  • Tungrus (India) by Rishi Chandna

    Tungrus (pronounced: toongroos) is a short documentary that observes a week in the peculiar lives of a middle-class suburban Mumbai household. What was once a home like a million others in the city, turns topsy-turvy when the eccentric patriarch brings home a baby chick for his cats to play with,...

  • Miss Rosewood (Denmark/United States) by Helle Jensen

    Take a plunge into the dark side of uber-sophisticated New York with performance artist, Rose Cory, performing as Miss Rosewood. She strips to full she-male nudity and shares her passion for her art and shows you just how far she's willing to go to blow your mind. Raw! Intense, and without filter...

  • Khan's flesh (Germany) by Kristina Savutsina

    The priest‘s ear recognizes the sins of the parishioners. The heartbeat of the fetus is being monitored. Workers are leaving the factory. Khan‘s Flesh shows the everyday life of a small town in Belarus as choreographies within stage-like images. The inhabitants move and position their bodies depe...

  • Majnuni by Kouros Alaghband and Drew Hoffman

    After stalking a broken family through the night in the war-torn city of Sarajevo, Adnan's identity becomes entangled in the lives he is following.

  • Sleeping with the Devil (2017, United States) by Alisa Yang

    Based on a recorded Skype exorcism and found footage, the filmmaker confronts her religious trauma in the Evangelical prophetic and deliverance ministry.
    Running time: 00:23:34

  • Time Capsule (United States) by Lauren Loesberg

    A documentary created from home video footage from 1997-2005, set to the reading of a letter written for a time capsule found twelve years later.
    Running Time: 00:11:36

  • Emperica (Belgium) by Kris De Meester, Ron Chiers

    Against the backdrop of societal collapse, two powerful voices engage in a high-stakes debate over the future of humanity. Should mankind be placed under total control to safeguard its survival, or should they be granted the freedom to shape their own destiny, even if it means risking self-destru...

  • The Dream Machine (France) by Michael William West

    A woman experiments with a Dream Machine, hoping to escape trouble. Within the light and dark of the machine, violent emotions awaken.
    Running Time: 00:09:29

  • Autumn (Russia) by Daria Elkonina

    A train is roaring. A girl wades through the tall grass and a man crosses the river. What happened? Did it happen?
    Running time: 00:34:32

  • In Ashes (Norway) by Kjetil Engh Aasen

    The life of Inger and her son Jonas is turned upside down when the man they thought they knew is suspected of unspeakable crimes against children. As painful questions arise, Inger realizes her son is slowly pulling away from her. Inger struggles to find a way back to her son, while at the same t...

  • Shooting Crows (2018, Switzerland) by Christine Hürzeler

    A park in the fog. Crows flap and caw in the sky. A homeless man sleeps between the trees. Now and then a crow is shot: as a 
deterrent. The crows rally after every shot. A woman disappears. The police gather evidence. What is really going on? Are reality and imagination slowly blurring?

  • Kev (2018, Belgium) by Clémence Hébert

    Kevin is a child who runs away, breaks things, cannot speak, has a partly cut-off ear. The type of autism he suffers from is said to be so severe that most institutions refuse to care for him. The filmmaker has been visiting him regularly with her video camera since he was 14 years old; now he is...

  • Pacific (2019, Lebanon) Angie Obeid

    Whenever I walk through the dark reddish hallways to reach my apartment, whenever I would look out of my windows and dive into that expended view of the city of Brussels, unusual feelings would emerge... until the day I read an article about my building PACIFIC, entitled "the suicide tower".

  • Georgie (United States) by Jennie Butler

    An ex-mobster reflects on life, love, and loss after spending 32 years in prison.