Short Films 2024

In this intense short film, a grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past.

Chronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.

A terminally ill woman, determined and strong-willed, journeys back to her birthplace to make arrangements for her cremation after death.

During wartime, a mother and daughter flee to a safe haven, where they learn to call it home, forging a new life amidst adversity.

A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?

Leipzig, 1989. Margarethe, a young punk opposed to the East German regime, is detained in a psychiatric hospital. She dreams of breaking out to join the man she loves - a punk musician named Heinrich. Though the regime's days may well be numbered, the Stasi informants are more present than ever.

In Mont Noir, Marguerite has been experiencing three severe losses : her mother, her dog, then her nanny. She grew up alone, animals and nature as main fellows. She has been setting herself to become a writer.

Joanna, a young European traveller, roams around the Cape Verde Islands along with her sketchbook. On her way she encounters Lito, a local fisherman who will spur her to delay her departure from the village of Esperança.

A robotic vacuum in a pandemic hospital quits its repetitive job. It travels to Chinatown looking for meaning. Befriending a rabbit trapped in repetition, the vacuum discovers community and purpose beyond programmed cleaning.

A girl is walking when a Japanese river otter catches up with her. The two try to communicate while the world threatens to sink under the weight of its consumer goods.

Painterly impressions of a horse's silhouette, its springy movements, the shape of its head, the fight of stallions.

At the bottom of the sea, between the rocks and coral, primitive seaweed gently sways, lulled by the muffled sound of rolling currents. High above on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice.

With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle. From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.

Girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system.

It is an artwork that exposes the lifespan of infinity. The film delves into an immersive loop of organic forms, reflecting on the entangled nature of life and art.

A man searching for an answer

A journey of a young woman metamorphosing into another and trying to tame her new self.

West Africa, early 1960s. A French officer is assigned to find a missing missionary. His investigation, amid mistrust, silence and prejudice, takes him far away from the glittering shoreline, where day and night become one.

Animated on the pinscreen, this film revisits the tragic fate of Queen Mariana of Austria and her 1652 portrait by Velázquez.

Paula the centaur-girl finds love, but now she must finally confront herself, her desires, and the dilemmas of conformity and self-acceptance.

Hurikán rushes to save his favorite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he crushes on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.

In an isolated prairie home, a young girl shoulders the burden of caring for her three siblings and navigating a dysfunctional relationship with their mother. When the mother mysteriously transforms into a bird and abandons her children, this resilient eldest sister struggles to maintain their isolated existence. As the siblings, one by one, undergo a metamorphosis into animals and forsake her for the enchanting forest, she faces a poignant choice: embrace her own transformation and join them in the vast wilderness of their home or defy fate, embracing her scarred humanity, and venture into the towns and cities of the world to forge her own destiny.

Full of exuberance and frivolousness, six friends drive to the Polish Baltic coast and back in a small, beaten-up car. During their trip, their car and their country fall apart. Nevertheless, life goes on.

There's a man swimming in the sea. It reminds him of his past. All of them linked to water, from his childhood to his adult life. This will be the story of his last swim.