Outbound (United States) by Eli Jeffery

A curious robot finds a storage device that may lead him far away.

Running time: 00:02:58

After Dark (Norway) by Iain Forbes

On his way home one night, Kristian encounters a young woman in desperate need of help. He agrees to accompany her to the train station, but soon begins questioning her story.

Running time: 00:10:07

Lumen (Canada) by Stéphanie Bélanger

It has been raining heavily for months and the sixth wave is depressing humanity. In this prevailing darkness, Claude, 70 years old, compulsively buys lamps online to break his solitude and bring light into his life, at any cost.

Running time: 00:13:21

The Other Side of Despair (Switzerland) by Varsy Buchmann

"The Other Side of Despair" is a moving portrait of a young Armenian artist, Art Petrosyan, who sets fire to his own paintings. Shot during a time of profound loss and upheaval in the aftermath of the forced deportation of 120,000 people from Artsakh, it provides a unique and thought-provoking perspective on the relationship between art, identity, and the struggle for survival.

Running time: 00:08:30

The Steak (Canada, Iran) by Kiarash Dadgar

A birthday party preparation is thrown into chaos by an awful event.

Running time: 00:08:13

The Cascade (Mexico) by Pablo Delgado

A man discovers he's been crying for several months without even noticing. Strangely, his tear ducts have decided to work in an inverse manner, transforming his interiors into a waterfall. The man will have to find a way to stop a cry that he can't even feel.

Running time: 00:20:00

I’m Here Live, I’m Not a Human (United Kingdom) by Flâneuse du Mal

‘I’m Here Live, I’m Not a Human’ is a video exploring the modes of nonhuman embodiment and its emancipatory potentialities in the context of western anthropocentric humanist discourse.

Inspired by the potency of art appropriation practices by feminist artists from The Pictures Generation, the work appropriates the elements of corporate environment as well as the canonical works of contemporary western male artists, to explore the questions of alterity, alienation and belonging, and invite further inquiry into the nature of contemporary culture and its innate and seemingly benign customs, processes and codes upholding and reproducing the western systems of power.

Running time: 00:03:59

Fuck-a-Fan (Netherlands) by Muriel d'Ansembourg

Chloe Cam, the hottest porn star on social media, launches a “Fuck-a-Fan” contest to blow up her following and let one lucky fan live out his dream. That turns out to be Thomas, an awkward young man from Amsterdam whose heart was recently crushed. In his loneliness and desperation, he can’t help projecting something deeper onto her than porn-star thrills. When the lights go on and the camera starts rolling, Thomas and Chloe find themselves as they never expected: vulnerable, and accountable to each other.

Running time: 00:24:12