EXISTO MINIMA by Oleksandr Isaienko | Ukraine | 2020
Duration: 00:16:15
Existo Minima is a shore line, where the brief presence is an analysis of personal history. Here, on the borderline between statics and dynamics, within the frame of someone’s own ‘drama’, one phase of crisis evolves into the next one.
APUS APUS (AKA FIVE MEALS AND A SWIFT) by Alfie Elms | UK | 2025
Duration: 00:08:09
Told through a sequence of meals observed from a single fixed point, Apus Apus charts Bea’s everyday existence in the city, tracing the textures of the landscape and the presence of the ever-changing community.
GREETINGS FROM SEASIDE HEIGHTS by Klara Schmickler | USA, Germany | 2026
Duration: 00:14:30
Between consumerism and quiet decay: A portrait of a place that is gambling away its future – and of people who are searching for meaning within it.
SIGHT/SEEING by Jennifer Hardacker | USA, India, Iceland, Germany, Netherlands, France | 2023-26
Duration: 00:13:00
A filmmaker seeks to use her year of multiple travels as a platform to engage in an auto-ethnographic study, but realizes that she needs to abandon the academic pretense and embrace the messy, necessary work of listening to others and really seeing.
TRAPOS SUCIOS / DIRTY CLOTHES by María Barragán Gutiérrez | Spain | 2023
Duration: 00:03:08
Audiovisual poem about the weight of reality and the need to escape from it.
AUSSIE ESTO THIRD GEN by Imbi Männik | Australia | 2018
Duration: 00:04:07
This light-hearted short documentary explores the individual experiences of a third-generation Australian Estonian living in South Australia, touching on bi-culture, identity and community.
GOODBYE, SNOBALL by Rasel Ahmed | USA | 2025
Duration: 00:20:00
Goodbye, Snoball is a poetic exploration of D.C.-based activist Sergei Kostin’s relationship with his aging dog, Snoball, amid the chaos of the 2020 US election.
Σήμερα λαχείο, αύριο ταμείο / PICK A LOT, WIN A LOT by Konstantinos Merentitis | Greece | 2024
Duration: 00:26:00
In this film, I followed Nektarios for an entire day, just as he is — with his own rhythm, struggles, and persistence.
What I wanted was to show the daily route of a man trying to stay on his feet in a city that changes faster than his life can keep up with.
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