'26 NARRATIVE SHORTS

A man named Xinhao wanders the uninhabited city of the future. After memorializing his past, he disappears.

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After That

Director(s): Xinhao Lu,Mufeng Han

In the north of France where cockfights are still authorized, 22 years old Anaïs gets into heavy debts after her father, a former fighting roosters’ breeder, passes away. As she needs to quickly...

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Beaks

Director(s): Xavier Demoulin

A metro driver with colorful hair is unexpectedly chosen as the face of a public transport advertising campaign, blurring the lines between the visible and hidden. Shot on 16mm analog film.

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Beneath the Night

Director(s): Maximilian Karakatsanis

An ominous chain text spreads across the world as Earth's first hotel rocketship prepares for launch.

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CLARITIES

Director(s): Daniel Jaffe,Michelle Uranowitz

Charlie Is Not a Boy is the tale of a hushed soul, bound to a crumbling household in an allegorical America. With a perverted butcher for a father and a mother frozen in a quiet, catatonic spell,...

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Charlie is Not a Boy

Director(s): Pol Kurucz

Twelve-year-old Abby is grappling to be at the centre of her father’s gaze. She is a self-conscious subject on the threshold of childhood and adolescence. Her moments of insecurity come out as...

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Child's Fare

Director(s): Kirsty McLean

In an apartment in Beirut, quietness fills the room, stirred by distant traffic and a breeze that makes the curtains sway. A grandmother clears the dinner table and prepares her tea, while her...

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Closer in Strife

Director(s): Alec Nikoghossian

Rural Spain, Y2K. Alma is 16 and desperate to be seen—especially by heartthrob José. Overlooked by everyone, she finds an unexpected guide in a strange, staring cow that draws her toward...

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Crazy For You

Director(s): Greta Díaz Moreau

A young woman attempts to connect, even as bodies pile up, while something lurks behind her and eats everything.

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Deadweight (Dögsúly)

Director(s): Bese Komáromy

When Johnson swallows a bug, his imagination spins out of control. He becomes obsessed with the idea that the bug is living in his stomach. Together with his best (and only) friend Shaheen, he...

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Dyspepsia by Salty Biscuits

Director(s): Ahsabul Yamin

A rescue dummy gets forgotten at the bottom of a swimming pool. Behind his single expression, a whirlwind of emotions flood his plastic carcass as he fantasises about being picked up and brought to...

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Fantasies of a Rescue Dummy

Director(s): Adrian Maganza

Harajuku, FL is a cross-cultural family drama set between Tokyo and Miami. When Otto, a Venezuelan-Japanese line cook, is pulled back into the orbit of his estranged father, he must navigate...

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Harajuku, FL

Director(s): Andres Gimenez

In Another Life

Director(s): Tristan Blue

Hanie, a woman in her thirties, is a crew member on a video team that shoots forced confessions, and another woman named Sonia is someone whose confession video is about to be recorded. The encounter...

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It Means Hope

Director(s): Shadi Karamroudi

A young woman travels back to her hometown to look for her missing son, Jonathan. She last saw him as he was leaving to spend the summer with his grandmother, the day before the war began and all...

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Jonathan

Director(s): Lieven Corthouts

At her 65th birthday, Karupy makes an unexpected announcement: she will be ending her own life that very night.

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Karupy

Director(s): Kalainithan Kalaichelvan

Chuy, a solitary embalmer with a passion for cumbia and the gift of speaking with the dead, finds himself at the morgue with the corpse of Kevin, the bully who made his childhood miserable....

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Levantamuertos: Cumbia for the Dead

Director(s): José Eduardo Castilla Ponce

When a young girl disappears from her apartment complex, Osas, a craftswoman and outsider within her community, is haunted by her grief for someone she only knew from a distance. In this surrealist...

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Lost Wax

Director(s): Omorose Osagie

Convinced her missing husband is "still out there, " Loretta scours the cosmos from a homemade observatory in her attic. As her daughter fights to pull her back to reality, Loretta’s obsession...

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OKAY

Director(s): Andrew Kightlinger

Seoul, 1989. Jung-min wants to become a speed-reading prodigy, just like Dong-hyun—the coolest guy in town, who can finish an entire book in just 60 seconds!

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SPEEDY!

Director(s): OH Jiin

MATT, a skilled yet solitary carpenter, is commissioned to build a one-of-a-kind chair for FRANK, an eccentric customer. As he pours himself into the work, the project takes on a strange, almost...

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The Chair

Director(s): Dustin Tan

After a strange squealing erupts from his bathroom ceiling fan, a lonely tenant discovers a man living inside it. The police prove useless, reason fails. and confrontation only deepens the absurdity....

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The Fan Man

Director(s): Austin Hutchings

'To All The Girls I Never Banged: I’m Sorry' is a mixed media dive into the fuzzy memories of Ed, a Brit abroad working at a party hostel in Budapest. While preparing to lead the nightly bar crawl...

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To All The Girls I Never Banged: I'm Sorry

Director(s): Harry Plowden

Returning from a holiday in the early hours of the morning, a young couple walk through the streets of Zürich, dragging suitcases behind them. Bleary eyed and exhausted from their journey, they...

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To continue knowing (you)

Director(s): Beth Barnes

Returning to Vietnam for the first time since middle school, a teenage girl reunites with old friends for a nostalgic summer roadtrip to 'Lake Perfect'. Racing through the countryside and armed with...

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We Used to Take the Long Way Home

Director(s): An Nguyen