PIPPA AND LEO
Pippa lives in a supervised home for young mothers with adjustment difficulties, it is time to demonstrate her ability to fulfill her parental role to the authorities. For one night, and despite the curfew imposed on her, Pippa leaves the shelter with her baby.
Canada 2025 / 18:56 / Director: Abeille Tard
DUTY FREE
Is unconditional love an escapist dream? In a snowy no man’s land lies a floating bordershop-container with chains attached to a ferry terminal. Here Kaisa and her employees fill the shelves every day with their travelling customers’ dreams of escapism: alcohol, cigarettes and candies. Life in the bordershop is full of peace and harmony for the employees, except for the constant noise and vibrations from the construction site next door where a tunnel is being built. A near future without border crossings and border shopping, a future Kaisa doesn’t want to think about. When day shifts to night, the container once again turns into their personal paradise, where love comes as any other duty-free good.
Germany, Sweden, Denmark 2024 / 17:21 / Director: Hilke Roennfeldt
I WAN'NA BE LIKE YOU
In this film Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen delve into how wilderness, once seized, was recreated in Europe’s key botanical gardens. Through photogrammetry, 3D modeling, and motion capture, these gardens are transformed into a virtual jungle. The viewer is drawn into a decayed glasshouse by a ghostly, hybrid avatar, blending human and animal forms. This figure dances in a choreography by Andreas Hannes to a reinterpreted version of Disney’s The Jungle Book song, paying homage to the New Orleans Jazz tradition as arranged by David Lukács. As the music fades, Jamal Bijnoe and Orlando Ceder and their vocal group Black Harmony present their polyphonic chant “Na Mi” (Sranang for “I Am”), a proud reinterpretation of the melody that celebrates their community’s history in the diaspora. Through this process of deconstruction and reconstruction, the film envisions the novel, the film, the iconic song, and their enduring legacies.
Netherlands 2025 / 14:22 / Director: Broersen & Lukacs
SHE STAYS
Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive.
Mexico 2024 / 10:00 / Director: Marinthia Gutiérrez
RUSE
On a rainy afternoon, somewhere between innocence and awareness, three adolescent girls find themselves in the middle of a dance that takes on a life of its own.
India 2025 / 9:32 / Director: Rhea Shukla
WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT COMPUTER-BANKING LOBBIES
Moses, a man trapped in a routine, enters an irrational world when he discovers the magic of K-pop.
Mexico 2025 / 16:14 / Director: Gustavo Hernández de Anda
HER DANCE
A day in the life of a trans dancer excluded from her prestigious company in Buenos Aires, following her transition. As her world and landmarks crumble, she feels herself gradually disappearing.
France, Argentina 2025 / 10:00 / Director: Julián Córdoba