Footage documenting the creation of a mass grave in Khan Younis is slowed down, transferred onto medium-format film, and stained with blood—a tribute to the militant documentation of their time by Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

A tender, serene film in which Laura Chará tries, through her grandmother and her aunt, to learn more about her mother, who died when Chará was very young and whom she barely remembers.

In a classroom, a group of adults practice their French. With newly acquired words, they describe the world they left behind. The camera observes how the smallest gestures tell a universal story.

Many of the thousands of participants in the world’s biggest cross-country ski race don’t make it to the finish. Through its gleefully mischievous observations, this short, tragicomic portrait of humanity— so fallible, yet utterly undaunted—shows how failure itself can be an art form.

Néstor Lopez portrays his emotionnaly distant, difficult grandfather, who gave up his artistic ambitions to make fishing flies for anglers, in the beautiful, dwindling Spanish village where he lived his entire life.

Everyday footage collected in a suburb of Los Angeles, California, on the edge of the Angeles National Forest becomes a 15-minute account of the destructive impact of human presence on a warming planet.

Opening with a quote from Goethe, this experimental short film leads the viewer on a cosmic journey from the human eye to the sun, via three solar observatories in Peru.

A poetic film about a woman with scoliosis and her history with the condition. Her own words accompany nostalgically filtered footage from past and present, offering insight into her struggles and ultimately leading her to liberation.

On the island of La Palma, stories about the victims of the Spanish Civil War are passed down to the next generation. The landscape, a silent witness to history, also becomes fertile ground for memory in this film.

A confident student film that breathes new life into a northern Colombian legend about a man who could transform into an alligator, through an enigmatic portrait of a solitary fisherman. Past and present, reality and fiction blur into one another.

In the aftermath of the 2023 earthquake in southern Turkey, Kurdish children turn the ruins into a playground. While the adults recover, the youngest dream of the moon—a place from which their collective pain seems smaller.

While Gaza is being bombed, Israelis picnic at border posts that are listed as tourist hotspots on TripAdvisor. Shot on infrared to capture scenes normally invisible to the human eye.

A visual letter from the director to her unborn child. In magical black-and-white imagery, she tells the story of her own father, who disappeared during her childhood and reappeared years later a changed man.

A chilling confrontation with found footage of a Nazi firing squad in Latvia in 1941. The details and insistent repetitions make us into witnesses, whether we like it or not.

In a landscape shaped by dragon fruit plantations, colonial tiger hunts by men in pith helmets, and weary wind turbines, a storm is brewing. Human and superhuman forces from present, past, and future threaten to collide.