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Dearest Ghost (Estonia) by Margaret Mäses
How to deal with the overwhelmingly unbearable absence of someone who was an integral part of your life for a long time? When the physical embodiment of unconditional love has transformed into nothing but memories, a ghost, it might be wise to try and make friends with this new everyday companion...
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Aka 赤 (United States) by Abinadi Meza
Aka 赤 (Japanese for "red") is made from 33 meters of handmade 16mm film and shinkansen (bullet train) recordings. The intention is to construct a film as a space for primordial feeling, complex time, immersion, and one's own living body.
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Greenwash (Costa Rica) by Andres Bronnimann
A visual poem and stark critique of the commercialized “green” movement and the deceitful exploitation of environmental activism for profit in the 21st century.
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To my love (Rakkaalleni) (Finland) by Aino Kontinen
Facade renovation locks young woman inside her apartment. During a reconstruction of her home and herself she writes a letter to her loved one.
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She Moved the Prairie (United States) by Cheyla Clawson, Bret Jones
She Moved the Prairie is a dance film based on the work women did both in the home and on the land in the early 20th century on farms and ranches.
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Nocturnal (Portugal) by Pedro Florêncio
A cinematographic translation of a piece by the portuguese thinker Tomás Maia. A short movie about gestures of death, life and art.
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Mova Oborony (Ukraine) by Oleksandr Isaienko
An audio-visual play with digital image manipulation that displays body movements amidst a nameless desert, accompanied by a constant rhythmic beat. The relationship of image and audio forms a composition between movements that are independent of one another—in the sense that they do not attempt ...
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Elegy (Belgium) by Jérémy Adonis
The introspective journey of a man seeking the light within himself, at the dawn of the end of time. A dark, abstract and poetic tale uniting pictorial art and bodily expression.
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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...
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Dva (Russian Federation) by Alexandra Karelina
During the inexplicable state of emergency in Moscow, a lonely young man is trying to find his missing dog and to figure out what is truly going on. Eventually, he finds himself in a parallel world where the dead and the living are inseparable, but the word "death" is strictly prohibited.
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A Little Longer (Canada) by Connor Kujawinski
In the future, a dying man briefly recalls his past with the help of a headset that allows him to see his memories -- but only a random select few, for his payment plan restricts him from viewing anything more.
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Esterno Giorno (Italy) by Giulia Magno
Inspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, “Esterno giorno” is an experimental love letter to Italian cinema. Embarking on an intimate journey in the footsteps of the characters played by Monica Vitti, the filmmaker intertwines contemporary footage sh...
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The Stone Putter (Sweden) by Nils Agdler
The Stone Putter is a cinematic portrait of a serious and physically strong middle-aged woman, deeply focused on throwing stones in a desert-like landscape. How did she get here? What do the stones symbolize – as alien in the landscape as the woman herself in her black dress? Here you can sense a...
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The Lovers Of Avignon (Spain) by Manuel Fernández Ferro
The Lovers of Avignon" is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image. Is an allegory of cubism as a conceptual symbol that acts as a filter and wall of emotions.
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Mal-Amor (United States) by Joshua Stoker
A disoriented man awakens to find his former muse beckoning him into the forest, where he must confront the haunting symbols of their eroding relationship.
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Lost In You (United States) by Michael Tanji
“Lost In You” is a meditation on one’s personal inner journey; looking at our relationship with nature, the people in our life, & ourselves. My goal was to visualize internal conflict & struggle in an experimental manner with the various filmmaking techniques. Throughout this experimental approac...
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Sheep (United Kingdom) by Shan Shen
Sheep is an experimental dance short film aimed at triggering in-depth reflection on the phenomenon of "verbal violence". It explores the impact of language on shaping us physically and mentally. The film presents "sheep" as the central subject of the video, conveying a profound message: in viole...
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I Woke Up in the Morning (United States) by Lilan Yang, Yutong Shi
In a cycle from the populated city of Boston in the winter to the unoccupied Chihuahuan desert in the summer, there's always the sense of dissatisfaction about where one situtates oneself in time and space, longing for things that one seeks without realizing that things one wishes to preserve hav...
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The Consequences of Feeling Deeply (US) by H. G. Weinmaster, T. Dom, C. Millet
A dance film.
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Worm Pornography (Australia) by Ian Haig
A hazmat-suited researcher in a bathroom/toilet, credited only as the slime narrator, talks about discovering a new kind of parasite that attempts to complete its life cycle within various contemporary media platforms. It quickly emerges that our narrator has possibly started to lose his mind or ...
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Motherland 母懷之地 (Canada) by Alger Ji-Liang, Joshua Lam
A grieving boy moves across the liminal spaces of his memory to connect with someone he’s lost. Through this act, he must confront the tension and trauma within his body to find solace.
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Iconoplast (Italy) by Sara Bonaventura
“Imagine alien visitors arriving on Earth in the remote future.” Jan Zalasiewicz's The Earth after us, and the seminal Lynn Margulis' Microcosmos inspired this mockumentary (e.g. the voice over, a re-adaptation of them, where past tense verbs are turned into future tense, embedding the fantasy o...
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Aquaballet (France) by Marianne Aventurier
Underwater dance with marine life in French Polynesia
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Mamma Perdonami (Italy) by Genny Petrotta
In the winter of 1944, uprisings erupted in various Sicilian villages due to the mismanagement of agricultural crops by an alliance of large landowners and fascist elites still in power, leaving the population starving. On December 31st, in Piana Degli Albanesi, Italy—a town founded in the 15th c...