All Films

La Durmiente

2025 • 20 min • Portugal, Spain

During a dynastic crisis in 14th century Portugal, the 10 year old Beatriz enters into a forced marriage to become the country’s new queen. At the Monastery of Sancti Spiritus in Toro, where the tomb of Beatriz is located, this story is re-enacted, re-imagined, and recreated with children of the same age. As their imagination is allowed to roam free, a different way to interact with their country’s history opens up.

Rovina's Choice

2025 • 25 min

Through the plight of one woman trying to save her daughter from starvation, “Rovina’s Choice” traces the effects of Donald Trump’s executive order banning US foreign aid - made within hours of being sworn into office in January 2025. Rovina Naboi’s devastating story represents the global impact of that decision on the world’s most vulnerable populations, and how it stopped decades of progress combating severe malnutrition.

Fluff

2025 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A puppeteer is pushed to the limit when her puppet starts getting bigger, but no one believes her.

Opener

2025 • 13 min

A queer musician returns to her hometown to encounter the strange masculinity of the music scene.

The Shape Of Night

2025 • 3 min • Italy

In this peculiar short movie, a guy finds himself in the middle of nowhere and tries to find his way home.

El arte de la bofetada

2025 • 12 min • Argentina

Documentary short about boxer Gustavo Portillo.

Qalandia

2025 • 2 min

“Qalandia” is made entirely with footage Peggy Ahwesh recorded in the mid-2010s when she and a friend “broke into” the abandoned airfield, which is still under the Israeli government’s control. Ahwesh sees the decaying airport as emblematic of the politics of the area where, she says, “Land and ownership and privilege are always contested, and power is enacted through land grabs.” Over time, the silent runways and deserted facilities are gradually being reclaimed by nature. [Overview courtesy of Microscope Gallery]

Killergotchi

2025 • 12 min • Spain

Pepa gets the virtual baby of her dreams, but playing mother soon turns into a nightmare.

Better When You're Dancing

2025 • 10 min

On her grandad’s heavenly birthday, Ava struggles to deal with her grief.

No Mercy for Made Men

2025 • 13 min

After the aftermath of a heist a few months back, the two crime families argue upon which side gets what percentage of the money from the job, resulting in tension and conflict.

Schadenfreude

2025 • Duration unknown • Mexico

A woman rejoices in the misfortune of others and tries to justify it.

A Wish 2025

2025 • 4 min • Sweden

This is not a final letter, merely a wish in case life ends up short

Entanglement

2025 • 32 min

A couple struggles to make sense of the past, and their vastly different versions of the bizarre event that made their relationship spin out of control.

Swimming in Money or How We Went Down Together

2025 • 14 min • Germany

Hilde dies, and her family has only one thing on their mind: money. So they all gather at the large estate, determined to claim what they believe is rightfully theirs. A dysfunctional family, fed up with each other, yet always wanting more. The children—and their children—think they are going to inherit big, but Hilde still has something to say about it all. And then there are all the others. Everyone wants it, but who will get it? And what is “it” anyway?

If You Die I'll Kill You

2025 • 12 min

In the midst of the 1970 Student Strike, a Mother fights to stop her Daughter from attending increasingly dangerous protests.

Le Mur du Son

2025 • Duration unknown • Italy, Switzerland

Ways to Fly

2025 • 13 min • United States of America

When her barrettes mess up her pirouettes, an excitable, hyper-focused Black girl must power through the distractions -- and her mother's expectations -- to fly like the ballerinas do.

The Last Harvest

2025 • 22 min • Cape Verde, Portugal

Young Gabriel worries about forgetting his late father’s face; Isabel, a single mother, frets about her son and how she will make ends meet; Firmino questions his sense of belonging after losing his garden which he considered his portal to Cape Verde. The lives of Gabriel, Isabel and Firmino intertwine in Nuno Boaventura Miranda’s The Last Harvest. Miranda offers an intergenerational portrait of a Cape Verdean community and diaspora living in Lisbon as they grapple with questions of identity and a shared longing for connection.

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025 • 60 min

Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cinema from Dracula (1931) to today.

¿Qué comen los dragones?

2025 • Duration unknown

Parzellen Des Glücks

2025 • Duration unknown • Germany

During a storm, Monique and Heiko find an uninvited guest on their allotment plot. The strange stranger has wings on his back and it almost seems as if he has fallen from the sky. Heiko falls under its spell and Monique has a thought: don't we all want to believe in a miracle?

Life Begins

2025 • 28 min • Ukraine

A war veteran struggles to readjust to civilian life after participating in fierce battles. He finds it difficult to find his place, even at home. After a fight in a pub, he is imprisoned in a military facility and then sent back home, where memories, physical and emotional trauma, and the sounds of war haunt him.

They're Packing

2025 • 11 min

Hoping to gain a sense of security, a group of queers head upstate to learn how to shoot a gun. But when the first shot goes off, the day of mishaps and mayhem devolves into something much darker.

True Affection

2025 • 12 min

Sewa, a young woman living in Lagos who is constantly interrogated by her friends and family about her prolonged lack of romantic relationships, seems to find a suitable admirer, but a strange presence in her dreams complicates the matter.