International Short Film Competition
Brimming with creativity and pushing the boundaries of the form, these shorts present some of the most exciting voices in documentary.
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Angular Phoenix
Reanimating a Baron and the Black Princess, this speculative film summons figures from the past through bodies of the present, in a visceral call for reconciliation.
  • Welket Bungué
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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Blue
A piercingly intimate glimpse into the complex dynamics in a family where obedience is obligatory and emotions are as unpredictable as the sea.

  • Ana Vijdea
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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Dancing Palestine
In a culture continually threatened with erasure, dancing the dabke, the traditional folk dance of Palestine, becomes an essential form of resistance for young Palestinians.
  • Lamees Almakkawy
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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De Occulta Imagine
Bringing his cinematic alchemy to the archives of the Italian Labour and Democratic Movement, director Stefano P. Testa transmutes the past with an inimitable presence.
  • Stefano P. Testa
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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Flowers
An Amazon ethnocide is justified by a war in Ukraine. It's streamed online by the filmmaker, while in the garden his three-year-old son marvels at the flowers.
  • José Cardoso
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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Our Lady Who Burns
On a Portuguese mountain, saintly apparitions and alien encounters interweave with the story of a pregnant cat, in a series of paranormal encounters.
  • Alice dos Reis
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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Perfected Grammar
Through language lessons with her mother, a daughter learns more about her Indonesian roots, her mother’s painful journey, and her longing for a place to call home.
  • Andrea Suwito
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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The Backstreet
An intimate exploration of four decades of desire, community, love and loss through the eyes of regulars at The Backstreet, an iconic London gay leather club.
  • Romain Beck
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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We Are Fallen Angels
A young singer and influencer lives in a dream world of her own making, but behind this glitzy veneer lies a much more complicated reality.
  • Rosa Vendelboe Vestergaard
  • 2024
  • Film Programme
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