Performance No.19190301 by Mingu Kang

Teenage boy Seong-hyun sets out on a journey with his grandmother Byeong-hee, who suggests leaving without revealing a destination. However, their car breaks down, preventing them from starting their trip. At that moment, the TV installed in the car broadcasts a mysterious performance titled "Performance No. 19190301." As the show begins, Seong-hyun and Byeong-hee embark on a journey through the history of Korea's past.

Running time: 00:41:00

Coline and Manuel (Belgium) by Sandrine Lambert

Coline and Manuel were born for each other. That was 51 years ago, in Herstal (a small Belgian town in Wallonia). Happiness was not given to them, but they learned to create it themselves. In their little house, located next to a busy road, they share joys and sorrows. Until one day, Manuel takes an unfortunate fall. Driven by pure love, Coline does everything she can to get Manuel back by her side as soon as possible.

Running time: 00:04:13

While everything moves. The volcanological observatory of Pizzi Deneri (Italy) by Pasquale Marino

A few hundred meters from the summit craters of Etna, in a valley of black lava, two white domes rise. It is the volcanological observatory of the INGV, the highest in Europe. An architecture designed to withstand extreme conditions and to host technologies that, from the end of the 70s to today, collect data that tell us about the life of the volcano. A permanent laboratory, continuously updated and projected into the future; conceived, built and lived by men deeply linked to the landscapes of Etna.

Running time: 00:20:00

Sloot - Life in the Ditch (Netherlands) by Arhur de Bruin, Dick Harrewijn

A typical Dutch ditch: Rarely worthy of a second glance. But those who look closer discover a rich ecosystem, teeming with life and intricate connections. Beneath the surface of a Dutch waterway lies a hidden world. In this short nature film, we follow the lives of fish, insects, and birds across the changing seasons, from winter’s stillness to summer’s abundance. SLOOT is a tribute to biodiversity in a man-made landscape.

Running time: 00:11:20

Hairy Dreams (Canada) by Lina Cruz

Hairy Dreams evokes the interior world of a lonesome yet carefree character. Through words and movement, this is a visual abstract tale, taking place in a white cave-like space made of paper. Within this sort of origami igloo, a surrealist puzzle of images portrays the everyday routine of a diligent being.

Running time: 00:08:57

Release (Hungary) by Zoltan Gergely Szabo

A young man is in prison instead of his brother because he took the punishment on his behalf. A mysterious visitor arrives to persuade him to make a new confession. However, the tempter fails to achieve his goal.

Running time: 00:10:09

Forced Renewables (Spain) by Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada

In Lopera, a small town in Jaén, the promise of ecological transition turns into a nightmare. Centuries-old olive groves, the legacy of generations of farmers, are being uprooted to make way for massive photovoltaic plants, in an unfair battle between powerful corporations and a community fighting to protect its land. Through firsthand testimonies, striking visuals, and an in-depth analysis of the current energy model, Forced Renewables exposes how progress, when poorly planned and disconnected from rural life, can become an unprecedented ecological, social, and economic disaster.

Running time: 01:08:11

Our Father (United States) by Janelle Christa

A priest, haunted by the consequences of faith, finds his world upended when he unknowingly baptizes a man who confesses only to unnamed sins. The priest soon discovers that his new convert is a calculating killer, driven by a twisted need to absolve his own guilt through violence against those he believes are sinners. Convinced that each murder is a form of penance, the killer forces the priest into a crisis of morality, faith, and duty—challenging the very bedrock of his beliefs.

As the body count rises, the priest’s sanctuary transforms into a battleground of conscience, where the boundaries between salvation and damnation become dangerously blurred. Wrestling with his teachings that only God can judge, he is repeatedly drawn into the killer’s dark logic and becomes tormented by his own complicity, guilt, and powerlessness. His desperation to protect innocent lives drives him to reconsider the meaning of justice, mercy, and redemption.

With each new escalation, the film plunges deeper into psychological tension, exploring the cost of taking judgment into one’s own hands. In a devastating climax, the priest is compelled to confront the killer—leading to an act of violence that shatters his faith and leaves lingering questions about sin, forgiveness, and human frailty. “Our Father” offers a harrowing, morally complex portrait of a soul tested by the very tenets it seeks to uphold.

Running time: 00:18:57

Natal Kick, Cosmo Ground (South Korea) by Jaeik Kim

Under the occupied shadows, floating cosmo ground, xenoliths, and the breaths perceived from all beings are increasingly coarsened by humanity’s collective experiments. This work considers all existing entities as pioneers of a sentient cosmos, thinking not only from Earth but from the universe at large, and positions both human and non-human elements as agents jointly adventuring through this unknown space, while exploring the ecological emergencies of the present.

Running time: 00:12:37

Dowsing (United States) by Tim Feeney

Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. These occur at sites of local “anti-monuments:” a kilometers-long, natural limestone pavement high above Galway Bay; stone farm walls and remnants of circular structures on hillsides; cairns near a shoreline; a field of glacial boulders interrupted by a road smashed from the surrounding stone formations, in forced public work by the starving during the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852. These structures speak to both the passage of geologic time, and the care and efforts of human survival beginning in the Neolithic period and tended through the present, though local history at each site may be lost, or unrecorded.

Running time: 01:38:30