We show the best current short films from all over the world, powerful films by young women, modern male perspectives, and confront life’s big questions. Socially relevant and personal topics innovatively visualised, without filters or taboos.
Fortunately, we are usually free to decide who we are and who we want to be. However, we only have limited influence on how we are perceived. And sometimes things are different than they seem. Because it’s not that simple with us humans.
Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with dreams and hidden fantasies. The short film explores the mystery of human memory and asks whether our memories are fiction, or even myths.
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This animated short film evolves around two people adrift and lost at sea. Surrounded by water they have to fight a bloody battle for survival – for their lives, but also their dying relationship.
Emerging excitement, a dancing body, and the sensual awakening of sexuality turn this experimental animation film into the nucleus of a transformation process. The stimulating, metaphorically charged short film pushes boundaries but doesn’t solely focus on the pleasure event. It also allows a look behind the curtain of male sexuality.
Three bald brothers travel to Istanbul to have a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
As part of a fishing community’s annual ritual, a young boy must kill his first crab in order to become a man and gain his father’s approval.
In the pool changing room, Anthony realizes he has forgotten to bring his bathing trunks. Swimming class is about to begin, and he needs to find a solution.