Age section 9-12 year. Without commentary, but still loud and clear, this short documentary shows how animals experience fireworks on New Year’s Eve.  We follow the mounting stress of animals and their owners, from the perspective of dogs wearing GoPros.

Age section 13+ year. What impact does it have on your life to discover pornographic deepfakes of yourself? Engineering student Taylor hunts for the perpetrator in a report about online misogyny and inadequate legislation.

Age section 13+ year. A wistfully atmospheric portrait of three student best friends in Munich. During the transition from student life to mature adulthood, Maxime, Julien and Vilas discuss their thoughts and feelings with surprising candor.

Age section 9-12 year. A warm and sincere portrait of a British family, in which the father, Nasar, has decided to be cryonically frozen when he dies. It’s a decision that has a major impact on his wife and young children.

Age section 9-12 year. A wooden mannequin gradually comes to life in a studio, and becomes increasingly aware of its body. A short, touching stop-motion film about identity and freedom, created with an eye for beauty and detail.

Age section 9-12 year. A portrait of a resilient 13-year-old Ukrainian gymnast around the start of the war. She talks about her passion for the sport, her much-loved family and friends, and how tough it is to flee your homeland.

Age section 9-12 year. A coming-of-age film about two Polish best friends on the threshold of their teenage years—an exciting period in which children’s games make way for more serious school concerns and philosophizing about first periods and love.

Age section 13+ year. A series of absurd, animated vignettes form a colorful audiovisual maze of fantasy, obsession, frustration, fear, delusion and wonder—everything that sometimes makes your head prickle.

Age section 9-12 year. A portrait of an inspiring and resilient teenager and her father. After years of training as a boxer for the Olympic Games, Jesselyn Silva receives a devastating diagnosis. How do you stay positive when your dream for the future collapses?

Age section 13+ year. When Jethro Westraad returns to Durban, South Africa during the COVID pandemic, he realizes that his neighbors have been living in isolation all along. Through their intercom, he starts conversations about guard dogs, racial profiling and security.

Age section 13+ year. How do you cope with the inhumanities of a life in slavery? This beautiful handmade animation translates the history of 12 million people into the story of Nyanga, a boy who has been kidnapped to America and wants to go home. An ode to resistance.

Age section 9-12 year.The family bought Nelson seven years ago believing he was a miniature pig—now he’s a 500 kilo colossus, and an annoyance to neighbors and the housing association. An upbeat short documentary about true love for a four-legged friend.

Age section 13+ year. The young filmmaker Mariusz Rusiński films his desperate parents and his 17-year-old drug-addicted sister Zuzia. How did it come to this? And what is his role in the messed-up family dynamic?

Age section 13+ year. Tomas Cali moves to Paris, where he feels alone and misunderstood. In his drawing class he meets Linda Demorrir, a nude model, also from another country and, like him, transgender. As he draws her, he also sketches his new reality.

Age section 13+ year. An incisive video essay in which the filmmaker, who emigrated to the US when she was 13, converses with AI about where she comes from. The answer is unclear. The technology also suffers from shortcomings and prejudices.