Short Film Award

An experimental documentary animation in the traditional Japanese technique of sending secret messages called aburidashi, the film depicts a change of the director’s perspective over a period of ten years.…

Researching at the Eye Filmmuseum archive, Paula Albuquerque found a piece of religious/medical propaganda from the 1950s. Shot in Suriname, the original footage was meant to show the supporting role…

Mike returns home after time away. He tries to find his place within the social structures of his family and friends. The mining landscape of Genk provides unusual openings. Set…

Gil works in construction, goes to his mother’s bar and has love dates with Kátia. On a day like so many others, Gil is missing. A story of love, lost…

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

Edgar is going to Lisbon to study this year. He is spending the summer travelling with Diogo, going from festival to festival. Northern Portugal as a landscape.

Szestowica’s inhabitants form a strong community. During the Russian occupation, their houses were demolished, belongings stolen, and their loved ones remain on the frontlines. Although military actions are no longer…

Soil is our closest alien world. Strata Incognita is a trans-scalar and trans-temporal journey across the geographies that articulate soil as an agro-industrial infrastructure, but also as an ecosystem and…

On a very dark night, in the boiling atmosphere of the recent Iranian uprising, a woman and a man travel through time and remember. Since September 2022, a large part…