Curator's Choice

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  • Mom's Dream (Israel) by Noam Liel Sonnenfeld

    Anat has a dream: to stage a play about her childood memories in Kibbutz Dalia. When her daughter, joins the their journey, relationship intertwines with the creation, exploring abandonment, motherhood and self-fulfillment.
    Running time: 00:26:00

  • Essai 21 (France) by Florian Mauny

    Exhausted by his work and routine, a person decides to suddenly break his daily life and wander in unknown places, in which he gradually sinks and gets lost.
    Running time: 01:04:14

  • Quadratura (Italy) by Sara Bonaventura

    Inspired by dark ecology and the Mandel'štam's poem of the voice over, the 16mm film evokes the loop of systemic predator-prey models, starting from microscopic beings - didinium and paramecium - passing through plankton, jellyfish, insects, fish, crustaceans and human apex predators.
    Running tim...

  • The Lovers Of Avignon (Spain) by Manuel Fernández Ferro

    The Lovers of Avignon" is the first ever translation of pictorial cubism into motion real image. Is an allegory of cubism as a conceptual symbol that acts as a filter and wall of emotions.
    Running time: 00:02:33

  • Won't Be Around (United States) by Terry Blade

    "Won't Be Around" is a song written and performed by singer-songwriter Terry Blade. At its core, the song is about leaving an abusive relationship by having the will to speak it, the courage to do it, and the strength to never return to it. The music video follows three individuals who are descen...

  • CU: Farewell (Ukraine) by Anar Azimov

    The protagonist recalls her past while her daughter is going to leave her forever. Years ago, the protagonist came from a province to a big city to get rid of poverty. Marriage to a gangster didn’t make her happy. She fell in love with her husband’s accomplice and soon got pregnant. Murder seems...

  • Voyager (Spain) by Pablo Pagán

    When a shy, socially anxious night janitor, cleaning up after Barcelona's affluent party crowd, discovers a mysterious drug that lets her shed the boundaries of her physical self, she breaks out of her isolation and opens herself up to the people she desires... but her newfound freedom comes at a...

  • You, Me, and That Chair (Australia) by Trivita Tiffany Winataputri, Matt Wallace

    A devoted father in his late 60s is confronted with the imminent growth of his son.
    Running time: 00:11:07

  • Lugubrious (Mexico) by Jerzain Ortega

    A teenager is drowning in stress thinking that she killed her stepfather who tried to rape her. The stress increases every day and she begins to hallucinate him, without knowing that the hallucination is real and seeks revenge.
    Running time: 01:20:00

  • Lunch Break (Belgium) by Reinout Jan Swinnen, Bram Van Rompaey

    Joe is a crane operator. This crane is made for lifting heavy things, Joe is not. He's an overweight middle-aged man stuck in a daily routine, in a confined space high up in the sky. Nothing much excites Joe, except for this one thing, this one moment which shines a dim light on his otherwise du...

  • Six (United States) by Diana Cignoni

    Mental Health. Depression. Grief.
    Running time: 00:13:00

  • Higher Grounds (United States) by Joe Kramer

    On the fateful day intelligent life arrives to destroy Earth, one slacker alien gets sidetracked when he’s smitten with a bitter barista. Suddenly, our survival depends on whether this space-schmuck can get her number, before his plucky partner blows us sky high.
    Running time: 00:16:59

  • The Stone Putter (Sweden) by Nils Agdler

    The Stone Putter is a cinematic portrait of a serious and physically strong middle-aged woman, deeply focused on throwing stones in a desert-like landscape. How did she get here? What do the stones symbolize – as alien in the landscape as the woman herself in her black dress? Here you can sense a...

  • I Killed You a Dozen Times (Belgium) by Kris De Meester

    I killed you a dozen times, but you won’t go away. Maybe it’s because you’ve killed me first. Out in the cold, on a strange new globe.

    "I Killed You a Dozen Times" immerses viewers in a captivating exploration of the aftermath of a traumatic breakup. The protagonist, driven to erase the other...

  • Fragments (United Kingdom) by Mélodie Roulaud

    A portrait of trans non-binary artist Fleur Bloemsma, short film Fragments takes an introspective journey into their understanding and experience of their own body, and the meanders of their mind. Directed by French filmmaker and photographer Mélodie Roulaud, the film interrogates the language us...

  • The Discoverer of the Discoverers (Norway) by C. S. Nicholson

    A family in West Africa tells the story of how their ancestor discovered the European explorers — to a European film crew. We get to see how this encounter is still remembered ritually. But do all the claims about the historic event bear a closer look? And to which degree can we trust the filmmak...

  • Kissing Ralph (United States) by Daniel Lewinstein

    Kissing Ralph explores the anxiety of intimacy, from the point-of-view of an alien struggling to participate in human rituals of love, sex, and family life.
    Running time: 00:40:00

  • It will hurt (Germany) by Dasha Altukhova

    This poetic documentary follows a Japanese art of rope, Shibari. I reflect on the physical and emotional forms of pain. The film provides an intimate glimpse into the journey from the confrontation with pain to deal with it and finding its new meanings. Ultimately, it offers a window into the tra...

  • Generation (UK) by Riccardo Fusetti

    A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.
    Running time: 00:02:13

  • Dear Nana (United States) by Han Nguyen

    Dear Nana is a deeply personal work that reflects my own childhood memory of living as a queer kid in a small, conservative town in North Central Coast, Vietnam. It is made in memory of my maternal grandmother who passed away in 2011. She was the first person to teach me that there is no shame in...

  • Bodylands (United States) by Sarah McColgan

    The human body becomes a living sculpture in this film that aims to reimagine toxic societal beauty norms.
    Running time: 00:01:00

  • The Path of a Memory (Belgium) by Katerina Indesteege

    Growling mountains, trees full of fruits, giggles, whispers and tears. The past is still present in the mind of the daydreamer. Documentary meets fiction when the filmmaker fantasizes about her mother's memories. How could her life have looked like in a country far from here, in times of a dictat...

  • Inside You (Ukraine) by Erik Sémashkin

    A grape gets eaten. He then begins a long and perilous journey within the human body.

  • Moteur Synchrone (Belgium) by Jamie Lee

    Imagine a world where the simplest of pleasures are not longer part of our freedom. From living to maintain the materials that mainstream culture has inflicted on our wants and needs, to the complete extinction of the human ability for critical thinking. Leading to the disconnection humans have w...