WORLDWIDE COMPETITION I is charged with memory, movement, rage, and rebirth.

Stories of fathers, mothers, and distant homelands unfold alongside generative algorithms, musical heirlooms, and adolescent ruptures. Emotions simmer beneath the surface—until they don’t. These films explore identity through tension: personal, political, digital. Nostalgia is unstable, family is fragile, and culture is both weapon and anchor. The past returns—reanimated, reframed, or simply refused.

From the algorithmic to the autobiographical, this program pulses with creative unrest. Nothing here is passive. Everything wants to move, shift, or scream.

IF YOU’RE HAPPY | 18 Min| Phoebe Arnstein | United Kingdom

DATA FLESH | 4 Min | Felipe Elgueta | Chile

BOLOUR [بلور] | 16 Min | Helia Behrooz | Iran

FATHER FATHER | 11 Min | Jozsef Trefeli | Australia

PUNTER | 13 Min | Jason Adam Maselle | South Africa

MAYBE ELEPHANTS | 16 Min | Torill Kove | Canada

WORLDWIDE COMPETITION II is where things get raw.

These short films cut deep—into skin, memory, and emotion. They trace the sharp edge between belonging and exclusion, connection and disconnection, survival and surrender. There’s blood in the soil, silence in the fallout, and tension behind every glance. Masculinity is stripped bare. Girlhood walks home alone. Grief dances in circles. Love, loss, and danger blur into something hauntingly intimate. This program doesn’t just push boundaries—it questions why they were there in the first place.

Visceral, unapologetic, and emotionally unfiltered, these are stories that don’t flinch.

CRUST [KRUSTE] | 25 Min | Jens Kevin Georg | Germany

SHKËNDIJË | 4 Min | Kea Gargiulo | Australia

DON’T BE LATE, MYRA | 15 Min | Afia Serena Nathaniel | Pakistan

CIRCLE CIRCLE CIRCLE CIRCLE | 12 Min | Katherine Skelton, Libby Ewing | United States

THE BOY WITH WHITE SKIN [L’ENFANT À LA PEAU BLANCHE] | 15 Min | Simon Panay | Senegal

JASMINE TEA | 6 Min | Javier Chacon | Venezuela

WORLDWIDE COMPETITION III is a fever dream of grief, satire, paranoia, and collapse.

These films move between dystopian futures, haunted presents, and absurd alternate histories—where nothing is stable, and everything is under pressure. Emotions fracture under the weight of silence. Bureaucracy meets apocalypse. A child waits for parents who won’t come back. Love is theorized by philosophers and flattened by algorithms. Political tension boils over in diners and sound studios, while strange energies—digital, spiritual, historical—hum beneath the surface, waiting to break through. From climate anxiety to emotional detachment, from techno-surrealism to existential dread, these short films deliver unease with elegance—and chaos with precision.

Unpredictable, unsettling, and uncomfortably timely.

AICHA | 25 Min | Sanaa El Alaoui | Morocco

PROFESSOR SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK ON THE PROBLEM WITH ONLINE DATING | 14 Min | Mardo El-Noor | New Zealand

ENCUENTRO AMERICANO | 11 Min | E.T. Vazquez | United States

HYMN OF THE PLAGUE [ГИМН ЧУМЕ] | 13 Min | Alexander Epikhov, Dimitri Gorbaty, Philipp Ivanov, Ataka51 | Russia, Germany

BRIELLA | 12 Min | Emily Mazariegos | Guatemala

QUOTA [QUOTUM] | 2 Min | Job, Joris & Marieke | Netherlands