Dir. Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg - 15min - 2021 - Austria

For some, a dirndl is just a pretty, colourful dress with an apron; for others, it is a symbolically charged provocation. Just like items of clothing, places can also be contaminated. The narratives constructed around them are constantly c...

Dir. Arman Gholipour Dashtaki - 2017 - Iran - Languages: Persian - Subtitles: English

Gonj (Honey Bee) follows workers collecting honey in the extreme Zagros Mountains of Iran. On cliff-faces of more than 150m, with only basic facilities, they risk life and limb in order to collect a particularl...

Directors: Andreas J. Riiser & Sunniva Sundby - 2020 - Norway

Umbrella drinks and genocide.

Dir. Nara Normande - 2018 - France, Brazil - Language: Portuguese - Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.

"plays like casually flipping through a photo album of a place s...

Dir. Mohammadreza Vatandoust - 2018 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English

After a dam flooded a village in northern Iran, one island remained. There’s a grave on it. On a hill above the new lake, an old woman looks out at it. An intimate look at the daily routine of an Iranian woman who ...

Dir. Jeanie Finlay - 10min - 2003 - UK

Love Takes charts the places that love takes us and leaves us as we fall in and out of love over a lifetime. The film combines documentary footage with digital design to explore what we talk about when we talk about love.

Dir. Christina Sayaka Kerber - 2020 - Switzerland - Languages: Japanese, German - Subtitles: English

Mata Ne is about a woman tracing her roots. She travels, together with her mother, to her second home in Japan. It is about them visiting the almost one hundred years old grandmother on the remot...

Dir. Ellen Evans - 13min - 2020 - UK

After a lifetime in Britain, three men are sent “home” to Jamaica. Two are deported following prison sentences, whilst a third is trapped in bureaucratic exile. Far from their families and friends in the UK, they must construct new lives from nothing. Motherl...

Dir. Grégoire Verbeke - 2018 - Belgium

Springtime in northern Albania sparks the herding of goats from the lowlands, up to the towering mountainsides. Prek Gjoni is moving his livestock with the help of Jovalin. Will broken shoes and an umbrella suffice for the 4-day walk?

Dir. Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen - 15min - 2022 - Sweden

Becky and Sara are an unlikely pair of friends in their 20s. According to them, they would probably not be such close friends if it weren’t for their work at the strip club Chat Noir. The work can be exciting but also challenging an...

Dir. Alex Anna - 10min - 2020 - Canada

Alex Anna’s Scars is an intimate portrait of the director’s own personal battles with depression and self harming. Blending documentary and animation, this film brings awareness and stresses the importance of discussing these topics. Scars has had its world...

Dir. Ardin Klimenti - 12min - 2023 - UK

A short voyage across the thirty-year marriage of a Kosovar-Albanian couple, told through archival footage of Kosovo on the edge of war, London at the end of the 20th Century, and their life in present day Walthamstow.

Dir. Toby Bull - 2021 - UK - Subtitles available in: English, French, German, Spanish (press 'cc' to turn on).

In the British countryside, director Toby Bull observes the sheep that live on the land where his parents were buried several years ago. Talking to his brother on the phone, they start ...

Dir. João Manso - 2018 - Portugal - Subtitles available in: English, Spanish

The Secret History of Aviation is a poignant reflection on that which rises and that which falls. Its title and narration are taken from a piece written by Manuel Zimbro, in which he muses on what it is that prevents ma...

Director: JiYoon Park - 11min - 2020 - UK, South Korea

Desperately building against the inevitability of time, a restless young woman is awaiting another upcoming loss. But maybe more important things never seem to be told. / Soon after the director moves into her 22nd house, she gets a phone ca...

Dir. Katarzyna Warzecha - 2020 - Poland

After his mother dies, Adam comes across some letters exchanged years ago between his Polish mother and his father, a Kurd living in Iraq. This is an opportunity for him to find out more about his father, who he never knew. The juxtaposition of animated dr...

Dir. Jela Hasler - 2018 - Switzerland

Paris, 2017: While the new president is being elected, the state of emergency lingers. It sneaks through the capital, on the lookout for old and new monuments to make its own. As the city struggles to regain its innocence, it gently slips its way into everyd...