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2024
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IDFA Competition for Short Documentary
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Malena Szlam
Archipelago of Earthen Bones - To Bunya
The film evokes the layered histories of Mount Beerwah to the titular Bunya Mountains,…
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Wojciech Węglarz
Bloodline
In the oldest forest in Europe, the border between Poland and Belarus is marked by a…
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Viesturs Kairišs
Cohabitants
Most people living on the Estonian island Piirissaar are of Russian origin. The original…
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Pranami Koch
Echoes Within
In her search for connection and identity, Pranami travels to the countryside and…
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Emanuel Licha
Entretierra
Entretierra is a sonic space between life and death, between presence and absence,…
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Theo Panagopoulos
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Theo Panagopoulos (who has a Greek father, a Lebanese-born mother and Palestinian…
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Wil Paucar Calle
How to Suture the Soil?
The flow of migration from South to North America is not only a recent phenomenon. In the…
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Vitaly Mansky
Iron
As armed conflict flares up at the edges of Europe, the commemoration of the Second World…
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Angello Faccini Rueda
Lanawaru
When a local community member disappears, a boy faces an early memory, seeking comfort in…
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Rebecca Blöcher, Frederic Schuld
Mama Micra
The mother of animation director Rebecca Blöcher didn’t want to live an ordinary life.…
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Hyejin Jung
Noise: Unwanted Sound
Just 0.2 seconds after a sound wave reaches the cochlea, the brain interprets the…
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Shirley Yumeng He
The Other Side of the Mountain
A filmmaker follows her father, an artist, in search of his childhood home in…
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Juliette Roudet
Paci
It’s been 10 years since director and choreographer Juliette Roudet was last in Corsica,…
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Cao Guimarães
Tokkotai Paquetá
On the tranquil island of Paquetá, in Guanabara Bay, northwest of the city of Rio de…
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Pat Heywood
Tough Love
In this short experimental documentary, filmmaker Pat Heywood explores the experience of…
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Silvana Alarcón Sánchez
Unwritten Letter
A letter, a poem and a farewell become intertwined in a journey full of memories. A…
