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Im Dickicht 

Katharina Pichler
Im Dickicht 
8min
Synopsis
Like in a dream, shadowy landscapes pass by. Time and again, the silhouette of a decaying, overgrown ammunition hall breaks through the image. The gaze drifts toward the sky, searching for stability, only to lose itself once more in the dense forest. Katharina Pichler’s experimental film Im Dickicht unfolds a subtle, almost eerie tension through its alienated visual language and uses the forest as a metaphor for the complexity of human perception.

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Natal Kick, Cosmo Ground 

Jaeik Kim
Natal Kick, Cosmo Ground 
12m 37s
Synopsis
Under the occupied shadows, floating cosmo ground, xenoliths, and the breaths perceived from all beings are increasingly coarsened by humanity’s collective experiments. This work considers all existing entities as pioneers of a sentient cosmos, thinking not only from Earth but from the universe at large, and positions both human and non-human elements as agents jointly adventuring through this unknown space, while exploring the ecological emergencies of the present.

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Amatilla

Adham Garman
Amatilla
6 min
Synopsis
Three years have passed since Amatilla’s death, yet her presence lingers in fragments of memory and silence. A  grandson journals, not to resolve grief, but to inhabit it, to write as though each line from the past and present might return buried feelings. Amatilla unfolds as a quiet dialogue across absence, where the act of remembering becomes love and connection with the self again.

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Pomo D’Orographies

Francesca Paola Beltrame
Pomo D’Orographies
8min
Not available for online screening
Synopsis
Pomo D’Orographies is a short film on the trade and migration of canned tomato between Italy and Ghana. The film assembles animations and conversations, shedding light on the multiple lifeworld hidden behind the tomato, threading a line from its colonial past to today’s neo-colonial production and consumption.

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Shawano 

Felix Bartke
Shawano 
13min
Synopsis
A Western-Ranch in german no man’s land, hidden behind bushes by the motorway. The dream of living life as a movie-cowboy becomes real. Contemplation and routine work, every stroke seems just right, until the cigarette smoke conjures up the ghosts of days gone by.

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A Little Fact

Alina
A Little Fact
30 min
Synopsis
A jigsaw film assembled from Soviet archival footage from the 20s and 30s, preserving memories of the construction of a new and everyday life – the launch of the metro, hard work, cultural life and leisure. By combining two parallel stories – state film chronicles and diary entries – the film attempts to revise the historical archive and the usual perception of the time, bringing to the forefront the collective image of a hero from the crowd.

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Hollowgram

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Laura Iancu
Hollowgram
7 min
Synopsis
Hollowgram conjures varicolored clusters of swirling images and sounds from places real and not as if looking through a flip book in a dream. Narratively the film pilots the tension between the desire to share memories and possibilities with another and the failure of the attempt. The soundscapes are crafted from wilds sound captured in Romania and are core components of the film’s emotional space.

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HOW TO WRITE, an AI guide in 4 steps

Nicola Eddy
HOW TO WRITE, an AI guide in 4 steps
9 min
Synopsis
In a future without imagination, storytelling means recycling the past. A vintage tutorial, narrated by an AI, guides creators in combining fragments of old narratives, revealing that creation is construction, not invention.