All Films

Calling 84843

2025 • 10 min • Philippines

Set in the late 2000s, a payphone booth at an all-girls Catholic school stands witness to the intimate performance of its callers.

Door

2025 • 2 min

A young woman awakens to an otherworldly presence outside her bedroom door.

Messengers

2025 • 45 min • Canada

A poetic exploration of three subterranean telescopes in remote regions of Canada, Japan, and Antarctica that reveal a new way of perceiving the universe from within. Underground, we are dreaming into the earth.

Fallow

2025 • 15 min

After the death of his brother, modern-day slave Gábor (50) along with another slave Veronika tries to find his deceased brother’s papers to properly bury him outside the farm. Their captors would want to keep this all quiet and hinder Gábor from doing so.

Urban Duo

2025 • 6 min • China

In the bustling noise of Shanghai, Longchang Apartment, a century-old building, seems like a haven from time. A father experiences a peaceful life here, where neighbors live in harmony. His son, on the other hand, is caught up in the fast pace of the city day after day. Their lives are parallel yet starkly different...

Strijdmakker

2025 • Duration unknown • Netherlands

VPRO icon Wim Brands died on April 4, 2016. He was known to the general public as a presenter of the VPRO Boeken program and also closer, with six collections of poetry to his name. This documentary about his life and work, built entirely from archive material, pays tribute to this television personality. A portrait in which attention is also paid to his complicated relationship with death. With a.o. Karl Ove Knausgård, David Sedaris, Ellen Deckwitz and Pieter Boskma. Brands' work merges with his rich inner life and that he chose death at the age of 56 casts a shadow over everything.

Have We Met Before?

2025 • 7 min • United Kingdom

When an unsettling young woman gets invited into an awkward man's house, he must confront his self-deluded behavior which forces him to make a drastic decision in order to save himself.

L'Instinct de Santini

2025 • Duration unknown

From Both Sides Now

2025 • 13 min • Spain

In the middle of a road, Adriano and Nina push a car until they reach a gas station. The couple has broken up after the events of a wedding, but while Nina wants to solve things out, Adriano takes refuge in the trunk and reality fragments as we enter in his mental chaos, in a space where past, future, magic and reality interconnect.

Somewhere Within Me

2025 • 18 min • Mexico

A tender exploration of friendship, identity, and transformation, this film follows Brahel and Andoeni, who met as children and grew up together in Guadalajara. Though their romantic relationship eventually ended, their deep friendship endured. Years later, after Brahel’s gender transition, the two reconnect and rediscover their bond. Through a rich tapestry of archival footage, music, intimate moments, and unspoken emotions, the narrative unfolds as a heartfelt journey of reconnection, vulnerability, and lasting affection.

Les fleurs et la mort

2025 • Duration unknown • France

Double or Nothing

2025 • 10 min

A statement about our wonderfully greedy world. Inspired by an anecdote from the booming Tokyo of the 80s, the film tells the glamorous story of the vicious property shark Akio Kashiwagi. His passion is illegal gambling in the underworld. An American is on his trail, but Akio's greatest enemy is his own insatiable greed.

Avadhi the Tale of Love

2025 • 15 min • India

When found at the cross roads of love and separation a youngster named Aditya meets an elderly man called Balu, whose perspective on love influences Aditya to pursue his love. Who's Balu? what connection does Aditya and Balu share, did Aditya reconcile with his lover or not forms the rest.

Jonatan Unge solo

2025 • 59 min • Sweden

Stand-up special with comedian Jonatan Unge.

Upside Down

2025 • 12 min • Latvia

Andulis, a little bat, wakes up at the wrong time and discovers that he, unlike his fellow bats, loves sunlight and warmth. After making friends with Little Mouse, who looks almost like him, Andulis is surprised to find out that, unlike his own dwelling, Little Mouse’s house is not upside down.

Love Is in the Air

2025 • 18 min • Romania

The attempt to spend a romantic anniversary at a hotel ends badly for Laura and Marius, having to return to their apartment early. At home they find that romance still exists. Unfortunately, not for them.

Video Barn

2025 • 13 min • United States of America

In the small town of Kennedy, best friends Hannah and Julie spend their summer nights at the last video store, Video Barn, watching cult horror films. Jules finds a mysterious VHS tape labeled “Just press play!” and, days later, vanishes. Overcome with guilt, Hannah watches the tape and is horrified to see Jules trapped inside the TV, caught in a nightmarish loop of twisted nostalgia. Now, Hannah must uncover the truth and face the sinister force within the tape. "Video Barn" pays homage to 80s surrealist films, blending dark humor, friendship, and the pull of the unknown. Will Hannah save Jules or share her fate?

Crown & Blade

2025 • 19 min

Princess Adalina falls in love with a humble soldier, Livia. But when her father, the King, discovers their forbidden romance, the two young women are forced to fight for their lives, love, and freedom.

Antigona

2025 • 20 min • Macedonia

In rural North Macedonia, a determined woman begins a quiet revolution. Inheriting her father’s job as a van driver, she opens new possibilities for the women around her.

Unanounced Cort Studios Project

2025 • Duration unknown • Sweden

Una Polera Con Recuerdos

2025 • Duration unknown

A girl remembers her relationship one last time.

Álvaro Retana. Salir del armario de la historia

2025 • 60 min

A documentary about the erotic writer, costume designer, theater decorator, and composer of several very popular cuplés. It is part of RTVE’s special programming for Pride 2025 and pays tribute to one of the pioneers in advocating for sexual diversity. Álvaro Retana’s family has opened their personal archive to recover the figure of their grandfather, a creator as essential as he is currently unknown. In addition, extensive research was conducted in the files of numerous archives and museums. All this work brings to the present a world of color, freedom, revolutionary frivolity, and compulsive creativity, which he left behind in a legacy of over a hundred novels, more than 1,000 cuplés (perhaps the most well-known being Las tardes del Ritz, Ven y ven, La pulga...), hundreds of costume designs, drawings, and more.

Landmvrks - Les Eurockéennes de Belfort 2025

2025 • Duration unknown • France

Beauty's Pride

2025 • 20 min • Canada

Beauty’s Pride is an evocative short film to accompany Born Ruffians’ new album by the same name.