Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
Ready for a trip to the heart of the blues? This 16mm gem features legends such as B.B. King, Rufus Thomas and Evelyn Y…
A young farmer and a gang of teenagers wander the prairie. A farm. A flooded cemetery. The sunset. Some ruins. Experime…
In Havana, a former military bunker serves as a meeting place for Cuban gay men. Among shadows and gnawed walls, they t…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
After leaving Spain to escape Franco's regime, Serafin found in Berlin the possibility to be himself freely. Gay, color…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
Since the day Ethan Bialick heard the rocket alert while visiting Tel Aviv, his life was changed forever. This animated…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
The inhabitants of Europe's only desert star in an out-of-the-ordinary Western. Here the only weapon against the enemy …
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
A city is wrapped by fireworks at night. A cell phone goes out into the streets and films the face of a street boy. It …
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
"Holodomor" is a term that refers to the Great Famine that occurred in Ukraine in the early 1930s. American Writer Kath…
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
Shot in stark black and white, this short film is a look at the creative process of the famous French painter Abdelkade…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
This short film is a simple and poetic look at the work of a patient and talented blacksmith from Houston, USA.
Little by little, two characters take shape on the screen through objects, sounds and flavors. Who are they? What unite…
This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback betwe…
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
This experimental short film reflects on the points of view that exist on reality through a kind of "guided tour" by a …
A lover of the past. A road trip through the southwestern United States. An experimental short documentary that tries t…
Interspersing footages of the present and the past of Finland, this experimental short film uses various editing techni…
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