International Competition

AL

written & directed by Taymaz Ashrafi (2008)

IR · 2025 · 2 min

Festival 2025

A small and disturbing glimpse into a dystopian future. Unsettling and unreal. Or is it?

Anomaly

written & directed by Arturs Voblikovs (2002)

LV · 2024 · 6 min

Festival 2025

A news crew investigates a mysterious anomaly reported by residents of a small Latvian village, but the more questions are asked, the less clear it all gets...

Before Lights Out

written & directed by James Francis Doherty (1999)

GB · 2025 · 5 min

Festival 2025

On a lonely road, a spaceman takes a dog on a dazzling trip to the moon. In the middle of the night. Just before lights go out.

Big Girls

written & directed by María Andrea Ramírez Renero (2001)

MX · 2025 · 9 min

Festival 2025

Camila wants to be a big girl. Just like her sister. Equally looking up to her and competing with her. But when life suddenly kicks in, the two sisters feel connected on a whole new level.

Buffalo

directed by Cristian Fidel (2000)
written by Javi Mendez, Cristian Fidel

ES · 2025 · 17 min

Festival 2025

In the suburbs of Barcelona clan tensions rise to a boiling high. That’s when the buffalo starts to roam.

Bugsick

directed by Venya Aggarwal (2002)
written by Venya Aggarwal, Shay Head

CA · 2025 · 8 min

Festival 2025

The happy days of swirring and whirling between Bug and June are over. But Bug will not let her go easily. He goes full dungball-mode.

Choo, choo, choo, choose

written & directed by Xiaohan Sun (2001)

CN · 2024 · 2 min

Festival 2025

When a little girl has to wait – and wait long, longer and longer – life unfolds drastically in myriads of colours and choices.

Combustion

written & directed by Joying Lin (2005)

TW · 2025 · 16 min

Festival 2025

Just like the delicious dishes on this New Year’s Eve, the tension between He Muguang, her father and grandmother heat up, revealing more than just trash buried under grand-mas cluttered stuff.

Dad went to the nightclub

written & directed by Tie Yan (2000)

CN · 2024 · 3 min

Festival 2025

How? How could this happen, she wonders. Thinking that silence ist probably not always a sign of peace.

Desdêmona

written & directed by Clara Klaus (2000)

BR · 2024 · 19 min

Festival 2025

When bodyparts and insects collide, something is going to happen. Something bad. Or awful. Or something… something.

Destination Sophie

written & directed by Santhosh Murugesan (2000)

AU · 2025 · 13 min

Festival 2025

A young woman on an uber-ride. What could possible go wrong? Well, more than she, the driver, or anyone else could have expected. Because something’s wrong – über-wrong.

DING!

directed by Xinti Lim (2008)
written by Haider Malik

MY · 2024 · 3 min

Festival 2025

Two Boys. Stuck in an Elevator. That’s exactly the Moment when life goes: DING!

Eternal Kinship

written & directed by Arbin Rai (2001)

NP · 2024 · 11 min

Festival 2025

Suresh is 10 years old and only able to cross the river with the help of his sister. But when she leaves, he is forced not only to cross the water on his own, but also to surrender to the flow of life.

Fear of Dogs

written & directed by Mael Brajon, Nolann Willaert, Esteban Campos (2012)

FR · 2025 · 3 min

Festival 2025

„What if this is the only way of overcoming my fear of dogs?“ barks the boy.

For Eva

directed by Bojan Vasilev (2006)
written by Bojan Vasilev, Andrej Naskov

MK · 2025 · 14 min

Festival 2025

For teenage-girl Eva life hits hard and unpredictably. And no one seems to care a shit. So what now? Go for it? Or leave it for good?

Fragments

written & directed by Iris Rotărescu (2007)

RO · 2025 · 1 min

Festival 2025

How do you feel during a creative process? Fragmented, I guess, and… kinda stripped to the bone.

Gradiva

written & directed by Amirali Valipour (2000)

IR · 2024 · 17 min

Festival 2025

A young man takes touching care of his pragnent wife.And everything would be fine if it weren’t for the strange neighbours and some odd smell

Grasshoppers

written & directed by Zabava Pankina (2000)

RU · 2025 · 4 min

Festival 2025

On a deadbeat floor of an appartment building a surveillance camera comes to life. And the chase is on!

Greek Apricots

written & directed by Jan Krevatin (1999)

HR · 2024 · 20 min

Festival 2025

Are greek Apricots sweet? You bet. But in this film, they are also bitter and heartbreaking. A quiet tale about two lonley souls caught between a truck and a gasstation in the middle of nowhere.

Hard to live, pity to die

written & directed by Valeriia Domasova (2003)

UA · 2024 · 15 min

Festival 2025

The death of her father brings a young woman back together with her estranged mother. And what was left unsaid, is better left unsaid.

HEAD! (Over Heels)

written & directed by Alysha Khanna, Jenna Mayer, Molly McCrutcheon (2003)

CA · 2025 · 5 min

Festival 2025

While an over-excited witch waits for her date, she tries to get rid of all the ugly stuff. Spiders, slime, walking eyeballs – shit like that. But there is still magic in the air.

Hide-and-Seek

written & directed by Vitória Vasconcellos (1998)

BR · 2024 · 10 min

Festival 2025

In the voracious streets of São Paulo, a woman hides a deadly secret, unaware that her little sister follows her with a camcorder.

Invisible Roots

written & directed by Yesica Hernández Escobar, Julián Carreño (2000)

CO · 2025 · 12 min

Festival 2025

An indigeneous family fights hard for the impossible: preserving their culture and their way of life, while the threats of a modern and hostile world keep creeping in.

Jean Pierre, The Happiest Man in the World

written & directed by Eddie Paldam (2004)

DK · 2024 · 5 min

Festival 2025

If you travel to the sun, be prepared. Take your sunblocker, and do not let your heart be scattered. Or your feelings. It may alter your life.

Jump

written & directed by Louise Hedenvind (2005)

SE · 2025 · 15 min

Festival 2025

Stella is just one heartbeat away from doing something irreversable. That’s when Siri enters her life. Like an angel, a whirlwind, a tsunami. Taking Stella under her wings, whirling, and drowning. Again.

Kudzu

written & directed by Reed Hodgkinson (2008)

CA · 2025 · 4 min

Festival 2025

Unable to ignore the persistent knocking, a man tries to follow his well ridden path. But when will he be knocked over?

Lavomatrix

directed by Matthieu Fulcheri, Simon Vernus, Mila Cottin, Martin Carvalho, Chloé Langlet, Lou-Eva Goimet (1999-2001)
written by Matthieu Fulcheri

FR · 2024 · 7 min

Festival 2025

Luca 237-02 is a good lad. And on his 18th birthday he is ready to go full on lavomatrix-mode. Sucked in, soaked, mangled, and spat out. Boy, what a fun and devastating ride.

Leo and Knight

directed by Theodora Nteli, Malvina Papazoglou, Iasonas Prelorentzos, Athina Troussa, Rafailia Chouliara (2004)
written by Athina Troussa, Rafailia Chouliara

GR · 2025 · 11 min

Festival 2025

Clown Leo shows off his tricks. Inflating, twisting, knotting ballons. But the young audience in a children’s matinee want a story. And, oh boy, there he goes!

Limerence

written & directed by Fran Frías, Juan Martín Gómez (1999)

ES · 2025 · 9 min

Festival 2025

For Hana everything is beats, sex, heat, and waves. She wants to get drowned, even in Love. But Antón is not committed. And Limerence, the love-killing pill, plays her own game of beats, sex, and heat.

Milo

directed by Daniele Fabietti (2002)
written by Daniele Fabietti, Elena Burali

IT · 2024 · 15 min

Festival 2025

What if the hated freckles of a boy became dots in a mysterious map? Leading him to unknown treasures of love and self-knowledge. All steeped in the golden glow of a mother and son summer-trip.

Mordros

directed by Noah Berridge, Yuli Freed (2006)
written by Noah Berridge

GB · 2025 · 15 min

Festival 2025

On the coast of Cornwall, two childhood friends swim not only in the open sea to test their limits, but also in the rough and stirring waters of human emotions.

Now and then

written & directed by Iván Melguizo (2003)

ES · 2024 · 9 min

Festival 2025

Oh, the sweet and bewildering power of love. Every now and then you simply have to surrender. Just like Alex and Maria. Ah, sorry, Sofia, I mean Sofia.

Our Secret Ceremony

written & directed by Yishu Gao (2001)

CN · 2024 · 13 min

Festival 2025

The seemingly quiet routine of two girls does not speak of their pain and disorder. But under the menacing eye of a surveillance camera they gather up the splintered pieces.

Soup!

written and directed by Ava Azarmi (2005)

US · 2025 · 2 min

Festival 2025

Hmmmm, Soup! The delicious brew of existence. Cells, animals, humans, and madness. All cooked up. Slurp! Chew! Munch!

Sublime

directed by Marie Heribel, Candice Yernaux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent, Lucas Foutrier (1999-2001)
written by Marie Heribel, Candice Yernaux

FR · 2024 · 8 min

Festival 2025

A tattered doll searches for her place in a society, where beauty is paramount. Dancing, moving, feeling – everything rings hollow. And there is nowhere to hide.

sunflower

written & directed by Ketlin Kõiv (2004)

EE · 2024 · 9 min

Festival 2025

A little girl. Unbridled beauty and calme. Youthful games and laughter. All this ends, when war invades her fragile life with a piercing sting.

SWEET HEIST

directed by Ali Kisitu (1997)
written by Ali Kisitu, Isaac Muwonge

UG · 2024 · 15 min

Festival 2025

Young woman Zawe may or may not have robbed a bank with her father. But she can tell a hell of a story.

Text FIND DAD and Send to 2366

directed by Kent Michael Cadungog (2000)
written by Kent Michael Cadungog, Leonard Ian Billones

PH · 2024 · 15 min

Festival 2025

Teenage-girl Sam will do a lot of foolish things to find her dad. Even enter a strange TV-Competition.

Theatrics

written & directed by Sadhbh McDonough (2002)

IE · 2025 · 5 min

Festival 2025

"What does theatre mean to those who love it?" As a young actress prepares for her next intensive rehearsal, a variety of theatremakers weigh in with their answers.

Two Ships

directed by McKinley Benson (1999)
written by McKinley and Mackenzie Benson

US · 2025 · 6 min

Festival 2025

Like a simultaneous ebb and flow of the tide, a couple tries the impossible: connecting with their beloved partner while living on different time levels.

Waswärwennmann's Platzproblem

written & directed by Malte Siemers (2002)

AT · 2025 · 6 min

Festival 2025

Janusz has a problem: Worries, fears and what-if-dreams flood his consciousness. So it’s time to react. Time for a thorough clean-up job. But, if only…

When The Petals Fall

written & directed by Ka Hin Tsoi (2003)

HK · 2025 · 32 min

Festival 2025

When a young, neglected boy spends day and night with old man Tun, it seems like nothing more than neighbourly help. But Tun must summon all his faith and fight hard, to keep his brutal secret hidden deep inside.