A journey from the microscopic to the planetary, these ten works collectively map an unsettled present and an unknown future. Beginning in the quiet, observational terrain of nature, light, and breath, and unfolding through questions of memory, identity, and power, they gradually expand into fractured landscapes of bodies, history, and ultimately, speculative imaginations.
Both tactile in form and conceptual in scope, this collection attempts at proposing other ways of sensing, resisting, and becoming. Whether digital, archival or cosmic, each work vibrates with a refusal to settle, inviting us into a cinema of nuance, transformation, and radical possibility.
– Massimo Iannetti
UK Premiere
A Light Unseen
A world of colour, architecture and motion is depicted within a spider’s web.
Director: James L Sansing. Experimental Short. United States. 2024. 10min. Unclassified: Suitable for all.
UK Premiere
Extra Life (and Decay)
An ode to the multitude, the illegible and the immeasurable.
Director: Stéphanie Lagarde. Experimental Short. Cast: Suzanne Lagarde van der Schaaf, Isabelle Lagarde. France. 2025. 22min. French with English subtitles. Unclassified: 12+. CW: Pregnancy and childbirth, violence.
World Premiere
A Film of A Picture
A fragmented 35mm photo is reassembled on 16mm film, exploring time, memory and image-making.
Director: Drew Cavicchi, Shan Wu. Experimental Short. United States, Taiwan. 2025. 2min. English. Unclassified: Suitable for all. CW: Use of flashing imagery.
International Premiere
[sniff]
A filmmaker’s tick of constant sniffing becomes the most important part of their media archive.
Director: Anton Paievski. Documentary Short. Austria. 2024. 9min. English. Unclassified: Suitable for all.
World Premiere
As Told By A Corpse
Nearly twenty five years after their birth, an entity embraces the end and rejects familial expectations.
Director: Yace Sula. Experimental Short. United States. 2025. 6min. English. Unclassified: 18+. CW: Blood, homophobia and heterosexism, flashing imagery.
UK Premiere
A Poem
In a garage, a voice message becomes the testament of a love left in limbo.
Director: Vasilios Papaioannu. Experimental Short. United States, Greece, Italy. 2025. 3min. Greek with English subtitles. Unclassified: Suitable for all.
UK Premiere
Koki, Ciao
The autobiography of Koki, an immortal parrot and loyal comrade of Marshal Tito.
Director: Quenton Miller. Experimental Short. Cast: Koki. Netherlands. 2025. 12min. Croatian with English subtitles. Unclassified: 12+. CW: Language.
European Premiere
The Conjured Ones (Los Conjurados)
A cyberflâneur discovers a hidden corner of Google Maps.
Director: Humberto González Bustillo. Experimental Short. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. 2025. 9min. English, Spanish with English subtitles. Unclassified: 12+. CW: Racism, racial slurs.
World Premiere
Equal Dust (Elämä ja yö)
The boundaries between imaginary and real nuclear war are fragile in 1983 Helsinki.
Director: Jani Peltonen. Documentary Short. Finland. 2025. 14min. Finnish with English subtitles. Unclassified: Suitable for all.
World Premiere
Fear and Loathing in the Laniakea Supercluster (Bildurra ta nazka Laniakea superkumuluan)
Orion tries to avoid a cosmic catastrophe.
Director: Ioritz Domínguez Makazaga. Experimental Short. Spain. 2025. 6min. Basque with English subtitles. Unclassified: 12+. CW: Blood, flashing imagery.
