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  • Driven by You (China) by Fangji Leo Yin

    After being unnoticed and doubted for years, a 16-year-old Chinese ice hockey player faces the question every student-athlete in China must confront: should he follow the path designed by his parents and give up the sport he loves? As expectations and uncertainty pulls him into a spiral of self-d...

  • Pain is Mine (Australia) by Farshid Akhlaghi

    One day, One room, One take.
    After her spinal surgery, she was always in pain, intense pain, unendurable pain. Painkillers have been her refuge for a long time, but one day, she decided to stop.

  • Ku Handza (Portugal) by André Guiomar

    Mozambique. Benjamin tries to save money to organise his son’s birthday party. Filimone visits his family between war missions. Eulália has just given birth to her sixth child, but has to return to work at a landfill site. ‘Ku Handza’ is an expression in the Tsonga language that describes a chick...

  • The Witchdoctor and the Windmill (Australia, France) by Robert Hamilton

    “The Witchdoctor and the Windmill” explores the life of the Pintupi artist, Linda Syddick Napaltjarri. After her father’s death in a revenge spearing, Linda came in from the remote Pintupi homelands and was taught to paint by her adoptive father, the famous artist Shorty Tjungurrayi. Her insisten...

  • Waiting for the End of the World (United States) by Jeffrey Hoyt

    A quiet mosaic of small-town America, tracing the subtle fractures in everyday life.

  • Deux rives (Distant Shores) (France) by Thibault Verneret

    "The director engages in a dialogue with his older brother, once convicted of drug trafficking in French Guiana. Oscillating between the present and past recorded in his diary, the film opens the door to a rapprochement between the two men. But the older brother remains mysterious and elusive, an...

  • The Undergrowth (United States) by Griffin Roessler

    In the City of Light, cloaked angels were blamed for a wave of disappearances and banished to the woods.
    Generations later, their hidden portal is known only as the Undergrowth. Enter the World Walker: a half-angel
    student living a double life, navigating the human world by day while secretly she...

  • Portals (United States) by Kathi Hendrick, Benjamin Henretig, Cornelia Hodges

    PORTALS explores the body, nature, and heart as doorways into deeper dimensions of self and our inherent interrelatedness. Through movement, imagery, and original music, the film enters the liminal space between inner and outer worlds, where the body becomes a threshold into feeling, knowing, int...

  • The Train (Canada) by Marie Brassard

    Quebec, in the sixties. Agathe, a gifted child, is asthmatic and lives in the suburbs with her mother Thérèse (Larissa Corriveau), a melancholy artist. At night, the whistle of a train fuels Agathe’s fantasy of a parallel world. As a teenager in the ’70s, she discovers the bohemian scene and meet...

  • Anchor Points (Canada) by Victor Quijada, Samuel Greffe

    Anchor Points is a documentary-style art film by Rubberband that retraces the trajectory of Victor Quijada from street dancer to contemporary choreographer. Through archival footage and visual effects, it examines his personal and artistic evolution and introduces the foundational Rubberband Meth...

  • No Longer / Not Yet (France) by Jacquelyn Elder

    No Longer / Not Yet is an intimate observational documentary focusing on the very few moments just before a performer steps on stage. In this interval of time and space leading up to a performers first step on stage we are "no longer" rehearsing, and "we are not quite yet" on stage. Understanding...

  • The Feast (Georgia) by Mariam Bitsadze

    "The Feast" portrays the life of a Georgian housewife who spends a day preparing a sumptuous supper for her husband's friends. Despite her efforts, she feels like an outsider and struggles to integrate into the group. As the day progresses, she confronts the societal expectations placed upon her ...

  • Donkey Skin (Morocco) by Taha Aziz

    In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, 16-year-old Ilyas, a determined young boy from a rural Amazigh village, embarks on a perilous journey to find medicine for his ailing mother. With nothing but his donkey as his companion, his path crosses that of Abla, a privileged young woman from th...

  • Loser (Taiwan) by Mali Chen

    In the heart of a decaying city, a discarded inflatable doll awakens in a trash bin—singing. Picked up by a homeless man and thrown into a rickety cart, it joins a band of broken toys and lifeless objects. As the cart rumbles through alleys and forgotten streets of Los Angeles, the trash begins t...

  • Naval Ode (Portugal) by Fu Le

    The poem Naval Ode - "Ode Maritima" - by Fernando Pessoa captures the movement of separation between the dock and the ship, and thus the distance – between the inside and the outside, between myself and the other. The text is embodied by a mysterious and suspended dance, imbued with nostalgic de...

  • Humanization (Sweden) by Giulio Musi

    Anna lost her child in an accident. Estranged from mundane life she has stopped feeling physical pain. Numb, she decides to end her life throwing herself out of a window. Miraculously Anna survives and wakes up in a nursing home where she befriends a nurse and a young boy. Slowly Anna starts to c...

  • Tungrus (India) by Rishi Chandna

    Tungrus (pronounced: toongroos) is a short documentary that observes a week in the peculiar lives of a middle-class suburban Mumbai household. What was once a home like a million others in the city, turns topsy-turvy when the eccentric patriarch brings home a baby chick for his cats to play with,...

  • Miss Rosewood (Denmark/United States) by Helle Jensen

    Take a plunge into the dark side of uber-sophisticated New York with performance artist, Rose Cory, performing as Miss Rosewood. She strips to full she-male nudity and shares her passion for her art and shows you just how far she's willing to go to blow your mind. Raw! Intense, and without filter...

  • Khan's flesh (Germany) by Kristina Savutsina, cinematography by Georg Kussmann

    The priest‘s ear recognizes the sins of the parishioners. The heartbeat of the fetus is being monitored. Workers are leaving the factory. Khan‘s Flesh shows the everyday life of a small town in Belarus as choreographies within stage-like images. The inhabitants move and position their bodies depe...

  • Majnuni by Kouros Alaghband and Drew Hoffman

    After stalking a broken family through the night in the war-torn city of Sarajevo, Adnan's identity becomes entangled in the lives he is following.

  • Sleeping with the Devil (2017, United States) by Alisa Yang

    Based on a recorded Skype exorcism and found footage, the filmmaker confronts her religious trauma in the Evangelical prophetic and deliverance ministry.
    Running time: 00:23:34

  • Time Capsule (United States) by Lauren Loesberg

    A documentary created from home video footage from 1997-2005, set to the reading of a letter written for a time capsule found twelve years later.
    Running Time: 00:11:36

  • Emperica (Belgium) by Kris De Meester, Ron Chiers

    Against the backdrop of societal collapse, two powerful voices engage in a high-stakes debate over the future of humanity. Should mankind be placed under total control to safeguard its survival, or should they be granted the freedom to shape their own destiny, even if it means risking self-destru...

  • The Dream Machine (France) by Michael William West

    A woman experiments with a Dream Machine, hoping to escape trouble. Within the light and dark of the machine, violent emotions awaken.
    Running Time: 00:09:29