All Films

Mercy

2025 • 27 min • Canada

After a chance encounter with her estranged best friend Petter, who stands accused of rape, Guro is thrust into a harrowing moral dilemma: should she stand by him, risking her own reputation and sense of self, or sever the tie, abandoning someone she once trusted most? MERCY premiered at the 48th Norwegian Short Film Festival, where it won the Golden Chair award for Best Norwegian Short, and it also won Best Short film at the Norwegian film award Amanda. The film’s stark, unflinching narrative examines the fragile line between loyalty and judgment, forcing audiences to wrestle with uncomfortable questions about friendship, stigma, and how quickly trust fractures under accusation.

To the End of the Night

2025 • Duration unknown • Denmark

Ahab Was Here: Reflections on Moby Dick

2025 • 46 min • Bulgaria

A Bulgarian theater company struggles to adapt Herman Melville's epic "Moby Dick" for the stage, revealing the obsessive dedication and creative challenges faced by cast and crew in their quest to bring an unfilmable masterpiece to life.

Recursive Dreams

2025 • 17 min

Set in the distant future. Zin, a desperate mother, breaks into a reclusive man's home to extract and steal valuable memories that will fund her sick daughter's medicine.

The Secret Assistants

2025 • 19 min • United Kingdom, Germany

Sophie, an ambitious novice, walks a razor's edge as her interview with titan of industry Henry Mann descends into a squalid power play.

Cliff

2025 • 11 min • United States of America

A momentous cliff draws near a pained woman as she makes an offering to her former self.

Lenses

2025 • 5 min • United Kingdom

After finding a seemingly ordinary pair of glasses, Michael decides to show them off - unaware of the darkness that could soon consume him and endanger his friends.

Out to Dry

2025 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Made for MAP 48 2025. A daughter finds a alcoholic mother, hungover, with her uncle staying over.

Touch Faith

2025 • 8 min

Grieving the death of his loving mother, fashion designer Khamron Hines will discover what it means to open his heart…

ΝΙΚΗ (or The Impossible Hope of Trying)

2025 • 15 min • Greece

On the eve of the biggest show of her career, a young pop singer struggles with her sense of control over her art and her mind. But fate has other plans for her.

Coywolf

2025 • 12 min • United States of America

In the bustling chaos of New York City, coyotes lurk in the shadows, hidden in plain sight and largely unknown to their human neighbors. COYWOLF explores how we relate to wildlife in urban environments and blurs the lines between city and nature.

When Everything Was Gone

2025 • 12 min • Canada

A journalist interviews four ex-employees of The Milton Family Group, a large corporation that seemingly vanished overnight. What begins as an investigation to uncover the truth behind a corporate mystery slowly devolves into a farce of absurd conspiracies and personal confessions.

Hôtel Lumière

2025 • Duration unknown • France

Rasm e Duri

2025 • 14 min

A woman, haunted by her past, struggles with depression and stress, trying to find meaning and happiness in her life today.

Coffee Is Important

2025 • 15 min

A pair of long lost friends re-discover the power of friendship, the quaint traditions of a small town, and the importance of coffee.

The Sneeze: Part Two

2025 • 6 min • United States of America

A comedic docu-essay looking at the legacy of "Fred Ott's Sneeze," one of the first films ever made. Official selection of The Indie Gathering International Film Festival.

Heyari: Espalhar Fumaça para Fazer Adoecer Colocando Feitiço no Fogo

2025 • 20 min • Brazil

Heyari (Yanomami for “spreading smoke to make someone sick by casting a spell on fire”) addresses climate collapse in a housing complex, with its residents as part of the cast. Stubborn in her faith, Joana refuses to flee to the mountains with her son while lonely elders succumb to the heat. One of them is the mother of Viktor, a gold miner who returns to the complex injured when his house is taken by the sea. Everyone flees while Joana stands firm, caring for Viktor and clinging to the unlikely return of her son — until a murder and scarcity transform her into the very thing she fears most.

Old Old

2025 • 20 min • Taiwan

Beaupré the Giant

2025 • 9 min • Canada

Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Gone too young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body will take more than 80 years to find its way home.

Light Bearer

2025 • Duration unknown • Brazil

A man's soccer match is interrupted by a blackout. In the dark and amidst his own problems, Anderson decides to drive around town in search of matches, the game, and himself.

That Which Is Heard

2025 • 21 min

Shruti Kothari, a stroke survivor and once in-demand theatre performer, finds her way back on stage for the first time in four years.

Le Grand A

2025 • Duration unknown

Chapter 6

2025 • 25 min • Bulgaria

In a small English town, a Bulgarian immigrant family receives an urgent visit from Child Protection Services due to allegations of domestic violence. As the officers take their child away and the parents swing from anger and despair to denial of reality, the deep rifts in their relationship come to the fore.

Sensation: Cruise

2025 • 24 min • Ukraine

Mykola Kuńko works as an unlucky TV reporter in early 2000s Ukraine. Together with his trusty camerawoman, Jenya, he is wandering aimlessly through life, from one boring news story to another. One morning, when they are about to go to the premiere of a new rip-off action film, they stumble upon their biggest sensation yet.