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Black People Don’t Tango, 14min., USA Directed by Robert Xavier Clark An African American man learns to tango after a trip to Argentina. Based on a true story.
Pisho, 16min., Pakistan Directed by Aun Ul Haider Journey of a seven-year-old girl, Ruqayya, on a mission to find her lost kitten. Suspecting her mother and neighbors, she embarks on a whimsical search. During her quest, Ruqayya stumbles upon a protest against a recent terrorist attack. Inspired by the demonstrators’ placards, she creates her own sign seeking help to find her missing kitten.
OTIS, 37min,. USA Directed by Mark Eric Ridley Otis, a former soldier and POW Has just been released from the army and has an unlikely connection with a little girl who accepts his strangeness. To the concerns of her parents. All unaware that they would both play a significant role in each other’s life
Black People Don’t Tango, 14min., USA Directed by Robert Xavier Clark An African American man learns to tango after a trip to Argentina. Based on a true story.
Pisho, 16min., Pakistan Directed by Aun Ul Haider Journey of a seven-year-old girl, Ruqayya, on a mission to find her lost kitten. Suspecting her mother and neighbors, she embarks on a whimsical search. During her quest, Ruqayya stumbles upon a protest against a recent terrorist attack. Inspired by the demonstrators’ placards, she creates her own sign seeking help to find her missing kitten.
OTIS, 37min,. USA Directed by Mark Eric Ridley Otis, a former soldier and POW Has just been released from the army and has an unlikely connection with a little girl who accepts his strangeness. To the concerns of her parents. All unaware that they would both play a significant role in each other’s life
Nibbling of the Night, 10min., UK Directed by Gabi Bania Suzy and Billy are an unhappy middle-aged couple whose affection has long faded away. Suzy feels used by her careless husband, enslaved by the role of a subordinate housewife. She escapes from her worries and loneliness into addiction of night’s gluttony, spending nights next to the kitchen’s refrigerator. However, one night, her depressing fate is going to change thanks to a visit of two female vampires, who become for her a model of the strong, independent, and emancipated woman she always wanted to be.
Sexaholics Anonymous, 13min., USA Directed by Christian Allen Five strangers, united by shame and compulsion, gather to discuss their obsessions in what should be a safe space, but two of them are unfortunately at the wrong support group. Tonight, ‘body count’ takes on a whole new meaning for this group.
BFF, 12min., USA Directed by Nevin Bolla Heartbroken, a young woman isolates herself in bed after discovering her boyfriend cheated on her. While her friends celebrate a bachelorette party outside, she remains stuck in a cycle of painful memories and regret. Her best friend, determined to pull her out of despair, steps in with humor, tough love, and a few ridiculous antics.
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Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis (Fox & the Tiny Demon), 80min,. Canada Directed by Tara Audibert Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis is an animated allegory about Qaqsoss, a fox who is haunted by Wahantuhsis, a tiny demon. Set in an enchanted forest, the film explores themes of mental illness, trauma, and generational pain through Qaqsoss’ struggles with both her inner demons and the mischievous demon that follows her. As Qaqsoss faces her fears, she discovers resilience and growth. Ultimately, the story intertwines Indigenous culture and personal experience, showcasing the importance of self-healing and the understanding of others. The film, told in Wolastoqey, is a poignant exploration of survival and connection.
Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis (Fox & the Tiny Demon), 80min,. Canada Directed by Tara Audibert Qaqsoss naka Wahantuhsis is an animated allegory about Qaqsoss, a fox who is haunted by Wahantuhsis, a tiny demon. Set in an enchanted forest, the film explores themes of mental illness, trauma, and generational pain through Qaqsoss’ struggles with both her inner demons and the mischievous demon that follows her. As Qaqsoss faces her fears, she discovers resilience and growth. Ultimately, the story intertwines Indigenous culture and personal experience, showcasing the importance of self-healing and the understanding of others. The film, told in Wolastoqey, is a poignant exploration of survival and connection.
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Directed by Kurt Poersch
Those who stayed constantly talk about the future.
Every other house in Freimfelde, a former working-class neighbourhood, is empty. The lack of jobs, the absence of local suppliers, and the presence of decay are long-term effects of structural decline: in these parts of former Eastern Germany, the reunification of 1989 led to the closures of vital companies, caused high unemployment rates, and resulted in massive out-migration.
In Freiimfelde, people’s sense of the present is challenged by two absent levels of time: the no-longer of the past, which everybody remembers differently, and the not-yet of a future – fragile and in contradiction to the municipality’s vision of the seemingly empty neighbourhood.
An intimate portrait of five residents, “The Painters of the Future” examines current living conditions in Freiimfelde, tensions between post-industrialization and gentrification, and the ubiquitous call to “participate” in urban development.
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hurricane, 6min,. Cuba Directed by Héctor Almeida An inner hurricane summons errant images and drifting fragments of time, dragging them toward a threshold that resists form. A voice, part invocation, part echo, emerges from within the storm. Between the lived and the imagined, memory disintegrates and reconfigures, not to be understood, but to be felt. This is a ritual of passage: where chaos becomes a kind of language, where what is lost is not retrieved, but transformed, and what dies, opens.
EIGHT MINITES, 7min,. Australia Directed by Tim Stiles Award-winning actor, filmmaker, and comic book creator Big Tim Stiles talks about his struggles with depression and suicide.
Tango in Twilight, 11min., Argentina Directed by Teresa Herminia Mular MD This film explores the life of a 74 year old man, a chemist, who developed blindness at age 28 presumably from an innocent post graduate party prank, going awry at some point. Although this is a presumptive diagnosis one can’t rule out glaucoma as a primary illness.
Srebrenica, 2min,. France Directed by Thibaut Fleuret This work is about Srebrenica, Bosnia, place of the last european genocide where thousands of muslim people were killed.
ComVida-20, 3min,. Italy Directed by Ana Cavazzana It makes us reflecting about who we are and who we will be from now on. The title is a Portuguese wordplay: «ComVida» is similar to «CoVid» meaning, simultaneously, «With Life» and «Invite». With life we are invited to stay alive!
Cupid’s Treasures, 7min., USA Directed by Bryce Mackie A humorous look into one of the largest adult sex boutique stores in the Midwest.
the small world, 2min., Iran Directed by Sadegh Ghasemi The watchmaker has made a small world out of his broken watches.
Universe of Ukraine, 3min., Ukraine Directed by Alexander Sparinsky «Universe of Ukraine” is a documentary music video-essay for all people who want to know what war in Ukraine is and what are Russian killers today, in the 21st century; about all the troubles and griefs that this invasion brought…
Those who stayed constantly talk about the future.
Every other house in Freimfelde, a former working-class neighbourhood, is empty. The lack of jobs, the absence of local suppliers, and the presence of decay are long-term effects of structural decline: in these parts of former Eastern Germany, the reunification of 1989 led to the closures of vital companies, caused high unemployment rates, and resulted in massive out-migration.
In Freiimfelde, people’s sense of the present is challenged by two absent levels of time: the no-longer of the past, which everybody remembers differently, and the not-yet of a future – fragile and in contradiction to the municipality’s vision of the seemingly empty neighbourhood.
An intimate portrait of five residents, “The Painters of the Future” examines current living conditions in Freiimfelde, tensions between post-industrialization and gentrification, and the ubiquitous call to “participate” in urban development.
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hurricane, 6min,. Cuba Directed by Héctor Almeida An inner hurricane summons errant images and drifting fragments of time, dragging them toward a threshold that resists form. A voice, part invocation, part echo, emerges from within the storm. Between the lived and the imagined, memory disintegrates and reconfigures, not to be understood, but to be felt. This is a ritual of passage: where chaos becomes a kind of language, where what is lost is not retrieved, but transformed, and what dies, opens.
EIGHT MINITES, 7min,. Australia Directed by Tim Stiles Award-winning actor, filmmaker, and comic book creator Big Tim Stiles talks about his struggles with depression and suicide.
Tango in Twilight, 11min., Argentina Directed by Teresa Herminia Mular MD This film explores the life of a 74 year old man, a chemist, who developed blindness at age 28 presumably from an innocent post graduate party prank, going awry at some point. Although this is a presumptive diagnosis one can’t rule out glaucoma as a primary illness.
Srebrenica, 2min,. France Directed by Thibaut Fleuret This work is about Srebrenica, Bosnia, place of the last european genocide where thousands of muslim people were killed.
ComVida-20, 3min,. Italy Directed by Ana Cavazzana It makes us reflecting about who we are and who we will be from now on. The title is a Portuguese wordplay: «ComVida» is similar to «CoVid» meaning, simultaneously, «With Life» and «Invite». With life we are invited to stay alive!
Cupid’s Treasures, 7min., USA Directed by Bryce Mackie A humorous look into one of the largest adult sex boutique stores in the Midwest.
the small world, 2min., Iran Directed by Sadegh Ghasemi The watchmaker has made a small world out of his broken watches.
Universe of Ukraine, 3min., Ukraine Directed by Alexander Sparinsky «Universe of Ukraine” is a documentary music video-essay for all people who want to know what war in Ukraine is and what are Russian killers today, in the 21st century; about all the troubles and griefs that this invasion brought…
The Stars My Destination, 135min., Japan Directed by Keishi Suenaga A retired Russian-Japanese soldier Eiji Onodera (Keishi Suenaga) was going to his hometown in Japan. But on his way, he was caught and given a new mission by his ex-colleague Captain Vadim Dadikov (Gohnosuke Tokuda). Onodera and his father would never be free unless he completes the secret mission. He and the Master Sergeant Zinaida Zasyekina (Satoko Enmei) go to Hokkaido to monitor an ex-officer of Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Toshio Honda (Taiyo Sawa). Honda has killed 27 people including his colleagues, and is hiding in a mountain with a mysterious beauty, Risa (Riho Yoshioka)…
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