All Films

Sundown

2025 • 10 min • United States of America

In a forgotten part of America, two young friends stop at a rundown diner for a brief reprieve from their travels. Lost and hungry, they must learn to trust each other to manage their growing anxiety as the town’s dark secrets begin to surface.

Arman

2025 • 12 min

Feeling overwhelmed and isolated on the day of his wedding, Arman, a gay, closeted immigrant, has to lie to his family on the phone about his marriage in the U.S. Moments before walking down the aisle, he is uncertain how to move forward.

Magan's Fare

2025 • 25 min • United States of America

Magan, a ride-share driver, takes an older woman back to her nursing home, to discover that the facility has given up her bed. Magan must now figure out what to do and decide how far he will go to help her.

The Old Man at the Bar

2025 • 12 min • United States of America

Two French waiters closing up for the night have their routine upended by a mysterious old man who may have shown up for more than just a late night drink.

Tamago

2025 • 18 min • Italy, Japan

Tokyo. Kazu and Tatsu are two salary men in their thirties. One night, after work, they get drunk and decide to tell each other their deepest secrets to seal the friendship. Tatsu admits being still a virgin. Kazu reveals that every time he eats an egg sandwich, his body transforms, turning him into a woman. Tatsu doesn’t believe his friend and asks him to prove it...

Kind Mother

2025 • 15 min • United States of America

An estranged mother arrives at the silent retreat that her daughter is attending. When the two women engage in an unusual - and fantastical - power struggle, limits are tested, generational trauma is brought to light, and together they must grapple with mortality and forgiveness.

Inspired by Lip Balm

2025 • 15 min • Taiwan

A comic book writer is invited by a film production company to adapt her short comic collection about casual relationships. As she navigates the changing streaming market and the company’s demands, she must devise various adaptation concepts for a movie, half-hour, or hour-long series. Her research takes her to hotels, and under pressure, she meets someone who inspires personal transformation.

Hey, Hey, Take Care!

2025 • 20 min

Grief-striken in urban poor’s hell, a child eager for viral fame and his beautiful, terminal-ill brother embark on a rescue mission to take back a beloved family jeepney in order to survive.

Seven Jewish Children

2025 • 15 min

Based on the play by Caryl Churchill, this film shows the Jewish journey from Russia in 1903 to Palestine in 2009. It humanizes and visualizes the progression from oppressed to oppressors whilst imploring it's audience for open conversation and empathy.

The Sleeping Beauty

2025 • 20 min • United States of America, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand

The wife of a colonial governor confronts a devastating curse after her son removes a deathless woman from a thousand-year-old Angkorian temple in the jungles of southern Laos.

The Last Solution

2025 • 3 min • Brazil

Within the confines of a massive wall, a group of children plays as if there were no tomorrow

Giants

2025 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Drifting through his post-industrial town scavenging for scrap, isolated teenager Sandy finds unexpected purpose after meeting conspiracy theorist Don, who tasks him with destroying a local wind farm

Death in the Desert: The Nurse Helen Mystery

2025 • 60 min

In 1979, 23 year old British nurse Helen Smith died in suspicious circumstances in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi authorities quickly ruled it an accident, but their refusal to investigate further created international mystery, with accusations that the Thatcher government was more interested in oil than justice. Now, 45 years on, previously classified documents reveal in this documentary what the British government really knew about Helen's death.

Um 530 que sai do Centro.

2025 • Duration unknown • Brazil

Laura Citarella for Sicilia Queer 2025

2025 • 4 min • Argentina

Trenque Lauquen's Ezequiel believes he is keeping on searching for Laura in the Argentine pampas, but the landscape confuses and disorients him, becoming increasingly jagged and disconnected: a radio that cannot definitively tune into a station. Editing cuts swallow up her world, bringing to the surface an archipelago of cinematic universes (from L’avventura to Stromboli and La terra trema), and they generate a fata morgana, capable of shortening distances between pampas and Mediterranean landscapes, between real and fictional vision, between the adult’s disorientation and the childhood’s innate and hilarious wisdom. Cinema as the art of disappearance that always leaves a trace, yet another indelible trace of one of the most important contemporary filmmakers.

Noises From The Agora

2025 • 13 min • Brazil

Football, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of the most turbulent elections in the history of Brazilian politics. The daily political debate in a small newsstand in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and the sound, visual and spatial noises of the contemporary agora.

It’s a Mad Max World

2025 • Duration unknown • United States of America, Germany, France

Emerging from the depths of the film industry, the Mad Max saga became an instant cult classic after the release of the first film in 1979. These five critically acclaimed films have continued to captivate audiences. They shaped the identity of Australian cinema, launched a movie star – Mel Gibson – and propelled George Miller as one of the greatest directors of his generation. Above all, Mad Max has left an indelible mark on our collective unconscious, redefining our vision of the apocalypse and human civilization. This documentary tells the story of this phenomenon, from the small production of the first film to the monumental later installments, drawing on interviews and rare archives.

Here Comes the Sun

2025 • 15 min • China

An old man in a seaside village reunites with a deceased person on an uneventful afternoon, which is fleeting but rippling and presents a warm picture of time in the midst of memories and reality.

Pick One

2025 • 9 min

It’s Danny’s wedding day, and he has a big choice to make. Cue the insanity. Pick One is a chaotic bisexual Italian wedding rom-com... with a porchetta.

Just Between Us

2025 • 20 min

Crafted by an HRFF alum, this short film depicts an open marriage tested by unexpected twists including a plumber, a pool, a sandwich, and a charming himbo. Sam searches for clarity on love, connection, and whether he and Dustin are truly solid.

I believe in much more than magic

2025 • 12 min • Spain

Carmen and Alba venture into the forest, searching for magical lights. As they wait, Carmen has a revelation—could this be more dazzling than magic itself?

Sthlm Rififi

2025 • 14 min • Sweden

Roberto and his wife Sigge have left their hectic lives behind to settle in a house in the countryside. During their daughter's 6th birthday party, the tranquility of their new life is disrupted by the arrival of Roberto’s best friend and former partner-in-crime, Teemu. With a big score in the works, Teemu is determined to pull his old friend back into the game.

The Hallway

2025 • 15 min • Argentina

After experiencing recurring nightmares, David consults an unorthodox psychoanalyst to alleviate his anxieties. She offers him an alternative treatment that leads him to an epiphany. In this trance, David finds a painful answer.

Mimi au pays du métal

2025 • Duration unknown

Between the hydraulic press and the plasma saw, Mimi, a young factory worker, dreams of escaping in the sun with her two best friends Iris and Chris. When their boss Mister Babin refuses to grant them their leave, Mimi is ready to do anything to make him change his mind.