NEST

Direction: Arwen Aznag

Belgium 2024, 6:35 min

Luca School of Arts

A girl, alone with a house, in a nest floating around. For as long as she can remember, they have spent every minute, every hour and every day that has passed together. She and the house. And as far as she can see into the future, this is also how every minute, hour and day to come will be like.
Until it suddenly changes.

NEW HIVES

Direction: Hasan Pastaci

Text: Paul Demets

Belgium 2024, 1:56 min

KASK-School of Arts

This is a poem from Paul Demets, who is my mentor for my master’s thesis. Poetry, at the moment is becoming more and more underrated, I think. Because it does challenge people to think, dares to get confused and embrace that feeling. In a world, where we live fast and sometimes not deep enough, poetry is a nourishment for the soul. I really enjoy working with Paul, trying to understand and feel his causes while he writes his poems and bring a new breath to them through my own interpretations.

Skin Hunger

Direction: Loukia Hadjiyianni

Text: Kayu Yeung

Germany 2025, 4:01 min

filmArche

Ayden, suffering from touch deprivation, retreats once more into memories of Cleo. As time passes, her confusion deepens—does she miss Cleo, or the quiet companionship of someone simply present, who understood the wound she carried—a silent comrade? Yet this time, instead of being paralysed by the past, she transforms it into something new.

Yesterday's Gnocchis

Direction: Karen Schöngut

Text: Karen Schöngut

Germany 2024, 4:46 min

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

“Yesterday’s Gnocchis” is an animated journey through four homes, reflecting on childhood loss and the complexities of moving to a foreign land. It explores the ambivalence between integration and assimilation, questioning where children with a migration background truly belong. Through a poetic voiceover, it evokes a bittersweet longing for home and a quest for reconciliation.

Waiting

Direction: Julie Lobo

Brasil/France 2024, 4:21 min

Université Paris 8

Floating in memories, a drifting being waits for what never comes.

OCCHIO

Direction: Giulia Falciani

Text: Giulia Falciani

Italy/Germany 2024, 6:05 min

Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

A ray of light reveals a face in the darkness. A tear leaks from its right eye, crosses the face and falls into the abyss. The tear takes us to an inner place of suffering, where pain overshadows sanity. In this fragile state of delirium and helplessness, science, faith and witchcraft are intertwined in the hope that the broken eye will heal.

You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer

Direction & Text: Max Ferguson

Belgium/Hong Kong 2023, 5:00 min

LUCA School of Arts

“You are the Truck and I am the Deer” is an experimental short film that explores the experience of emotional pain. The film uses poetic text to express the feelings of loss, helplessness and overwhelm during the process of accepting the hurt inflicted by others. These emotional wounds are translated visually into a physical and pulsing presence that represents a dark and unsettling image of femininity. You are the Truck and I am the Deer speaks to a feeling. A feeling of roaming, gnawing hunger. The knife’s edge between decay and growth; the fertile potential for total destruction.

Not You

Direction: Lara Torp, Emilia Zieser

Text: Lara Torp

Germany 2023, 5:17 min

Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

I recently saw someone that looked like you. I realized quickly that he was not you – but he moved like you. Ran his hands through his hair like you. And had the same backpack in the same shabby state. So I decided to follow your not-you for a while.