Opening Selection

Canard

Vladimir and Olga raise ducks on a small farm in the countryside. A wounded duck awakens motherly feelings in Olga. The couple are hoping for a child, but this expectation soon turns into a nightmare. A stop-motion horror runs its course. Direction Elie Chapuis Duration 9' Country Switzerland Year 2023

I Like Girls

Four women reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, discovering that they’re attracted to other women comes hand-in-hand with a deeper understanding of their personal identity and a joyful new self-awareness. Direction Diane Obomsawin Duration 8' Country Canada Year 2016

Le repas dominical

It’s Sunday. At lunch, James observes his family. They ask him questions, but don’t listen to his answers; they give him advice which they don’t follow themselves. They caress him, they smack him. It is just an ordinary Sunday lunch.  Direction Céline Devaux Duration 13' Country France Year 2015

SELF

Skin as surface, as material, as landscape. Slow movements through changing terrain, wrinkled ravines and flat expanses. New and mysterious structures keep appearing until the image itself becomes porous and the focus disappears.  Direction Claudia Larcher Duration 8' Country Austria Year 2015

Carrotica

A mother and son navigate their lust and loneliness in the queerest of ways. Direction Daniel Sterlin-Altman Duration 13' Language English Country Germany Year 2024

While Darwin Sleeps...

Each of the 3000 single frames shows an insect. As the colours on their bodies and wings glow and change, it seems as if the genetic process of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes, defying the arguments of evolutionary biologists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescaline dream of Charles Darwin.   Direction Paul Bush Duration 5' Language English Country United Kingdom Year 2005

I Died in Irpin

24 February 2022 my boyfriend and I fled from Kyiv to Irpin. We spent 10 days in a blockaded city and managed to escape with the last evacuation convoy. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.  Direction Anastasiia Falileieva Duration 11' Language Ukrainian Country Czechia Year 2024