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Original Film Title: Test Strike
Director’s Name: Pavel Karusev
Writer’s Name: Pavel Karusev
Producer: Pavel Karusev
Country of Origin: Kazakhstan
Country of Filming: Kazakhstan
Language: English
Runtime: 4 minutes 43 seconds
Film Description:
A short AI film exploring morals in medieval Japan. During that time, samurai practiced a custom known as “tsujigiri” (辻斬り). This film is a brief sketch of how such an event might have unfolded.
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Original Film Title: Natural Rhythm
Director’s Name: Sasha Magallona
Writer’s Name: Sasha Magallona
Producer: Sasha Magallona
Country of Origin: Philippines
Country of Filming: Philippines
Language:
Runtime: 1 minute 54 seconds
Film Description:
Exploring destruction as an essential predecessor to order and balance, the film centers on a volcano that regulates the world around it—though the world itself has no control over its rhythm. AI tools—MidJourney and Runway—were used as part of an experimental approach to visual storytelling, examining their potential as emerging platforms within contemporary filmmaking.
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Original Film Title: VOID – A Triptych of Sorrow
Director’s Name: Raphael Carmeli
Writer’s Name: Raphael Carmeli
Producer: Raphael Carmeli
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language: English
Runtime: 6 minutes 13 seconds
Film Description:
A three-part film exploring the limits of human existence through body, mind, and soul. A powerful visual work in which fear, longing, and solitude intertwine into a total experience of disintegration and revelation. Through a fusion of emotional realism, surreal imagery, and immersive sound, the film observes the human spirit at the moment it loses its grip on the world, on itself, and on meaning.
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Original Film Title: Santa Zeta
Director’s Name: Antonio Munoz de Mesa
Writer’s Name: Antonio Munoz de Mesa
Producer: Jordi Monedero Roiz
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: United States, Korea, Republic of, Spain, United States
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
Film Description:
A super famous travel influencer, Santa Zeta, uses her social media as a cover to travel the world hunting pedophiles, obsessed with finding her little sister’s killer.
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Original Film Title: The Lost Symbol
Director’s Name: Fabiola Campos
Writer’s Name: Fabiola Campos
Producer: Horacio Velazco
Country of Origin: Mexico
Country of Filming: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 3 minutes 38 seconds
Film Description:
Dr. Ana Montenegro seeks out former detective Cristóbal Martínez to solve her husband’s murder, but soon they each begin to suspect the other may be connected to the crime.
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Original Film Title: Ducky
Director’s Name: Oscar Mendoza
Writer’s Name: Oscar Mendoza
Producer: Guadalupe Mendoza
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
Film Description:
Based on a true story, this narrative follows Oscar, a sixteen-year-old from Oak Cliff who faces unique challenges. After a botched car theft, Oscar must rescue his friend Ducky from the bloodthirsty gangs that roam the streets. He needs to get home before nightfall to protect his family. Oscar isn’t your typical teenager; he was born with a curse that allows him to see, talk to, and touch the dead. As he navigates the gang-infested streets, he must confront both the living threats and the demons that lurk in the darkness. Compounding his troubles, there is a serial killer on the loose in Oak Cliff. Can Oscar save his friend and stop the killer before it’s too late?
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Original Film Title: Cupid Went Wild
Director’s Name: Rodrigo B. Estevez
Writer’s Name: Rodrigo B. Estevez
Producer: Bárbara Rivas Vílchez, Maximiliano Mondragón Alpizar, Felipe Güemes Melgar
Country of Origin: Mexico
Country of Filming: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 3 minutes 49 seconds
Film Description:
Felipe is pulled into a fantastical world where ethereal forces manipulate his fate. Trapped in a surreal game, he faces moments that blur the line between reality and delusion.
On his journey, he must face his own light and darkness to discover who he is… and who he is meant to become.
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Original Film Title: Lamp
Director’s Name: Zoe Peng
Writer’s Name: Zoe Peng, Yike Gao
Producer: Xinxuan Zhou
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Runtime: 3 minutes 26 seconds
Film Description:
When singer Angela Zhang finds herself physically and emotionally exhausted, a mysterious lamp appears, claiming to grant three wishes. Thus begins her odyssey through mind-bending realms where dreams fuse with reality, and eternity collides with fleeting moments. She indulges in lavish extravagance within gilded illusions, storms the Archives of Love to overturn dusty heartbreak doctrines, and ultimately confronts her aged self at the end of time—within a house where memories crystallize into walls.
In this twilight sanctuary, two versions of Angela unfold a raw dialogue: about the weight of home, the poetry hidden in wrinkles, the paradox of creation that both liberates and imprisons, and the fragile flame of original aspiration that flickers through decades.
Returning to reality, she awakens to a revelation—every vision in the illusion traces back to reality’s tapestry. There exists no magic lamp, only the extraordinary ordinary people around her: their unnoticed kindnesses flickers of light that, stitch by stitch, silently weave a galaxy in life’s dark night.
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Original Film Title: Random Forest
Director’s Name: Guillaume Blot, Ludovic Blot
Writer’s Name: Guillaume Blot
Producer: Guillaume Blot
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: English
Runtime: 17 minutes 20 seconds
Film Description:
Tonight, the algorithm breaks.
A polymorphic hacker hijacks the playlist.
Scam, control or an escape from a life scripted by an AI that knows our desires before we do?
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Original Film Title: Edge to Stillness
Director’s Name: Lily Rinae
Writer’s Name: Lily Rinae
Producer: Tomoyuki Sudo
Country of Origin: Japan
Country of Filming: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 2 minutes 52 seconds
Film Description:
Jun Miyake’s acclaimed composition—featured in Wim Wenders’ Pina—resonates with the quiet landscapes of Niseko.
The film is set in a single-storey house designed by the avant-garde architecture collective SAAD, its curved form echoing the flow of a nearby stream and the rhythms of snow, wind, and light.
A dancer embodies these soft, organic lines, using movement to reveal the dialogue between architecture and the natural materials that root the home in its surroundings.
The camera glides along the building’s curves, tracing the dancer’s breath and gesture as music, body, and place gradually merge.
The result is a spatial poem capturing the moment when architecture, nature, and human presence harmonise in the stillness of Niseko.
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