2021 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Seek what lies beneath.

SKIN // Guy Nattiv / France / 2018 / Fiction / 20:00 // A small supermarket in a blue-collar town, a black man smiles at a 10-year-old white boy across the checkout aisle.

SCARS // Alex Anna / Canada, France / 2020 / Documentary / 10:00 // Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming // Awards/Screenings: TIFF September 2020 Canada / Kingston Film Festival Best Canadian Short March 2021 Canada

ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST // Jinung Chung / Canada / 2020 / Documentary / 22:00 // An inspiring story on the ways El-Farouk Khaki has dedicated himself to creating a world of wellness and oneness as a gay Muslim. // Awards/Screenings: Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival / Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival

BETTER MEN // Guillaume Doucet / France / 2020 / Fiction / 11:12 // In a support group, Dave, a heavy-set man in his fifties, shares his story with difficulty. The participants begin to stand up. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

MAKASSAR IS A CITY FOR FOOTBALL FANS (LIKA LIKU LAKI) // Khozy Rizal / Indonesia, France / 2020 / Fiction / 20:00 // In a city when the ‘men’ have to go crazy about football, Akbar has to pretend to love football in order to prevent rejection.

An invitation to feel the complexity of feeling lost and found.

SINTRA III // Aitor Echeverría, Iván Casajús / Spain / 2020 / Fiction / 12:00 // Oscar lives traumatized by the death of his girlfriend Elena. He discovers an old box full of her music tapes. // Awards/Screenings: 2020 Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid – SEMINCI 2021 / European Film Festival of Lille ( France )

FORGET ME NOT (Non ti scordar di me) // Petruzzellis Giuseppe, Marin Fabio / Italy / 2021 / Documentary, Experimental / 12:20 // From the real story of a woman affected by Alzheimer’s disease, a cathartic journey through illness and passing away. // Awards/Screenings: MakeDox (Skopje, Macedonia), Visioni dal Mondo (Milan, Italy)

FISH (Fisk) // Ingrid Liavaag / Norway / 2020 / Fiction / 14:00 // Lost and suffering from eczema that turns her skin into fish scales Sarah travels to her father, whom she hardly knows for help. // Awards/Screenings: Sciacca Film Fest, Italy / YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina

AFTER NOON // Koo Chia Meng / Singapore / 2020 / Fiction / 16:18 // An ordinary afternoon sets off an unexpected turn of events. // Awards/Screenings: 31st Singapore International Film Festival – Official Selection / The 26th ifva Awards – Asian New Force (Jury Recommends)

UNSINK // Amanda Tjhin / Indonesia / 2021 / Experimental / 02:53 // A nostalgic portrait of Jakarta and its surroundings in the midst of sinking. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

WASTELAND // Daniel Milton / Sweden / 2020 / Documentary / 19:18 // No shopping, no entertainment, no universities and no value? A snapshot of life distant from the city. // Awards/Screenings: Best documentary short, Nordic International Film Festival, New York

FERMATA (Point d’orgue) // Benoit Ouellet / Canada / 2021 / Fiction / 09:20 // In a secluded cabin surrounded by untrodden snow, a man delves into his childhood memories with his father. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

The love we fight for.

LUU NGAL CHAY KYA (AGE OF YOUTH) // Myo Thar Khin / Myanmar / 2020 / Fiction / 20:12 // Young Employees from a plastic ware store, Sithu & Min Htet plan a mission for Sithu to elope with a girl. // Awards/Screenings: Best Short Film Award, Wathann Film Festival 2020 // Locarno Open Door 2021

GUERRA CIVILE (CIVIL WAR) // Elisa Iezzi / Italy / 2020 / Fiction / 12:50 // Laura is waiting for an important business call while his husband Andrea is coming back from work: a bomb is going to explode. // Awards/Screenings: Official selection at Afrodite Shorts 2021 (Italy) / MFW7 International Premiere

MATAYA // Arung Raditya / Indonesia / 2021 / Fiction / 18:17 // A day before giving birth, a single mom must fight her way across the river to meet a midwife. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

WALK WITH KINGS (Mieux que les rois et la gloire) // Senez Guillaume / Belgium / 2020 / Fiction / 14:00 // A father, reconnecting with his son, is the victim of an incident that suddenly shakes up his fragile reconstruction. // Awards/Screenings: Selected at Festival Tous Courts Aix-en-Provence (2020) / Competing at Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca (2021)

HEART OF GOLD (Un Coeur d’Or) // Simon Filliot / France / 2020 / Animation / 12:45 // For her son, a poor young mother is forced to sell her organs. Little by little, necessity gives way to the lure of luxury. // Awards/Screenings: BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM at FANCINE Malaga (Spain) 2020 / Silver Méliès at Imagine Film Festival Amsterdam 2021

BROWN NIGHT (棕色夜晚) // Mingyang Li / China / 2021 / Fiction / 15:00 // A woman in Shanghai struggles to connect with her blind husband while coming to terms her own vision loss and future as a mother.

You can’t stay on the fence any longer.

DEAR TO ME // Tedja Monica / Germany / 2020 / Fiction / 18:36 // A son of devout Christian parents secretly believes in the existence of a reincarnated deer that betokens his soulmate. // Awards/Screenings: Nominated in Short and Animation Film category at FirstSteps Awards (June 2021) / In Competition for Best Production at 50th Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival (July 2021)

GREEN THOUGHTS // William Hong-xiao Wei / United Kingdom, China / 2020 / Fiction / 19:55 // In a lodge by the sea, what has actually happened and what the two girls are feeling, imagining or remembering starts to overlap. // Awards/Screenings: 31st Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille / 14th Glasgow Short Film Festival (award: Special Mention of Scottish Competition)

TO BE TWO // Lasse Persson &/ Lisa Tulin / Sweden / 2020 / Animation / 04:18 // The bride is in her hotel room trying to mobilize enthusiasm for her wedding. She doesn’t succeed. // Awards/Screenings: Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival 2020 / Gothenburg International Film Festival

TWO FISHES AND A DISH (Dua Ikan dan Sepiring Nasi) // Bani Nasution / Indonesia / 2020 / Fiction / 23:55 // Two years past, a wife visited her husband. // Awards/Screenings: JAFF 2020 official selection

GOD’S DAUGHTER DANCES (신의 딸은 춤을 춘다) // Sungbin BYUN / South Korea / 2020 / Fiction / 24:53 // A transgender female dancer, Shin-mi, gets a call from the Military Manpower Administration. // Awards/Screenings: 43rd Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Audience Film Award / 24th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Change Connect Award

Capturing a delightful spectrum of love.

SISTER (Сестра) // Alina Dotsenko / Russian Federation / 2021 / Fiction / 09:54 // Sisters are talking at night before dream or may be its talking is a dream? // Awards/Screenings: Saint Anna Fest – Best Film, Best Cast, the Grand Prix

MORNING GLORY // Grace Song / Singapore / 2021 / Fiction / 13:30 // Young french horn player OLGA is forced to confront her fear of moths when she is haunted by one that would not go away. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

EKSTASE // Kellmann Marion / Germany / 2019 / Fiction, Experimental / 11:27 // They awake in fright, fall prey to hysteria & pass out. Silent film husbands look on helplessly & full of fear at silent film wives.

TATTOOED (Tatoués) // Jean-Baptiste Dusséaux / France / 2020 / Fiction / 20:00 // Camille is a taciturn and lonely teenager. His mother welcomes Thidirth, an old Kabyle aunt. // Awards/Screenings: Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2021 / Festival Vues d’Afrique 2021

JUST FOR THE RECORD // Vojin Vasovic / Serbia, Canada / 2019 / Animation / 07:01 // In abandoned attic, dictaphone-robot REC desperately tries to record the voice of a bird in order to overwrite his last memory. // Awards/Screenings: Canada Shorts 2020 Best Short ,Grand Prize Winner, Best Canadian Short, Best Family Animated, Best Director / Short Sounds FF (U.K.) Best Sound design, Best Score

CHINTYA // Sesarina Puspita / Indonesia / 2019 / Fiction / 23:59 // One day a conservative family have a super annoying guest, Chintya. They politely welcome Chintya but secretly hate her present. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

New beginnings to move forward.

THE POWER OF CHILDHOOD // Lolita Naranovich / Russian Federation / 2020 / Fiction / 12:46 // It is Russian Revolution of 1905. A crowd that has rebelled against the government is going to execute an officer. // Awards/Screenings: FILMETS Badalona Film Festival 2020 (qualification BAFTA) / official selection, AAB Film Festival’s (India) – Winner (Best Short Drama)

TRYIN’ TO BE A GIRL // Nicolas Flory / France / 2021 / Animation / 04:28 // A man is walking on a cable attracted by a luminous point on the horizon. It crosses large areas populated by strange animals.

SURFACES (Superficies) // José Luis González Peña / Mexico / 2019 / Fiction / 21:40 // The car of two woman traffickers is damaged. They meet Alondra, a woman who is willing to help them if they take her with them // Awards/Screenings: Mexico City Independent Film Fest – Selección Oficial – Nuevas Visiones – BEST PICTURE / Rosarito International Film Festival – Official Selection – Best Mexican Shortfilm

SIGNATURE // Jaulmes Alexis, Ouikou Bouchra, Kiaie Nouta, GASPA Jean, Mounib BA, Brouard Ifig / France / 2019 / Fiction / 17:57 // In a cleaning company about to lay off its staff, Victor fights to keep his job but a mysterious graffiti writer got in the way // Awards/Screenings: official selection URBAN FILM FESTIVAL 2019 / MFW7 International Premiere

FEELING THROUGH // Doug Roland / United States / 2019 / Fiction / 18:00 // A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man. // Awards/Screenings: Oscar nominee, Winner – Slamdance honorable mention

Sometimes we just have to read between the lines.

MOTHER NATURE (Mama Natura) // Shaufert Natalia / Moldova / 2020 / Fiction / 23:00 // A homecoming celebration turns disastrous when a middle-aged couple realizes their niece and her husband have become vegan. // Awards/Screenings: International Filmmaker Festival of New York (USA) / Plein la Bobine (France)

THE WASHING MACHINE (Die Waschmaschine) // Dominik Hartl / Austria / 2020 / Fiction / 24:00 // The washing machine bites the dust: turning the humdrum life of a young couple upside down.

ADAM (FAR AWAY FROM THE MEMORIES) // Zhaddam Aldhy Nurdin / Indonesia / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // Adam returns and tries to be honest with his mother about what he has suffered, but Mother surprises Adam instead. // Awards/Screenings: SMIF 2020 Asian Film and video Festival in Spain Official Selection, Madrid, Spain / Nominasi Piala Maya 2021, Indonesia

JOHNNY JOHNNY // Angélique Muller / France / 2021 / Fiction / 24:50 // Summer holidays, Laura arrives in Corsica for the season. She will need to co-habitate with her father. A father she is ashamed of.

Subtle yearn to be heard, can you hear what they have to say?

EL PALACIO DE LAS PIPAS (The Palace of the Sunflower Seeds) // VELILLA BEATRIZ, CABO HERNÁN / Spain / 2021 / Fiction / 11:42 // A man and a woman meet again in an old Cinema. The test of time and the dictatorship relegated the 7th art to something decadent. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 International Premiere

LOVE YOU, MICHAEL (愛你麥可) // WANG HAO-TAI / Republic of China (ROC), Taiwan / 2020 / Experimental, Fiction / 03:47 // The son wants to turn off the TV, while going up and down, passing by the photo of Michael Jackson, and something strange happens. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

BRIDGET // Zon Chan, Kayue Li / Singapore / 2021 / Fiction / 10:48 // On the night before his debut, Isa decides to open up to his parents about his long-hidden pursuit. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere / the 44th Asian American International Film Festival

NAKED IN THE STREETS AT NIGHT // Benoit RAMBOURG / France / 2018 / Fiction / 21:00 // Cedric suggests to Sofiane to go on a night excursion in the neighborhood.. in underwear. // Awards/Screenings: 2ANNAS Riga, Grand Prix, 2020 // Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, 2019

THE LAST BEE (La Dernière Abeille) // Triboulet Léa / France / 2020 / Fiction / 10:26 // Wandering in the mountains, a lost teenage girl meets a beekeeper who has come to say goodbye to her bees. // Awards/Screenings: Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux 2020 (France) // PÖFF Tallinn (Estonia)

Like confessional poetry, these films strongly stir our emotions associated with the memory.

SOLO TREKKER (獨攀者) // Chang Jing-Ye (Ying-Hui) / Taiwan / 2021 / Fiction / 25:00 // The fates of two souls who trek alone intertwine briefly. // Awards/Screenings: 2021 Beirut International Women Film Festival / 2021 Golden Harvest Awards

THORNS AND FISHBONES // Natália Azevedo Andrade / Hungary / 2020 / Animation / 09:47 // Three young children and their mother cope with living in a peculiar house, that is at turns their shelter and their cage // Awards/Screenings: Flatpack Filmfest / Curtas Vila do Conde

STILL PROCESSING // Sophy Romvari / Canada / 2020 / Documentary / 17:00 // A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

WHY DIDN’T YOU STAY FOR ME (Waarom Blijf Je Niet Voor Mij?) // Gevers Milou / Netherlands / 2020 / Animation, Documentary / 25:00 // You’re in primary school, and your parent commits suicide. How are you supposed to move on? // Awards/Screenings: DocEdge 2021, New Zealand, international short film competition. / Mo&Friese international film festival 2021, Germany, international competition.

Nothing is lost when we have the memories.

GOING ALONG THE SIDE (Semayam) // Wahyu Utami / Indonesia / 2019 / Fiction / 22:00 // Death is a part Harjo’s life. An issue stalled his long preparation for his own demise, lead him to the start of another journey. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

A WONDERFUL AGE (Le bel âge) // Cabannes David, Cabannes Auriane / France / 2020 / Documentary / 16:22 // Four of our elders share their hopeful outlook on existential themes such as time, the meaning of life and death… // Awards/Screenings: MFW7  International Premiere

HALF A SABA  (חצי סבא) // Ben Molina / Israel / 2020 / Animation / 04:04 // The film follows a dialouge between the filmaker and his Saba (Hebrew for Grandpa) at the last chapter of his life.

PHANTOM VALLEY // Nina Kotyantz / USA / 2020 / Fiction / 21:13 // In the desolate countryside a young drifter finds himself at the borderlands between the living and the dead. // Awards/Screenings: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival // HollyShorts Film Festival

SOUVENIR // Cristina Vilches Estella, Paloma Canonica / Spain, Switzerland / 2020 / Animation / 13:30 // Souvenir’ is the story of a father and daugther and the extraordinary journey through their memories. // Awards/Screenings: 26º Palm Springs International ShortFest. California, US / 23º Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF). China

These films deserve kudos for bringing difficult history into the surface of our daily conversation.

KARTIKA // Cak Nunu / Indonesia / 2021 / Fiction / 21:46 // Two Indonesian students in Prague 1966, are forced to sign a loyalty paper with the newly established Indonesian government.

JUSTICE // Marc Faye / France / 2021 / Animation / 02:56 // Badinter experiments an ambivalent feeling when, by abolishing the death penalty, he saved the life of a Gestapo member. // Awards/Screenings: PIAFF Paris International Animation Film Festival – Panorama

PERPETUAL NIGHT // Pedro Peralta / Portugal / 2020 / Fiction / 17:23 // During the night two Falangist Guards appear at the door of the house where Paz is taking refuge with her family. // Awards/Screenings: San Sebastián International Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival

I BOUGHT A TIME MACHINE // Yeon Park / United States, South Korea / 2020 / Documentary / 14:35 // The filmmaker orders a time machine off of eBay for her father’s birthday, which raises existential questions about the past. // Awards/Screenings: Visions du Réel / Best Documentary Short Award at San Diego Asian Film Festival

GOOD GERMAN WORK (Kollegen) // Kiefer Jannis Alexander / Germany / 2020 / Fiction / 14:00 // Uli and Didi are working on a swastika in their workshop somewhere between rural idyll and village dreariness. // Awards/Screenings: 43rd Moscow International Film Festival – GRAND PRIX BEST SHORT FILM

THE EXECUTION // Jeroen Van der Stock / Japan / 2019 / Experimental / 14:30 // When the state of Georgia proceeds with the execution of Ivon Stanley, an officer provides a step-by-step account of his death. // Awards/Screenings: DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, S. Korea / Stuttgarter Filmwinter- festival for expanded media, Germany

Widening our compassion through others’ lens.

IN NATURE (Dans la Nature) // Marcel Barelli / Switzerland / 2021 / Animation, Documentary / 05:00 // You may not know it, but homosexuality isn’t just a human story.

IT’S NOT KD (Bukan KD) // Dimas Adiputro / Indonesia / 2020 / Fiction / 00:60 // Food stalls situation turned awkward when three men talk about “KD”

REFERRAL (Beutaló nélkül sehova) // Annabella Schnabel / Hungary / 2019 / Fiction / 16:48 // A teenage girl’s coming of age story through the maze of healthcare’s bureaucracy. // Awards/Screenings: Winning Audience Award with Referral @ Academy Awards-Qualifying 51th Nashville Film Festival’s NextGen // Winning Special Prize @ 65. Országos Függetlenfilm Fesztivál

ALL SMOTHERED (Etouffés) // Ely Chevillot / Belgium / 2020 / Fiction / 19:45 // Mayeul is popular in his school. The day Louise comes to class with a bandage, Mayeul will have to face his responsability.

INTO NOTHINGNESS (A ninguna parte) // Manu Manrique / Spain / 2020 / Fiction / 19:05 // Miguel is learning to drive with his father. In a world where the boundaries are diffuse, Miguel seeks his way to nowhere. // Awards/Screenings: 33. Semana de Medina del Campo (Valladolid) Castilla y León. Spain // 37º Chicago Latino Film Festival. US

ISHMAEL // Arian Sanati / Germany / 2020 / Fiction / 18:40 // Ishmael, a young man who was once going to be sacrificed by his father Abraham, is now searching for his identity in Iran.

Interlace of landscape, climate changes, and culture.

WHEN THE SEA SENDS FORTH A FOREST // LIU Guangli / France / 2020 / Documentary / 20:00 // Through a 3D virtual universe simulated by a game engine intertwined with historical pictures, a lost history can be experienced.

LITTLE FOREST (Bosquecito) // Muratore Paulina / Argentina / 2020 / Animation / 08:15 // A friendship between Mizu and a small tree, the passage of time, and an important message from the forest. // Awards/Screenings: Mar del Plata IFF / Atlanta Film Festival

HELI, SET ŦTE SḰÁL ȽTE (BRINGING OUR LANGUAGE BACK TO LIFE) // Renée Sampson / Canada / 2020 / Animation / 05:00 // Highlights the language revitalization efforts happening in the WSANEC territory. // Awards/Screenings: Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, 2020 American Indian Film Festival, 2020

TIDES // Andre Silva / United States / 2020 / Experimental / 08:00 // “Tides” contemplates the liminal space between the modern technological world and a more ecological dimension. // Awards/Screenings: Best Experimental, Arizona International Film Festival, Gold Award for Experimental, University Film and Video Association

TREMBLEZ-LES-VILLAGES // Phillips Nina / France / 2020 / Fiction / 05:14 // Eve is a forty years old farmer, passionate about her job. Regulations become more and more absurd. Eve loses her organic label. // Awards/Screenings: Best Film – A ton court, Paris / Best Film – Festival du film environmental, Poitiers / MFW7 World Premiere

ON A FRIDAY (Un vendredi de septembre) // Dominique Maury-Lasmartres / France / 2020 / Documentary / 06:27 // Motivated by the the refusal of an environmental collapse, a militant youth takes to the streets to demand a better future. // Awards/Screenings: International Green Culture Festival “Green Fest” / Boden International Film Festival

THE SINKING AIRSHIP // Ivan Dubrovin / Germany / 2020 / Fiction / 12:59 // Above the clouds there is a big airship city floating. But one of the balloons has a hole in it, so the city is crashing. // Awards/Screenings: The village (2016), One Last Kiss (2020)

A blurry boundary between the reality and man-made universe.

THE LAST SHIFT (Последняя смена) // Kristina Luninskaia / Russia / 2020 / Fiction / 16:38 // Maria is a young actress, Kirill is her assistant, who dreams of becoming a great film director. Haphazard intrudes their evening. // Awards/Screenings: 31 Kinotavr// Européen Film Festival Lille

LOOKING FOR WONG KAR WAI // Christopher Ling Jing / Malaysia / 2020 / Fiction / 02:00 // A girl going back to a place she once bared her all to a boy, whom infatuated by Wong Kar Wai’s films. // Awards/Screenings: Golden Short Film Festival / World Film Carnival, Singapore

WHEN THE CRICKET SOUNDS // CHENG Thim Kian / Malaysia / 2020 / Fiction / 04:45 // Sound is very important in communication. // Awards/Screenings: FIRST International Film Festival, XINING 2020

ROSELINE LIKE IN THE MOVIES (Roseline comme dans les films) // Sara Bourdeau / Canada / 2020 / Fiction / 14:45 // Under the spotlights, Roseline is a major actress. While she is about to play her biggest role, fiction and reality interlace. // Awards/Screenings: Fantasia Film Festival (August 2020 ) Montréal, Canada / Cinema on the Bayou (January 2021) Louisiane, USA – Special Jury award Narrative short

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STRANGER BY FICTION (Nu Malipir Kasingsal) // Roufy Nasution / Indonesia / 2020 / Fiction / 15:50 // Bonar, a filmmaker from Jakarta, goes to a hotel at Pelabuhan Ratu beach to search for his new film’s inspiration. // Awards/Screenings: Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2020

APOSTASY A.K.A. UNTITLED SCRIPT #1 (Apostasia ou Roteiro Sem Título #1) // Mattina Marcelo / Brazil / 2020 / Fiction / 10:05 // A man attending his father’s funeral comes to the conclusion he is a mere character of a movie where the director plays God. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

These films help us meditates on our own stand in the environment.

WHAT ABOUT OUR FUTURE? // Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos, Cláudio Cruz / Canada / 2020 / Documentary / 24:43 // Following a group of youth environmental activists The Sustainabiliteens who organized the largest protest in Vancouver’s history

CITARUM // Ali Satri Efendi / Indonesia / 2020 / Documentary / 16:02 // A portrayal of a brickmaker in two seasons: nature gives him bounty in one season and takes it all back in another season. // Awards/Screenings: ARKIPEL (Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival), selected in International Competition & Candrawala Program

ULISSES // Joan Bover / Spain / 2020 / Documentary / 20:55 // The odyssey of the world’s largest captive killer whale. // Awards/Screenings: 23. MECAL PRO. Festival de Cine de Cortometrajes y Animación de Barcelona. Spain

THE MECANORGANS (Les Mécanorganes) // Libéral MARTIN / France / 2020 / Animation / 10:00 // Inside an ecosystem strange beings interact. Some exchange, some follow their purposes, while others fight for survival… // Awards/Screenings: Festival national du film d’animation RENNES / Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers

THE LAST BREATH OF THE TONLÉ SAP. // Thomas Cristofoletti, Robin Narciso / Cambodia / 2021 / Documentary / 10:21 // Piseth lives on the Tonle Sap Lake. Fish stocks have plummeted and he worries about how he is going to feed his family.

A rare mixture of fiction‐animation, experimental, and documentary for everyone!

SCOOPED! (Terciduk!) // Alan Dharmasaputra Wijaya / Indonesia / 2020 / Animation / 04:11 // 9 eccentric robbers on a mysterious mission. // Awards/Screenings: Best Animation of Anti-Corruption Film Festival 2020 / Nomination of Best Short Animation Piala Maya 2020

KUNG FU EXPRESS // Cheng Guo / United States / 2020 / Animation / 03:32 // The animation is a story between two food delivery men who fight for the restaurant’s last order. // Awards/Screenings: winner of Independent Shorts Award, Los Angeles lift-off Film Festival

THE TOWN OF FORGOTTEN THINGS (La città delle cose dimenticate) // Massimiliano Frezzato, Francesco Filippi / Italia / 2021 / Experimental / 17:30 // A blackbird takes care of all forgotten things. One 17′ long story in just one drawing. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 International Premiere

HEAR, EAT, HOME: KINAN’S VISION // Hsuan Yu Pan / United States / 2020 / Documentary / 02:52 // New York-based Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh shares his ideas about home and identity.

WUQIAO CIRCUS // Lukas Berger / Portugal, Germany, Austria / 2020 / Documentary / 14:00 // Wuqiao Circus, a film about circus life fragments, performative existence, and the love for playfulness. // Awards/Screenings: 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2021 / Jury’s Choice Award – 40th Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival, USA, 2021.

Watch how all-female directors break the stereotype of nerve-racking films.

THE VISIT // Azadeh Moussavi / Iran, Islamic Republic of / 2020 / Fiction / 14:00 // After six months, Elaheh is finally allowed to visit her husband, who is a political prisoner. // Awards/Screenings: Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand 2020, France – World Premiere / Palm Springs International ShortFest 2020, USA

HAUTE CUISINE (Nouvelle Saveur) // Merryl Roche / France / 2019 / Fiction / 24:15 // During a service, Marie cuts herself, letting a few drops of blood mix with her sauce. Her boss judges it to be perfect… // Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival | France (Sacem selection) / Official selection Palm Springs International ShortFest | USA

RONG // Indira Iman / Indonesia / 2019 / Fiction / 13:11 // A woman walks home alone and got harassed by a man. Things take an unexpected turn when the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted. // Awards/Screenings: Air Canada Best Short Film or Video Award, 24th Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival / 17th Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival

THEY SALIVATE (Ils salivent) // Ariane Boukerche / France / 2020 / Fiction / 19:43 // They salivate is the story of a kiss. A couple kiss each other. The party begins and one guest drinks the couple’s last kiss // Awards/Screenings: PALM SPRINGS International ShortFest 26# 2020 / SLAMDANCE Film Festival 20# 2020

A‐JEEB (TASTELESS) // Mantra Watsa / India / 2021 / Experimental / 07:49 // A woman who can’t taste searches for pleasure ‐ and finds it unexpectedly.

When our minds play tricks on us.

QUATREQUATREQUATRE (444) // NACHI ALEXANDRE / Canada, Quebec / 2020 / Fiction / 16:40 // Trapped in a house he doesn’t recognize with a family he doesn’t know, Maxim tries to make some sense of what is happening to him. // Awards/Screenings: RendezVousQuébecCinéma (RVQC) / THESHORTSHORTFILMFESTIVAL

HYPERSTITION // Chis Stéphane, Chuchana Maxime / France / 2021 / Fiction / 06:10 // Two superstitious persons, two parallel lives and a strange day where one’s little games have the power to change fate.

GOOD NIGHT, LILY (Лека нощ, Лили) // Peter Vulchev / Bulgaria / 2021 / Fiction / 24:24 // The deepest confession in the last days of Dora’s life. // Awards/Screenings: 18th In The Palace International Short Film Festival (Bulgaria) – Winner Best National Short Film / 25th Sofia International Film Festival (Bulgaria) – Nominated for Best Bulgarian Short Film

OUT LOUD // William Adiguna / Indonesia / 2020 / Fiction / 05:50 // A guy’s morning takes many turns as an unexplainable phenomena happens to him. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

THE FINALS // Park Joong‐ha / Korea (south) / 2021 / Fiction / 10:42 // Daesung plays a basketball game with the judges to pass the final interview. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

AFK (AWAY FROM KEYBOARD) // heng yin chau / Malaysia / 2020 / Experimental / 05:46 // A gamer seeking a better life between cruel world and illusory kingdom, he is about to discover the true nature away from keyboard // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

THE ARTIST (The Artist) // Aziz Alaca / Turkey / 2020 / Experimental / 04:00 // We witness the Artist trying to get out of there, determining the boundaries and making sense of the process. // Awards/Screenings: Kosice International Monthly Film Festival – Award Winner / Golden Smile International Film Festival Bergen Holland – Honorable Mention

ECHO // Mahin Sadri / Iran, Islamic Republic of / 2020 / Fiction / 12:23 // A woman who is struggling with her depression, faces different lives she could have had, hearing and seeing herself everywhere. // Awards/Screenings: Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2021 (Official Selection)

The art of losing normality on the road of surviving pandemic.

DESTINY // Matsuoka Minori / Japan / 2021 / Short Animation Film / 07:15 // Yui has become estranged from her boyfriend, who doesn’t even wish her happy birthday. Her friend introduces a fortune teller.

MY DEAR QUARANTINE // Ewa Maria Wolska / Poland / 2020 / Animation / 05:19 // A short, simple story from the time of pandemic–a poetic view of isolation, loneliness and boredom. // Awards/Screenings: Vesuvius International Monthly Film Fest, Italy, Best Animated Short Film / Golden Sparrow International Film Festival, India, Best Animated Short Film

KITAKYUSHU:THE CITY OF MOVIES (Kitakyushu:the City of Movies) // Honda Katsuya / Japan / 2021 / Fiction / 11:00 // Kenichi has no choice but to close the movie theater he runs due to the influence of the COVID19. One day, Kenichi found a boy… // Awards/Screenings: SHORTSHORTS Film Festival / ASIA 2021 Official Selectin

2019 // Boutteville Julia / France / 2021 / Fiction / 03:31 // “Imagination is what tends to become real.” ‐ André BRETON // Awards/Screenings: Nikon Film Festival (Talents BrutX Award) / Très court International Film Festival

LAMENT // Kimberley Wells / Canada / 2020 / Experimental / 02:57 // A poetic snapshot of a woman dealing with being separated from her family during the COVID‐19 pandemic. // Awards/Screenings: Toronto Online Film Festival / The Lift-Off Sessions

REMOTE DESKTOP ANIMATIONS (Connexion bureau (animé) à distance) // Jean‐Guillaume Bastien / Canada / 2021 / Animation / 03:45 // Remote desktop animations that meddle in a deserted work space.

INSIDE // Yann Chapotel / France / 2020 / Experimental / 05:45 // Inside unrolls a mosaic of windows, a multitude of moments of everyday life forming a choreographic fresco of simple gestures. // Awards/Screenings: 33 FILMFEST DRESDEN / VIENNA SHORTS

MASA DEPAN CERAH 2040 // Winner Wijaya / Indonesia / 2021 / Fiction / 11:00 // In 2040, Jo’s parents are telling her the story of how the world was before the pandemic, and their plans after the pandemic end. // Awards/Screenings: Nominated for Piala Maya 2020 // In Competition UCIFEST 12

SURVIVERS // Carlos Gómez‐Trigo / Spain / 2020 / Fiction / 06:30 // Natural selection says that only those who adapt will survive. What if humans have become stupid? // Awards/Screenings: PÖFF Shorts – Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia / RiverRun International Film Festival, United States

Mysteriously intense with a twist.

THE ADVENTURES OF GLORIA SCOTT ‐ MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (Pustolovine Glorije Scott‐Umorstvo u katedrali) // Pisacic Matija, Raspolic Tvrtko / Croatia, Serbia / 2020 / Animation / 15:39 // Famous detective Gloria Scott and her faithful companion Mary Lambert are wreaking havoc in the early 20th century London. // Awards/Screenings: Animafest Zagreb 2020 / Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2020

THE PORTRAIT (Le Portrait) // Arsène Chabrier / France / 2020 / Fiction / 06:57 // Mark is young. Marc is handsome. Mark is self‐confident. And yet, a simple portrait will question it all.

BARRIER // Niels Bourgonje / Netherlands / 2020 / Fiction / 08:56 // September 1944. Two Canadian soldiers find a boy washed up on the Dutch beach. Where did he come from and can he be trusted? // Awards/Screenings: Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival / Vertigo Film Festival

MASKAHOLIC // Hiroki Horanai / Japan / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // When Kumi wears a mask, she looks like a famous actress, Maiko. A photo of Kumi is published in a magazine as Maiko. // Awards/Screenings: Fastnet Film Festival 2021 (UK)

OLD HAG (Vieille Peau) // REMBAUVILLE Julie, BIANCO‐LEVRIN Nicolas / France / 2020 / Animation / 07:33 // Jean‐Luc is sitting in a boat somewhere in Louisiana. He has an appointment with the voodoo wizard Richardson. // Awards/Screenings: Storytelling – Award – Thessaloniki Animation Festival – GRECE

WITNESS // Ali Asgari / Iran, Islamic Republic of / 2020 / Fiction / 14:58 // A mother helps an elderly woman in a shopping mall in Tehran.

Crossroads of multilayered realities.

BLUE EYES // Peter Gould / United Kingdom / 2020 / Fiction / 08:18 // Jenny is a train driver. One day, during a routine journey, a young woman throws herself in front of her train and is killed.

BUSUK // Saleh Mohd Hisham / Malaysia / 2020 / Fiction / 14:56 // A first‐time mother feeling anxious when her body stops producing breast milk as she hasn’t weaned off with her newborn baby yet. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 International Premiere

BEFORE 7 DAYS (Sebelum 7 Hari) // Ivan P. Demon / Indonesia / 2020 / Fiction / 09:42 // Bian & Hanif have to go to Grandma’s funeral. When night comes, they have to sleep in her room. That’s when strange things happen. //  Awards/Screenings: Best Live Action – HelloFest 14

MONTE BRAVO (Woodland) // Noelia MUÍÑO, Gerard Estalella / Spain / 2020 / Fiction / 13:00 // Paula is playing with her brother, when she sees a werewolf in the forest. But, is it real or just the child’s imagination? // Awards/Screenings: ZINEBI 2020 (Spain), SIFF – Seattle International Film Festival 2021 (USA)

VOID // José Ramón Bas / Spain / 2020 / Animation / 02:00 // In a world that is crumbling externally and internally, internal struggle and memories are the only vehicles towards the essential. // Awards/Screenings: NOTODOFILMFEST 2020 (Spain), Best Animated Film Jury Award / INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL FEST ANČA 2021 (Slovakia)

A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY (Une chance unique) // Joël Curtz / France / 2019 / Fiction / 13:30 // It’s summer. Lazare picks up two hitchhikers who make him change his plans.

GOLD IS EATING PEOPLE // Su Xia / China / 2020 / Animation / 08:12 // When gold is discovered, people of different classes fight for it unscrupulously.

RECEIVER // Cavan Campbell / Canada / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // Isolated on a night shift, an idealistic phone counsellor is confronted by an insidious caller with the power to control her mind. // Awards/Screenings: Air Canada Best Short Film Award at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival / Official Selection at Beverly Hills Film Festival

More than just being misunderstood, it’s the stigma in society that worries the most.

GOLD PLATED (Plaqué Or) // Léonil Chloé / Belgium / 2019 / Fiction / 24:47 // Inès, 16, meeting Martin, a boy from the nice neighborhoods of Brussels, is brutally aware of social injustice // Awards/Screenings: Special Mention Young Cineast Award – Palm Spring Shortfest / International competition in Shortshorts Japan.

NIGHT UPON KEPLER 452B (Nacht Ueber Kepler 452b) // Ben Voit / Germany / 2019 / Documentary / 14:05 // People are looking for a place to sleep. A van races through the night, to bring out of the dark, what could get lost in there. // Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020, International Competition / Busan International Short Film Festival 2020, International Competition.

WADE IN THE WATER // David Bianchi / United States of America / 2020 / Experimental, Fiction / 09:46 // A chilling poetic film of three men unveiling their fear of being black men in America. // Awards/Screenings: Best Short Film 2021 – Award This! Film Threat Magazine / Best Short Film Nominee 2021 – Toronto Black Film Festival

MOTHERLAND // Thomas Blackman / United Kingdom / 2020 / Experimental / 04:59 // Witnessing a racist post, Jack discovers a dark desire to satiate his anger by taking revenge in an attempt to find his roots. // Awards/Screenings: London Short Film Festival 2021 Cinemagic Young Filmmaker 2021, Belfast

THE GAME // Roman Hodel / Switzerland / 2020 / Documentary / 17:09 // A whistle. All eyes on the referee in the football stadium. Now he has to decide. // Awards/Screenings: Venice International Film Festival, Italy (2020) Orrizonti / Toronto International Film Festival, Canada (2020) Short Cuts

FACE RECOGNITION // Martinus Klemet / Estonia / 2021 / Animation / 06:45 // Face Recognition failure ‐ Deadbeat Igor‐503 evades the cops detectors during a night of wild drinking. // Awards/Screenings: Won “Animation Sans Frontières” scholarship at CEE Animation Pitching Forum 2020

REBEL (Recrue) // Pier‐Philippe Chevigny / Canada / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // Alex, a six‐year‐old boy from Quebec, is too young to understand why thousands of refugees have been entering Canada illegally. // Awards/Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival / Tirana International Film Festival (Golden Owl Award for Best Short Film)

More than just being misunderstood, it’s the stigma in society that worries the most.

BAGASI [BAGGAGE] // Kaminski Meyrick / Germany / 2019 / Documentary / 10:22 // Is there such a thing as an open mind? The examination of contradictory artefacts reveals an image that is far from a tabula rasa. // Awards/Screenings: Tekamuda Festival, Yogyakarta / Zukunftvisionen Festival, Görlitz

PARTITIONS // Vishal Daryanomel / Singapore / 2021 / Documentary / 16:18 // A film on Sindhi migration to Singapore, juxtaposing fragmented recollections of the past with enduring practices of the present.

IN THE HANDS OF PUPPETS // Sarah & Charles / Belgium / 2020 / Experimental / 09:34 // A computer‐animated hand puppet has a conversation with several artificial identities about their feelings. // Awards/Screenings: Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

SALMIYAH // Harryaldi Kurniawan / Indonesia / 2019 / Documentary / 22:40 // The past, always leave questions, it can never return in its full scenes. // Awards/Screenings: Best Short Documentary, Festival Film Dokumenter, Jogja, 2020

BUT YOU’RE NOT BLACK // Danielle Ayow / Canada / 2019 / Documentary / 19:17 // A Chinese‐Caribbean, driven by people’s inability to separate her color from her culture, tries to own her Trinidadian identity. // Awards/Screenings: Boston Asian American Film Festival (Audience Choice Award 2020 for Best Shorts – Documentary 2020) / CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (Best Documentary 2020)

Courageous souls braving through what they’re going through.

BEING SOMEONE ELSE // Øyvind Aamli / UK, Norway / 2020 / Documentary / 08:27 // As Imogen designs & sews an outfit for a cosplay convention we discover why dressing up as someone else is more than just a hobby

TAKING THE PLUNGE // Thomas Renckens / United Kingdom / 2020 / Documentary / 13:14 // Taking the Plunge follows Laura while she tries to follow her dream to become a professional mermaid. Will it be sink or swim…?

THE HANDYMAN // Nicholas Clifford / Australia / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // Evelyn attempts to end her life but is interrupted by the arrival of an awkward but endearing handyman. // Awards/Screenings: Cairo International Film Festival 2020, Egypt – World Premiere / Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2021, Australia

EVA // Zarkasih Rifqi / Indonesia / 2021 / Documentary / 20:00 // A film about recollection and childhood memories between Eva (49′) and her first son Rifqi (29′), the director of this film. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

THE MAN WHO SWALLOWED THE RADIO (الراجل اللي بلع الرادیو) // Yasser Shafiey / Egypt / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // Medical errors pose a great danger when a radio is left in the patient’s stomach. // Awards/Screenings: Official Selection of 42nd Cairo International film festival, EGYPT / MFW7 World Premiere.

The odds seemed like going against them, yet you feel their love.

THE LAMB OF GOD // David Pinheiro Vicente / Portugal, France / 2020 / Ficon / 14:34 // The summer festivities of a Portuguese village are suffused with sensuality and violence // Awards/Screenings: 5. Cannes Film Festival, France Short Film Competition

AICHA // zakaria nouri / Morocco / 2020 / Fiction / 21:34 // Aicha survival with her double life // Awards/Screenings: world houston film festival / carmathen bay film festival

THE MEN WHO WAIT (Les Attendants) // Trương Minh Quý / France, Singapore / 2021 / Fiction / 14:42 // On a slag heap, where coal miners used to tramp, men are now awaiting each other. // Awards/Screenings: Berlinale 2021

I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE // Sameh Alaa / Egypt, France, Belgium, Qatar / 2020 / Fiction / 14:55 // After being separated for 82 days, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.

An unusual take on the sense of self, space, and place.

AMARANTHINE (馬不停蹄) // Chen Jiexiao / Singapore / 2021 / Experimental / 15:06 // From observations of daily life in Guangzhou, to chilling conciliation with the untold sacrificial stories beneath gentrification. //  Awards/Screenings: Kateye International Film Festival, Kolkata, India BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM // Art Film Awards – Monthly Competition, Skopje, Albania BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

PROGRESS AND AGE (Alter und Fortschritt) //  Tempea Gabriel / Austria / 2019 / Documentary / 02:59 // Two characters find a surprising way to relate to an image that is entirely stripped of its cultural context. //  Awards/Screenings: Dokfest Kassel, Germany 2019 // Message to Man IFF, St. Petersburg, Russia 2020

LES POUX // Marc Lahore / France / 2019 / Fiction / 12:45 // Five volunteers of a social emergency team, pride of french solidarity, all beautiful, friendly and dynamic.

BIG TOUCH // Christopher Tenzis / United States / 2020 / Fiction / 03:00 // A giant woman and a tiny man experience an unexpected transformation through the power of touch. // Awards/Screenings: Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival: BEST FANTASY FILM / 68th Martovski Film Festival: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

COFFIN // Yuanqing CAI, Nathan CRABOT, Houzhi HUANG, Mikolaj JANIW, Mandimby LEBON, Théo TRAN NGOC / France / 2020 / Animation / 05:23 // A man comes home and wants to go to bed. A bunch of noisy roommates. A crowded city in southern China.

BECOMING ANIMAL (Virstant žvėrim) // Ieva Šakalytė / Lithuania / 2020 / Fiction / 10:36 After realising that there is no one to tame the gang raging in the music festival, Juste decides to take action herself. // Awards/Screenings: 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival 2021, Norway // International Riga Short Film Festival 2ANNAS 2021, Latvia

HELP, I’VE GONE VIRAL! // Amundsen Audun, Heggen Petter / Norway, Indonesia / 2020 / Documentary / 19:34 // A tasty little morsel that unites people through music and food. // Awards/Screenings: Hot Docs 2021

They stand before you boldly and embrace hope.

WHALES DON’T SWIM (Les baleines ne savent pas nager) // Matthieu Ruyssen / France / 2019 / Fiction / 21:56 // Yves is the sole target of his bullying classmates. His only refuge is in synchronized swimming.

UNCLE GOOSE WAITS FOR A PHONE CALL (断舍离) // Kew Lin / Singapore / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // Uncle Goose must remain with his home telephone, even if he has to leave the house — anything to hear from his friend again! // Awards/Screenings: Aesthetica Short Film Festival / SeaShorts Film Festival

TRAVERSÉES (Crossings) // Le Goff Amandine / France / 2020 / Documentary / 18:11 // Leon reflects on their gender identity when they wear a one‐piece bathing suit to a local swimming pool.

KICKERS // Syamsul Bahari / Singapore / 2019 / Fiction / 16:32 // Natasha encounters a transitioning point in her youth when she faces a decaying friendship with her close football buddy.

BERTHA AND THE WOLFRAM (Bertha en de wolfram) // torfs tijs / Belgium / 2020 / Animation, Documentary / 15:39 // Meet Bertha, a 13-year-old Belgian girl fighting every day against her ultimate enemy: Wolfram. // Awards/Screenings: Best Short film – Chicago Children film festival // Olympia international film festival – Best Short documentary

It’s live-action and animated, light and fun time for the whole family.

STORY OF A BEGINNING (Oru Thudakkathinte Kadha) // Balaram J / India / 2020 / Animation / 11:48 // Aisha said it was the endless rain, Ambadi insisted it was the sea and they set off to find the source of their village stream.

YA HOOTA // Latifa Al‐Darwish, Abdulaziz Yousif / Qatar / 2020 / Animation / 11:07 // A little girl attempts to save the moon from a gigantic whale along with her cousin. Will she succeed?

WALTZ // Mari Miyazawa / Japan / 2019 / Animation / 14:10 // The world of wheat. Nine is confused by a different world, but eventually, he comes to terms with everyone. // Awards/Screenings: China International New Media Short Film Festival 2019 / Sapporo International Shortfilm Festival 2020

THE WOMAN UNDER THE TREE // Karishma Kohli / United States / 2020 / Fiction / 14:50 // A homeless woman spends much of her time sitting under a tree, watching the life of a family unfold in a house across the street. // Awards/Screenings: Winner- Audience Award at 29th Woods Hole Film Festival / The Audience Award for Best Film & Jury Award for Best Film, the Galapán Film Festival 2021, Jaén, Spain

WITCH’S HUNT DAY // Odilia Tanujaya / Indonesia / 2020 / Animation / 03:07 // A teenage witch struggling to catch a little creature for her class assignment.

IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS… UN JEU SANS FIN (Once Upon A Time… An Endless Game) // Pinto Jérôme / France / 2021 / Fiction / 02:50 // In their imaginary and limitless world, nothing seems to be able to stop two children to slay a dragon, except maybe lunch break. // Awards/Screenings: NIKON FILM FESTIVAL / MFW7 International Premiere

ANGPAO // Stefanus Cancan / Indonesia / 2020 / Fiction / 16:16 // Michael competing with his brother to get the most Angpao on Chinese New Year // Awards/Screenings: Anti-Corruption Film Festival 2020 Commendation Award

ME, A MONSTER? (Me, a Monster?) // Belinda Bonan / Spain / 2020 / Animation / 06:15 // After living a peaceful life on his small planet, the lonely Nono must deal with the visit of a new being. // Awards/Screenings: 38º Brussels International Festival of Fantasy, Fantastic, Thriller and Science-Fiction Film. Belgium / 22º Festival Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato. Mexico

Stories from all women directors.

DYSTOPIA // Laura Ugolini / Norway / 2021 / Fiction / 06:50 // In the abandoned hangar of a young girl’s fantasy, a gang of bloodthirsty fashionistas figure out how to assemble the ideal man. // Awards/Screenings: FANTASPOA, PANIC FEST

FOREIGNER (Forastera) // Lucía Aleñar Iglesias / Spain / 2020 / Fiction / 19:19 // Antonia discovers a power over her mourning grandfather. // Awards/Screenings: Semaine de la Critique ‐ Festival de Cannes / Curtas Vila do Conde ‐ International Film Festival

GIRLSBOYSMIX (Meisjesjongensmix) // Lara Aerts / Nederland / 2020 / Documentary / 06:42 // Why is it so important to be a boy or a girl? // Awards/Screenings: Hot Docs / Cinekid

THE NAME OF THE SON (El nombre del hijo) // Martina Matzkin / Argentina / 2020 / Fiction / 13:00 // Lucho, a 13‐year‐old trans boy, and his father put their relationship to the test during a vacation. // Awards/Screenings: BERLINALE: Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film of Generation Kplus & The Special Prize of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the Best Short Film

THE BATH (Le bain) // DAOUD Anissa / France / 2020 / Fiction / 15:29 // Imed, a young father, finding himself alone for a few days with his five year old son due to his wife’s business trip. // Awards/Screenings: Best short film at Florence film Award / Audience award at Cinéma Méditerranéen de Bruxelles.

BOYS DON’T CRY // Bobbie Faren Müller / Denmark / 2019 / Documentary / 10:00 // A girl helps four boys examine and understand why it’s difficult for them to be open about their emotions in today’s society. // Awards/Screenings: Brest European Short Film Festival 2020, France (Shorts Tv Award) / Short Film Festival Vision 2020, Russian Federation (Best documentary)

The time for change is now.

A WORLD FREE OF CRISIS // Ted Hardy‐Carnac / France / 2020 / Fiction / 24:59 // Emilie, a 30‐year‐old woman, as lively as clumsy, fails all her recruitment interviews.

BLACK SNOT & GOLDEN SQUARES // Irina Rubina / Germany / 2020 / Animation / 01:00 // A little something for worried souls // Awards/Screenings: Ottawa International Animation Festival / ITFS 28th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film

FIRST LOVE (Premier Amour) // Florent Gouelou / France / Fiction / 11:00 // A love story between the drag queen Cookie Kunty and her boyfriend.

AL‐SIT // Suzannah Mirghani / Sudan, Qatar / 2020 / Fiction / 20:00 // An arranged marriage in a cotton‐farming village in Sudan. Does 15‐year‐old Nafisa have a choice? // Awards/Screenings: Grand Prix Award at Tampere Film Festival (2021) / Canal+ Award at Clermont‐Ferrand Film Festival (2021)

FERAL (Divljač) // Bojana Babić / Serbia / 2020 / Fiction / 16:12 // Three village women secretly go on a trip together to hunt wild boars and discover their passion for a different kind of prey. // Awards/Screenings: PÖFF Shorts Black Nights Film Festival / BRNO16 Film Festival

Multifaceted audio‐visual works that reflect our longing to be human.

NORMAL // Julie Caty / France / 2020 / Animation / 11:03 // Dany cheats his emptiness with a Magic’Powder. He meets Karl Marx who asks him to destroy capitalism in order to save humankind. // Awards/Screenings: 2021 – Award For Best Animation at Flickerfest (Australia)

TRUE SOUND FAÇADE // Laura N‐Tamara / United Kingdom / 2020 / Experimental / 02:30 // A dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real-world self, in this mix of animation and live-action. // Awards/Screenings: Athens Animfest 2021 / Anim!Arte 2021

ATTENTION AT TENSION // Azalia Muchransyah / Indonesia, USA / 2020 / Documentary / 08:52 // A filmmaker’s reflection on the tension created by a pandemic that shifts her attention and creates anxiety within her. // Awards/Screenings: Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival 2021: Entangled Infiltrations / DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival 2021

DOGS BARK (Los perros ladran) // Sergio Serrano / Spain / 2020 / Fiction / 07:34 // You are not the only one who likes to look at the rain from the balcony and listen to the dogs barking. // Awards/Screenings: Special Mention of SHORT OF THE YEAR / Sección Oficial ALCINE

TRANSPARENT, I AM. // Yuri Muraoka / Japan / 2020 / Experimental / 11:36 // In 2020, the white mask I wore is the screen projected my past. We are living while looking for the answer to “who are we ?” // Awards/Screenings: 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

LIFELIKE // Keith Allott / United Kingdom / 2020 / Fiction / 06:46 // How can we help? // Awards/Screenings: The Shortest Nights / Beeston Film Festival ‐ Best Science Fiction Film

THE CUP // Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen / Singapore / 2020 / Experimental / 16:48 // In a surreal tableau, a man with a brewing machine head, discontent with the bland flavor of his brew, attempts to improve it. // Awards/Screenings: 51st Tampere Film Festival 2021 / 5th International Film Festival & Awards Macao 2020

There is no manual for growing up.

FOUR THIRTY (Las cuatro y media) // Andrés Brandariz / Argentina / 2019 / Fiction / 09:56 // Two children throwing wet paper balls at cars from a terrace while the adult in charge sleeps, until everything goes wrong.

A YOUNG TOUGH (然) // Pengwei Wang / United States of America / 2020 / Fiction / 14:58 // In the summer of 2001, a boy infatuated with blowing up beetles steals a gameboy from his neighbor, a young girl with an eyepatch. // Awards/Screenings: USA Film Festival Finalist / Cinequest Film & VR Festival / MFW7 International Premiere

A LONELY AFTERNOON // Kyle Credo / Canada / 2020 / Fiction / 14:41 // Amid a religious ceremony to bless his family’s new home, a neglected young boy longs for companionship and amusement. // Awards/Screenings: Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Official Selection / MFW7 International Premiere

PAIN // Anna Rose Duckworth / New Zealand / 2020 / Fiction / 09:00 // A young girl has an earth‐shattering realisation that her father is not invincible // Awards/Screenings: New Zealand International Film Festival 2020 ‐ World Premiere / Show Me Shorts Film Festival 2020, New Zealand

THE SILENCE OF THE RIVER (El silencio del rio) // Francesca Canepa / Peru / 2020 / Fiction / 14:00 // Juan, a 9-year-old Peruvian boy, lives with his silent dad in a floating house on the breathtaking Amazon River.

PERPETUAL CHILD // Stephanie Sant / Malta / 2020 / Fiction / 10:41 // Egaline, Oskar and Amante while away the time, each in their respective world, as they await the return of their parents. // Awards/Screenings: Premiere at Kinemastik International Short Film Festival, Malta (October 2020) / In Competition at Rising Sun International Film Festival, Kitakyushu, Japan (November 2020)

Feeling wondrous, meeting unexpected people and inevitable events.

GEGENSCHEIN // Kolja Burgschuld, Kai Krösche / Austria / 2020 / Fiction / 14:59 // When a man and a woman meet at a stop light in nighttime Vienna, they begin a playful flirt that ends with a dark confession. // Awards/Screenings: Five Lakes Film Festival 2021, Germany (Official Selection) / Festival of Nations 2021, Austria (Official Selection)

STEP INTO THE RIVER // MA Weijia / China, France / 2020 / Animation / 14:50 // A fairy tale about 2 girls who try to overcome prejudices of a sexist society and their past traumas. // Awards/Screenings: Chicago International Film Festival | Silver Hugo Award | USA (2020) / Dok Leipzig, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film | Audience Award | Germany (2020)

GREAT CELEBRATION (Festa Grande) // Gianmaria Sortino / Italy / 2021 / Fiction / 12:54 // A family initiation rite marks the price to pay to pass from adolescence to adulthood.

A TRIP TO HEAVEN (Thiên đường gọi tên) // Linh Duong / Viet Nam / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // During a peculiar tour bus to Mekong Delta, 50‐year‐old Mdm.Tam bumps into her high school sweetheart. // Awards/Screenings: Locarno Film Festival ‐ Pardi di domani, 2020, World Premiere, Medien Patent Verwaltung AG Prize / Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao 2020, Spain

FIRST GOODBYES (Un Adieu) // Mathilde Profit / France / Fiction / 24:00 // A car drives along the French coasts. Inside, a father takes his daughter to Paris to begin her student life. // Awards/Screenings: Académie des César, Nommé “meilleur film de court métrage”, 2021 / Festival Alciné 49, 2019

Drop your anchor, and believe that the mysteries will slowly resolve.

THE FOURFOLD // Alisi Telengut / Canada/ 2020 / Documentary Film / 07:14 // Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, an exploration of the indigenous worldview. // Awards/Screenings: Sundance Film Festival 2021 //Jury Award at Aspen Shortsfest 2021

THE OPPOSITE OF ETERNITY (Das Gegenteil von Ewigkeit) // Jádi Joshua / Austria, Germany / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // Anna is standing in the room of her ill father. Her grandmother is sitting at his bedside quietly singing a song. // Awards/Screenings: VIS Vienna Shorts 2020, Film festival Max Ophüls Preis 2021

IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (Oltre la Crosta) // Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola, Jan‐David Bolt / Switzerland / 2020 / Documentary / 08:00 // A young university student ponders over diseases and their ignored beauty. // Awards/Screenings: Huesca International Film Festival / Drama International Short Film Festival

DO YOU LIKE POETRY? (Gosta de Poesia?) // Eduardo Mattos / Brazil / 2020 / Fiction / 15:00 // After starting a medical treatment, Roberto realises that the result may not be as he expected. // Awards/Screenings: Best Latin‐American Short San Antonio Independent Film Festival 2021 // Best International Can You Breathe Film MikroFAF 2020

LONG DISTANCE // Or Sinai / Israel / 2020 / Fiction / 20:00 // Rachel is losing her sight to the point she can’t even manage doing the smallest daily functions, like dialing the phone. // Awards/Screenings: Haifa International Film Festival 2020, Israel // World Premiere, Macau International Short Film Festival 2020

Watch Experimental 1 and Experimental 2 as a short film program or as an individual film in an art exhibition setting.

THEY DANCE WITH THEIR HEADS (Ils dansent avec leurs têtes) // Thomas Corriveau / Canada / 2021 / Animation / 08:27 // A choreographer’s head is held captive by an eagle. With a dazzling mastery of drawing, the film takes us into a sensitive dance. // Awards/Screenings: Annecy 2021 ‐ The Annecy International Animation Film Festival / Choreoscope 2021 ‐ Barcelona Dance Film Festival

NOT ALIVE YET (Vel nav dzīvs) // Liene Rubane / Latvia / 2020 / Experimental / 05:40 // A voyage through time when memories of recent past, reality, and dreams interact. // Awards/Screenings: Winners Award Art Non Stop Festival ANSFF BA2020, ReAnima 2020

RITE OF PASSAGE // Olivia Griselda / Indonesia / 2020 / Experimental / 03:21 // Shot in Solo, Indonesia, this dance film follows a man who must choose to embrace either the rhythm of time or the will of nature. // Awards/Screenings: Athens International Film and Video Festival 2021

UNDARK // Axel Robin / Canada / 2021 / Experimental / 08:15 // A young woman’s body suffers from the corruption of radium poisoning and labor abuse. // Awards/Screenings: Festival Bouge d’Ici 2021 (Montréal)

SOLO // PERRY Elsa / France / 2021 / Experimental / 03:30 // Solo is an experimental animation film based on the Solo dance performance by the dancer and choreograph William Forsythe in 1995.

HUMAN WALKERS IN MOTION // Ethann Néon / Belgium / 2020 / Experimental / 11:00 // Reconnecting with Muybridge‘s work, this film projets us into the rhythm of 50 walkers. // Awards/Screenings: Busan Short Film Festival (selection) Short of the Year (special mention)

DIGITAL LOVE (REMIX) // Raphaël Languillat / Germany / 2020 / Experimental / 05:00 // A remix of Daft Punk’s “Digital Love” with fragments of Shakespeare’s erotic poem “Venus and Adonis” and neon wave visuals. // Awards/Screenings: Obskuur Ghent Film Festival 2021 (Best Music Video) / International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival 2021

PROPHECY // Gladys Ng / Singapore / 2020 / Experimental / 04:00 // Prophecy invites contemplation of our earthly and spiritual existence through imageries that depict the vast and the minute. // Awards/Screenings: ArtScience on Screen ‐ January 2021 / MFW7 International Premiere

Watch Experimental 1 and Experimental 2 as a short film program or as an individual film in an art exhibition setting.

UNIVERSE INSIDE CELLS // Yo Kohatsu / Japan / 2020 / Experimental / 05:25 // Universe comes out from cells. Dance, music, painting, and video are mixed and grown like cell division. // Awards/Screenings: Sweden Film Awards / Festival del Cinema di Cefalù

AUTOIMMUNE // Serafim Marcos / United States of America / 2020 / Experimental, Animation / 12:25 // A non-human entity complicates common understandings of queerness and HIV. // Awards/Screenings: SPHERE, WORLD CINEMA CARNIVAL, India / DOBRA International Festival for Experimental Film

CLOSET // Claire Walka / Germany / 2020 / Experimental / 02:50 // A still‐life of weird things is fooling around in a closet. // Awards/Screenings: Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany / Festival Internacional de Cortometraje UVAQ, Mexico

STONE // Jeroen Van der Stock / Japan / Experimental / 06:06 // Stone is a short film entirely based on 15 chemically treated film stills from the remake film Diabolique, featuring Sharon Stone. // Awards/Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam ‐ IFFR, Netherlands / Beijing International Short Film Festival, China

LOVE ‐ A MEMORY SCULPTURE (Liebe ‐ Eine Gedächtnisskulptur) // Mersolis Schöne / Austria / 2019 / Experimental / 03:52 // Moments of a memory ‐ Abstract traces and noisy audible tissue ‐ Fuzzy symbols of dreams pass by. // Awards/Screenings: 32 Girona Film Festival GIFF (official selection) / MiraBanART ‐ Photography, Painting, and Video Art Contest (winner of the quarterly selection)

PARADISE // Chiemi Shimada / Japan / 2020 / Experimental / 05:00 // PARADISE explores the relationship between labour, capitalism and play through kaleidoscopic visions of a pachinko parlour. // Awards/Screenings: MFW7 World Premiere

XARUSSELL // Andreas Gogol / Germany / 2017 / Experimental / 07:10 // xarussell is an abstract visual & audio composition about movement Super8, DV, 16mm found footage what I see is not what I hear // Awards/Screenings: 21th Traverse Vidéo Festival Toulouse France / RPM Fest [Revolutions Per Minute] Boston USA

MASS // Nadeem Din‐Gabisi / United Kingdom / 2020 / Experimental / 13:27 // MASS carves out the intimate communal spaces and intangible signals that characterise the contemporary black experience. // Awards/Screenings: Glasgow Short Film Festival / Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival