In The City at the end of the world, a wounded man finds temporary sanctuary within the depths of a mysterious building, where a fateful encounter with the silver screen awaits him.
An ordinary working day at a metallurgical plant — a place where clouds are born and rivers of fire flow; a place where everything feels like a dream turned into memory. Dedicated to the steelworkers of Azovstal.
An old man recounts the strange encounter he had with a creature in the middle of the woods. He fears it has come to claim him.
Néstor is a theater actor who has been streaming since the pandemic. As he rehearses a nearly autobiographical text, he transforms into a dazzling diva.
Through landscapes and nocturnal glimpses of men claiming public space, a Kashmiri woman narrates her lifelong negotiation with fear, curfews, and gendered restriction. The film is a quiet meditation on how the smallest desires expose the vast inequalities that shape women’s freedom.
Haiguang dreams – of his late grandmother, his hometown of Lěng Shuǐ Jiāng, his art and his job at a wholesale warehouse in Leipzig. But Haiguang doesn’t just dream. He also films.
An experimental documentary short exploring how our sense of self is reshaped through conversations with machines. Through the lived experience of people in India speaking to AI, the film captures a fragile moment in which intimacy, care, and vulnerability are quietly shifting away from human bonds and toward artificial companionship. What happens when we train a machine to understand us better than we understand ourselves? Though these exchanges take place in private, the voices reveal something collective.
A duet for two eyes, just one at a time. Shot on a 1952 Stereo Realist and on a consumer 3D video camera made 70 years later. Hand processed, each eye numbered, taken apart and rebuilt a frame at a time. Made by hand. Sung at a distance. “The Happy Sunny Side of Life” (1936) counter melodies against despair.
The short film series "Another Me", created by Armin Lavasani and Parsa Esgandarion, consists of short stories about people who encounter someone who looks exactly like themselves.
This documentary follows people with chronic illnesses, the deaf, neurodivergent individuals, and people with disabilities as they engage in political activism. Whether in Lützerath, at protests against the automotive industry, or at networking events, they speak out about exclusion and the lack of awareness regarding their life situations, while also highlighting ideas and opportunities to break down ableist structures.
After a long-term relationship, Jali risks losing his chance to marry Ainun—all because his body odor is potent enough to knock out his prospective in-laws. Now, Jali is in a race against time to find a way to smell fresh before Ainun is married off to someone else. Can Jali save his romance, or will his body odor end up being his final "partner"?
Two roommates who now speak only through sticky notes are forced back together when one discovers she forgot the other's birthday, and the only gift in the house is the socks on her own feet.
This film documents Taoyuan Daxi’s all-female Shengjiang troupe, founded in 2003, exploring women’s entry into the traditionally male-dominated tradition and opening new possibilities for gender, the body, and queer publicness in folk religion. image curation and cultural practices. In recent years, she has explored local Taiwanese culture.
This is the story of two greedy friends who, driven by greed, murder a delivery boy.
Gage, an orphan, documents her final moments in Adelaide, Australia, before she moves across the world to be with her long-distance partner. As her partner is busy with work, he asks her to make a film for him.
Matthew Bowman is a lonely call center employee living an apathetic and confusing life. At work, his days consist of attempted cold call sales which are often met with rejection and a boss who’s superiority complex is unmatched. At home he finds himself lost in the infinite sea of ad campaigns on TV, featuring controversial politician Jimmy Joblinski.
Somewhere in the mountains there is a magic land that raises the dead. The protagonist sets out to find it and bring back his dead brother. The further he travels, the further he is from his goal.
