Daira Ronzoni
United Kingdom, 2026
Gaucha follows a wandering queer mestiza on a journey through shifting landscapes and mythic temporalities, confronting susto, ancestral memory, and discovering a land of earthly rituals.
Spanish, English, Aymara
13 min 30 secs
Lara Izagirre Garizurieta
Spain, 2025
Desirée, Samara and Aurora commute to the center of Bilbao to buy a gift. Things go south when the store clerks accuse them of stealing.
Basque, Spanish
14 min 1 secs
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Jenny Brady
Ireland, Belgium, 2025
Vignettes set in both extreme and familiar environments highlight the often-hidden work of interpreters and the delicate, intersubjective nature of this role.
English, Arabic, French
31 min 58 secs
Jocelyn CHARLES
France, 2025
During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange.
French
15 min 50 secs
Arief Budiman
Indonesia, Singapore, 2026
Two videographers, one from Papua and the other from Java, create a film that contrasts Papua’s idyllic landscapes with the realities of Javanese and military control.
Bahasa Indonesia
22 min 29 secs
Ryan Pollock
United Kingdom, 2025
A young boy inadvertently begins to open a secret family wound when he attempts to visit his mother in hospital against his father’s will.
English
15 min 0 secs
Todd McFadyen
United Kingdom, 2025
After a life changing transformation, Kayden, a student at the Glasgow School of Wrestling, must step into the ring with one of Scotland’s most famous wrestlers.
English
16 min 14 secs
Yuyan Wang
China, France, South Korea, 2024
Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.
No dialogue
11 min 59 secs
Duncan Forbes
United Kingdom, 2025
Newlywed Jeannie struggles to adjust to her new life in a Scottish fishing town, until her mother-in-law, Maggie, insists she join the women gutting fish at the harbour, drawing her into a new community.
English
11 min 59 secs
Sophio Medoidze
United Kingdom, Georgia, France, 2024
What can caves in Southern Georgia tell us about the mythic figure Medea? A fragmentary journey through the Caucasus and popular depictions of the goddess.
English, Georgian
7 min 28 secs
Laura Dauvin
France, 2025
A young woman offers a tour of her home, re-enacting her daily routine and how sexual violence overwhelms it.
French
16 min 37 secs
Bonheur Suprême
France, Italy, 2025
Through encounters in the fantasy videogame Skyrim, a filmmaker, playing as a golden-skinned elf, exposes the racist myths and stereotypes that impose a sexualised and violent identity upon 'Arabs'.
French
17 min 44 secs
Walid Raad
United States, 2001
An experimental documentary about the abduction and detention of Westerners in Lebanon by "islamic militants" in the 80s and 90s, and how the events were reported.
English
16 min 40 secs
David Arthur
United Kingdom, 2026
A son uncovers his father’s secret gambling life through a stash of old betting slips and paperwork. This discovery reveals years of horse bets and hidden wins and losses that contrast sharply with their modest family life.
English
18 min 32 secs
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Altay Ulan Yang
China, United States, 2025
In an isolated castle, students prepare for a life-changing examination. As anticipation builds to a fever pitch, a storm strikes. Trapped within crumbling walls, their academic sanctuary becomes a prison, and minds begin to break.
Mandarin Chinese
21 min 0 secs
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Luisa Zürcher
Switzerland, 2025
A filmmaker reflects on her emotional stay in hospital, with its long underground corridors, tubes, and small talk.
Swiss German
10 min 13 secs
Art Collective Neozoon
Germany, 2025
Fragments of 1950s documentaries, which show our nascent culture of hyper-individualism and productivity, contextualise a kinetic montage of online narcissism.
English
9 min
Éiméar McClay, Cáit McClay
Ireland, United Kingdom, 2025
A critical look at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century through archival documents of the defunct St. Conal’s Psychiatric Hospital in Letterkenny.
English
19 min 30 secs
Levi Stoops
Belgium, 2025
Frankie believes he is about to die alone. On his way to the stars, he accidentally becomes a planet, inhabited by creatures that look like him.
Flemish
English
14 min 20 secs
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Randa Maroufi
France, Italy, Morocco, Qatar, 2025
In Jerada, a mining town in Morocco, coal extraction continues informally to this day despite being discontinued in 2001.
Arabic
26 min 0 secs
Ariela Bergman
The Netherlands, Argentina, 2026
A woman sings to her laptop, lonely and reassured by its vibrations. As we journey between the machine and its owner, hybrid video-animations visualise our intimate relationship with tech.
Spanish
3 min
Chris Leslie
United Kingdom, 2025
Every day, Skipper Alistair pilots his small ferry back and forth between Yoker and Renfrew, preserving one of the River Clyde’s last historic crossings. As a new pedestrian bridge opens nearby his ferry crossing is threatened but another river route is deemed impossible.
English
4 min 30 secs
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Rodolphe Bouquet-Populus
France, 2025
In a ski resort where the snow is vanishing, Isabelle and Guillaume find themselves stuck on a chairlift.
French
19 min 35 secs
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John Hollands
Canada, 2025
Two rival cyclists face off in a grueling and surreal cross-Canada cycling race, Le Tour De Canada!
English
5 min 48 secs
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Marianna Simnett
Germany, 2025
Reimagining Leda and the Swan – an erotic fresco unearthed at the Pompeii archaeological site in 2018 – an ancient violent myth is unravelled as an embodied story of pleasure.
No dialogue
5 min 5 secs
Matt Benson
United Kingdom, 2025
In the 1980s, a scientist documented the trial of his new invention: a device that reveals what you see when you die. This is the footage.
English
18 min 55 secs
Heesoo Kwon
United States, 2024
3D-scanned models of the filmmaker's grandparents’ land in Gongju-si, South Korea, visualise an exploration into Korean shamanistic perspectives.
No dialogue
14 min 21 secs
Lesley Loksi Chan
Canada, 2025
Filmmaker Lesley Loksi Chan edits the unfinished tapes of Chinese-Canadian artist Lloyd Wong, about his living with HIV, thirty years after the artist's death.
English
29 min 36 secs
Anhar Salem
France, Saudi Arabia, 2022
In Saudi Arabia, a teenage girl tries to escape her reality using an Instagram filter after returning home late.
Arabic, English
31 min 12 secs
Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour
Iran, Canada, 2024
In 1970, French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse was killed when his helicopter crashed into the newly built Karaj Dam in Iran. Nearly 40 years later, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko rewind Lamorrise’s recovered aerial footage to confront the reality on the ground.
Persian (Farsi)
36 min 13 secs
Dorian Jespers
Belgium, France, North Macedonia, United Kingdom, 2025
A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.
English, French
25 min 3 secs
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