The International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition presents five programs offering a vibrant overview of contemporary cinema. The films tackle political, artistic, and thematic issues - from historical memory to identity, from trauma to resistance - often employing experimental languages and an essayistic style. Oscillating between archive and fiction, documentary and animation, each program forms an essay on the present and the boldness of a new generation.

International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition #01
Home and exile: families in waiting, diasporas between longing and dreams, identities in transit. From Haiti to Palestine, a political-poetic portrait of belonging.

Blue Heart
Samuel Suffren, FIC, 2025, HTI, FRA, 15’

Baisanos
Andrés Khamis Giacoman, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, DOC, 2025, CHL, PSE, ESP, 14'

Jacob’s House
Lucas Kane, DOC, EXP, 2025, USA, 21'

Our Homes do Not Exist
Anna Lamour, DOC, EXP, 2025, GRC, FRA, 14'

The House
Carl Olsson, DOC, 2024, EST, SWE, 15’

International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition #02
Solitudes and creative spaces: from the studio to the shadows of memory; films that, between a symphony of archives and a textile gesture, transform silence into invention.

Rolle Workshop, A Journey
Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battaggia, DOC, 2025, CHE, 30'

She Dolls With Dollies
Karin Fisslthaler, ANI, EXP, 2024, AUS, 3'

Solitudes
Ryan McKenna, FIC, 2025, CAN, 38'

On Weaving
Luke Fowler, Corin Sworn, EXP, DOC, 2025, GBR, 26'

International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition #03
Four variations on power, surveillance, and resilience: from the essay on techno-colonial violence to the fable of invisibility, cinema resists.

Control Anatomy
Mahmoud Alhaj, EXP, 2024, PSE, 17'

Slet 1988
Marta Popivoda, DOC, 2025, SRB, DEU, FRA, 22'

Equal Dust
Jani Peltonen, DOC, EXP, 2025, FIN, 14'

The Spectacle
Bálint Kenyeres, FIC, 2025, HUN, FRA, 15'

International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition #04
Myth and everyday life intersect in gestures of resistance and flashes of revelation: a heroic figure reinvented, lives shaped by water, insular ironies, scrutinized masculinities, and a determined fisherman facing a sea exploited to exhaustion.

The Fall
Christine Rebet, ANI, 2025, FRA, 5’

Pedro Tomás Explains The World
Kornelijus Stučkus, DOC, 2025, ESP, 5'

Water Girl
Sandra Desmazières, ANI, FIC, 2025, FRA, PRT, NLD, 15'

Bumblebee
Fon Cortizo, FIC, 2024, ESP, 19'

Just Sea
Franziska von Stenglin, DOC, 2024, MLT, 26'

International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition #05
Four films confront the past and envision futures. Through testimonies, returns, physical pain, and youth assemblies, witnessing becomes a form of healing and resistance.

I Was There
Kamila Kuc, DOC, EXP, 2025, POL, GBR, USA, 12’

I’m Glad You’re Dead Now
Tawfeek Barhom, FIC, 2025, PSE, FRA, GRC, 13'

A Very Straight Neck
Neo Sora, FIC, 2025, JPN, CHN, 11'

A Prelude
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, DOC, 2024, NLD, JPN, 36'