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Night Hag

Night Hag

2024 • 30 min • Iran, Islamic Republic of
"Night Hag" is a short drama one-shot film that delves into the lives of the Sadri family, which is plagued by a mysterious illness that only affects the women in their family. This affliction is traced back to 1941, originating from a grave mistake made by their ancestor, the Thane of Tabas, who wrongfully executed the daughters of an old woman. The old woman's curse has lingered over the family, casting a shadow of dread and despair. The story centers on Mehri, a current member of the Sadri family, who finds herself trapped in a terrifying nightmare. Within the confines of her dreams, she confronts the possibility of her and her daughter succumbing to the family's dreaded disease. As Mehri navigates through her nightmares, the film explores themes of guilt, legacy, and the struggle to break free from the chains of a past curse.
The Root of All Evil

The Root of All Evil

2026 • 27 min • United Kingdom
A timid new vicar, determined to be a hero in the eyes of the village, becomes an accidental mass murderer, curing him of his stammer. This is a story of one man’s imagination getting out of control and allowing misinterpretation and greed to cloud his common sense and reasoning. We can all be guilty of this, but Reverend Eugene takes this several steps further and becomes an unintended killer. In his newfound madness and in a more subtle side to the story, he kills off the personas of the provocateur of his paranoia with dirty hands, his nagging mother and his tough, competitive brother. Genre: Tragicomedy
Nemesis

Nemesis

2025 • 28 min
In a remote North Carolina monastery, Father Thomas, a retiring priest obsessed with recent Byzantine discoveries in Istanbul, summons Adriel, a scarred young priest from Istanbul, to translate government letters. Grace, Thomas’s curious daughter, grows intrigued by Adriel. Drawn together by a philosophical game of perfection, they explore ideals of flawlessness, uncovering hidden talents and a deep spiritual love that unites their imperfect souls.
ECH0

ECH0

2026 • 17 min • Italy
A computer technician transfers her sick partner's consciousness into a radio to keep him alive, but this new condition of his will put their relationship to the test.
Luna (Breaking the Silence)

Luna (Breaking the Silence)

2025 • 11 min • Palestine, State of
For seven years, silence shaped a Palestinian couple’s life. Luna (Breaking the Silence) is a first-person documentary that traces an intimate journey through infertility and Endometriosis, told from inside the experience itself. Through personal archives, reconstructed moments, and a restrained voice-over, the film reveals the weight of unanswered diagnoses, social pressure, repeated IVF failures, and the quiet endurance required to keep going. Set in Beit Sahour, Palestine, the story moves between private pain and public expectation, where the body becomes a site of struggle, waiting, and resilience. The birth of Luna brings fragile hope—but not relief—as the family faces the uncertainty of raising a child under occupation and the ongoing reality of war. Grounded in honesty rather than explanation, the film breaks a silence surrounding reproductive health and offers a deeply human portrait of love, vulnerability, and survival.
Stuhi

Stuhi

2026 • 5 min • Albania, Italy
Everyone remembers the hollow left behind by the disappearance of human life. The melancholy—and the need—for everyday urban chaos. The frantic movements, the endless lines, the absurd traffic that, once gone, ended up magnifying an entire chapter of our history. It was a time when truth shrank into moments of stillness, slipping easily into the possibility of being false. A time when truths—and the debates built around them—had to be kept intact, even when their fragility was obvious. That same tension lingers in the road lines that open the film: directions without destinations, paths that lead nowhere. It grows stronger in the elegiac soundtrack that frames a vertical cityscape, where oversized statues stand as the only living witnesses of a frozen public space. Two figures step into this setting. They move forward carrying the weight of uncertainty—born from the emptiness below them and the edges that hold them up. Against the void, against the illusion, they run, nameless and unseen. 
And yet they reach another place, where they finally emerge—descending into the underground of a crowd that seems, somehow, to have been waiting for them…
Open-Cell

Open-Cell

2025 • 8 min • Iran, Islamic Republic of
It's about a man who feels guilty and made a fictional cell in his mind for himself
Nos extinguiremos de estupidez

Nos extinguiremos de estupidez

2026 • 4 min • Spain
El ser humano no morirá de apocalipsis zombie ni de tormenta solar...su propia estupidez acabará con él.
She is not here

She is not here

2025 • 15 min • Iran, Islamic Republic of
Kiana is a 9-year-old girl who, during the recent political upheaval in Iran, witnessed the arrest of her mother by military and security forces. Following this event, she becomes severely traumatized and discovers that she can create changes in her surroundings with the magical powers of her drawing notebook.
Barking at Ghosts

Barking at Ghosts

2026 • 4 min • Canada, United States
Solstice, our neighbourhood psychic medium, receives an unexpected visitor in this under-5-minute comedy.
Your future kingdom

Your future kingdom

2026 • 2 min • France
Hélène is pregnant. Having lost her parents as a child, she chooses to write a book for her future daughter, to explain the world where she arrives, and what it is like to be queen of Atlantis.
No Ordinary Night

No Ordinary Night

2026 • 13 min • Iran, Islamic Republic of
It is about a street sweeper who works at night and is unwillingly drawn into the games of a group of privileged young men
The gold of the mangroves

The gold of the mangroves

2025 • 46 min • Italy, Senegal
In the vibrant heart of Senegal, among the submerged roots of the mangroves of Joal-Fadiouth, lies a treasure as ancient as it is fragile. It is not gold in the traditional sense, but an ecological, cultural, and human heritage that sustains entire communities through a delicate balance between people and nature. “The Gold of the Mangroves” is a documentary that unfolds without filters or staging. Every image on screen is real, lived, and observed with deep respect by filmmakers Carlo Loglisci and Matteo Capatti, who chose to follow the daily work of the association AGIRE without ever interfering, allowing the truth of the environment to emerge with clarity and empathy. Through evocative visuals, spontaneous interviews, and sequences that embrace the authentic rhythm of local life, the documentary guides us on a journey across some of the region’s symbolic places: — the vibrant market of Joal-Fadiouth, a hub of exchanges and traditions; — the striking village of Palmarin; — the poetic and moving Christian-Muslim cemetery of Fadiouth, an island built entirely of seashells, symbol of memory and peaceful coexistence; — and Dakar, the capital, a crossroads of contradictions and aspirations for a nation in transformation. At the core of the story is the daily work of AGIRE and its members, who carry out concrete and essential activities with passion and perseverance: — the production of mangrove honey, a sustainable source of income; — the harvesting of shellfish, still vital for the livelihood of local families; — the protection of marine ecosystems; — the reforestation of mangroves, a natural barrier against the advance of climate change; — ecological and social education for young people, building a future-oriented environmental awareness. The documentary accompanies the viewer through this complex and ever-evolving world without imposing an external voice or a predetermined narrative. Reality itself is allowed to speak—through gestures, faces, silences, and the contradictions of a people striving every day to reconcile tradition with modernity. “The Gold of the Mangroves” restores dignity to stories too often pushed to the margins and raises an urgent, universal question: How can we protect what remains—and do it together?
The School Photographer

The School Photographer

2026 • 13 min • Sweden
With the film industry in decline, BJÖRN (50), a seasoned first assistant director, finds himself unemployed and adrift. To stay afloat, he takes a temporary job as a school photographer—an unfamiliar and humbling role. Over the course of one long day, Björn’s fragile calm is tested by a string of phone calls from his mother, his teenage daughter, and his ex-wife. Each conversation pulls him further off balance, and the tension begins to seep into the portraits he takes. As his professional façade starts to crack, an unexpected encounter with a P.E. teacher at the school offers a brief moment of understanding—and a hint that change might still be possible.
Lottie's Luck The Cooked Breakfast

Lottie's Luck The Cooked Breakfast

2025 • 9 min • United Kingdom
Clyde is just out on parole and living at his friend David's house makes himself a delicious cooked breakfast and hides the fact from Lottie (David's daughter) by pretending he has in fact made it for David.
What makes the world go round

What makes the world go round

• 4 min • Not Specified
Love thy nigger

Love thy nigger

2023 • 8 min • United States, United States, United States
Humorously expressing my disdain for the N-word...while sharing my love for Black History/ and the desire for people to do deeper research and get involved to make positive changes......
ICE

ICE

2025 • 19 min • Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United States, United States
In a quiet corner of Brooklyn, two strangers find their lives briefly colliding at a gas station. One is a woman silently enduring the trauma of an abusive marriage; the other, a man living under the constant threat of deportation, hiding in the shadows of a broken immigration system. As ICE agents patrol nearby, the weight of their unspoken fears draws them into a moment of unexpected connection, a fleeting but profound reminder of shared humanity in a city that rarely slows down.
NOW Again - Part One

NOW Again - Part One

2026 • 55 min • United Kingdom
Following the exceptional acclaim for his “AYE” tetralogy, 2021-2024 (over 140 international awards), Philpott undertakes the first ever complete filmic interpretation of Proust's monumental “À la recherché du temps perdu”, with rich narrative forms reflecting the wide range of voices in the novel, providing a visual feast with sonic immersion, to reveal the vast panoramic structure of Proust's masterwork and provide a new 21st century foundation for this timeless 20th century epic. "We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the interval. It was quite narrow, this interval, this fault that I had had to cross." - Marcel Proust un tour autour de la tête de Proust - reminiscences from "Remembrance of Things Past" PART ONE (UK 2026, 4k digital, 55 minutes) PART TWO (UK 2026, 4k digital, 87 minutes) PART THREE (UK 2027, 4k digital, 102 minutes) PART FOUR (c 120 minutes; 2027) PART FIVE (c 100 minute; 2027)
We Shook the Sun

We Shook the Sun

2024 • 2 min • United Kingdom
After a quiet day at the beach, a couple is forced to acknowledge an ending neither of them is ready for. As the light fades and the tide turns, small gestures and unspoken looks carry the weight of what cannot be said. Guided by a poem from Anna Hoghton, the film is a meditation on love, longing, and the ache of saying goodbye.
Inner Shadow

Inner Shadow

2025 • 6 min • Italy
Inside a dirty, time-frozen kitchen, a troubled young man confronts his own alter ego: a sharp, sarcastic and relentless presence that forces him to face his fears. Through provocation, brutal honesty and unsettling metaphors, the protagonist realizes that his hesitation isn’t keeping him safe—it’s slowly erasing him. In a psychological duel with no escape, he’s pushed toward the hardest decision of all: keep living as a spectator or finally take control of his own story.
Brother and Sister - same Satan (Water and Wind)

Brother and Sister - same Satan (Water and Wind)

2025 • 20 min • Ukraine, Austria, Estonia
Brother and Sister - same Satan (Water and Wind) is an evolved version of Brother and Sister - same Satan (She hadn't... He woudn't...) that I had been filming during workshop of 6th Queer Filmmaking Atelier of Queer Voices Festival in 2023. Back then, for the first time, I told a story of me and my dead sister, what she hadn't become and what I wouldn't become. It was about a connection between us, her influence, our similarities, queerness. It was a dialogue. I presented an idea that the dead keep being present and on a rise of fascism and era of non-truth, it could be a bridge to reality and origins in a wider socio-political context. Brother and Sister - same Satan (Water and Wind) is a confession to the dead about what happened after their passing. It is a conflicted between remembering the dead and seeing the living. It is an example of the fight between "the idea" (death) and "the fact" (living person) The movie is a journey from hatred, resentment, grudge to acceptance, mourning, love. The film doesn’t aim to give a conclusion nor concrete resolution-ending to the event and conflict. In my opinion, the repetitive bugging thoughts and speculations stay forever because there is no resolution-ending without the voice of the other side, the presence can only offer an acceptance and moving on. *Brother and Sister - same Satan (ukr/rus) - rephrase of “Husband and Wife - same Satan” made and constantly repeated by my sister that means together as one, bonded, the same. *Water and Wind - the name comes from zodiac signs: Scorpio and Gemini" * The narration in the movie is in three languages: Ukrainian, Russian and English to show three points in life: adulthood (Ukrainian), childhood-adolescence (Russian) and finding myself in an art field (English)
Brinquedoteca, Mauro's Magical Workshop

Brinquedoteca, Mauro's Magical Workshop

2025 • 20 min • Brazil
A man searches for toys in the trash and after cleaning and restoring them he returns them to needy children through a toy library
HANNAH

HANNAH

2025 • 15 min • Brazil
Lua, a 30-year-old man, remembers an event that shook his life 20 years ago. He tries to go on with his day until he is approached by a person from his past