All Films

Love Never Leaves

2025 • 60 min

An aspiring actress arrives at a rental house but soon discovers that the house's owner is an eccentric hermit who curses her, spiraling her into a waking nightmare. Struggling, she takes matters into her own hands to get revenge.

Memories of Occupation

2025 • 10 min

Since 1944, Lithuanians have lived under Soviet occupation. They declared independence on the 11th of March, 1990. Ending almost 50 years of Soviet control. These are MEMORIES OF OCCUPATION.

The Wind Hitting My Window

2025 • 26 min • Spain

Emilio interviews his family members about the death of his paternal great-grandfather due to the mining disease called silicosis, which will lead everyone to give their particular opinion about their connection with faith, death, and remembrance.

Baliw na Pag-ibig

2025 • 18 min

A short film by Karen Jane Salutan-Krukover.

Florence

2025 • 31 min • United States of America

Chronicles the writing and afterlife of the hit 1995 song “Florence” by Milwakuee band Little Blue Crunchy Things through interviews and live performances.

Old Dykes

2025 • 18 min

When Mel visits Laurie in hospice to say goodbye, Laurie finally confesses the feelings she’s held onto since they were eighteen.

Embers of Queer Joy

2025 • 4 min • Canada

Shot on 35mm, Embers of Queer Joy captures vignettes of authentic queer joy. Three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee Mary Galloway is a celebrated filmmaker, director, and TIFF Rising Star who creates heartfelt, entertaining stories centring Indigenous and queer communities.

Curupira and the Machine of the Destiny

2025 • 24 min • Brazil, France

Filmed in Amazonas in 2021, on Estrada Fantasma BR-319, Transamazônica BR-230 and in the real city of Realidade, “Curupira and the Machine of Destiny” documents the encounter in the present time between a curupira and the incarnate ghost of Iracema, a character in the movie “Iracema – an amazon sex”. Open as wounds during the civic-military dictatorship that entangled Brazil in the cries of order and progress, the asphalt rebars that crisscross the country were built, destroyed and are now drowning in a process of reconstruction. Warm ruins of an addicted future. In love, Iracema ghost sets off at the crossroads of the straight roads of the Amazon to find Curupira and avenge the future.

We Should Make a Movie

2025 • 57 min • United States of America

A young man and a young woman send video messages back and forth from afar, brainstorming a movie to make together in the future when they see each other again.

Thank You for Calling

2025 • 13 min

In the anonymity of an increasingly automated city, a successful but socially struggling man finds an unexpected emotional connection through a help desk conversation. Thank You for Calling (Met Wie Spreek Ik) is a short, magical-realistic film about Rens, a director of a music venue who is on the brink of a burn-out. After an emotional breakdown, he is unexpectedly called by Herman, an unknown man on a houseboat. What starts as an uncomfortable phone call, ends in an absurd musical journey.

Short Circuit

2025 • 11 min

Carla meets his boyfriend's family for the first time on Christmas Eve, but a small confrontation with Susana, her mother-in-law, and Susana’s special dish of vitel toné will take the evening to its breaking point.

Into Reality

2025 • 9 min

A troubled man keeps seeing an image he can't get out of his head. The answers may be more than he realizes.

Everybody's Doing Fine

2025 • 28 min • France

Elina, a young Russian journalist, travels to an Alpine ski resort to write an article about a wellness retreat. But during her stay, news from her home country comes to haunt her as she must face her own malaise.

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