127 Seconds in a Chiar(2025)

Jeff(en)

A phone sex operator loses her grip on reality, caught in a hypnotic relationship with a caller making disturbing confessions.

Lux Æterna: The Art of Filmmaking(en)

An experimental shortfilm in line with "Lux Æterna", showcasing the footage from Cecil B. DeMille's "King of the Kings". A voiceover pronunces word "Relax" in a hypnotic tone, which was Lux Æterna's working title. It was shown only once in Paris at L'Étrange Festival, at the opening of "Lux Æterna".

THÁI BẢO HUỲNH KHANG(vi)

A trans Vietnamese woman's deadname being repeated over and over again.

Magueyes(es)

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.

A Minds Abyss(en)

Painful memories are unleashed following an act of violent suicide.

DHET!(bn)

The night takes a strange turn in Dhaka as a ride-sharing motorcyclist tries to reach his next passenger in time.

Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid(en)

A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, political polarization and various issues in modern society.

Vacuumin’ Around(hu)

A documentary about a person who cleans his room with a vacuum cleaner, filled with disasters and mishaps.

Soft(en)

A portrait of new found sobriety and love unravels as a young woman moves through the motions of melancholic life in seclusion.

3 Degree K #02(en)

A dance by bodies of shifting colors.

Dead End(en)

Two brothers come into contact after a very long time due to the discovery that the world is going to end. Together, they find themselves face-to-face with the inevitable dilemma to either save the reality of their relationship or the world's existence.

Desert Vows(en)

Hunter, a bride-to-be, feels overworked and unappreciated. Her artistic spirit is squelched by the shallow corporate world she’s in and she has had enough. Unfortunately, she feels as if she can’t turn to Ian, her commercial executive fiancé, for solace. As her wedding day approaches, Hunter and her three bridesmaids embark on a road trip to Las Vegas for one last hoorah together. As the girls venture from the city, they decompress and let their personal barriers fall. An impromptu sightseeing excursion into the desert leads to a clash of anxieties and attitudes between Hunter, the bridesmaids, and her fiancé as Hunter searches for the road that’s right for her.

Caterpillar(ja)

A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.

Bársony Spirál(hu)

Anhell69(es)

A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts. The young queer scene of Medellín is casted for the film, but the main protagonist dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21, just like many friends of the director. Anhell69 explores the dreams, doubts and fears of an annihilated generation, and the struggle to carry on making cinema.

Blackbear(en)

A short film by Bryce Hodgson.

House(ja)

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Salamander Days(en)

Salamander Days is an atmospheric meditation on friendship, grief, self-discovery, and adolescent consciousness. Set in an American high school, taking place in the midst of a student’s passing, and deeply rooted in the mythology of the salamander, the film explores the concepts of memory and creation, as well as the transformative experience of loss.

20 years and other untranslatabilities(xx)

By reversing the image of the burning and destruction of Chinese-Indonesian homes and cultures in the May 1998 tragedy, the filmmaker documents a funeral and cremation she conducted in response to the ethnic hatred that was still being discussed 20 years after the 1998 atrocities. Can memories be erased? What can we choose to forget? What continues to haunt us?

Locked(en)

A tormented man struggling with his inner demons, seeks desperately a way to be at peace with himself.