PLEASE., 7min,. USA
Directed by Chudi Zhang
After many years apart, a mother and daughter reunite and continue the story of the daughter's escape from family life in the first half of her life.

EXTREME GRAVITY, 7min., Spain
Directed by Lorenzo Ayuso
What would be the worst thing that could happen to you when trying to kill yourself? It is said that dying is not the worst, but the way you die, and Camilo is about to find out how much of that is true.

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THE FINGER AND THE MOON, 19min., Italy
Directed by Rossella Bergo
Tommaso, a 28-year-old boy, lives in an old country house isolated from the world, with Bianca the seamstress mother, now a widow for many years.

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Marie s'envole, 27min., France
Directed by Léa Sassi
Summer 1973. Marie, aged 26, goes off to spend a few days alone in her family's country house. She has to finish writing her thesis on "Jean Giono's mythical search of self". Caught between her duty and her desire to enjoy herself, she meets An...

CONTROLLO, 9min., USA
Directed by Caitlin Presberg
Based on the story of Lucy Rosati in Chicago 1921. After the police fail her, fifteen year old Lucy Rosati, decides to take justice into her own hands after being assaulted by her forty five year old neighbor.

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SPARK IN THE MEADOW, 17min.,
Directed by Bernardita Llanos
Spark in the Prairie (La Chispa en la Pradera) focuses on law student Sofía Brito and her experience of sexual harassment by her professor, a renown attorney and member of the Supreme Tribunal of Chile. Sofia was his research assistant a...

ALLIES, 13min., UK
Directed by Cong Xu
In the near future, with procreation a rarity and the government desperate to increase numbers, Maeve's pregnancy is a beacon of hope. Yet, in her joy, she's blind to a terrifying truth that threatens to unravel her world.

ENTROPY, 8min., Slovenia
Directed by Jan Hajšen
Entropy is closely connected to randomness, that is, absence of information - in living beings this primary information is the DNA that controls the entropy and prevents chaos. The movie is an illustration of chaos in an apocaliptic world and a stru...

ROUGH DRAFT, 3min., Singapore
Directed by Joseph Lim, Anne Wang, Eve Tan
A dance film motivated by its makers' personal struggles with self-expectation, "rough draft" is an introspective exploration of the complex and intricate discord between oneself and one's ideal.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, 13min., USA
Directed by Lisa Eaton
"Behind Closed Doors" is a poignant short film that explores the intricate dynamics within a hetero-sexual family. The story takes a dramatic turn when the husband confronts and grapples with his authentic sexual identity. As the film unfold...

BOLD, 3min,. USA
Directed by Alla Kovgan, Miko Malkhasyan
A surreal night shift of a female prison guard turns into a juggling fiesta, celebrating diversity and solidarity of women.

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TRAIL - RASTRO, 9min., Mexico
Directed by Claudia Lavista, Alexander Dahm
We flow imprisoned by a weightless yet heavy burden, tied by tight yet incorporeal ropes that enclose us into endless circles that we walk through over and over until we vanish leaving invisible yet indelible trails. Hung o...

RE:BIRTH, 8min., Taiwan
Directed by Laticia Fan
A lost soul traumatized by her past and trapped in the confines of her own imagination. Unable to move forward with life until she was led to begin her journey of recovery and discovery by a sound healer, ultimately conquering her darkest memories, ...

PARADES, 16min,. Canada
Directed by Alan Lake
Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.

TOPIA, 15min., USA
Directed by Jessie Lee Thorne, Justin Thorne
Topia investigates the complexity of emotions, specifically exploring individuals’ different manifestations of darkness – numbness, dissociation, depression, mania. The work examines the necessity of vulnerability, community, holding...

WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA, 9min., Costa Rica
Directed by Maui Barzuna
Directed and choreographed by Costa Rican-based artist Maui Barzuna, the short dance film Woulda Coulda Shoulda explores the search for self-esteem by trying to live up to an idealized image of yourself to compensate feelings of in...

THE BECOMING, 25min., UK
Directed by Ben Crompton
The Becoming marks 30 years since the founding of award winning balletLORENT by choreographer Liv Lorent and celebrates the physical limits and self-discovery of performance.

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WHAT A DAY, 5min., Thailand
Directed by Allen Cheng
Our world is busy, lonely, and exhausting. It is so common for us to go through a rough day, come home and lay on our bed with tears and sweats, then simply complain to ourselves, “ugh, what a day”.

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CREATURE, 7min., Bulgaria
Directed by Nevena Nikolova, Petar Gerzilov
beyond the concepts of monstruous and devine a reverse creation explored

BORN CRYING, 21min., Mexico
Directed by Fernando Cattori
"Nacimos Llorando" (Born Crying), is a musical short film featuring two original songs, "Llorar" and "Kintsugi” from Rubio’s new album Venus & Blue, the artistic experiment of renowned Chilean artist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Fran...

QUESTIONING THE WINDOW, 19min., Austria
Directed by Vulpecula Collective
In an intensive conversation in her old apartment in Vienna, the world-experienced artist Beta tries to take away young Gamma's fears, among other things in connection with her native Burgenland-Croatian language - just as h...

CRAVATE, 11min., Canada
Directed by Clement Faure
When Mav wakes up from another mysterious nightmare, he decides not to take his medicine that day. Locked in a dark basement residence and haunted by his work, he wishes he would have a break. That morning, Mav doesn't expect to face someone he mi...

Alley Dance Bogwang-dong, 10min,. South Korea, Dance
Directed by Yeajean Choi
Bogwang-dong 'Village that shines widely'
Currently, Bogwang-dong is the last town which is scheduled for large-scale redevelopment in Seoul.

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HOW TO GET OVER YOU, 4min., Australia
Directed by Adam Jordan
How to Get Over You is about experiencing rejection from a romantic relationship that never was and the smouldering grief that is experienced in isolation for a time thereafter. The song speaks to the helplessness that comes from navig...