Director: Sirius

Synopsis: At daybreak on a country road, a young couple returns from a restless night visibly exhausted. Angry with each other, the couple, in a magnetic dance, try to reconcile.

Director: Kristyna Archer

Synopsis: In this experimental short film, two rhinestone space cowboys engage in a highline duel that defies not only gravity but the very essence of reality itself. Within this surreal, otherworldly landscape, these intrepid rhinestone-clad riders maintain a mesmerizing balance that borders on the supernatural. Their acrobatic prowess becomes a dance with destiny, and their rhinestones glimmer like distant constellations in a celestial frontier. This visionary creation fuses AI and virtual production, charting toward an entirely new era of cinematic innovation.

Director: Maya Marzuki Peters

Synopsis: Final Gaze invites viewers into the surreal world of a water planet, blending aquatic life with sci-fi splendor in a high-fashion narrative. Through rich textures and otherworldly imaginings, the film envisions a future where humanity evolves into underwater hybrids, merging with the depths of this captivating aquatic realm.

Director: Terry Blade

Synopsis: “Won’t Be Around” is a song written and performed by singer-songwriter Terry Blade. At its core, the song is about leaving an abusive relationship by having the will to speak it, the courage to do it, and the strength to never return to it. The music video follows three individuals who are descendants of African-American sharecroppers, and who confront the racial history of sharecropping in the American south by showing that black bodies can exist and subsist on land in the south without the exploitation of black labor.

Director: Miche

Synopsis: Everything Must Glow was produced on occasion of Pabli Stein’s art exhibitions “Real Fake” and “What Are You Looking At?,” commissioned by Buenos Aires’ prestigious San Martin’s Cultural Center. The film offers a hypnotic look within the increasingly blurred boundaries that separate art from consumption culture. The seams behind luxury and desire are revealed through Stein’s creative process. When the celebration of excess comes to an end and we’re left face to face with the void, reflecting on our own identity, the only thing left to ask is: what are we looking at?

Director: Laëtitia Daché

Synopsis: In the Distance offers a perspective on the notions of complementarity and duality, expressions of resilience in the face of challenges. The film invites us to examine the physical, mental, and emotional states evoked by life’s circumstances. Whether through our relationship with others, ourselves, or these circumstances, the ability to take a step back emerges as an introspective exercise in balance – a test of the mind and soul, heightened by hardships.

Director: Katherine Maxwell

Synopsis: Pennies portrays the complexities and challenges found within partnership.

Pennies comes from ‘a sigh of origin’, a 40-minute film situated within an aging psyche, exploring how the brain and body store memory beyond the conscious mind. This work is inspired by time spent between the director and her grandmother, who has late-stage dementia. In developing this work, Maxwell researched neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and epigenetics to further understand how the brain and body store memory beyond the conscious mind.

Director: Michelangelo Carliez

Synopsis: Exploring the magical world of iiWii Hub, an experienced tailor uses his powers to create new and wild clothes. Where other people see garbage, iiWii hub finds a rare opportunity: “flaw” is just a cruel way to say uniqueness.

Director: Jonathan Coleman

Synopsis: Veil is a cinematic music video, exploring vulnerability to others and oneself. It’s a showcase of Megan Shung’s incredible violin talent onstage, while also exploring ways to be personally vulnerable in art. Veil prompts us to question why we choose not to be vulnerable? What is the cost?

Director: Wilberto Lucci

Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic New Orleans inspired by Mad Max, Big Freedia and a fierce crew of “warriors” stand as guardians of the city and it’s vibrant music culture, fighting to protect it from the forces of gentrification and devastation. This high-energy visual captures the gritty landscapes, the pulse of bounce music, and the unbreakable pride of New Orleans’ people, celebrating the resilience and spirit that keep the city’s culture alive.

Director: Sandra Geco

Synopsis: A visual fable with poetic notes that oscillate between reality and surrealism to reveal a universe mixing plastic, landscape and poetry. We discover a couple looking like René Magritte’s lovers who have exchanged their veil against a plastic bag. In research of sensitivity, this video fable questions our rupture with the rest of the living world and our (in)ability to identify with it. We are this living being caught in a trap: how could we forget about it?