For the 14th Edition we received 1031 short films and spent months watching more than 250 hours of cinema to create a program crossing different genres, styles and visions, built around the films that genuinely moved, surprised, disturbed or fascinated us.

At the same time, we wanted to build a festival where everybody could find something to connect with: from hardcore cinema lovers to people simply looking to spend a beautiful night under the stars, from children discovering cinema for the first time to audiences searching for radical, political or experimental works.

Alongside the international competition, this edition will also feature special programs, workshops and collective experiences spread throughout the town of Amantea.

More than anything, we hope these films can help us spend time together, laugh together, question together and feel less alone for a little while.

Thank you for accompanying us once again in our mission to bring cinema back to the people and people back to the cinema.

FICTION

BOA

Alexandre Dostie | 2025 | 25′ | Canada, France

When a young monk comes into contact with the bodybuilders of the Boa Gym, he reconnects to the power of his physical form, sparking a radical transformation.

A Thing About Kashem

Bijon Imtiaz | 2025 | 16′ | Bangladesh

A married man’s unexpected bodily reaction, at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

Beyond Silence

Marnie Blok | 2025 | 17′ | Netherlands

Two women, two generations, one shared trauma.

Birthmark

George Peter Barbari | 2026 | 20′ | Lebanon

A woman makes her way to a sex worker to discover something about her world, about herself.

Blackout

Ahmed El Zogbhy | 2024 | 15′ | Egypt

When the elderly grandfather gets sick, his daughters believe that the young woman who rents an apartment in the building is responsible.

CADILLAC FOR ZOSIA

Aliaksei Sivakou | 2026 | 15′ | Poland, Belarus

Zosia invents an escape plan: a hearse and a coffin as disguise.

CANDY BAR

Nash Edgerton | 2025 | 6′ | Australia

A young girl thinks a man in the candy bar line looks like her dad.

Debí tirar más fotos

Bad Bunny Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio & Arí Maniel Cruz Suárez | 2025 | 13′ | Puerto Rico

A kind and loving old man shares photos of his life with his good friend Concho, a young and naïve toad.

Four wise monkeys

Xin Wang | 2025 | 15′ | France

A nearsighted neighbor, silent policemen, a wary Chinese family…

The Mystery of Father Metz

Félix Brouillet-Desrosiers | 2026 | 20′ | Canada

An aspiring journalist embarks on a perilous investigation to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of her town’s hero.

The Taste of your Scales

Rafaël Beauchamp | 2026 | 17′ | Canada

A teenager is horrified to discover the true face of his father’s fish factory.

Wonderwall

Róisín Burns | 2025 | 28′ | France, UK

Liverpool, 1995. The dockers are on strike. But Siobhan and her big brother Rory have other things on their mind: will their heroes Oasis beat Blur in tonight’s Battle of Britpop.

G.O.A.T.

Daan Bunnik | 2025 | 9′ | Netherlands

A couple’s bottled-up grief finds an unexpected release on their way to a bizarre goat-themed festival.

Haze Over

Seyed Ali Ghasemi | 2025 | 20′ | Iran

Musa takes his cousin Vahid to the forest to help him smuggle wood.

I'm Glad You're Dead Now

Tawfeek Barhom | 2025 | 13′ | France, Palestine, Greece

Two brothers return to the island of their childhood, where buried secrets and heavy tensions force them to confront a dark past that connects them.

LOYNES

Dorian Jespers | 2025 | 25′ | France, UK

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past.

Nativity Scene

Felipe Bibian | 2025 | 18′ | Brazil

A water gun gift leads Dejair to denounce the absurdity of giving a child a weapon.

NOBODY BARKS

Júlia Coldwell Serra | 2025 | 20′ | Spain

During the town festival, Candela accidentally runs over her nephew’s dog, but decides not to confess.

ROUTE 7

Jinrung Chun | 2024 | 30′ | Japan, South Korea

Yong-ho closes the pachinko parlor he ran with his mother for decades and plans a retirement trip.

Song of My Mother’s Soul

Tushar Jain | 2026 | 20′ | India

As her mother’s health fades, Dina turns to sound to preserve her presence and memory.

ANIMATION

ACID CITY

Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim | 2026 | 13′ | USA

Acid City is a documentary set in a fictional city adrift in a vast acidic ocean.

BALL FACE

Laurence Thérien | 2026 | 5′ | Canada

“Life throws curveballs, whether you catch them or not. It’s how you react that determines whether you survive.”

CARIES

Aline Höchli| 2025 | 10′ | Switzerland

Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.

COMO SI LA TIERRA SE LAS HUBIERA TRAGADO

Natalia León | 2025 | 14′ | France

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.

EACH, ALL AND EVERY

Nikoletta Veress | 2026 | 12′ | Hungary

Trapped in endless possibilities, Mr. Rabbit loses one choice by accident—and with it, his freedom. What remains is an obsessive fixation on the loss.

KLONTER

Levi Stoops | 2025 | 14′ | Belgium

Frankie believes he is about to die with no one to say goodbye to. On his way to the stars, he accidentally turns into a planet.

MY GOOD BOY

Sara Priorelli | 2025 | 6′ | Italy

The ambiguous relationship between a woman, her dog and her partner.

 

MY NAME IS LILITH

Léo Luna Robert-Tourneur | 2025 | 14′ | France, Belgium

My name is Lilith. I am the first woman, created alongside Adam. My encounter with Eve will shatter every stereotype that we’ve been trapped in.

ONCE IN A BODY

María Cristina Pérez González | 2025 | 10′ | USA, Colombia

While dealing with a strange being that lives inside her, a woman seeks to reconcile with her sister over an incident from their adolescence.

RETIREMENT PLAN

John Kelly | 2025 | 7′ | USA

Ray, burdened by a life of indifference, drifts in daydreams of his future retirement.

S THE WOLF

Sameh Alaa | 2025 | 10′ | France, Egypt

A man recounts his capillary peregrinations through his adolescence.

SAHAD AND THE OBLIVION

Nicolas Pirus | 2025 | 15′ | France

In a not-so-distant future, ML, a botanist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, discovers entries for plants that do not exist in the museum’s digitized archives.

SEA ANGELS

Cissi Efraimsson | 2025 | 8′ | Sweden

The polluted ocean forced mermaids to reveal their existence as non- mythological creatures and seek help on land.

SIGNAL

Emma Carré, Mathilde Parquet | 2025 | 17′ | Belgium, France

Claudie is absolutely passionate about her rather unusual job: scanning the cosmos for signs of extraterrestrial life, hoping to make contact.

STONE OF DESTINY

Julie Černá | 2025 | 10′ | Czech Republic

On a path filled with mysterious encounters and hidden symbols, our hero is driven by a desire for freedom.

TERRITORY

Barbara Synak | 2025 | 7′ | Poland

A girl is kidnapped by her own body.

THE AMAZING ADAM

Areito Echevarria | 2025 | 9′ | New Zealand

A teenager explores the darkest depths of his grumpy grandfather’s garage, where he is confronted with the surreal memories of the man he thought he knew.

TIGHTRIST- THREADS OF EXILE

Samia Dzaïr | 2025 | 3′ | Algeria, Saudi Arabia

An exploration of the intersections of displacement, craft, and memory

TIME FLIES

Tommaso Zerbi | 2026 | 5′ | Portugal, Finland, Belgium, Italy

A series of slices of everyday life spirals into chaos, culminating in the destruction of daily monotony.

TRADING CARDS

Radheya Jang | 2026 | 15′ | Australia, UK

An exploration of identity, mental health and the erosion of childhood innocence.

DOCUMENTARY

Dancing King

Igor Kuna | 2025 | 13′ | Poland

A story about the lord reigning over a nightclub frozen in time.

Abortion Party

Julia Mellen | 2025 | 14′ | Spain

After managing to scrape together money to pay for an abortion, the director decides to celebrate with a party.

Sixty-seven Milliseconds

Fleuryfontaine | 2025 | 15′ | France

In search of a bullet whose trail has been captured on surveillance camera footage, the film follows its trajectory and those of its main protagonists.

Their Eyes

Nicolas Gourault | 2025 | 20′ | France

How does a machine learn to read the world?

Uncle Ali and I

Shahab Mehrabi | 2025 | 15′ | Sweden, Iran

Shahab invites his uncle on a digital journey back to Iran.

Women to the drum

Eileyn Ugueto, Indy Valencia | 2026 | 3′ | Venezuela

A visual narrative about identity, resistance, and transformation, where percussion ceases to be merely tradition and becomes a living affirmation of belonging, power, and feminine legacy.

WHITE VEIL

Žiga Ciber | 2025 | 10′ | Slovenia, Ireland

The film gives voice to those silenced by progress and asks what remains when the skies clear.

Always wanted to be God, never wanted to do good

Noa Epars, Marvin Merkel | 2025 | 21′ | Switzerland

In 2009, mountain guide Patrick Bussard sawed down a Christian cross in the Swiss Alps. He was severely condemned by the courts.

The silence of pomegranates

Clara Baj | 2026 | 10′ | France, Italy

In a coastal town in Calabria, a woman who prefers to remain anonymous breaks the silence surrounding the issue of abortion in the region.

Devotee

Roberta Palmieri, Francesco Rubattu | 2026 | 30′ | Italy

Manuela chats online with a stranger, a man with a fetish for women in wheelchairs like her.

MUSIC VIDEOS

OHOIOrOI Syndrome

Taewan Kim | 2026 | 3′ | South Korea, UK

Maybe Sally is a part of OHOIOrOI. But this film was made with 0% OHOIOrOI.

hungry/scared

Phi Hartmann | 2025 | 2′ | Germany

hungry/scared explores queer experiences, fluid identities and feelings of loneliness. The sounds we listen to could possibly be a yet-to-be-discovered musical genre.

Chingona

Rupert Höller, Harlock | 2025 | 3′ | Austria

A bold visual anthem about carving your own path and owning every step forward.

Le Goût du Ciel

Pierre-Julien Fieux | 2024 | 3′ | France

In the stillness of a rainy night, a curious firefly appears in the countryside.

Otra Vez Sin Tu Amor

Fabián León López | 2025 | 4′ | Mexico

After his mother’s passing, a man returns to his family home for the first time to begin the painful ritual of packing up her belongings.

 

Simian Fever

Christy Karacas, Luca Depardon | 2025 | 4′ | USA

There’s trouble in the monkey house

Spadaccino

Fabiola Iannantuoni | 2025 | 5′ | Italy

In his ordinary days, among apples and wasps, Spadaccino only desire is to feel part of something.

Traffic Lights

Nespy 5Euro | 2026 | 6′ | Italy

Amid urban alienation and constant agitation, a solitary figure plays the trumpet.

You Are An Idiot

Inari Sirola | 2025 | 3′ | UK

A cathartic anthem for the absolute mad times we are living in!

 

A Little More Action

Alexis Beaumont | 2025 | 1′ | France

During a protest, two law enforcement teams face off on the field.

 

EXPERIMENTAL - INSOMNIA

35 DAYS

Heidi Kumao | 2026 | 7′ | USA

A coalition of strangers answers the call to locate a missing cat during the pandemic lockdown of 2020.

THE LION

Abigail Zealey Bess | 2025 | 11′ | USA

Her wish? To pet the lion at the zoo.

THOSE WHO HEAR THE SUN

Maurizius Staerkle Drux | 2025 | 7′ | Switzerland

A deaf woman imagines the sun creating the most profound sounds on Earth.

DECEMBER RUMBLES

Ziyang Liu | 2025 | 13′ | China

In suburban Beijing, four friends gather for a tennis match after the abrupt dismantling of the Zero COVID era.

"How Now, House? "

Tess Martin | 2025 | 13′ | Netherlands

An investigation of our yearning to leave traces behind through the prism of one house in Rotterdam.

DANCE!

BRUTA

Sulian Rios | 2025 | 9′ | France

Through defiance and dominance within a stark, heightened frontier world, where seriousness and absurdity quietly coexist.

GOING ON STRIKE

Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin | 2025 | 14′ | Canada

A dancefilm celebrating solidarity in protest and the strength of a group in revolt.

OPIUM DREAM

Nishchaya Gera | 2025 | 14′ | Belgium, USA

A Dionysian bacchanal that conjoins the immersive pleasures of the body with the physical textures of the vegetable, fruit and floral worlds.

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