Sphere Supreme (Belgium) by Hasan Pastaci

Follow Arama, guided by a mystical pomegranate tree, meeting a mysterious man. Along the way, Arama faces parts of himself, slowly putting together the puzzle of his identity. But before he is able to put everything together, will he manage to keep himself in one piece?

Running time: 00:05:02

A Robot of Me (Belgium) by Ron Chiers

A Robot of Me is a short AI-generated film that plays out like a virtual reincarnation of Andy Warhol in the age of artificial intelligence. In an apparently mundane scene - Andy buying soup in a supermarket - a philosophical daydream begins to unfold.

The film echoes his famous quote: “Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?” and raises the question of how Warhol might engage today with social media, AI, deepfakes, and prompts.

Running time: 00:02:45

Eva (Germany) by Laura Elisabeth Staab

“An action is causally connected if it cannot be thought away without the specific outcome ceasing to exist,” says Eva, a young prosecutor, quoting the cold logic of law texts. How does it apply to your life, your couple and your longing for motherhood? Drifting in the city from encounter to another, Eva confronts all the images of romantic and parental love that society has established as the status quo. Does she need this to be herself? (Léo Soesanto) 

Running time: 00:14:04

Flesh Wish (United Kingdom) by Timothy Benjamin Slessor

An experimental horror inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, David Cronenberg and Clive Barker, this music video / short details in an abstract way the summoning of demons through a ritual performed behind the locked doors of a 1970s terraced house. Images are a combination of 8mm cinefilm, analog stills and materal initially generated with the use of a variety of AI platforms before they were brought into After Effects were they were everything was heavily manipulated, with many layers of texture, noise and grain added, lighting added or altered, images distorted and blended together and so on. The actual editing was arduous, often frame-by-frame (everything was done by hand) with images further distorted and manipulated with a variety of blending modes. It was a one-man job and that one man was very, very tired by the end of it! (please note that the encode on the FilmFreeway screener is not very good, a sharper version can be seen on the Vimeo link used as the project website below)

Running time: 00:03:53

Marija Wants To Become A Woman (Serbia) by Jovan Pantovic

Facing her oversensitive being, Marija creates the perfect partner in her head and openly talks about it with Jovan, her current partner. Stunned and affected by her confession and story, Jovan records it all on camera while living together as tenants in Belgrade, Serbia.

Running time: 00:29:57

Home (Belgium) by Hanne Schillemans, Ralph Timmermans

Home is a short film about the fragility of life and the virtue of solitude. A faceless figure attempting not to resist the endless waves of pointlessness.

Home explores the tension between presence and absence within the strange choreography of existing. The protagonist’s nudity, devoid of eroticism, emphasizes vulnerability and the human form as a part not nature, reinforcing the film’s existential themes.  The figure remains faceless, allowing her to become anyone — or everyone, shifting the focus away from personal identity and stressing instinct over intellect, being over persona.

Home oscillates between the micro and the macro, between intimacy and vastness. Ants crawling with tireless precision, the sun rendered in cosmic proximity. In this interplay the human body becomes just another element: fragile, raw, exposed and dwarfed by the enormity of the natural world. 

Home meditates on aloneness not as absence, but as condition. It invites the viewer to witness a body moving through a universe that does not look back. Accompanied by music that is as raw as it is emotional, the film does not conform to conventional cinematic structures but instead allows the audience to immerse themselves in the rhythm of isolation and the ebb and flow of meaning in an indifferent world.

Running time: 00:11:25

We Who Remain (Norway) by Sindre Mangen Haram

On Christmas morning, brothers Vegard and Martin manage to visit the wrong grave. As they try to correct their mistake, their differing views on death and grief come to the surface, leading to an unexpected confrontation.

Running time: 00:23:06