Hey… get your right dose!
Here is your guide for a healthy dose of short films. Our International program is divided into 5 categories to help you find the right dose.
Fuel life with kindness and a dash of mischief.
Get your wheels turning while enjoying the experience.
Laughing, crying, or leaving you in awe. Beware! Be cautious!
Reflect on your own experiences. Typically, films that touch on topics about self and often personal.
Twist in storytelling, forms, or artistic values. Bringing audiences a new experience that might break the regular cinematic conventions.
HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR HEART
GROWING PAINS
Never a straight line.
18+
Duration: 64:33
MY PAWS ARE SOFT, MY BONES ARE HEAVY
[d] Garry Christian / [w] Garry Christian, Ezra Cecio
Indonesia / 2024 / Fiction / 19:20
On his birthday, Johan tries to celebrate it as if his late mother is still here, though in reality there is only his best friend.
Awards/Screenings: Singapore International Film Festival 2024 | French Riviera Film Festival 2025
[ig] @pawsnbonesfilms
THE SMELL OF HUMAN (Lukten av menneske)
[d][w] Johanne Helgeland
Norway / 2024 / Fiction / 08:23
Marita (12) looks up to Lara. When a socially disadvantaged girl next door finds a baby bird, Lara decides to take it from her.
Awards/Screenings: Nordic Panorama
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FANTAS
[d][w] Halima Elkhatabi
Canada / 2024 / Fiction / 12:31
Tania introduces her horse to friends in her working-class neighborhood. Two worlds that had never met before will collide.
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MONSOON BLUE (夏夢迴)
[d] Jay Hiukit WONG and Ellis Kayin CHAN
China / 2023 / Animation / 14:19
The dream of a goldfish to return into its wild form uproars her forgotten memories.
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OOTID
[d][w] Eglė Razumaitė
Lithuania, France / 2024 / Fiction / 10:00
Girls at summer camp raise different versions of what happened to one of their friends who had to leave the camp and go home.
Awards/Screenings: Cannes Film Festival 2024 | Stockholm International Film Festival
[ig] @varicolouredhfa
INTRICATE LOVE
Some scars feel like family.
18+
Duration: 68:45
BEAKS (Becs et Ongles)
[d] Xavier Demoulins / [w] Xavier Demoulins et Louise Dubois
France / 2024 / Fiction / 22:30
22-year-old Anaïs gets into heavy debt after her father, a former fighting roosters’ breeder, passes away.
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TWO SIDES
[d] Mi Ni Ni Aung @ Chanson
Myanmar / 2025 / Documentary / 18:00
Thit Lwin Htun, a transgender man, must learn to emotionally navigate his past life.
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[ig] @scottishdocinstitute
I AM A FLOWER
[d][w] Ariel Victor Arthanto
Germany, Indonesia / 2024 / Animation / 13:15
Deviant artist Sam, on the verge of fully transforming into a flower, spends one final day at a flower spa with their mother.
Awards/Screenings: ITFS 2025 Student Competition | Animafest Zagreb 2025 Student Competition
[ig] @ariel_victor @iamaflower.short
MASTERPIECE MOMMY
[d][w] Dorothy Sing Zhang
UK, China / 2024 / Fiction / 15:00
A modern musical between Tess, a mother, and her daughter Justine.
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[ig] @masterpiecemommy @dorotheasingzhang
LOST & FOUND
Somehow, they are bound by the same ache.
13+
Duration: 63:34
B203
[d][w] Manuel Rodriguez
Germany / 2024 / Fiction / 12:32
On the way to meeting his biological father, Sebastian and his adoptive father Richard begin to reevaluate their own relationship.
Awards/Screenings: ALCINE 53 – Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares (World Premiere)
[ig] @manuelrodriguez29.97
CHANGING ROOMS (Ce qui appartient à César)
[d] Violette Gitton
France / 2024 / Fiction / 18:00
César is 12 when his older sister Lou is assaulted. César would like to take part in every fight, but he doesn’t have the weapons.
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YONGKY’S FIRST HEARTBEATS
[d] Giovanni Rustanto / [w] Giovanni Rustanto, Harashta, Ernest Lesmana
Indonesia / 2024 / Fiction / 16:42
Believing a stethoscope holds power, Yongky steals his dad’s. It’s broken—until Sri helps him finally hear his own heart.
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[ig] @giovannirustanto @sinemalima @horebesoklibur @talamedia_co
VISITING HEAVEN GATE (Đi Cổng Trời)
[d][w] NGHIÊM QUỲNH TRANG
Czech Republic, Vietnam / 2025 / Fiction / 16:20
In Sapa, a daughter joins her grieving mother’s pilgrimage for “Heaven Gate,” confronting shared loss on misty peaks to reconnect.
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[ig] @trangnghiem @aznkru
MINIKINO FOR 7+, PROGRAM A
Tiny acts, big changes, real magic
7+
Duration: 52:32
ABOVE THE TAMARIND TREE
[d] Buthyna Al-Mohammadi
Qatar / 2024 / Animation / 07:44
An introverted girl ventures into a wild valley, risking her life to reclaim her precious necklace from a mischievous parrot.
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SLIPPER KEEPER KITTY (Muca Copatarica)
[d] Rok Predin
Slovenia / 2024 / Animation / 10:31
In the Small Village, children play all day but carelessly toss their slippers at night. By morning, the slippers vanish. The Slipper Keeper Kitty, took them.
Awards/Screenings: FEST-New Directors/New Films Festival, IndieLisboa
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TREASURE (Tesoro)
[d] Carmen Álvarez Muñoz
Spain / 2024 / Animation / 05:38
A bored grandma decides to train a murder of crows and start a peculiar criminal family.
Awards/Screenings: Finalist on the 2025 Quirino Awards | Best National Animated Short Film on the 2024 FICVI festival
[ig] @tesoro_animation
CENING NEPUKIN I KAWA (When Cening Meets Kawa, the Magical Forest)
[d] Epriliana Fitri Ayu Pamungkas / [w] Epriliana Fitri Ayu Pamungkas, I Made Denny Chrisna Putra
Indonesia / 2024 / Fiction / 12:45
A girl defies tradition, fails a sacred ritual, and slips into a surreal world where time and choices collide.
Awards/Screenings: Official Selection JAFF 19th 2024
[ig] @wesee.kawa @denfilm.bali
NOT A FAIRY TALE
[d][w] Malgorzata Rybak
Poland / 2023 / Animation / 02:53
Extraordinary skills of a street lamp initiated by some unexpected non-human visitors. Believe it or not, it’s a true story.
Awards/Screenings: World Festival of Animated Film in Varna, Bulgaria, 2023 (Best Children’s Film) | CINANIMA, Portugal, 2023 (Grande Panorama: Students – 2ºnd e 3ºrd Ciclo)
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UMMI AND ZAKI (Ummi und Zaki)
[d] Daniela Opp / [w] Kai Rönnau
Germany / 2024 / Animation / 04:21
“Now we‘re friends for life”, says Zaki. But Ummi doesn‘t know if that‘s what she wants.
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THE RUMBLE-BUMBLE RALLY (Morgenfugl og Murmeldyr: Rydderacet)
[d] Annette SAUGESTAD HELLAND, Johan KAOS
Norway / 2024 / Animation / 08:40
Did you know that the living room is actually a racetrack?
Awards/Screenings: Grand-Prix of the Monstrinha Competition – MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival, Filem’On
[ig] @bearwithme_distribution
PASSAGES
One step at a time.
13+
Duration: 67:55
THE BOY AND THE VOYAGER (Fajar dan Penjelajah Samudera)
[d][w] Haris Supiandi
Indonesia / 2024 / Fiction / 13:05
Fajar lets Samudera go, hoping his mom returns from Malaysia as Grandpa falls ill—Rini’s story moved him.
Awards/Screenings: BUFF Malmö Film Festival
[ig] @harissupiandi @priyatna_teguh @gertakindonesia
THE MANGGIS IN AH GONG’S HANDS (阿公手里的莽吉柿)
[d][w] Loo Yuan Ling
Malaysia / 2024 / Fiction / 17:12
A bigoted Chinese Grandfather must look after his biracial grandson at the onset of the global pandemic lockdown.
Awards/Screenings: Taylor’s University Film Festival – Best Film
[ig] @yuanlingg
VEILS OF LANDSCAPE (霞始めてたなびく)
[d][w] Chihiro Yamanaka
Japan / 2025 / Animation / 05:10
The east wind carries warmth to the water, Landscapes merge without boundaries, and in time, the mountains drift into slumber.
Awards/Screenings: Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 |Rome Prisma Film Awards Award Winner
[ig] @chihiro.yamanaka
MORÎ
[d][w] Yakup Tekintangaç
Turkey / 2024 / Fiction / 19:18
Morî believes the new teacher is his father. While trying to convince him, a deep emotional bond forms between them.
Awards/Screenings: ZINEBI 66. Short Film International Competition , Jury Special Award-2024 | 46th Cinemed – Montpellier International Mediterranean Film Festival, Jury Special Award-2024
[ig] @belqiti
LITTLE MONSTERS (LES PETITS MONSTRES)
[d][w] Pablo Léridon
France / 2024 / Fiction / 13:10
Visually impaired Erwan rushes to school to confess to Agathe—if only he didn’t have to ride with clingy David in a wheelchair.
Awards/Screenings: Tribeca | LES NUITS MED
[ig] @lespetitsmonstres_film
SLICE OF LIFE
Moments from lives bound by choices never truly offered.
18+
Duration: 81:52
KOTOWARI
[d] Coralie Watanabe Prosper
France / 2024 / Fiction / 22:48
Saki, a Japanese citizen, is heading to the French prefecture to finally pick up her residence permit.
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ONE DAY THIS KID
[d][w] Alexander Farah
Canada / 2024 / Fiction / 17:29
One day this kid will reach a point where he senses a division that isn’t mathematical. One day this kid will talk.
Awards/Screenings: Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short, SXSW 2025 // Official Selection, TIFF 2024.
[ig] @heyitsalexfarah
ON HOLD
[d][w] Delia Hess
Switzerland / 2024 / Animation / 07:11
A young woman is stuck in the hold queue of a telephone hotline.
Awards/Screenings: Animafest Zagreb 2024 | Chicago International Film Festival 2024.
[ig] @delia__hess @bonobostudio_zagreb
INFLATABLE BEAR, HOURLY
[d][w] Elisabeth Werchosin
Germany / 2024 / Fiction / 11:59
A young immigrant actress, dressed as a costumed bear, faces a surreal odyssey in Berlin’s Soviet-era outskirts.
Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival 2025 ] Go Short International Film Festival 2025.
[ig] @werchosinfilm
MY THERAPIST SAID, I AM FULL OF SADNESS
[d] Monica Vanesa Tedja
Indonesia / 2024 / Documentary / 22:25
A filmmaker finds the source of their sadness by combing through archival material of their biological and queer chosen families.
Awards/Screenings: DOK Leipzig 2024 | Hong Kong International Film Festival 2025.
[ig] @monictedja
TRIBUTE
Love, take one. Action!
13+
Duration: 81:01
LIGHT OF LIGHT (Φῶς ἐκ φωτός or ΦΩΣ ΕΚ ΦΩΤΟΣ)
[d][w] Neritan Zinxhiria
Greece / 2023 / Documentary / 12:55
In 1932, a monk built a camera in isolation. 90 years later, a filmmaker finds and reconstructs the lost footage.
Awards/Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam (TigerShort Nominee) | Slamdance Film Festival (GrandPrix Winner)
[ig] @reconstructingmemories @iphigraph
LITTLE REBELS CINEMA CLUB
[d][w] Khozy Rizal
Indonesia / 2024 / Fiction / 17:00
Set in 2008, Doddy, a 14 year old boy, tries to recreate an iconic scene of a zombie film with three of his best friends.
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[ig] @khozyrizal
NEZUMIKOZŌ JIROKICHI
[d] Rintarō
France, Japan / 2023 / Animation / 23:47
As the city of Edo is plunged into darkness, a man emerges from the attic of a house.
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THE WILD-TEMPERED CLAVIER
[d] Anna Samo
Germany / 2024 / Animation / 07:20
Despite the world’s disasters, an artist insists on playing.
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[ig] @samoanimation
THE FIRST FILM
[d] Piyush Thakur / [w] Piyush Thakur, Deepak Lohana
India / 2024 / Fiction / 19:59
In a small town of 1960’s India, where cinema is forbidden for women, a 14-year-old embarks on a quest to watch her first film.
Awards/Screenings: Bogoshorts | Glasgow Short Film Festival
[ig] @tff.film @haathwalathakur
A HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR MIND
HIDDEN TRUTH
Conflict doesn’t always shout; sometimes it hums.
18+
Duration: 66:13
BLITZMUSIK
[d] Martin Amiot / [w] Martin Amiot, Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Canada / 2024 / Fiction / 09:08
In wartime, two soldiers short of ammunition fight with what they can get their hands on: musical
instruments.
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[ig] @wlcmaboard @unitecentralefilms @martin_amiot
I BELIEVE THE PORTRAIT SAVED ME (Mua besoj më shpëtoj portreti)
[d][w] Alban Muja
Kosovo / 2025 / Documentary / 10:00
Muja, a painter, recounts how a portrait he drew of a police commander during the Kosovo war may have
saved his life.
Awards/Screenings: Berlinale | European Film Award Nominee
[ig] @albanmuja @edon @038studio_
4:30
[d][w] Vasilii Ovchinnikov
Russia / 2024 / Documentary / 15:45
Blind Ilya, 66 years old, plans to run a marathon in the average time of sighted athletes.
Awards/Screenings: Seize the film festival, Serbia, Grand Prix | DokuBaku IDFF, Azerbaijan, iHuman – SpecialMention
[ig] @reasonpictures @vasilyovchinnikov @olegkolsky @katiazhavoronkovakatia @qpdash
ORDINARY LIFE (普通の生活)
[d] Yoriko MIZUSHIRI
France, Japan / 2025 / Animation / 09:48
Ordinary life repeats itself every day, while the succession of moments that we repeat over and over again is never the same.
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NO ROOM (Nema mjesta)
[d][w] Jelena Oroz
Croatia / 2024 / Animation / 06:22
The cars are everywhere, and they show no consideration for others. It’s time to get revenge!
Awards/Screenings: Animafest Zagreb 2025
[ig] @jelena._.oroz @bonobostudio_zagreb
CAUGHT IN 4K
[d] Adriana Mrnjavac and Nicole Stigler / [w] Adriana Mrnjavac
Austria / 2025 / Fiction / 15:10
Eleven-year-old Ava is home alone. She presents herself online. Takes Selfies. Dances. Puts on make-up. TOM_X12 likes this.
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[ig] @adrianamrnjavac @stiglernicole
OUR PLANET
The rhythm of a changing world.
13+
Duration: 73:12
FLOW OF BEING (Olemise kulg)
[d] Helen Unt / [w] Anti Naulainen, Outi Inkeri Rossi, Helen Unt
Estonia, Bulgaria / 2024 / Animation / 11:11
A person is in the flow. They make a decision and keep flowing until all becomes one.
Awards/Screenings: Uppsala Short Film Festival 2024 | Ann Arbor Film Festival 2025.
[ig] @good_to_be_here @bonobostudio_zagreb
FISH, PLEASE! (Pelabuhan Berkabut)
[d] Haris Yuliyanto / [w] Jovan Ardiansyah & Haris Yuliyanto
Indonesia / 2024 / Fiction / 19:53
During a tough time, a stunted man wants to save his wife’s pregnancy by stealing the only fish in the harbor with mysterious gas.
Awards/Screenings: Official Selection Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2024 | Official Selection Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025
[ig] @kurakurafilms @harishyuliyanto @brociz_jr @annisadeey
SILENT PANORAMA
[d] Nicolas Piret
Belgium / 2024 / Animation / 05:09
In this animated miniature, a drawing gradually comes to life before our eyes, and people occupy places that used to belong to nature.
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[ig] @manifest_pictures @nicolas_piret_
EVEN TIDE
[d] Francesco Clerici / [w] Jon Barrenechea, Francesco Clerici
Italy, Switzerland / 2023 / Experimental / 11:00
In an unspecified future, some solar-powered camera devices are activated with motion sensors.
Awards/Screenings: Torino Film Festival (Special Jury Award – Spazio Italia) | Calgary International Film Festival.
[ig] @varicolouredhfa @anche_no_01
BECOMING AIR
[d][w] Alisi Telengut, Diego Galafassi
Germany, Sweden / 2024 / Animation / 06:24
Breathe deeply: in 3 years, your molecules will circle Earth, as today’s oxygen came from nature.
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WATER SPORTS
[d] Whammy Alcazaren
Philippines / 2025 / Fiction / 19:35
Sad boys Jelson and Ipe harness the power of their love in an attempt to survive a world devastated by climate change.
Awards/Screenings: SXSW London | Hamburg Short Film Festival.
[ig] @watersportsathletics
SENSE OF PLACE
The ground remembers more than we do.
13+
Duration: 63:31
THE WIELS MARSH (Le Marais Wiels)
[d][w] Charlotte Pion, Catherine Le Goff, Martine Janssens, Christine Flasschoen, Aurore Woller, Marie Fontaine, Claire Poinas
Belgium / 2025 / Animation / 05:47
A collective film made within Zorobabel’s evening workshops in Brussels.
Awards/Screenings: Millenium Documentary Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium (2025)
[ig] @atelier_zorobabel
PUBLIC POOL
[d] Elizabeth Lo
USA / 2025 / Documentary / 12:47
A portrait becomes a visual celebration of public spaces as well as a meditation on family and the luxury of leisure.
Awards/Screenings: CPH:DOX | Vienna Shorts
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US, THE SEA AND THE SAD END
[d][w] Malgorzata Rybak
Poland / 2023 / Animation / 02:00
When you finally arrive at your favorite snorkeling spot but then suddenly everything is getting out of control.
Awards/Screenings: UPPSALA Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2024 | FEST ANCA International Animation Festival Slovakia, 2024
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BURNT WOUND (Luka Bakar)
[d][w] Jason Iskandar
Indonesia / 2025 / Documentary / 07:00
A Jakarta neighborhood rebuilds after a fire, seen over time from a single angle.
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[ig] @studioantelope @jasoniskandar @florencegiovani
LIGHTS, HAZE (გაბნეული შუქები)
[d][w] Tata Managadze
Georgia, Belgium, Finland, Portugal / 2024 / Animation / 08:04
Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights.
Awards/Screenings: Annecy 2025 official selection | International Premiere at Tricky Women/Tricky Realities
[ig] @eat_vashli
ESTE NO ES TU JARDÍN (This is not your Garden)
[d] Carlos Velandia, Angélica Restrepo / [w] Carlos Velandia
Colombia / 2025 / Animation / 12:53
Rooted in wetlands, páramos and centennial forests at the verge of disappearing, memories and a speculated future collide.
Awards/Screenings: IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam – Short & Mid-length (2025) | Annecy International Animation Film Festival – Off-Limits (2025)
[ig] @carlosvelandiav
THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS
[d][w] Elham Ehsas
United Kingdom / 2025 / Fiction / 15:00
Haunted by rising sea levels, a daughter digs up her father’s grave to move his body to higher ground.
Awards/Screenings: Aspen Shortsfest 2025, USA
[ig] @zoradzo
UNKNOWN KNOWN
Not everything invisible stays quiet.
13+
Duration: 75:51
HAZE OVER (Mia)
[d] Seyed Ali Ghasemi / [w] Seyed Ali Ghasemi, Milad Sheikholeslami
Iran / 2025 / Fiction / 20:00
Musa takes Vahid to the forest to smuggle wood, but a crash with a doe reveals secrets buried deep in their past.
Awards/Screenings: International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA | imagineNATIVE presents Film + Media Arts Festival
[ig] @tree_film @alighasemi62 @nima.eghlima
ROSE RASH (Peun-Ku-Larp)
[d] Thanut Rujitanont
Thailand / 2024 / Animation / 10:20
Rose Rash is inspired by the book Tibetan Book of the Dead (1927).
Awards/Screenings: the 48th Annecy International Animation Film Festival (2024) | the 1st Runner-Up Award, 28th Thai Short Film and Video Festival (2024)
[ig] @graphy.animation
NAISSANCE D’UN FEU (Birth of a fire)
[d][w] Archibald Martin
Belgium / 2025 / Fiction / 21:59
Romane and Marcus, are hiking in a German forest. As Romane catches her breath, she spots a shadow in the distance, watching her.
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DOLORES
[d] Cecilia Andalón Delgadillo
Mexico / 2024 / Animation / 08:51
Dolores is a 7 years old girl who just wants to play, runs away from a fire demon and accidentally falls into a grave.
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THE BOY WITH WHITE SKIN (L’enfant à la peau blanche)
[d] Simon Panay
France, Senegal / 2025 / Fiction / 14:41
Entrusted by his father to a group of gold miners, an albino child embodies all of their hopes.
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[ig] @manifest_pictures @simonpanay
A HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR NERVES
BOUNDARIES
They call it chaos. We call it not giving in.
18+
Duration: 69:31
THE LITTLE ANCESTOR (La Petite Ancêtre)
[d][w] Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur
Canada / 2024 / Animation / 11:12
This ancestral house is where we take root.
Awards/Screenings: Hong-Kong International Film Festival (2025) | Palm Springs ShortFest, USA, (2025)
[ig] @the.little.ancestor @bandesonimage
WHEN THE BLUES GOES MARCHING IN (Pengais Mimpi)
[d] Beny Kristia / [w] Beny Kristia, Gabriela Vanesa. K, Bhisma Wardhana
Indonesia / 2025 / Experimental / 12:40
A young man narrated his dream from last night to his father about the celebration of demonstration, anger, and graduation.
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[ig] @berakinema @fathursyahh @benykristia
STREET LIGHT (Le Reste n’a pas d’importance)
[d][w] Romain Dumont
France, Canada / 2024 / Fiction / 15:50
On Rue Clignancourt, the resignation of Cheun has the effect of a street light going out.
Awards/Screenings: South by Southwest London (2025) | Cairo International Film Festival (2025)
[ig] @promessedelaube @advitam_court
THE INESCAPABLE DESIRE OF ROOTS (Gēn Yù)
[d] Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen
Singapore / 2024 / Experimental / 05:39
A man with hair growing wildly over his body is taken by a mania of ecstasy and anguish.
Awards/Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024 | Palm Springs International ShortFest 2024
[ig] @markchua.se @lishuen.lam
A HOUSE OF THIEVES (집도둑)
[d] Chung Jeeyun, Kim Yeji / [w] Chung Jeeyun, Noh Haram
South Korea / 2024 / Fiction / 24:10
After losing her home to a scam, Joo-hee turns to stealing one. Can she reclaim a place to live — and keep her dignity intact?
Awards/Screenings: 16th Seoul Yeongdeungpo International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival screening, Audience Award
[ig] @sending._.you
CORNERED
The devil is in the details.
18+
Duration: 85:10
KNIGHT OF BLOOD (Darah Ksatria)
[d][w] Widya Arafah, Arjuna Asa
Indonesia / 2024 / Fiction / 19:20
A high schooler bullied for his mysterious nosebleeds joins his bullies’ gang initiation, where it turns into an unexpected night.
Awards/Screenings: Premiered at Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2024
[ig] @sinema.sora @widyarafah @_____jasin @arjuna.asa
UNA TORRETA EN LLAMAS (A Burning Turret)
[d][w] Humberto Flores Jáuregui
México / 2025 / Fiction / 22:12
An elderly farmer and her granddaughter hide a wounded soldier, facing suspicion and danger at their isolated ranch.
Awards/Screenings: Huesca International Film Festival, Guadalajara Film Festival – FICG
[ig] @bogoshorts @unatorretaenllamas @hfloresj @contratiempo_cine
LA SANGRE (The Blood)
[d][w] Joaquín León
Spain / 2025 / Fiction / 14:40
Out-of-place teen Álvaro sheds blood tears at a village procession; people offer money.
Awards/Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam | HKIFF – Hong Kong International Film Festival
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MERCENAIRE
[d][w] Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Canada / 2024 / Fiction / 14:58
Hired in a pig slaughterhouse, an ex-convict desperately tries to find another job while repressing his inner violence.
Awards/Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival (2024) | Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025 *WINNER Special Jury Award
[ig] @mercenaire.shortfilm @ppchevigny @lefoyerfilms
ABRAHAM (Ebrahim)
[d][w] Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini
Iran / 2024 / Fiction / 14:00
A transsexual teenage boy named Abraham was murdered and burned in a cave outside a small village.
Awards/Screenings: Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2024)- World Premiere | HollyShorts Film Festival, USA (2024)
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ENIGMA
The deeper you look, the more it looks back…
13+
Duration: 81:21
NETTLE (Ortie)
[d] Toni Hilgersson
Belgium / 2025 / Fiction / 20:14
Some say Jeanne is mad because she doesn’t let boys push her around, consider yourself warned, don’t touch Jeanne, she stings.
Awards/Screenings: Brussel short film festival 2025
[ig] @Antoinehilgersson
BARLEBAS
[d][w] Malu Janssen
The Netherlands, Belgium / 2024 / Fiction / 19:59
When headstrong Heylken is accused of witchcraft, she resists and inspires young Griet with her free spirit and powerful voice.
Awards/Screenings: Prix Sauvage Corto for best short film, L’Europeautour de L’Europe, Paris, France | Mélies d’Argent for best European short, Imagine Film Festival, Amsterdam
[ig] @malu_janssen @doxyfixy
SUINTRAH
[d] Ayesha Alma Almera / [w] Ayesha Alma Almera, Alex Suhendra
INDONESIA / 2024 / Fiction / 21:08
A father and his only son who rented a house in a village where there is a rule that no one is allowed to speak loudly.
Awards/Screenings: Best Live Action Short Festival Film Indonesia 2024 | Wide Angle Section Busan International Film Festival 2024
[ig] @_ayeshaalma @opypratiwi
BOTTLENECK (GARGALO)
[d][w] Carlos Segundo, Anna Zêpa
Brazil, Portugal, France / 2025 / Fiction / 20:00
Janaina is tired, and that can be scary.
[ig] @rabodeolhofilmes
HUMANITY BEATS
Punch in, hold back, disappear.
18+
Duration: 78:42
A WAITING ROOM (ဇရပ်)
[d][w] Saw
Thailand / 2024 / Fiction / 16:37
A 28-year-old man flees Myanmar to escape the military service law, seeking freedom in Bangkok’s promised paradise.
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JUST A COIN (Una monedita)
[d] Manu Vazquez Santana / [w] Tomás Murphy, Manu Vazquez Santana
Argentina / 2024 / Fiction / 08:45
Pablo is a young man who works cleaning windshields. Every day he faces indifference as he struggles to maintain hope.
Awards/Screenings: Tampere Film Festival | Festival de Cine de Huesca
[ig] @manu.vaz @unamonedita.film
THE SEVENTH SHIFT
[d] nataliya ilchuk
Ukraine / 2023 / Experimental / 14:59
Portrait of a woman working four jobs in a state of complete solitude in a nearly abandoned post-industrial town.
Awards/Screenings: 14th Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (Best Filmmaker Award), 2024
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JOKO
[d] Izabela Plucińska / [w] Izabela Plucińska, Justyna Celeda
Poland, Germany / 2024 / Animation / 15:45
A grotesque vision of eternal exploitation and domination of man over man, full of absurd humor and macabre.
Awards/Screenings: 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France – Best Original Music Award for a Short Film | 17th International Animated Film Festival Animator, Poland – Grand Prix – Golden Pegasus
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THEIR EYES
[d] Nicolas Gourault
France / 2025 / Documentary / 22:36
A screen-based investigation about the invisible workers who teach AI how to read the world.
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SURPRISE
Nothing explodes—except maybe inside
13+
Duration: 65:00
KEEP LOOKING? (跌咗真係搵?)
[d][w] Anna Ieong
Macau, Taiwan / 2024 / Fiction / 20:00
A freshly wrapped zombie film crew, a mysteriously vanished memory card. What an absurd, chaotic, and crazy night?
Awards/Screenings: Nomination of 2025 Youth Film Festival | Nomination of 2025 Macao Films Panorama
[ig] @keeplooking.shortfilm
PENA’S SPECIAL HAULING (Penan erikoiskuljetus)
[d][w] Anssi Kasitonni
Finland / 2024 / Fiction / 11:43
Pena has been driving a semi-truck for 50 years and wants to continue despite some slight memory issues.
Awards/Screenings: Go Short (Netherlands) | Vancouver IFF (Canada)
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LUNCH WOMAN
[d] Tokio OOHARA, Gertjan ZUILHOF
Japan / 2024 / Fiction / 04:58
Toki loves nature and knows how to find things to eat outdoors. At lunch time she goes out and saves on her budget a bit.
Awards/Screenings: Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2024
[ig] @tokiooohara @gertjanzuilhof
DURIAN, DURIAN
[d][w] Nelson Yeo
Singapore / 2025 / Experimental / 06:43
While awaiting their deaths, two solitary souls find an unexpected connection beneath the shelter of a durian tree.
Awards/Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam | Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
[ig] @nelson.y_frames
WEATHERED
[d] Karina Casanas Invernon, Jachym Bouzek
United Kingdom / 2025 / Animation / 06:22
Stringed along by frameworks of a hard to grasp outside world, a life sized puppet longs to connect to their own rhythm.
Awards/Screenings: Annecy Animation Festival Official Selection
[ig] @karinacasanas @jachymbouzek
BLOWOUT (Le sens de la fete)
[d][w] Amaranta Kahn
Portugal / 2024 / Experimental / 01:21
This is an ode to celebration, joy, music, dance. The movie was shot with a microscope, the music composed by Louis Sady.
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[ig] @amoebae_from_the_world
MONTSOURIS (PARK)
[d] Guil Sela
France / 2024 / Fiction / 13:53
On a beautiful autumn day in Montsouris Park, Jacques and Nathan are on the lookout for people to feature in their documentary.
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[ig] @manifest_pictures @guilselaapelbaum
A HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR SOUL
ALIENATION
Why don’t you look at me?
18+
Duration: 75:50
THE OASIS I DESERVE
[d][w] Inès Sieulle
France / 2024 / Experimental / 22:27
Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share thoughts and exchange with humans.
Awards/Screenings: IndieLisboa – EMEL Short Film Grand Prize| London Short Film Festival – Best International Short
[ig] @inessieulle @solalfilms @leflochat
RAINPOUR (Toró)
[d] Clara Ferrer, Marcella C. De Finis
Brazil / 2024 / Fiction / 20:30
Aiyra left her small hometown to work in the big city. Conceição, her mother, left many years ago, but she returned.
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[ig] @manifest_pictures
L’ULTIMO GIORNO DELL’ORSO (The Last Day Of The Bear)
[d] Antonio Donato
Italy / 2025 / Fiction / 12:13
After growing up in a youth community, Dennis prepares to leave —facing bittersweet goodbyes and an uncertain future.
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[ig] @sayonarafilm @toto.donato
THE SOLARIANS (Les Solariens)
[d] Clarence Larrivoire
France / 2024 / Fiction / 20:40
Vadim is an underground car park attendant, desperately in need of sun and company.
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[ig] @manifest_pictures @larrivoire
BOTTLED UP
In trying to belong, some things are left unsaid.
18+
Duration: 69:49
WEEPING WILLOW
[d] Scott Miller Berry
Canada / 2025 / Experimental / 04:16
Portrait of a unique weeping willow tree at Film Farm residency in Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada. Hand-developed 16mm film.
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[ig] @cineparlour
SEMPRE PLOU QUAN NO FAN ESCOLA (It Always Rains When School Is Out)
[d][w] Carolina Gómez
Spain / 2024 / Fiction / 09:36
When Alicia disappears, the girls will discover that the world is stranger than it seems.
Awards/Screenings: D’A Film Festival | Cinema Jove Film Festival
[ig] @__carolinagomez
LA CASCADA (The Cascade)
[d][w] Pablo Delgado
México / 2024 / Fiction / 22:00
A man discovers he’s been crying for several months without even noticing.
Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand – Prix Canal+ | Festival de Huesca – Danzante Iberoamericano
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DEAR DAD
[d][w] Austė Urbanavičiūtė
Lithuania / 2024 / Experimental / 16:44
Young adults speak about their difficult childhood experiences, while images captured by parents show happy family moments.
Awards/Screenings: the 2024 National Film Awards Silver Crane (Nominee) | Special Jury Mention at the 2024 Vilnius Short Film Festival
[ig] @auste.mov
ANATOMY OF A CALL
[d][w] Arnold Tam
Hong Kong / 2024 / Fiction / 17:13
An average Hong Konger receive 5 spam calls a day. Who are the people behind these calls? What are their stories?
Awards/Screenings: International Beijing Short film Festival | Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
[ig] @arnoldtw
MINIKINO FOR 7+, PROGRAM B
Not goodbye—just till later.
7+
Duration: 54:25
TOMORROW (Demà)
[d][w] Estefania Ortiz
Spain / 2024 / Fiction / 16:00
Lucas is starting school and he will have to accept that his older brother will not take part on this new adventure.
Awards/Screenings: 47º Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Elche – FICIE. Spain | 7º Indy Shorts International Film Festival-Heartland Film. USA
[ig] @demacurtmetratge @fnnrtz @shojifilms @agenciafreak
LE PETIT ET LE GÉANT
[d][w] Isabela Costa
France, Brazil / 2025 / Animation / 08:40
A little hamster living in a post-apocalyptic world discovers a spark of hope.
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[ig] @isabeladacosta
A KING WITHOUT A CROWN (Un Roi sans couronne)
[d][w] Olivier Bayu Gandrille
France / 2025 / Fiction / 21:01
Raja is being sent away to Indonesia. Clément, his French half-brother, would do anything to join him.
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[ig] @mabel_films
PASSING BY (지나가는 것)
[d] Hanna Kang
South Korea / 2025 / Animation / 08:44
A girl unexpectedly meets her childhood best friend, torn between rekindling their bond or letting the moment fade away.
Awards/Screenings: Short Animations for Children, 65th Zlín FilmFestival 2025
[ig] @yangna_yang_
MOTHER!
Surely didn’t start with knowing, but with trying.
18+
Duration: 73:51
BITTER CHOCOLATE (Shokolate Talkh)
[d][w] Sahar Sotoodeh
Iran, Germany / 2024 / Fiction / 20:00
Yasi has made it to the Capital from her hometown with the excuse of the IELTS exam, to illegally terminate her unwanted pregnancy.
Awards/Screenings: Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2025, USA -Best Live-Action Short Film Award | Fribourg International Film Festival 2025, Switzerland -Best International Short Film Award
[ig] @sahar.sotoodeh
CAN YOU HEAR ME? (Czy Ty mnie słyszysz?)
[d] Anastazja Naumenko
Poland / 2025 / Animation / 15:01
Nastia’s Zoom lessons on using a laptop for her mom are disrupted by unstable internet—and resurfacing family traumas.
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PASSARINHO
[d] Natalia García Agraz / [w] Natalia García Agraz, Gerardo Lechuga
México / 2024 / Fiction / 12:30
Two teenage girls try to meet their favorite soccer player, but the plan is threatened when one of them gets her first period.
Awards/Screenings: Chicago International Film Festival (2024) Silver Hugo Live Action Short film
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LA PERRA (La Chienne)
[d] Carla Melo Gampert
France, Colombia / 2023 / Animation / 14:00
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman.
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SHADOWS
[d][w] Rand Beiruty
France, Jordan / 2024 / Documentary / 12:20
At a crowded airport, Ahlam, a 15-year-old mother, is running away from Baghdad.
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[ig] @pianosanofilms
PERSEVERE
From the rubble, we whisper—we’re still here.
13+
Duration: 77:25
DIA PERGI DAN BELUM KEMBALI (Traces of My Brother)
[d] Riani Singgih
Indonesia / 2024 / Documentary / 16:54
25 years after the disappearance of her older brother during the 1998 riots, Wulan continues her mother’s fight to find him.
Awards/Screenings: Nominated for Best Short Documentary at Festival Film Indonesia 2024 | Official Selection in 100% Manusia Film Festival 2024
[ig] @seven10media @jejakria @kinari.adrni @putrabrahmantyo
PALESTINE ISLANDS
[d] Nour Ben Salem, Julien Menanteau
France / 2024 / Fiction / 22:29
Maha, 12, is part of the last generation of Palestinian refugees from the Balata camp.
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[ig] @manifest_pictures @_topshotfilms_
BLUEBERRY SUMMER
[d][w] Masha Kondakova
France / 2024 / Fiction / 18:17
Ksyusha spends her summer harvesting blueberries in the forest of Kiev. She is waiting for her lover, unaware of the danger.
Awards/Screenings: Brussels Short Film Festival
[ig] @capricci.cinema @mashakonda
YA HANOUNI
[d][w] Lyna Tadount, Sofian Chouaib
France / 2024 / Fiction / 03:00
A competition arises between two parents: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?
Awards/Screenings: Show Me Shorts Film Festival 2024) | Short Shorts Film Festival 2025
[ig] @yahanouni
WHAT IF THEY BOMB HERE TONIGHT?
[d] Samir Syriani / [w] Samir Syriani, Nadine Chalhoub Syriani
Lebanon / 2025 / Fiction / 16:45
A sleepless Lebanese couple must stay or flee as the threat of an Israeli airstrike looms over their glass-walled home.
Awards/Screenings: Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival | Jury Award – Regard – Festival International de Court métrage au Saguenay
[ig] @samirsyriani @nicolaskhabbaz
SOLACE
Emotions bloom in quiet corners.
13+
Duration: 71:19
ON WEARY WINGS GO BY (Linnud läinud)
[d][w] Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Estonia, Lithuania / 2024 / Animation / 11:00
A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow.
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[ig] @onwearywingsgoby
MACHINES (Maskiner)
[d][w] Sigurd Bleken
Norway / 2024 / Fiction / 14:46
Catastrophe strikes in the life of a single mom, working as a cleaner, saving up for a special birthday present for her son.
Awards/Screenings: Odense International Film Festival | Aesthetica Short Film Festival
[ig] @skalastormfilms
FAILED ATTEMPTS TO HUG EACH OTHER (Intentos Fallidos para Abrazarse)
[d][w] Sergio Díaz Ochoa
Mexico / 2024 / Fiction / 12:51
Two brothers estranged by superficial disputes confront the limits of reconciliation.
Awards/Screenings: Morelia International Film Festival | Riverrun International Film Festival
[ig] @sergiodiazo @elimperiocine @belicosafilms_mx
BLUE HEART (Coeur Bleu)
[d] Samuel Suffren
Haiti, France / 2025 / Fiction / 15:19
Marianne and Pétion, living in Haiti, await a call from their son who has left in pursuit of the American dream.
Awards/Screenings: Director’s Fortnight Cannes ‘25
[ig] @samuelsuffren
FAMILY MAN
[d] Kalani Gacon / [w] Kalani Gacon, Maya Khan
Nepal / 2025 / Fiction / 17:23
In a remote Nepalese village, a mysterious man finds refuge in the house of a family haunted by their father’s disappearance.
Awards/Screenings: Clermont Ferrand 2025 | Alexandria International Short Film Festival 2025
[ig] @kalanigacon
TWISTED
You remember the feeling—even if you’ve forgotten the reason.
13+
Duration: 71:49
WASHHH
[d][w] Mickey Lai
Malaysia, Ireland / 2024 / Fiction / 23:10
A Chinese trainee is commanded by the teacher to lead her multiracial female comrades to wash the stained sanitary pads.
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[ig] @mickeylai23 @ParallaxFilms
12 MOMENTS BEFORE THE FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY (Sheng Qi Shou)
[d][w] Zhizheng Qu
China / 2025 / Fiction / 16:33
A middle school is about to hold a flag-raising ceremony. However, this is not a gentle winter for him.
Awards/Screenings: Cannes La Cinef 2025
[ig] @parallaxfilms_sales
DENGARLAH NYANYIAN PING PONG (Hear the Ping Pong Sing)
[d][w] Andrew Kose
Indonesia / 2024 / Fiction / 17:54
A 6-year-old girl finds comfort in the rhythm of a ping pong ball when her family argues in Hokkien words she can’t understand.
Awards/Screenings: Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (2024)
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HER BODY
[d] Daphne Lücker / [w] Rosita Wolkers
The Netherlands / 2024 / Fiction / 14:12
A healthy girl (9) living in a hospital bed discovers the truth about her body and the lie her mother forces her to live.
Awards/Screenings: Senior Jury Award – Go Short Nijmegen 2025
[ig] @rinkelfilm
