Trump Pinochet (United States) by Gerald Habarth

This short experimental animation reflects tensions and apprehensions around the growing autocratic tendencies in the US and the world at large. It references Donald Trump and Augusto Pinochet, authoritarians who successfully manipulated public perceptions and attitudes to centralize power and wealth while undermining the democratic and moral underpinnings of their respective nations. It's uncertain spaces, course textures, clumsy imagery and dissonant sounds resonate with the tenuousness of these developments and these times. 

Running time: 00:02:58

Becoming (United Kingdom) by Shelley Hopkins

‘Becoming’ transports us to an otherworldly realm where an angelic chorus of synth and suggestion underscores an ever- changing landscape that is simultaneously fixed at the micro - the savage and purposeful dance of creation and destruction and the macro - the unimaginably vast and unwittingly beautiful scale of an unthinking and an unknowable universe swirling towards it's next stage.  

Running time: 00:04:48

The journey (United Kingdom) by Mel Steele

As a non driver journey's seem to flash by sometimes as unlike the driver who has to concentrate I get lost in the scenery as it flashes by me and feel I arrive at the destination without having taken notice of the scenery.. Just lines speeding by me

Running time: 00:02:30

Pico Sacro [The Holy Mountain] (Spain) by Alberto Lobelle

"Study the Earth and the Stars in the sky; anywhere in the world reflects an image of it. You must keep this arrow for a hundred years and a day. After this time, stick it in the widest valley of all those you possess, with the tip facing the sky. Then the Moon will come and, just as it exerts its action on the waters of the sea, it will act on the arrow, turning it into a holy mountain." - Legend about the Pico Sacro

Inspired by Hokusai's views of Mount Fuji and Cézanne's paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire, "Pico Sacro [The Holy Mountain]" aims to reveal the mystery and the magic that underlie reality.

Running time: 01:19:00

Devotion (Belgium) by Théo Naniot

The story of a being experiencing the pulsion of life and its evolution towards death. This film is a try to picture through filmic media, a certain sensation I once felt about human relationships and the inherent movement that drives us to exist. 

Running time: 00:16:18

The Temptation of an Ordinary Thought by Thomas Pappas

A young man lives between his confinement and the anxiety of the upcoming summer. Extracts from the diary of a soldier during his military service.

Running time: 00:05:59

• (United States) by Derrick Schultz

Running time: 00:09:00

Bloodlines at Sea (France) by David Munoz

Bloodlines at Sea is an experimental film that unfolds as a sensory journey into the ocean depths. Drawing on underwater imagery, archival material, soundscapes, and poetic fragments, the film explores the invisible traces left by human actions upon marine environments, as well as the forms of appropriation and quiet violence that move through the living world. Pollutants, gases, and residues continue their drift, unsettling the fragile balance of the ocean. Moving between appearance and disappearance, the film creates a space that is at once visceral, spectral, and immersive, where the beauty of the seabed is shadowed by a persistent threat. The ocean becomes a site of memory, metamorphosis, and disturbance, shaped by forces that connect environmental damage with other forms of violence—social, historical, and deeply embodied. At the intersection of experimental cinema and artist film, Bloodlines at Sea offers less a narrative than a sensorial experience of contamination, resonance, and disquiet.

Running time: 00:16:36

Dynamics (Netherlands) by Teo Baehler

Dynamics (Frozen Movements) is an experimental, dreamy and surreal stop-motion film, created using everyday materials. The film offers a visual reflection on transformations that emerge through the intuitive blending of dissimilar elements. The result is a non-narrative art film where fantasy, form and texture merge into a sensory experience.

This short animation invites viewers to surrender to a world where logic gives way to atmosphere and intuition. The hypnotic soundscape enhances the avant-garde character of the film and leaves plenty of room for personal interpretation.

Running time: 00:14:32

Scores for Mother & Daughter (Belgium) by Natalia Sardi

Two pairs of hands, one belonging to the mother, the other to the child, her daughter. Witnesses and expressions of the passing of time, these hands will come together and dialogue, exploring their relationship and complicity, in movement, through the choreographic transposition of a suite of “musical scores” conceived by artist Louise Bourgeois in New York in 1999.

Running time: 00:12:15

Home (Belgium) by Hanne Schillemans, Ralph Timmermans

Home is a short film about the fragility of life and the virtue of solitude. A faceless figure attempting not to resist the endless waves of pointlessness. Home explores the tension between presence and absence within the strange choreography of existing. The protagonist’s nudity, devoid of eroticism, emphasizes vulnerability and the human form as a part not nature, reinforcing the film’s existential themes.  The figure remains faceless, allowing her to become anyone — or everyone, shifting the focus away from personal identity and stressing instinct over intellect, being over persona. Home oscillates between the micro and the macro, between intimacy and vastness. Ants crawling with tireless precision, the sun rendered in cosmic proximity. In this interplay the human body becomes just another element: fragile, raw, exposed and dwarfed by the enormity of the natural world. Home meditates on aloneness not as absence, but as condition. It invites the viewer to witness a body moving through a universe that does not look back. Accompanied by music that is as raw as it is emotional, the film does not conform to conventional cinematic structures but instead allows the audience to immerse themselves in the rhythm of isolation and the ebb and flow of meaning in an indifferent world.

Running time: 00:11:29

Performance No.19190301 by Mingu Kang

Teenage boy Seong-hyun sets out on a journey with his grandmother Byeong-hee, who suggests leaving without revealing a destination. However, their car breaks down, preventing them from starting their trip. At that moment, the TV installed in the car broadcasts a mysterious performance titled "Performance No. 19190301." As the show begins, Seong-hyun and Byeong-hee embark on a journey through the history of Korea's past.

Running time: 00:41:00

Geography (Italy) by luca De Santis

I am a traveler, and unable to travel to document territories in these years marked by armed conflicts, I have chosen to explore them virtually, using Google Earth imagery to create GEOGRAPHY. Google Earth’s photographic system, composed of 12–15 cameras that shoot simultaneously, produces a 360-degree vision that appears total, seemingly objective. Yet it is precisely in the space between one camera and another that my interest lies: an error, a fracture in the image, a distortion. Within these almost imperceptible discontinuities, a broader metaphor emerges. From war zones to the Western world, what reaches us is often an altered vision: information filtered and distorted by the political spectrum, where the objective perception of events and reality is constantly manipulated. The technical error thus becomes a human error. The imperfect stitching of the image mirrors the imperfect stitching of the narrative. When the war is over and we are able to return to those places, what will remain will not only be the visible destruction, but also the trace of that error: a fracture produced by human power, inscribed both in the landscape and in our way of seeing.

Running time: 00:22:30

They Are Killing Us... (Canada) by Maurice Cormier

From A Nightmare Of A Possible Not Too Distant Future....

Running time: 00:05:11

Nonna's Seeds (Canada) by Patricia Marcoccia

A granddaughter returns to her vacant childhood home, where distant memories and traditions merge into the present, gently whispering: move forward, but don’t forget where you came from.

Running time: 00:04:00

Digits of Pi (United States) by Tom Bessoir, Joshua Pines

Inspired by Marcel Duchamp's “Anemic Cinema,” I set out to create a film composed within a circular frame. This circular composition led directly to using the number pi for the underlying structure. Having the digits of pi sung on the soundtrack is an homage to “Einstein on the Beach” by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.

Running time: 00:03:14

Beproeven (Belgium) by Karlijn Reynaerts

A film that plunges viewers into the disorienting world of a person with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). Food, for them, is not sustenance but a trigger for overwhelming anxiety and disgust. The world around them bombards them with distorted textures, smells, and tastes, a sensory labyrinth they desperately try to navigate. The film employs a striking visual style. Fragmented images, rapid cuts, and distorted close-ups create a sense of unease, mirroring the protagonist's internal struggle. The narrative unfolds through a poetic tapestry of visuals and sounds.

Running time: 00:03:10

Tunnel of luv (United States) by Jeremy Pellington

An exercise in empathy. Max Azzarello passed away after a public political act of self-harm. Scrolling excerpts of Azzarello’s writings on “The Simpsons” and footage collected from rented Tesla cars document a U.S. landscape that gives rise to conspiratorial thought, an open society at the turn of an openly present oligarchy.

Running time: 00:17:10

Pretty People Picking (Canada) by Connor Kujawinski

In a black and seemingly empty void between space and time, a stubborn, media-addicted Soul is finally given the opportunity to choose a Host to be born into with the help of Phanes, his guide and "chauffeur" into life.

Running time: 00:08:10

SÔMA (Belgium) by Raphaël Vens

A body. A fragmented mental space. A scream being prepared, being held back. A cry that shatters. Through five successive states — Invocation, Dissolution, Inner Pain, Nervousness/Tension, Desertion — a man passes through the disintegration of its flesh, the loss of orientation, and the abandonment of physical landmarks. Throughout this journey, the body twists, fades, and reconstructs itself as nervous vibrations and spasms, until it becomes nothing but a floating imprint in space. This narrative is not a story to be understood, but an experience to be endured: that of a being who, unable to contain itself, ends up becoming echo, emptiness, silence.

Running time: 00:06:11

Gaslight (Hong Kong) by Bijou Octavia, Chloe Brooke

In the presence of the gaslighter, the creatures of faery skeletons appear and linger. the seed has been planted, now you spiral - the gaslighter takes control.

Running time: 00:01:46

Roses (United States) by ANDi LAND

The self-destructive nature of seeking love and validation from external sources.

Running time: 00:02:38