To my love (Rakkaalleni) (Finland) by Aino Kontinen

*** Doc.Berlin Documentary Film Festival

Facade renovation locks young woman inside her apartment. During a reconstruction of her home and herself she writes a letter to her loved one.

Running time: 00:05:00

A Mother Goes to the Beach (Portugal) by Pedro Hasrouny

Teresa, a single mother spends a day at the beach with her six-year-old son, Benji and her sister Marga, who is back to Portugal for a summer vacation. The day becomes very stressful with her sister's constant speech about her son's achievements and her criticisms towards Benji.

Running time: 00:15:58

Tennis, Oranges (United States) by Sean Pecknold

*** SXSW, Annecy Film Festival

A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.

Running time: 00:10:53

Fragments (United Kingdom) by Mélodie Roulaud

When we discuss and depict the body, we refer to something both tangible and imagined, with unclear boundaries and a complex relationship to the 'self'. This portrait of non-binary model Venus Baginski, the second episode of Fragments, takes an introspective journey into their understanding and experience of their body. 

Running time: 00:03:00

The dream of Joseph (France) by François Hébert

*** Rhode Island Film Festival

One summer, Maud, 26, meets a boy on the beach and collapses in front of a picture. A few months later, she returns with a camera to try to understand.

Running time: 00:23:15

Spell (Brazil) by Khalil Charif

*** 33rd Festival Curta Cinema - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brussels Independent Film Festival 

A spell is cast on the dance floors, and it transforms the atmosphere. Sensory stimuli and traces of a documentary past are captured and thrown into an imaginary present, a fabulation beyond the fascination of the night, towards a re-enchantment with life, with being together, interweaving conviviality and liberation.

Running time: 00:03:00

The Core (Romania) by Robert Obert

This short animated film illustrates a common consciousness from which materialized instances of feminine and masculine emerge, only to morph again into a single core. It is a metaphor of a love connection between two partners, fueled from the same source, but also for the power of creation that consciousness holds. This  also collects and shows sections of each partner’s transformation process, revealing and underlining that everything begins and ends from and into a single point, it shows the nucleus of narratives from each individual,  their symbiosis and eventually their exit. The author considers this animation a meta frame where we can be spectators to a process of creation and emotion.

Running time: 00:01:11

The Cascade (Mexico) by Pablo Delgado Sanchez

*** Clermont-Ferrand Int'l Short Film Festival, Prix Canal +, Brussels Independent Film Festival

A man discovers he's been crying for several months without even noticing. Strangely, his tear ducts have decided to work in an inverse manner, transforming his interiors into a waterfall. The man will have to find a way to stop a cry that he can't even feel.    00:20:00

The Steak (Canada, Iran) by Kiarash Dadgar

*** 30th Slamdance International Film Festival

A birthday party preparation is thrown into chaos by an awful event.

Running time: 00:08:13

Cock (Norway) by Robin Jensen

Two sweaty men end up at odds with each other in a crowded sauna. A short film about prejudice and politics. And cock.

Running time: 00:06:30

For Sale (Belgium) by Lidewij Deroo

For sale explores the phenomenon of American-inspired suburban neighborhoods, where the pursuit of homeownership has become a defining measure of success. The dream of 2.5 kids, a dog, and a house with a fence symbolizes a high standard of living, independence and social status.

Running time: 00:03:00

Latchkey Kids (Norway) by Sindre Mangen Haram

*** winner Brussels Independent Film Festival

When twelve-year-old Erik is forced to choose which parent should have to move out during an ugly divorce, he struggles in the aftermath of his decision and how it ends up altering his relationships not only with his parents, but his two younger brothers as well.

Running time: 00:21:16