Short and Medium-Length International Competition
What first appears as educational coverage transforms into a philosophical exploration revealing Algerian society's past and present malaises.
L' ARCHE
- Amira Louadah
- 2022
- Algeria, France
- s.t. English
- 10 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
Every fall, the quaint town of Churchill in northern Manitoba becomes a popular tourist attraction during polar bear migration season.
CHURCHILL, POLAR BEAR TOWN
- Annabelle Amoros
- 2021
- France
- s.t. French
- 37 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
Fusing reality and fiction, the filmmaker undertakes a complex search for identity as she visits her grandmother in Japan.
FUKU NASHI
- Julie Sando
- 2022
- Switzerland, Japan
- s.t. English
- 46 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
A man spends his days patiently and calmly awaiting death while he works in a laboratory where autopsies are conducted.
LABORATORY NO.2
- Edris Abdi, Awara Omer
- 2021
- Kurdistan
- s.t. English
- 17 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
An astronaut leaves his spaceship and returns to Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he tries to reconnect with his identity and roots.
MULIKA
- Maisha Maene
- 2022
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- s.t. French or English
- 14 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
A collage of Iranian films that subtly defy the post-1979 revolution ban on showing a woman and a man touching on screen.
NAZARBAZI
- Maryam Tafakory
- 2022
- Iran, United Kingdom
- s.t. English
- 20 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
A work of family archeology opens an intimate and lucid exchange between two women of different generations, united by mixed feelings toward motherhood.
NO STAR
- Tana Gilbert Fernández
- 2022
- Chile
- s.t. English
- 25 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
The filmmaker light-heartedly explores the relationship between humans and their urban environment. Meaning springs from a glance—even if there is nothing to see.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
- Nicolas Bouchez
- 2022
- Belgium, Portugal, Hungary
- s.t. English
- 17 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
Illustrating the complexity of grief, a man learns to scuba dive to find the body of his wife, missing since the terrible 2011 tsunami that hit Japan.
NOWHERE TO GO BUT EVERYWHERE
- Masako Tsumura, Erik Shirai
- 2022
- Japan, Israel
- s.t. English
- 14 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
Confined during the pandemic, Alina’s relationship with her mother is strained. But when tragedy occurs, they experience a shared drama that will change them and their relationship.
PTITSA
- Alina Maksimenko
- 2022
- Poland, Ukraine
- s.t. English
- 30 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
In this film-performance, the filmmaker wanders an art exhibition, denouncing the white gaze through a simple question no one dares answer.
SEASICK
- João Vieira Torres
- 2021
- Brazil, France
- s.t. English
- 15 min
Short and Medium-Length International Competition
The experimental Slovakian short film Strigov explores death, grief, and finality through the soft yet unsettling whispers of a child.
STRIGOV
- Barbora Bereznáková
- 2022
- Slovakia
- s.t. English
- 8 min