THE SHIMMERING BODIES
THE DAMP GROUND
THE RED COLOR OF THE SECOND PLANET
THE LOST MEMORIES OF TREES
NOTHING HAPPENS AFTER THAT
WILDMEN OF THE GREATER TORONTO AREA
YOU LAND
In response to the rising costs of living, the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their “personhood” en masse to legally become animals.
About the director:
Solmund MacPherson
Canadian writer and filmmaker whose films Wolf in Dude’s Clothing (2021), A Short Documentary About People Fighting(2019) have been screened all over the world, won awards including Vimeo’s Staff Pick, and been dubbed “delightful,” “worrying,” and “indescribably bizarre,” sometimes all at once.
In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, two trees awaken in the night and embark on a spiritual journey to discover a past when they were two sibling children.
About the director:
Antonio La Camera
Director, screenwriter. Born in 1990. Studied film at the University of Rome and attended the film schools Sentieri Selvaggi and Fare Cinema (the latter under Marco Bellocchio). His short films Flesh and Dust, The Old Man’s Dream, and In the Place of Silence have been screened at over 100 festivals worldwide, winning more than 30 awards, including for directing. In 2022, he joined the CreatorsLab workshop, where he created The Lost Memories of Trees under the guidance of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
In a diligent attempt, Thomas seeks to find a final resting place for their only child, but he is surprised that today is not the right day to do so.
About the director:
Ibrahim Omar
Director, producer from Sudan. He studied directing at the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo and the French University in Egypt. Founder of the Sudanese Cinema Institute, the first film school in the country, and the free magazine “SHORT – Short Film Brochures”, as well as the annual short film presentation Port Sudan Film Days. He led the cinema section of the Sudanese newspaper Al Tayyar. Over the last decade, he has worked for several TV stations and has directed documentary films for television.
Saudade stirs deep within Musa’s soul. “Saudade” is an untranslatable Portuguese word—a longing for something that is gone: a lost person, a vanished moment, a departed place. It isn’t always for something good, but always for something that felt real. And who’s to say that saudade belongs only to the Portuguese or Brazilians? Certainly not Musa, who, to the sounds of the berimbau, is gnawed by the same feeling—saudade, a sadness with no escape, a sorrow from which there is no refuge.
About the director:
Azer Guliev
Director. Born in 1997 in Baku. Graduated from the Azerbaijan University of Culture and Arts. His debut short film Pa-Pa participated in the Eurasia International Film Festival, as well as numerous other showcases. His second work Heartbreath premiered at Sarajevo, and his 2024 film Sanki Yoxsan was in the short film competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
After being swallowed by a crocodile and surviving, Juan, an immigrant en route to the US, finds himself so comfortable, he decides to stay inside the reptile forever, leaving Camila, his wife and companion, alone on her unpredictable journey north, where their daughter awaits.
About the director:
Inês Teixeira
Director, screenwriter. Born in Lisbon, she studied film editing at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and later earned a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the FCH-UCP. Over the past eight years, she has worked in various capacities including as a script supervisor, editor, and assistant editor. Inês was also fortunate to be selected for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Writing Cinema Today program in 2020, which helped her develop the Shimmering Bodies short film, under the guidance of Françoise von Roy
As birds flutter in a large empty coliseum, time and death come together one night.
About the director:
Leinad Pájaro De La Hoz
Director, photographer, teacher and artist. Born in 1988 in Barranquilla, Colombia, he is a graduate of the Fiction Directing course at Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV). His works have been awarded and/or screened in national and international competitions such as Berlinale, TIFF, Vlaff, Visions du Réel, Bogoshorts, among others. He is currently developing the fiction feature film El ruido de las largas distancias and the documentary feature Voces de Neptuno, winner of the FDC in Colombia. In 2023 he founded the production company Bølier Films with filmmaker María Alejandra Rodriguez.
April lives in the remote Scottish wilderness, caring for her mother. The two women are confined within four walls, but April possesses a magic box: a smartphone that transforms closed spaces into those wide open.
About the director:
Debora Maité
An Italian writer and director based in Scotland. She graduated from Screen Academy Scotland and San Diego State University. Debora is interested in creating work that explores the complexity of womanhood, touching on mental health, rural realities and the intersection between individual and collective memory in the technological age. Selected filmography: I Should Have Loved a Thunderbird Instead (2019); My Dad’s Video Diary (2020); Seeking Comfort In An Uncomfortable Place (2021); Big Shop (in development, 2024).