Shorts

Dirndlschuld

The Dirndl—a colorful traditional dress typically associated with the postcard-idyllic Austrian landscape—hides a dark, complicated, history and a heavy burden of guilt.

Geamăna

Valeria is forced to leave her village after it had been flooded with toxic water from the mines. Before she says her final farewell, she remembers the life she had there.

Hanging On

After building a lifetime of memories and a close-knit community, the residents of a council housing neighborhood are faced with eviction, as real estate investors itch to demolish their homes in favor of luxury projects.

How Do You Measure a Year?

Each year, from the time she was two until she turned 18, Ella’s dad asked (and filmed), and she answered. A story about love and growing up.

In Flow of Words

The interpreters at an international war crime tribunal are supposed to hide their feelings, even when the testimonies are similar to their own experiences.

Letter from Eusapia

The pandemic has just begun, and the filmmaker, who studies the underground city of Eusapia in Brussels, talks to his father, a physician in Ecuador.

Life

Tehran is in lockdown, but the filmmaker’s elderly mother decides to visit anyway. How will she adapt to the presence of a giant pet iguana?

Love, Dad

A stirring and beautiful animated letter, in which the filmmaker tries to understand the choices that led her father to disappear from her life.

Nuisance Bear

The obstacle course migrating polar bears must navigate to avoid tourists and wildlife officers, shown from the bears’ point of view.

Strigov

When grandma dies, those who are left in the tiny, slowly disappearing Slovakian community join the emotional farewell journey.

The Night

Acclaimed filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang turns his gaze to Hong Kong, which remains in motion all through the night, even when the streets are empty.

Haulout

On a remote coast of the Siberian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.

Party Poster

In preparation for a festival celebrating Ganesh, laundrymen on the outskirts of Mumbai design a poster that will give them a moment of fame.