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All Mid-Length Films (30-60 mins) A-Z

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  • Abyssal

    Dir. Alejandro Alonso - 30min - 2021 - France, Cuba

    Raudel works at a boat scrap yard in western Cuba. With his colleagues, he lives inside the jagged metal and the smoke of the oil when it burns. He talks about spirits, about stories that await him somewhere. In his eyes hope is opposed to that...

  • Before They Meet

    Dir. Vytautas Puidokas - 52min - 2021 - Norway, Croatia, Belgium, Lithuania

    After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kaliningrad became a Russian exclave, completely surrounded by the European Union. The region has a beautiful natural environment, with a long peninsula between the Baltic Sea and ...

  • Boxing Libreville (English Subtitles)

    Dir. Amédée Pacôme Nkoulou - 54 min - 2018 - Gabon - Language: French & Guissire - Subtitles available in English and French.

    Libreville, Gabon, 2017. Christ, a young boxer trains tirelessly during the day, and at night he’s a watchmen in a discotheque. At the same time, another fight is pla...

  • Breakfast in Kisumu

    Dir. Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell - 2019 - United Kingdom, Kenya, South Africa

    Shot across 16mm, VHS, DV, and Digital, Breakfast in Kisumu is a personal homage to the 20-year journey of renowned professor and political activist Rok Ajulu. Filmed across six countries between Europe and Africa, w...

  • Calais: The Last Border

    Dir. Marc Isaacs - 2003 - UK

    For the English, the French port town of Calais is the gateway to Europe or a place to buy cheap alcohol. For Hundreds of refugees and migrants it is the final barrier in the desperate search for a new life in England. This intimate film weaves together character dri...

  • Calvinia

    Dir. Rudi van der Merwe - 50min - 2022 - Switzerland

    CALVINIA follows a 40-year-old man who returns to his hometown in rural South Africa to visit his elderly father. His journey oscillates between memories of his childhood on a sheep farm in the 1980s and present-day images of people and places...

  • Campus Monde

    DIR. N'TIFAFA YANNICK EDOH GLIKOU - 53MIN - 2024 - FRANCE, SENEGAL, BENIN

    There was a time when the youth in the South were seeking to travel.Those who believed that living was the only solution. In Abidjan, at the «intelligent immigration» consultancy Campus Monde, young Ivorians are guided and...

  • Città Giardino

    Dir. Marco Piccarreda - Screenplay. Gaia Formenti - 57min - 2018 - Italy - Languages: Arabic, French, Italian, English - Subtitles available in: English, French, Italian, Spanish.

    The “CittàGiardino” centre for immigrants is closing. There are only six teenagers left in the house. They have all ...

  • Compañía

    Dir. Miguel Hilari - 2019 - Bolivia - Languages: Spanish, Aymara, Quechua - Subtitles available in: English, Spanish

    A trip, leaving the city.
    In a village between the mountains music is played for the dead.
    Memories and dreams appear, journeys back and forth.
    Urbano is baptized.

    "The physical...

  • Dor (Longing)

    Dir. Jannes Callens - 52min - 2022 - Belgium, Romania

    A young man returns to his native Romania to make a fresh start as a shepherd. Jannes Callens' film moves at the same pace as a pasture crossing, between expedition, pause and contemplation. Striking images of this profession merge with exist...

  • Eyes and Arms

    Dir. Panahbarkhoda Rezaee - 2019 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English

    Maryam lost her arms and a foot in a railway accident, and against her family's wishes eloped with Mohammad who is blind. Deeply in love and perfectly matched, living in rural Iran, the isolated couple overcome their...

  • He

    Dir. Sam Kalantari - 2015 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English

    In Qaleh Hassan Khan, a town between Tehran and Karaj in Iran, 'He' follows mannequins on their journey from the factory floor to the shop window.

    "Like a science-fiction film, 'He' examines the surreal path of shop window ...

  • It Takes a Family

    Dir. Susanne Kovacs - 2019 - Denmark

    It Takes A Family is a family drama about secrets and repressed memories. Director, Susanne Kovacs, is the grandchild of Jewish Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a German mother and a Danish Jewish father. When Susanne is born, in the eyes of her grandp...

  • Khan's Flesh

    Dir. Kristina Savutsina, Cinematographer: Georg Kussmann - 57min - 2021 - Belarus, Germany

    The priest's ear recognises the sins of the parishioners. The heartbeat of the foetus is monitored. Workers leaving factory. Khan’s Flesh shows the everyday life of a small town in Belarus as choreographie...

  • Land Underwater

    Dir. Maddi Barber - 50min - 2019 - Spain

    Nearly two decades ago the Itoiz reservoir flooded seven villages and three nature reserves on the slopes of Navarre Pyrenees. The environmental group Solidari@s with Itoiz documented on video the fight against its construction. Today, those who were ther...

  • Liberland

    Dir. Isabella Rinaldi - 52min - 2021 - Belgium, Norway, Croatia, Lithuania

    At the border between Serbia and Croatia, a region where the bloody Yugoslav War is still resonating, there is a heap of sand in the Danube that someone wants to turn into a new nation: Liberland. This micro-nation was fo...

  • Linda and Irina

    -- Dir. Guillaume Brac - 2023 - 38min - France --

    It's the end of the academic year at the Hénin-Beaumont high school. Between two TikTok videos and their science lessons, best friends Linda and Irina confide in each other about their families and their future. But Linda is going to have to move...

  • Lovers of the Night

    Dir. Anna Frances Ewert - 2018 - Ireland/Germany

    Seven elderly monks in a small Cistercian monastery in Ireland strive to keep their spiritual life and fragile community going. With shaky voices – but deeply committed – they gather in church seven times a day to pray.

    A passionate rugby fan wit...

  • Middle Earth

    Dir. Juliette Guignard - 57min - 2020 - France

    Camille has become a peasant, as they say of someone living off the land. She chose the Creuse, the second least populated department of France, a harsh and supple, laborious and luminous land. She experiences a growing rejection of the agricultural...

  • My Piece of the Earth

    Dir. Maka Gogaladze - 54min - 2019 - Georgia

    Changes in my home city Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, brought about by the collapse of Soviet Union, were followed by fire at my home. All of my memories were destroyed, leaving me feeling alienated. Taking my camera, I go through the remains of my hom...

  • North

    Dir. Leslie Lagier - 2019 - France

    In Canada’s Far North, men live in the heart of a wilderness, isolated from the world. They chose this region for its beauty. Yet, by their mining activity, they contribute to destroy it. NORTH tells the ambivalence of the relationship of these men to their ter...

  • Passing Time

    Dir. Lou Colpé - 2019 - Belgium - Subtitles available in: English, French

    I started filming my grandparents in 2007. I was fifteen years old. I really loved my grandfather a lot but as the years went by, I turned my camera more and more towards my grandmother who was suffering from a disturbing ...

  • Portrait of Kaye

    Dir. Ben Reed - 56min - 2021 - UK, Finland

    Restricted by her lifelong agoraphobia, Kaye has spent most of her life within the four walls of her parents’ house. Finding relief from her fears in the faces and lives of old film stars, she pastes their images alongside those of her deceased family o...

  • Reality Must Be Addressed

    Dir. Johanna Seggelke - 53min - 2021 - Germany

    A chance acquaintance turns into a relationship that shimmers in all the colours of love. Between Marmite toasts, joints, selfies and music two young girls who meet on a roadtrip through Southafrica explore each other inside out. But what happens wh...