Get your right dose!
To help you find your perfect cinematic cure, we have curated the lineup into five distinct categories. Consider this your personal prescription for a healthy dose of short films, dive in and find your daily prescription:
HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR HEART
ABOUT US
“Grief is love everlasting.”
Duration: 92:44 / age rating: 13+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
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THE FIRST BITE (Pehla Niwala)
[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.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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[ig] @chheangkea
ADORE
“Where our deepest wants meet our quietest fears.”
Duration: 68:29 / Age rating: 18+
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DYING OF THE YOUNG DEER (zza szyby podglądam jak umiera sarna, młoda)
[d][w] Angelika Cygal
Poland / 2025 / Fiction / 15:18
Helka leaves her family home and walks through the village to her husband’s house..
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Awards/Screenings: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival PÖFF SHORTS, Estonia, 2025 | Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, 2026
PRAYING MANTIS (螳螂)
[d] Joe Hsieh
Taiwan, Hong Kong / 2025 / Animation / 18:09
A praying mantis mutant seduces and preys on men out of desperation to save her child. A failed mission led to revelations of her past and dark secrets as the story unfolds.
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Awards/Screenings: Premiere at La Biennale di Venezia – Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica
DISTURBIA
[d][w] Mira Yankova
Bulgaria / 2025 / Animation / 06:23
How to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.
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Awards/Screenings: 2025 Tampere Film Festival | 2026 Thomas Edison Film Festival – Jury’s Choice Award
[ig] @mirayordanovayankova
AT FEBRUARY’S END
[d][w] Mickey Lai
Switzerland, Malaysia, Singapore / 2025 / Fiction / 08:39
Alone in an ancient castle, a cleaning lady scrubs in silence, trying to erase the heat of dreams she never dares to speak of.
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Awards/Screenings: Official Selection – 2025 Locarno Film Festival | Official Selection – 2025 Bogoshorts
[ig] @potocol.sg @mickeylai23
HONEY, MY LOVE, SO SWEET
[d] JT Trinidad
Philippines / 2025 / Fiction / 20:00
In a decaying cinema in the heart of Manila, Life discovers first love through films and their new friend’s father.
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Awards/Screenings: Premiere at Locarno Film Festival
[ig] @inwave.films
FAMILIAR STRANGER
“Those we lose, those we keep.”
Duration: 94:45 / Age rating: 18+
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FIN DEL VERANO (THE END OF SUMMER)
[d][w] Francisco Sanchez Solis
Mexico / 2025 / Fiction / 15:52
Upon discovering their father is having an affair, two brothers face a painful choice between silence and truth.
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Awards/Screenings: Huesca Film Festival | Moscow International Film Festival
[ig] @fransanchezsolis @avalanchafilms
THE SEVENTH MONTH (Жетинчи ай)
[d][w] Aizada Amangeldy
Kyrgyz Republic / 2025 / Fiction / 16:04
After losing her uterus, Mira fakes a pregnancy while a surrogate carries her baby — until the lie unravels.
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Awards/Screenings: 5th Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia (2025) | 43rd Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea (2026)
[ig] @amanai_dram @nazgul_dolotkeldieva
LES ARRACHÉS (THE LEFT BEHIND)
[d] Charlotte BIENENFELD / [w] Charlotte Bienenfeld, Juliette Coron, Maeva Angele, Amélie De Oliveira
France / 2026 / Fiction / 16:05
Inside the walls of a foster home under Child Protective Services, Gabin and Inès are finding their way into adulthood.
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[ig] @Charlottebienenfeld @passantes.productions @cinestrib @ESIS
MY BROTHER LYOSHA AND I (Я и мой брат Леша)
[d][w] Lena Tronina
Kazakhstan / 2025 / Fiction / 15:21
Rudny, North Kazakhstan. Mid-90s. It’s just another day in the lives of a brother and sister – until it’s not.
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Awards/Screenings: Encounters Film Festival | Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia
[ig] @originefilms
AMORPHOPHALLUS (Amorfofalas)
[d] Džiuginta Gabrielė Radavičiūtė
Lithuania / 2025 / Documentary / 12:29
Charons of today live among us. One of them is Artūras, an autopsy technician who spends his free time reviving discounted plants.
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Awards/Screenings: Lithuanian National Film Awards ‘Silver Crane’ nominee for Best Student Film
[ig] @naivi.lape
ALL NAMES BEGIN WITH M (Todos los nombres empiezan con M)
[d][w] Carla Scolari
Argentina / Uruguay / 2026 / Fiction / 18:54
A trans woman returns to her hometown after years of absence to reunite with her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
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Awards/Screenings: Official Selection · Regard Festival | Official Selection · BAFICI 27º
[ig] @cinespuma @carla__scolari @eldeliriocine @payucadelpueblo @maitinademarco @camilasicamila
PUZZLED
“The awkward art of connection.”
Duration: 92:19 / Age rating: 13+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
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SARA & FATIMA
[d] Romy Boutin St-Pierre, Nada Cheddadi, Karima Zouhair / [w] Romy Boutin St-Pierre, Nada Cheddani
Canada / 2026 / Fiction / 13:07
In an isolated bus shelter in the Moroccan desert, two radically different women wait for a bus that never comes.
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Awards/Screenings: IFFR, 2026 | REGARD, 2026
[ig] @spiraquebec @lesemotives.inc
TOGETHERNESS (Совместное)
[d] Evgeny Baranovsky
Russia / 2025 / Fiction / 23:53
Stas, an MMA fighter, escapes a troubled past and returns to his estranged mother, seeking one last chance to reconcile.
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[e] hanna@eastwood.agency
THANKS, YOU TOO
[d][w] Marion Täschler
Switzerland / 2025 / Animation / 09:48
Two strange birds get to know each other over dinner. Or not.
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Awards/Screenings: New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2025 (Hokkaido Airport Terminal Award) | Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 2026
[ig] @_mariontaeschler_ @virage_film @bonobostudio_zagreb
STUD (Saillie)
[d][w] Aude Thuries
France / 2026 / Fiction / 09:31
Frédérique, in her fifties, has dressed up to go for a walk with her dog Pauline. She hopes to meet someone on the forest trail…
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Awards/Screenings: Clermont Ferrand Film festival
GOOD FAILURE (모범적 실패)
[d] Chaewon Yoon
Republic of Korea / 2025 / Fiction / 16:04
Jaehak, nearing thirty and stuck in part-time jobs, is unexpectedly invited back to his alma mater as a mentor.
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Awards/Screenings: 5th 2030 Youth Film Festival (2025) Official Selection
[ig] @sending._.you
NINGÚ BORDA (Nobody Barks)
[d] Júlia Coldwell Serra / [w] Bertran Esteve Garcia, Júlia Coldwell Serra
Spain / 2025 / Fiction / 19:56
Candela accidentally kills her nephew’s dog but invents a legend, leading him on a pilgrimage. Slowly, lies begin to consume her.
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Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand | Busan ISFF, Grand Prix winner
[ig] @solalfilms @julia_coldwell @leflochat
HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR MIND
BOTTLED UP
“Agency, under pressure.”
Duration: 70:49 / Age rating: 13+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
JOLLY
“Unexpected encounters.”
Duration: 61:05 / Age rating: 7+
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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.
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[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.
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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
SLICE OF LIFE
“Power hides in plain sight.”
Duration: 82:38 / Age rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
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SHARP OBJECTS
[d] Taufiqurrahman Kifu, Hattie Wade
Indonesia, Netherlands / 2025 / Documentary / 16:21
The forgotten history of the Klungkung keris is traced back to its origins and linked to modern day tourism in Bali
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Awards/Screenings: Nominated for the EMAF Media Art Award of the Association of German Film Critics (VdFk)
[ig] @citizen.obj @t_kifu
NO PLACE LIKE HOME (看現場)
[d][w] TSANG, Shen-Chieh
Taiwan, Philippine / 2025 / Fiction / 11:48
Strangers take over Johney’s dorm, claiming they are there to “inspect the factory.” She fights to protect a secret hidden inside.
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Awards/Screenings: 2026 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – International Competition | 2026 Taiwan Golden Harvest – Best student fiction short
[ig] @tince_tsang
SIGHTNOTSEEING (Neng Jian Du Po Gao)
[d][w] Sheungman YIM
Hong Kong, UK / 2026 / Fiction / 11:00
A culture tour around the Kowloon Walled City…
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[ig] @parallaxfilms_sales
EASTER DAY
[d] Mykola Zasieiev / [w] Mykola Zasieiev, Illia Volynets-Trifonov
France/Ukraine / 2025 / Fiction / 15:00
A car with two soldiers drives through the streets of Kyiv, looking for male passersby. They eventually find a potential recruit.
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Awards/Screenings: Clermont Ferrand 2026 | Riga IFF 2025
[ig] @nextfilmdistribution
EQUAL DUST (Elämä ja yö)
[d][w] Jani Peltonen
Finland / 2025 / Experimental / 14:00
NATO’s nuclear exercise, a tracking shot through nocturnal Helsinki and the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest entries.
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Awards/Screenings: Edinburgh International Film Festival | DOK Leipzig
ALL THE LOVE IN MY BODY
[d][w] Carmen Baltzar
Finland, Greece / 2026 / Fiction / 14:29
A revealing portrait of a touristic beach in Greece from the perspective of two young Romani sisters selling toys to beachgoers.
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Awards/Screenings: Krakow Film Festival, International Short Film Competition
[ig] @bestsmellingauthor @kennofilmi @homemade_films
SOLACE
“An ache shaped like your absence.”
Duration: 64:43 / Age Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
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BLACK WATER (Lac en coeur)
[d] Tim Bouvette / [w] Jeanne Gourd, Camille L Saint-Michelle, Tim Bouvette
Canada / 2026 / Fiction / 10:43
Gab and Tom are celebrating their one-year anniversary in a cabin where their opposing views on love resurface.
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Awards/Screenings: REGARD, Saguenay International Short Film Festival | The Norwegian Short Film Festival
[ig] @wlcmaboard @tim_bouvette
A SOUTH FACING WINDOW (Урагшаа харсан цонх)
[d] Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir / [w] Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
France, Mongolia / 2025 / Fiction / 19:57
Azaa and Shagai, a couple in their late 20s, are living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia with their 6-year-old daughter.
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Awards/Screenings: Locarno IFF – Special Mention + Best Auteur Short Film (Independent Junior Jury Awards) | Toronto IFF
[ig] @aurora_films__ @shortcuts.distribution
ABORTION PARTY
[d][w] Julia Mellen
Spain / 2025 / Animation / 13:18
An abortion party thrown in south side Chicago in 2018.
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Awards/Screenings: FIDMarseille, France (2025) | Vancouver International Film Festival (2025)
[ig] @lugubria8
BIRTHMARK
[d] George Peter Barbari / [w] George Peter Barbari, Christelle Younes
Lebanon, France, Croatia / 2026 / Fiction / 20:45
A woman makes her way to a sex worker to discover something about her world, about herself.
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Awards/Screenings: Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival – Queer short award | Regard International Short Film Festival of Saguenay
[ig] @birthmark_bygeorgepeterbarbari @btrswtpictures @georgesfilms @thisisvertigo_ @lalunaproductions_
HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR NERVES
BITTERSWEET
“Growing up even if it hurts.”
Duration: 71:56 / Age rating: 13+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
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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.
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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.
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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”?
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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
CORNERED
“Footing the bill.”
Duration: 61:44 / Age Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
ILNIKUEU (Healing Dolls)
[d] Comité de femmes Puakuteu
Canada / 2024 / Documentary / 06:55
In doll-making workshops, the women share their doubts and hopes and, in doing so, build a space of strength and solidarity.\
DESIGNING THE DEAD, FEARED BY THE LIVING
[d][w] Devina Sofiyanti
Indonesia / 2026 / Animation / 09:27
Asked to illustrate a male Indonesian ghost, Nina struggles for references, uncovering fixation on female ghost and violence.
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[ig] @inteamates.id @devinasofiyanti @annisaadjam
OUT OF OFFICE
[d][w] Kialy Tihngang
United Kingdom / 2025 / Experimental / 19:10
Opportunity always costs.
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Awards/Screenings: Glasgow Short Film Festival (2025) | London Short Film Festival (2026)
[ig] @kialytihngang @forestofblack @toohappystudios
PINCHU IS LIKE THAT (Pinchu es así)
[d] Carmen Córdoba González / [w] María Zaragoza
Spain / 2025 / Animation / 09:20
Pinchu’s perversion is laughed at by all but Bea, who questions if she’s excusing her loved one’s behavior too.
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Awards/Screenings: Festival de Málaga ( Spain ) Biznaga de Plata Best Animated Short Film | Semana de Cine de Medina del Campo ( Spain ) Best Animation
BEYOND SILENCE
[d][w] Marnie Blok
The Netherlands / 2025 / Fiction / 16:52
Two women, two generations, one shared trauma.
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Awards/Screenings: Tribeca Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Academy Award Shortlisted
[ig] @marnieblok @exosphere_film
ENIGMA
“What goes around comes around.”
Duration: 77:27 / Age Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
GET MONEY
[d][w] Hansen Windarta
Indonesia / 2025 / Animation / 07:48
A rat wanted to go on a vacation like other animals on social media, but he resorted to gambling as a shortcut to get money.
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Awards/Screenings: Best Short Animated Film Nominee Film Festival Indonesia 2025 | Exclusive Screening Jakarta Film Week 2025
[ig] @hans_win
THE SENTRY
[d][w] Jake Wachtel
Cambodia/ USA/ Norway / 2025 / Fiction / 17:35
A suave Western agent’s mission goes off the rails when a cheeky Cambodian security guard refuses to be another routine kill.
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Awards/Screenings: SXSW 2025 | Show Me Shorts New Zealand, Best International Short
[ig] @thesentryfilm
MARDAZMA
[d] Amir Masoud Soheili / [w] Amir Masoud Soheili / Sayed Jalal Rohani
Iran / 2025 / Docufiction / 14:34
Two Taliban soldiers escort arrested voters off-route, but their journey unravels when a mythical jinn tests their morality.
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Awards/Screenings: Leeds International Film Festival UK,2025 – World Premiere | FOLCS International Short Film Competition, USA, 2026
[ig] @masoudsoheili
LIDAH API (Malevolent)
[d] Bani Nasution / [w] Fala Pratika
Indonesia / 2026 / Fiction / 18:55
Slamet (construction worker) arrives at a house he is assigned to demolish, only to have the place reopen the shadows of his past.
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[ig] @o.m.g.film @baninasution @fala_pratika
CUT ! (Coupez !)
[d] Louis Bujeau,Geoffroy Virgery / [w] Louis Bujeau
France / 2025 / Fiction / 02:50
A stuntman on set.
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Awards/Screenings: Winner of the 1minute2court Fesrtival
[ig] @droledeprod
BREADSONG
[d] Katariina Aule / [w] Sven-Sander Paas
Estonia / 2025 / Fiction / 15:45
A rural family hears a pop song from the future but as the song replays, its cost also grows, exposing a deeper story of greed.
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Awards/Screenings: Warsaw International Film Festival | Tampere Film Festival
[ig] @k2tari @naftafilms @kazk @lauraud
HIDDEN TRUTH
“Searching for solid ground.”
Duration: 80:22 / Age Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
NATURE ZERO
[d] Stéphane Kikena / [w] Stéphane Kikena, Pascaline Défontaines
France / 2025 / Fiction / 14:40
In Ukraine, a soccer field, children play next to a dead dog, their mothers discuss. War cannot be seen, but shapes everything.
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[ig] @lafemis.paris
WINTER IN MARCH (Lumi saadab meid)
[d][w] Natalia Mirzoyan
Estonia, Armenia / 2025 / Animation / 16:22
Helpless in the face of a repressive state, a young couple leaves their home — an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare.
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Awards/Screenings: Heart of Sarajevo, 3d place La Cinef Cannes
[ig] @nataliamir22
NOIRS MATINS (Black mornings)
[d][w] David Gonseth
Switzerland / 2025 / Fiction / 17:34
The youngest in a family gradually senses a quiet unease lurking in their ordinary daily life.
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Awards/Screenings: Locarno Film Festival
[ig] @davidgonseth
NAUSEA
[d][w] Elliott Louis McKee
New Zealand / 2025 / Fiction / 10:46
In the desolate landscapes of New Zealand’s South Island, two isolated strangers become each other’s only chance at salvation.
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Awards/Screenings: Palm Springs International Shortfest, New Zealand International Film Festival
[ig] @elliottmckeee
KENTUCKY GAZA
[d] Omar Rammal
Jordan / 2026 / Fiction / 21:00
In besieged Gaza, where Kentucky is only legend, Anwar turns craving into smuggling, deepening rift with his father.
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[ig] @madshorts_
TWISTED
“Praying through the madness.”
Duration: 70:37 / Age Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
THE VEIL (O Véu)
[d] Gabriel Motta / [w] Gabriel Motta, Jonts Ferreira
Brazil / 2025 / Fiction / 19:54
A religious cult with fake possession rituals spirals into darkness when the pastor’s daughter is truly taken by an entity.
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Awards/Screenings: 50th Toronto International Film Festival – TIFF (Canada) | 41th Guadalajara International Film Festival – FICG (Mexico)
[ig] @oveufilme @gabb.motta
BUAH (Fruit)
[d][w] Jen Nee Lim
Singapore / 2025 / Fiction / 14:35
A pregnant woman’s repeated attempts to end her pregnancy fail until she crosses paths with a strange bus driver.
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Awards/Screenings: Sundance Film Festival 2026 | 48th Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2026 (International Special Jury Prize)
[ig] @jenneelim
SO I PRAY
[d][w] Amy Rahmadhita
Indonesia, Belgium, Finland, Portugal / 2025 / Animation / 07:43
Upon hearing the news of the world ending, the only thing her father told her was to pray.
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Awards/Screenings: Best Short Animated Film, Festival Film Indonesia (2025) | Official Selection, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (2025)
[ig] @ditaamy @amynasi_
AIR PANGEA
[d] Adam Hasyim Al Raschid
Indonesia / 2026 / Fiction / 13:12
Air Pangea is the exploration, experimentation and imagination of one’s soul and its journey in the afterlife.
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[ig] @lombokboy @feralnomadfactory
BLEAT! (கத்! Kattu!)
[d][w] Ananth Subramaniam
Malaysia, France, Philippines / 2025 / Fiction / 15:13
An elderly Malaysian-Tamil couple’s sacrificial male goat is pregnant.
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Awards/Screenings: Semaine de la Critique (Cannes) | New Directors/New Films – MoMa
[ig] @ananthsubra @belz_23 @sixtymac_pictures @idiosync.inc @bradliew @epicmediaph @horsdubocal
HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR SOUL
KNOWN UNKNOWN
“The many ways of moving forward.”
Duration: 64:00 / Age Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
EACH TO THEIR OWN WORLD
[d] Klarissa Webster
Scotland / 2025 / Documentary / 16:31
Each to Their Own World offers intimate insight into the lives of oral deaf people.
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[ig] @scottishdocinstitute @clarissa.with.a.k
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND (Ce qu’on laisse derrière)
[d][w] Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte
Canada / 2025 / Animation / 10:47
Dan has a gaping hole in his neck that won’t heal. Why? He can’t remember, nor talk about it.
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Awards/Screenings: Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont Ferrand | Festival de Film Locarno
[ig] @alexandramyotte @js.hamel
LẮNG NHÌN (No Barriers)
[d][w] Anh (Autumn) Pham
Canada, Vietnam / 2025 / Fiction / 11:45
After years of isolation in the hearing world, a mainstreamed Deaf adult learns sign language for the first time.
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Awards/Screenings: 2025 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival – Official Selection
[ig] @thuanh_ss @langnhin.nobarriers
DIEGO
[d][w] Melissa Silveira
France / 2025 / Fiction / 24:57
Vanessa, 21, lives with her disabled brother Diego, 20, and their father Antonio, a gypsy with a strong personality.
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Awards/Screenings: Cleveland International Film Festival |F estival Regard
LOST & FOUND
“When we first learn to belong…”
Duration: 76:36 / Age Rating: 13+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
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.
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Awards/Screenings: Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2026 (National Competition) | Aspen Shortfest 2026 – Best Drama, Youth Jury Special Mention
[ig] @adrian_moyse_dullin @jawahine.z @salaudmorisset
PERSEVERE
“Becoming, again and again.”
Duration: 73:54 / Age rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
MATERNITY LEAVE (Motinystės atostogos)
[d][w] Lina Mickute
Lithuania / 2026 / Fiction / 14:50
A thirty-year-old screenwriter trades directing ambitions for motherhood, but a producer’s interest forces her to balance both.
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[ig] @_magic.film
THE MENARCHE (Chu Chao)
[d][w] Wang Xueyan
China / 2026 / Fiction / 13:44
A 12-year-old sent to live with her cousin’s seaside family struggles to fit in; her first period unleashes repressed emotions.
HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
[d][w] SINN Kirin
South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia / 2025 / Fiction / 16:09
A couple visits the boyfriend’s hometown during vacation. She finds herself uneasy about the hospitality that’s hard to decline.
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Awards/Screenings: Jeonju International Film Festival, Korean Competition for Shorts
[ig] @sinnkirin
A SMALL FICTION OF MY MOTHER IN BEIJING
[d][w] Dorothea Sing Zhang
China / 2025 / Fiction / 12:09
A Chinese opera singer struggles to bridge the silence between herself and her daughter.
JONATHAN
[d] Lieven Corthouts / [w] Tsega Kiros Zebreabruk and Lieven Corthouts
Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Belgium / 2025 / Fiction / 17:02
After years of war, Nyawel, a South Sudanese woman, travels back to her hometown in search of her missing son.
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[ig] @lievencorthouts
SURPRISE
“A pocket full of dreams.”
Duration: 51:54 / Age Rating: All
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
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.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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[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.
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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.
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[ig] @stepancrani
HEALTHY DOSE FOR YOUR TASTE
ALIENATION
“World rearranged.”
Duration: 80:58 / Age Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
PACÍFICO
[d][w] Daniel Duque
France, Colombia / 2025 / Documentary / 22:16
Pacífico is the name of a region, but also that of a force. A land where music accompanies life, where one can be reborn.
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Awards/Screenings: CPH:DOX, Denmark (2026) | Go Short – International Short Film Festival, the Netherlands (2026)
[ig] @danielduque9
AMATEUR IN THE MOON (月亮上的業餘者)
[d] Pang-chuan HUANG, Chunni LIN
Taiwan / 2025 / Documentary / 22:01
YOSHIKAWA Hayao rediscovers his youthful dream and sets off to find the Moon World, rekindling the spirit of amateur cinema.
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Awards/Screenings: 2026 Clermont-Ferrand ISFF Lab Competition | 2025 Kaohsiung Film Festival
MINDFULLMESS
[d][w] Niina Suominen
Finland / 2026 / Experimental / 05:50
A celebration of neurodiversity; What first appears senseless leaves behind traces that may, after all, hold meaning.
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Awards/Screenings: Helsinki Analog Festival 2026
[ig] @niina.forcemajeurefilms @n_fin_official
DI NOTTE (At Night)
[d][w] Anouk Chambaz
Italy, Switzerland / 2025 / Experimental / 08:19
It’s almost night on the mountain. A solitary car moves along the road. At the wheel, someone starts singing a strange lullaby…
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Awards/Screenings: 46. Filmmaker Festival | World Premiere – 2025 | 29. Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS | Latvian Premiere – 2026
[ig] @anouklaure @gioiafilm
BREAKING WALLS
[d][w] Jan-Dirk Bouw
Netherlands / 2025 / Animation / 22:32
Journalist & activist Hoi Yi fights against the global rise of surveillance and censorship, while suppressing his queer identity
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Awards/Screenings: Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (2026) – Best Animated Short | Kaboom Animation Festival (Netherlands, 2026)
[ig] @breaking_walls_movie @jandirkbouw
INTRICATE LOVE
“Who gets to belong, and who gets to decide?”
Duration: 64:29 / Age Rating: 13+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
VILLA 187
[d] Eiman Mirghani
Qatar, Sudan / 2025 / Documentary / 10:07
When Eiman’s father loses his job, forcing them from their longtime Doha home, she begins a journey into memory and identity.
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Awards/Screenings: Doha Film Festival 2025 (Best Director)| San Francisco International Film Festival 2026
[e] andy@rainafilms.com
[ig] @omgitseiman @rainafilmfestivaldistribution
THE APPLICANT (El aspirante)
[d] Sam Orti / [w] Flora Cuevas
Spain / 2025 / Animation / 14:58
A civil servant, who lives and works in a tiny, gray, and depressing room, whose mission in life is to reject applications
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[ig] @conflictivos_productions
SUMPAH PEMUDA (YOUTH PLEDGE)
[d] Aisha Servia
Indonesia, USA / 2025 / Experimental / 05:45
An exploration of self and state-crafted national identity through a recitation of Sumpah Pemuda by young Indonesians in the US.
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Awards/Screenings: BINISAYA World 2025
[ig] @r4gusemesta
SIHAM’S DAUGHTER (La Fille de Siham)
[d] Marianne Barakat / [w] Marianne Barakat, Aodren Buart
France / 2025 / Fiction / 18:42
Rim, returns to her Lebanese village after years of absence. Disturbing visitors constantly enter the house.
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Awards/Screenings: Batroun Mediterranean Film Festival (Lebanon, 2025) | PÖFF Shorts (Estonia, 2025)
[ig] @lafemis.paris
WE WERE THE SCENERY
[d] Christopher Radcliff / [w] Cathy Linh Che
USA, Canada / 2025 / Documentary / 14:57
The story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who, after fleeing the Vietnam War, were utilized as extras in APOCALYPSE NOW.
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Awards/Screenings: Sundance | Visions du Réel
[ig] @christopherradcliff @wewerethescenery_film
ORIGINS
“History from the margins.”
Duration: 77:10 / Age Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
OLINDA’S GOLDEN ARCHES (Os Arcos Dourados de Olinda)
[d] Douglas Henrique / [w] Douglas Henrique / Arnon Hochman
Brazil / 2025 / Documentary / 24:27
The city of Olinda becomes the stage for a late Cold War between Brazil’s first communist mayor and the arrival of McDonald’s.
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Awards/Screenings: 23th IndieLisboa Int. Film Festival | 31th It’s All True – International Documentary Film Festival
[ig] @douglasluc @olinda.filme
VUOIŊŊAT (Spirits)
[d] Marja Viitahuhta / [w] Marja Viitahuhta, Ánnámáret, Ilkka Heinonen, Turkka Inkilä
Finland / 2025 / Experimental / 04:30
Animated archive northern light drawings and the yoiking of wandering, homeless spirits due to grave robberies.
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Awards/Screenings: Best Nordic Art Film Award at the Minimalen Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway, 2026 | Docpoint IDFF, Helsinki, Finland, 2026
[ig] @viitahuhta @annamaret
KOKI, CIAO
[d] Quenton Miller / [w] Koki, Misho Antadze, Quenton Miller
Netherlands / 2025 / Documentary / 11:10
Koki, Marshal Tito’s parrot, recounts life with Tito, Sophia Loren and Sukarno through unseen archives.
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Awards/Screenings: Berlinale | IFFR | Telluride | Dharmashala
GECKO
[d][w] Owen Effendi
Indonesia, China / 2025 / Docufiction / 14:05
When Niu Niu uncovers her grandfather’s hidden past in Indonesia, she becomes entangled in the myth of the Gecko.
LAST MAY IN THEATERS
[d][w] Arief Budiman
Indonesia, South Korea / 2025 / Experimental / 22:58
Story of the daily lives of two ticketing cinema staff during 2 incidents that sparked the birth of democracy in Jakarta & Gwangju
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Awards/Screenings: DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, 2025, Grand Prize Short-Korean | Visions du Reel, 2026
[ig] @keariefan
OUR PLANET
“The space between us and everything else.”
Duration: 89:29 / Age Rating: 13+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
BRUTE
[d][w] Jérémy Comte
Canada / 2026 / Fiction / 16:29
Overwhelmed by crippling anxiety, a young sculptor finds himself trapped in his studio.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Awards/Screenings: Premiere at IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam
PASSAGES
“The cracks in everyday life.”
Duration: 65:59 / AGe Rating: 18+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
DAMMEN
[d][w] Grégoire Graesslin
France / 2025 / Fiction / 14:59
Two young women are enjoying the wild surroundings of an isolated lake. It’s a sunny day.
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Awards/Screenings: Festival de Cannes – Officiel | Bogotá Short Film Festival – BOGOSHORTS
MORE THAN HAPPY
[d] Wei Keong Tan
Singapore / 2025 / Animation / 06:58
In a queer utopia, two couples sit in conversation at a restaurant, waiting for service that will never arrive.
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Awards/Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival (2025) | Singapore International Film Festival (2025)
[ig] @squareeyesfilm_ @mr.hegel
DOLLHOUSE ELEPHANT
[d] Jenny Jokela / [w] Jenny Jokela, Ylva Perera
Finland / 2025 / Animation / 11:14
A group of neighbours must coexist—whether they like it or not (they don’t).
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Awards/Screenings: Annecy International Animation Festival 2025 | Animafest Zagreb 2026
[ig] @jokelajenny @bohlestudios @bonobostudio_zagreb
YO YO
[d][w] Mohammadreza Mayghani
Iran, France / 2025 / Fiction / 14:49
As a young man’s mind is taken over by the whispers in his head, his friend tries to rescue him from a darkness only he can hear.
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Awards/Screenings: Locarno Film Festival | Tirana IFF
[ig] @solalfilms @mohamadrezamayghani @leflochat
FAMILY SUNDAY (Domingo familiar)
[d] Gerardo Del Razo / [w] Gerardo Del Razo, Heriberto Mojica
Mexico / 2025 / Fiction / 17:59
In a forgotten housing unit two scheming scoundrels attempt to extort local merchants but the fed-up neighbors unite to fight back
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Awards/Screenings: PÖFF Shorts Black Nights Film Festival. Best Film (New Talents Live-action) | Leeds International Film Festival, Louis le prince International Shorts.
SENSE OF PLACE
“The strange life of seemingly ordinary places.”
Duration: 56:11 / Age Rating: 13+
| DATE | SHOW TIME | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
OSMOSIS
[d][w] Ganaël Dumreicher
Austria, Luxembourg / 2026 / Fiction / 14:20
Through a performance, an artist seeks to merge her physical body with the surrounding space, becoming one
with the building.
YES! (JAH!)
[d] Madli Lääne
Estonia / 2024 / Experimental / 03:15
In a world that rewards perfection, failure might be the most radical act.
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Awards/Screenings: Aspen Shortsfest I Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
O
[d][w] Francisca Alarcão
Portugal, Spain / 2026 / Docufiction / 14:28
For as long as she remembers, Francisca lives with an inexplicable and uncontrollable aversion to belly buttons.
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Awards/Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam | IndieLisboa – Festival Internacional de Cinema
[ig] @franciscalarcao @portugalfilmagency
AN ELEVATOR (Um Elevador)
[d][w] Paulinho Caruso
Brasil / 2025 / Experimental / 07:13
Stuck inside a malfunctioning elevator, a woman decides to dance with her own reflection to overcome boredom.
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Awards/Screenings: SADLER’S WELLS 2026 / Cyprus Dance Film Fest 2026
CONCRETE BEACH
[d][w] Motiejus Vyšniauskas
Lithuania / 2026 / Experimental / 06:00
A bank employee’s routine ride turns surreal after a crash. While AI demands he work, a nearby river offers escape.
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[ig] @ieva_vos @mo.vys
PEOPLE LIVE HERE (Des Gens Vivent Ici)
[d][w] Gabrielle Côté
Canada / 2025 / Animation / 10:55
Montreal is being completely transformed into a cyberpunk society. When everything collapses, nature reclaims its rights.
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Awards/Screenings: FNC – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2025 | International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2026
[ig] @des_gens_vivent_ici