Works produced between 2023 and 2025 with a running time not exceeding 23 minutes. This program is focused on sharing international experimental cinema production, prioritizing references in auteur animation. This year, films were chosen because their sound was a fundamental part of the creation, whether through the use of music, spoken word, silence, chants or sound landscapes. We listened from a distance to what distant geographies wanted to tell us.
On Weary Wings Go By (national premiere)
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
2024
Estonia, Lithuania
10:00:00
A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.
Does the Sea Have a Heart? (national premiere)
Miglė Križinauskaitė
2025
Lituania
07:21:00
A poetic essay, an ode to the sea, which has no human figure at its centre, but only traces in the sand, echoes, and presence through absence. It is through this absence that the essence of the human spirit is best revealed. As Kahlil Gibran wrote: “There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea”.
Deluge (national premiere)
Meejin Hong
2024
Estados Unidos
12:05:00
Deluge” is an ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. Memories are formed, reshaped, and obliterated, relentlessly competing for space. Control is surrendered, and mistakes and second chances are embraced. It is the slow stampede of a vulnerable mind.
The Unlimited World
Lukas Berger
2025
Austria, Alemania, Portugal
14:40:00
Tranquil, unspoiled landscapes. The sound of the sea mingling with the whistling sound of the wind influenced by the great waves of the Atlantic. Red mountains, a stork circling above a fallen tree. A feeling of dreaminess, a palpable infinity that manages without many people. Aesthetic compositions in motion.
Songs of the Horizon (Latin American premiere)
Werner de Valk
2025
Holanda
15:28:00
The horizon is the face of the earth. We modify this face without asking for permission. Instead, we should listen to her more carefully. Songs of the Horizon does exactly this: it allows us listen to the horizon. The lines of the horizon reminded Werner de Valk of a music bar, so he developed a system that translates this profile into a soundscape. The horizon turns into a composer.
Prelude to a flash (national premiere)
Nicolás Onischuk
2024
Argentina
04:34:00
In an audiovisual collage of nostalgia and magnetism, “Prelude to a Flash” fuses images from early cinema with elements of contemporary animation. It explores the tension between past and present through the edges, the traces that emerge from the representation of bodies in a sensory and emotional journey.
The Glass Essays (Latin American premiere)
River Yuhao Cao
2025
China
16:57:00
Unable to sleep, a young man is lured into the woods by a mysterious sound. He follows it across a river, through forest and shadows, until he finally comes upon the red curtains of a travelling funeral performance stage. The mesmerising mourning recital that unfolds is a dreamlike invitation into a sensorial exploration of memories, rituals, and ghosts.
The Third Landscape (national premiere)
Julen Etxebarria
2024
España
12:24:00
The fungus Microsphaerella dearnessi, which affects the Monterey pine variety, has turned the forests of Euskadi brown, reaching even the painted forest of Oma, the work of Basque artist Agustín Ibarrola. This artwork belongs to the Land Art movement, which is characterized mainly by its ephemeral nature. Within this movement, artists leave their works exposed to the whims of weather conditions and other elements beyond human control.
Kabuki (national premiere)
Tiago MINAMISAWA
2025
Brasil
12:47:00
Kabuki resides in a male body they don’t recognize. In search of identity, they awaken their soul. They are nourished by the world. In the impermanence of the material body, they transcend.
Waters That Sculp Fire
Victoria Loudina
2024
España
13:28:00
In the middle of a beach, the film follows an introspective and sensorial journey, from the farthest point to the deepest place, from the external world to the emotional system. Upon contact with the sea water, the skin and body transform into a gateway to an inner fissure, revealing a complex emotional portrait manifested as fragments of sharp, broken glass, submerged in the sea. As the shards continue their descent, images blur into progressive patterns that expand and contract culminating in a visceral and cathartic transformation.
Our Own Shadow
Agustina Sánchez Gavier
2025
Argentina
20:00:00
OUR OWN SHADOW explores the eerie transformations of individuals amid environmental devastation, set against the backdrop of a solar eclipse over Misiones, Argentina. As the protagonist grapples with existential uncertainty, unseen forces seem to reshape reality itself. Blurring the line between the tangible and the supernatural, the film reflects on humanity’s decay and its consequences.
meteors… (Latin American premiere)
Ghada Sayegh
2025
Líbano
09:22:00
meteors… is a silent found footage film composed of images from the Katsakh Mediterranean archive collection—a personal collection of non-fiction Super 8mm and 16mm films capturing cities and villages of the Eastern Mediterranean from the 1930s to the 1980s, initiated in 2020 by Chantal Partamian, an experimental filmmaker and archivist. Between images and words, a poetic exchange traces the paths of exile, and imprints the landscapes of here and elsewhere with a history laden with memory and mourning.
You build a home in my mind (Latin American premiere)
Florence Yuk-ki Lee
2025
Hong Kong
06:43:00
The work was created as a personal reflection on the director’s childhood and the profound impact of recent social shifts in Hong Kong, the place where she calls home. It comprises of objects from childhood and special objects recalled from memories—weaving together a melody that lures the viewers to roam and wander. The animated imagery of Hong Kong’s cityscape symbolizes the fleeting nature of life and the emotional weight they carry. By weaving together nostalgic objects and fragmented memories, the work invites viewers on a journey that mirrors their own searches for meaning in a world marked by uncertainty and change.
High Street Repeat (national premiere)
Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill
2025
UK
04:25:00
Osbert Parker & Laurie Hill’s artist collaboration, High Street Repeat, is an experimental collage film commissioned by the Migration Museum for its Taking Care of Business exhibition. The film uses a range of animation techniques to explore the story of migration and enterprise, told through the changing face of Britain’s high street. But what makes this film extraordinarily fresh and entertaining, is the playful combination of stop motion with digital techniques and manipulation of photographic cut-outs, creating a continuous transition between the past and present – it has a strong rhythmic quality too, while the filmmakers avoided paper cuts in the process!
Merimundi *
Niles Attlah
2025
Chile
21:00:00
A twisted utopia unfolds, as singing cherubs melt to the sound of decay. Crafted by a sentient machine from the future, it unveils its own version of paradise.
*Thanks to the partnership with the Cali International Film Festival.
The Soot (Latin American premiere)
Nikita Baranov
2025
Rusia
14:07:00
The film uses 80mm check tape as a analog cinematic medium. The movie demonstrates the peculiarities of the image produced by the thermal printer.The noise of the coarse grain becomes a separate expressive means and even the main character.Traveling through the gloomy images that are on the verge of discernibility the audience and its imagination becomes the basis of the narrative and the film itself.
