narrative short

In the French Jura mountains, at the end of fictitious Middle Ages, Else is an herbalist and a midwife. With Nicole, her young apprentice, they are disturbed during their daily practice: a stranger riding a horse demands to gather all the women of the village in its small church.

cinematography

diary film

A couple of filmmakers were stuck on the Bolivian-Chilean border for a year and a half. Filmed by the characters, a visual story about growing up and trying to stabilize their relationship in a world that is going through a crisis.

documentary short

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Award Winner

The author closes the formalities of his father's death. He records conversations held with bots on telephone hotlines. Private grief and the first conversations about the loss of a loved one he is forced to share with the mechanical voices of computer assistants.

memory

Ali, a young Egyptian living in self-exile in Los Angeles is visited by a memory of an old friend. Together they try to make sense of a past haunted by trauma and a present that makes no sense.

An older man (Jerzy Nasierowski) is attacked in his own home by a far-right group. Initially, the attack seems random, but later it turns out to be planned - the older man and the leader of the extremist group Andrzej (Jan Litvinovich) are related. The film is about revenge and morally gray areas. Can Andrzej's extreme behavior be justified?

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Honorable Mention

Noemi decides to get away from home. Away from the city. As far as possible.

A young Tanzanian girl with albinism lives a carefree life, until an unexpected event forces her to meet her gravest fear.

After waking up in the forest with no recollection, a young man seeks to find out what happened only to discover an uncomfortable truth about himself.

A young dad in rural Ireland must face his anxiety around gender and bullying when his baby is born intersex.

In a "global village era" where technologies take over our lives and new ways of censorship subtly slip between algorithms, everything lived by "Arantza Radio" is happening again everywhere.

A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of my Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she recalls key memories of childhood—her father's windmill, warm rains, wolf sightings, bone trading, and her passion for carpentry, which broke gender norms but was supported by her father.

poetry film

Andy the night watch was the cemetery gate keeper in Spoon river. He was overseeing the burial of all Spoon river residents. He was the silent observer of life in the small town, knowing everyone and their lives. He could see the good and bad, usually as they were intermixed after death. Having been given a final say following their passing, the bodies have a different story of their lies, cheating, corruption and neglect and Andy is shedding light to the underlying truth of the events.

Unrelated strangers find out that they've got something in common. It's the realisation that words cannot express what is truly going on inside them. Therefore, when words end, the image begins to speak.