All Films

An Animated Dog Reads John Berger, Haraway, and Kafka

2025 • 5 min • United States of America

During the COVID-19 pandemic, 23 million American households adopted pets, reflecting the growing urge for animal companions. The evolving, yet complex bond between humans and animals lies at the core of Artist in Focus Matthew Lax’s AN ANIMATED DOG READS JOHN BERGER, HARAWAY, AND KAFKA which explores the complexities of human-dog relationships through cultural and philosophical lenses.

The Apartment Complex Syndrome

2025 • 16 min • Greece

A flyer boy offers to help a female co-worker. When inside an apartment complex, he reluctantly does the same for a middle-aged woman. Soon, he'll have to fight for much more than a day's labor.

Veins Are Rivers Too

2025 • 27 min

Navigating the wilderness of subarctic Quebec, a motley crew discovers something ineffable.

Malet

2025 • 22 min • Spain

Rural Catalonia, 16th century. A quack doctor arrives in a village to cure the mayor's son, but a local healer warns him that a curse is hanging over them.

Night Driver

2025 • 20 min

A taxi driver struggling to support her children in Dublin city begins extorting one of her passengers when she witnesses them being unfaithful in her taxi.

The Milkman: Revengeance

2025 • 11 min

The classic horror story reimagined.

Candy Bar

2025 • 6 min

A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad.

The Entomologist's Wife

2025 • 12 min

This film follows one man's desperate attempt to save his wife through their study of moths and is heavily inspired by German expressionist films, like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "Nosferatu," and "Metropolis."

Fraiha

2025 • 6 min • Qatar

Amal was helped to overcome her classroom literacy struggles by her loving mother Fraiha.

Prince of Tears

2025 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Wilson, a composer and conductor, returns home to tell his wife Monika that he's leaving her, but when power slips from his grubby hands this human metronome begins to unravel.

Trinity of Tales

2025 • 23 min • Indonesia

From drama, comedy, to horror, every genre has become a space for expressions of love for film, fashion and photography artists. Three short films in three different genres that show the character and characteristics of their respective aesthetic views, are a form of respect for various styles of storytelling from different perspectives.

Internet, un géant très vulnérable

2025 • Duration unknown • France, Germany

Malcolm's Suicide Note

2025 • 1 min

Malcolm's Suicide Note. A poem by Rhys Griffiths.

Mrs. Fleischer Wants to Die!

2025 • 19 min • Germany

Confronted with her dementia, old, stubborn Mrs. Fleischer stops eating - she wants to die on her own terms. Caregiver Alexandra is tasked and determined to make her eat. With creativity and great bellicosity, these not so dissimilar women challenge each other. Deliberately provocative, mischievously amused, but also with an increasing sense of understanding for each other's struggles, they grow closer...

Butter Knife

2025 • 17 min • Canada

A famous surgeon comes back from vacation and learns that his hospital's administration has changed and taken a turn for the worse.

He Doesn’t Know I Know

2025 • 22 min • Hong Kong

The traditional image of a father is full of masculine charm—strong, brave, and proud—with the male eagle as its symbol. In the post-modern understanding of gender roles, how has the totem animal of a father evolved? Joan returns to Hong Kong to play matchmaker for her father, who happens to be afflicted by a foot injury and is taken care of by the mysterious Kit. Moreover, her father keeps avoiding her matchmaking attempts, leading Joan to suspect that he and Kit are harbouring a secret from her. Award-winning stage actor Simon LO teams up with What If (2025) actors Ernesto DE SOUSA and NG Wing-sze in this magical realist short film about family. The director fills the film with animal symbolism, adding a touch of colour to the gender spectrum.

Sincity K

2025 • 26 min • South Korea

Young-eun, an ornithologist living in reclaimed land along the waterfront, receives a phone call from Cheol-seung, the representative of the apartment one day. Cheol-seung asks Young-eun to perform an autopsy on the bird's body, and Young-eun finds out that the bird brought by Cheol-seung is a black-faced spoonbill, which is an endangered species.

Aurora

2025 • 22 min • Mexico

Psychological portrait of the villages in the Portuguese countryside in the early 1980s, through the homonymous character who observes her own life through the eyes of a porcelain doll.

Strangers

2025 • 10 min

A young man on a mission to save a loved one becomes trapped in a basement with a mysterious and dangerous stranger. They must navigate how to survive together as otherworldly creatures stalk the streets of their city outside. A visceral encounter with an alien creature forces them to face their fears.

In Warm Waters

2025 • Duration unknown • Germany

In search of their shared memories, a young woman must venture beneath the surface to find new hope with her mother.

Speak to the Tide

2025 • 30 min • Hong Kong

If a goddess has come down to earth, could she bring back lost time for man? Ning takes a substitute teaching position at a rural school, hoping to find inspiration for her novel from nature. One day after class, students Richard and LAM Mak-noeng, a mysteriously masked girl who shares the same name as the Empress of Heaven, come to her for help. It turns out that Mak-noeng is about to disappear. Faced with such an ethereal problem, Ning takes on the responsibility of a storyteller and seeks a happy ending for this heavenly romance. The director, who has always been interested in urban issues, has continued to mix historical and fantastical elements like he has done with Interview with Lo-Ting: An Oral History Project (2022). A modern love story with celestial inspiration, the film gently caresses the remnants of our city and the melancholy of lonely souls.

Echoes of Us

2025 • 11 min

Through the intimate lens of Silo, a Black queer woman, "Echoes of Us" captures the bittersweet journey of revisiting a past love that once felt like "the one." Now in a joyful relationship, Silo is unexpectedly pulled back into old memories, exploring how heartbreak, growth, and healing shape who we become.

A Family Stain

2025 • 16 min • Portugal

At his girlfriend's family's formal dinner, Mateus, an anxious young man, attempts to conceal his secret from the bizarre family members who suspect him.

The Birth of a Mall Goth

2025 • 9 min • United Kingdom

May's sister Gemma has become a goth overnight, causing May to explore the fantastical reasons for the sudden change, while also going on a journey of self-discovery.