What Stands in the Dark
By : Pouya Afshar
What Stands in the Dark, reimagines Rumi’s “Elephant in the Dark,” portraying a fragmented search for truth. Five unseen figures encounter different parts of an immense being, each interpreting it through their own lens. The film reveals how limited perception breeds illusion, yet invites reverence for the act of seeking itself.
What Stands in the Dark is a production of [P]ART Collective.
EX-tract
By : Marcel Barelli
“When I was a child, I didn't know I was living during a mass extinction.” Marcel Barelli
Inspired by cine-tracts from the 1960s and animated with water, Ex-tract is a reflection on our memory and the ongoing extinction.
Today, I <3 U _ _ _ _
By : Neely Goniodsky
This short film explores contemporary perspectives on love and romance, challenging traditional societal norms around relationships and sexuality. It embraces non-traditional relationship structures and celebrates diverse expressions of sexuality, rejecting stigma and fostering an open, inclusive dialogue about what intimacy looks like today.
Made from high resolution scans of three intaglio prints of 14 frame animated loop, etched on plexiglass.
Waiting for the Barbarians
By : Georges Sifianos
In a city—evoking, without specificity, a city of the Roman Empirethe poem depicts a state of waiting: the arrival of the “Barbarians” has been announced, the emperor himself seems ready to submit to their authority, and every hypothesis about the future is possible. The city holds its breath in anticipation… But who, exactly, are these “Barbarians”? And what if they do not come?
A Paper Coffee Cup Story
By : Igor Gusev
This is a story about creative and sensitive people. Their feelings get hurt (unrequited love, misunderstanding and loneliness) and they all end up in a metaphorical place (hospital ward) where they meet each other, talk and recover. The boy finds the girl he once felt in love with, the poet is now understood and admired and the girl is not lonely anymore. There is also a fourth character, he is a smoking silhouette, he has no feelings and he can only feel physical pain, it seems like he's living in a completely different world, he has no spirituality in him.
REST
By : Ryotaro Miyajima
When immersed in the contours swelling and waning in the forest of needles, the mundane world drifts away, and we only live to breathe.
The Boy Who Cheated Death
By : Pipou Phuong Nguyen
A little boy tries to hide his mother from Death. They embark on a hide-and-seek game as creatures of earth, Death being their relentless predator. Finally, Death becomes the ultimate predator: Time.
Jenga
By : Anjali Vishnu
Jenga is an experimental short film that explores the emotional journey of a person confronting failure. The film uses a Jenga tower as a metaphor for life’s unpredictability, with each block representing the delicate balance of choices, challenges, and emotions. The two characters symbolise the constant tension between stability and collapse, capturing the highs and lows of happiness, exhaustion, fear, and anxiety.
Voices of the mountains
By : Laboratory for visual storytelling
“Voices of the Mountains” is an animated documentary created with young authors from Tajikistan, reflecting on a mountain town affected by mudslides. Through drawings and personal narration, the film explores how natural disaster becomes part of everyday memory — not as a catastrophe, but as a lived reality. Nature here is not a backdrop, but a fragile archive where human voices, loss, and resilience coexist.
