[d][w] Rajdip Ray

India / 2025 / Fiction / 18:30

A young Kolkata couple struggle to keep up to drastic dietary changes after the wife is diagnosed with a terminal illness. – Awards/Screenings: Tasveer SAFF, Seattle, 2025 | NYIFF, New York, 2026 [ig] @bauddhayan @rayofdope @monalisa0827 @tanmaydhanania @ @nainasareen @arindamdebnath_

BAADARANE

[d] Samah El Kadi

Lebanon / 2025 / Fiction / 15:00

A young boy from Mount Lebanon grapples with his mother’s sudden death, questioning the foundation of his faith. – [ig] @madshorts_

OUR BIRTHDAYS (Nos Anniversaires)

[d] Angeline Teh

Malaysia, Belgium / 2026 / Documentary / 22:00

A Belgian family navigates silence and loss as memories blur with reality in a tender reflection on love and grief.

– Awards/Screenings: Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2026 [ig] @angeline.tyh

PAPER HOUSES AND HORSES (水火山)

[d][w] An Chu

Taiwan / 2025 / Docufiction / 18:14

A Taiwanese mortuary keeps the bodies of abandoned children in freezers for years.

– Awards/Screenings: IDFA Competition for Short Documentary, Hot Docs Shorts Program [ig] @chu_chien_an

GRANDMA NAI WHO PLAYED FAVORITES (Chao Somnop Chet)

[d][w] Chheangkea

Cambodia, France, USA / 2025 / Fiction / 19:00

Dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her afterlife after overhearing that her queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.

– [ig] @chheangkea

THE GIFT (El regalo)

[d][w] Lara Izagirre Garizurieta

Spain / 2025 / Fiction / 14:02

Desirée, Samara and Aurora commute to the center to buy a gift. Things go south when the store clerks accuse them of stealing.

– Awards/Screenings: 67º ZINEBI. Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao. Spain | 23º Bogoshorts – Bogotá Short Film Festival. Colombia

[ig] @lara.izagirre @garizafilms @agenciafreak

ΑLPΑ

[d][w] Dhiwangkara Seta

Indonesia / 2025 / Fiction / 15:55

An abandoned punk reunites with the ghost of his past at a moral rehabilitation center where he is forced to confront his destiny.

– Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market 2026 (France) | Official Selection Jogja–NETPAC Asian Film Festival, 2025 (Indonesia)

[ig] @dhiwankokoro @elizacheisa @giovannirahmadeva @qunfilms @lunefeatures @dogme23_

SO HE GRABBED THE KNIFE (そしてナイフを手にした)

[d] Sam KUWA

Japan, China / 2026 / Animation / 12:16

The boy takes the knife his father once gave him. Did what followed make him a “man”?

– Awards/Screenings: Annecy International Animation Film Festival | Animafest Zagreb

[ig] @sam.kuwa

THE TASTE OF YOUR SCALES (Le goût de tes écailles)

[d][w] Rafaël Beauchamp

Canada / 2026 / Fiction / 16:43

A teenager is horrified to discover the true face of his father’s fish factory.

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Awards/Screenings: Tampere Film Festival | REGARD, Saguenay International Short Film Festival

[ig] @wlcmaboard @rafabeauchamp @colonellefilms

I’M GLAD YOU’RE DEAD NOW

[d][w] Tawfeek Barhom

France, Greece, Palestine / 2025 / Fiction / 13:00

Two brothers return to the island of their childhood, where buried secrets force them to confront a dark past that connects them.

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Awards/Screenings: Cannes Film Festival 2025 – Palme d’or | Sundance Film Festival 2026

[ig] @kidam_production @tbarhom

BREWER

[d] Erika Valenciana

United States / 2025 / Documentary / 10:24

Brewer juxtaposes poetic visuals of the craft beer brewing process with reflections of bias experienced.

– Awards/Screenings: St. Louis International Film Festival | Filmfort at Treefort Music Festival

[ig] @erikavalenciana

ĀYÍ (阿姨)

[d][w] Jiayi Li

United States/China / 2025 / Fiction / 13:29

In a crowded NYC dormitory, a housekeeper finds peace through Baduanjin as exploitation pushes her toward resistance.

– Awards/Screenings: Tribeca Festival – Specia Jury Mention in Student Visionary | Mar del Plata International Film Festival – Special Mention for Best International Short Film

[ig] @jiayili @ayi.shortfilm

THE EVALUATION (Vertinimas)

[d][w] Laura Kazbaraite

Lithuania / 2024 / Fiction / 19:54

In an academic committee, a newcomer lecturer must decide: confront the power she once respected or stay silent to belong.

– Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Short Film Market Pick, 2026 | FOLCS International Short Film Competition, 2nd Place Winner, 2026 [ig] @laurakazbaraite @alvydas_ka @raminta.verseckaite @jarmokiuru @_feelreel_

DAUGHTERS OF THE LATE COLONEL

[d][w] Elizabeth Hobbs

United Kingdom, Germany / 2026 / Animation / 08:57

After the death of their controlling father, two middle aged sisters try to find the courage to begin their lives anew.

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Awards/Screenings: Quinzaine des Cinéastes, France (2026) | Krakow Film Festival, Poland (2026)

[ig] @hobbslizzy

SOULS OF FOUTA (Les Âmes du Fouta)

[d][w] Alpha Diallo

France, Senegal / 2026 / Fiction / 18:05

In a Senegalese village, their son dies of overdose. Moustapha refuses burial; Penda fights alone so he may rest in peace.

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Awards/Screenings: Berlinale | Festival REGARD

[ig] @Alphacin0 @tactproduction @horsdubocal

MONSTER & ME

[d] Tom Field / [w] Tom Field and Elora Battah

New Zealand / 2025 / Fiction / 07:42

Motmot lives a monotonous and mundane life until one day he meets an unknown creature, a human boy.

– [ig] @tomfieldd @elorabattah

LINIE 12 (Line 12)

[d][w] Sarah Schulz

Germany / 2025 / Animation / 08:33

Will a pedantic train conductor and a chaotic musician be able to save the train from disaster?

EMECHICHE, THE REBIRTH OF WHITE-HEADED (Emechiche, El renacer de los cabeciblancos)

[d][w] Juan Camilo González

Colombia, Argentina / 2025 / Animation / 11:29

In Montes de María, the Emechiche battles for its survival, highlighting its wild instincts, and the vulnerability of its species.

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Awards/Screenings: Bogoshorts, 2025, Bogotá, Colombia | Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, 2025, La Habana, Cuba.

[ig] @littlebearscine

SPEEDY!

[d][w] OH Jiin

South Korea, USA / 2024 / Fiction / 17:48

1989 Seoul. Jung-min dreams of becoming a speed-reading prodigy like Dong-hyun, the coolest guy who devours books in 60 seconds.

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Awards/Screenings: Slamdance Film Festival 2026: The AGBO Fellowship award (2026) | Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (2026)

[ig] @centralpark0.0 @jiohh

KOSMOGONIA

[d] Karolina Chabier

France, Belgium, Poland, Portugal / 2026 / Animation / 15:33

A friendship is born between the buffalo goddess and the goat goddess, and with it a new world.

– Awards/Screenings: Anima – 45ème Festival international du film d’animation de Bruxelles | European film festival of Lille – Best Animates short film

[ig] @karo_chabier @novanima @lelokalprod @ozuprod @cola_anima @animoonstudio

TUTTI (你吹Do，我吹Si)

[d][w] Zhuang Rong-Zuo

Taiwan / 2026 / Fiction / 18:36

A struggling recorder player meets a boy who wants to quit. Practicing together, they discover growth beyond music.

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Awards/Screenings: 2026 Berlinale Generation Kplus | Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg – Mo&Friese – Children Jury’s Special Mention

[ig] @zhuangrongzuo @me_is_pork

ON A SUNDAY AT ELEVEN

[d][w] Alicia K. Harris

Canada / 2024 / Fiction / 09:00

A young Black girl navigates exclusion in her all-white ballet class, reclaiming her beauty and power in an ethereal and jubilant celebration of Blackness.

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Awards/Screenings: Selection: Berlinale 2025 Award: Best Live Action Short Drama – Canadian Screen Award 2025

[ig] @aliciakharris_ @lesfilmsdu3mars

DOG EAR (Kutyafül)

[d][w] Péter Vácz

Hungary / 2025 / Animation / 20:44

After witnessing his parents’ fight, Berci struggles with his emotions, finding a way to release them with his dog.

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Awards/Screenings: ANNECY International Animation Film Festival | PÖFF Shorts, Manchester Animation Festival (Jury’s Special Mention)

[ig] @vaczpeter

ROUNDABOUT (Im Kreis)

[d][w] Zoe Schmidt

Austria / 2025 / Fiction / 12:28

Mia and Karo are ten and inseparable. But when a prank goes too far, something between them starts to shift.

PALE SUN (SOLEIL PÂLE)

[d] Adrian Moyse Dullin, Jawahine Zentar / [w] Adrian Moyse Dullin, Emma Benestan

France / 2026 / Fiction / 15:48

On a beach in summer, 12-year-old Abel is ashamed of his father’s body, marked by cancer.

– Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2026 (National Competition) | Aspen Shortfest 2026 – Best Drama, Youth Jury Special Mention

[ig] @adrian_moyse_dullin @jawahine.z @salaudmorisset

BRUTE

[d][w] Jérémy Comte

Canada / 2026 / Fiction / 16:29

Overwhelmed by crippling anxiety, a young sculptor finds himself trapped in his studio. –

Awards/Screenings: Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay | In the Palace

[ig] @jaycomte

EX-TRACT

[d] Marcel Barelli

Switzerland / 2025 / Animation / 03:00

“When I was a child, I didn’t know I was living during a mass extinction.” Marcel Barelli

TOO BLUE A SKY

[d][w] Risto-Pekka Blom

Finland / 2026 / Experimental / 15:00

A story about money, power, exploitation and many possible ends to the world. Some people yearn for Mars, others for Heaven.

– Awards/Screenings: Tampere Film Festival 2026

STILL BY MY SIDE (Met huid en haar)

[d] Jasper van Leeningen

The Netherlands / 2025 / Documentary / 07:05

As a taxidermist recreates their forms, pet owners turn loss into something tangible, clinging to a bond that defies death. –

Awards/Screenings: Nederlands Film Festival | Noorderkroon Award best short documentary

[ig] @jaspervanleeningen

CAPTIVE AUDIENCE

[d] Kew Lin

Singapore / 2025 / Fiction / 14:25

Rejected by the music industry, a disenchanted musician decides to perform his music to a different audience — animals at the zoo.

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Awards/Screenings: Palm Springs International ShortFest | Singapore International Film Festival

[e] sara@eastwood.agency

AIR HORSE ONE

[d][w] Lasse Linder

Switzerland, Belgium / 2025 / Documentary / 21:00

Training, Take-Off, Grand Prix. Legacy is one of the most valuable and celebrated horses in show jumping.

– Awards/Screenings: IDFA | Locarno Film Festival

[ig] @dynamic.frame @lassenonen

ACID CITY

[d] Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim

USA / 2026 / Animation / 12:30

Acid City is a documentary set in a fictional city adrift in a vast acidic ocean.

– Awards/Screenings: Premiere at IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam

EENY, MEENY, MINY, MOE! (En, ten, týky!)

[d] Andrea Szelesová

Czech, Slovak / 2026 / Animation / 12:56

Yios, a lonely mythical boy, struggles to make friends in the clouds. After he falls down to Earth, everything changes. –

Awards/Screenings: Premiere at Berlinale – Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin

[ig] @pureshorefilms

KITO & MAJA – THE DREAM GLOBE TALES OF PUMPHUT THE WIZARD – AND THE LACK OF WIND (Kito, Maja und die Kugelkiste – VOM PUMPHUT und der Windstille)

[d] Eliza Plocieniak-Alvarez

Germany / 2025 / Animation / 04:11

Kito & Maja find a box with magic Dream Globes and dive into a Sorbian legend ‘Of Pumpuhut the Wizard’.

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Awards/Screenings: ITFS Stuttgart, Germany |IAFF Animator, Poland

[ig] @blauepampelmuse

ONCE UPON A STARRY NIGHT (Как мышонок звездочки спасал)

[d][w] Masha Rumyantseva

Portugal, Russia / 2025 / Animation / 06:58

A brave mouse helps the fallen stars return to the sky.

– Awards/Screenings: Ciné Junior (Paris, France, 2025) | ANIMAC (Spain, 2026)

[ig] @masharumy

SWEET TOMORROW (Doce Amanhã)

[d] António Alves

Portugal / 2024 / Animation / 05:27

A story of the rise, thrive and fall of an island, through the lens of an orangutan shaped by its elements.

– [ig] @alves_agsma

IF ONLY

[d][w] Ada Güvenir

Belgium / 2026 / Animation / 05:30

A story about being in many realities at once. Sometimes one at a time, sometimes all at once.

– [ig] @adaguvenir @shortsfitdistribution

CARCASSONNE-ACAPULCO

[d] Marjorie CAUP & Olivier HÉRAUD

France / 2025 / Animation / 13:49

As flight 7836 reaches cruising speed above the Atlantic Ocean, the crew are startled by an unexpected knock at the door.

– Awards/Screenings: Premiere at Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy

[ig] @carcassonne.acapulco

ACCELERATION

[d] Stepan Crani

Moldova / 2026 / Animation / 03:03

On a snowy winter day, a boy receives a new bicycle. As he pedals, his imagination takes him far beyond the courtyard.

– [ig] @stepancrani