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Original Film Title: LOOP
Director’s Name: Marco Oppo
Writer’s Name: Marco Oppo, Giulia Muru
Producer: Marco Oppo, Moon Arts
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: English, Italian
Runtime: 12 minutes 4 seconds
Film Description:
A woman, injured and disoriented, tries to escape a reality she does not recognize and in which she is trapped.
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Original Film Title: The Warrior
Director’s Name: Lolo Martín
Writer’s Name: Lolo Martín
Producer: 23 Razones Creaciones Artísticas, Empatía Films
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Language: English
Runtime: 7 minutes 23 seconds
Film Description:
“The Warrior” is a visual poetry in the experimental genre that immerses the viewer in a sensory, magical, and dreamlike world in which two characters, Her and Him, constantly intertwine, separate, blend, and reunite, reminding us of the dual nature of this world.
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Original Film Title: No Horses on Mars
Director’s Name: Bea de Visser
Writer’s Name: Bea de Visser
Producer: Bea de Visser
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Country of Filming: Netherlands
Language: English
Runtime: 14 minutes 54 seconds
Film Description:
We experience a trailer ride on the highway and wake up from anesthesia in a veterinary clinic. ‘No horses on Mars’ is practically a road film, whose POV’s from the horse is the most effective element of the film. The horse appears as the galloping mind that resides in all domesticated horses. The human being is introduced as a screen viewer who follows the horse, wants to measure, records and knows her as an object. Ultimately, from the human perspective in the film, there seems to be a glimmer of recognition for the individuality of the horse.
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Original Film Title: NOW Again – 2 – Guermantes Way
Director’s Name: Richard Philpott
Writer’s Name: Marcel Proust
Producer: Richard Philpott
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: France, United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
Film Description:
Following the exceptional acclaim for his “AYE” tetralogy, 2021-2024 (over 140 international awards), Philpott undertakes the first ever complete filmic interpretation of Proust’s monumental “À la recherché du temps perdu”, with rich narrative forms reflecting the wide range of voices in the novel, providing a visual feast with sonic immersion, to reveal the vast panoramic structure of Proust’s masterwork and provide a new 21st century foundation for this timeless 20th century epic.
“We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the interval. It was quite narrow, this interval, this fault that I had had to cross.” Marcel Proust
un tour autour de la tête de Proust
reminiscences from
“Remembrance of Things Past”
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Original Film Title: Beginnings Part 3
Director’s Name: Apostolos Peter Panagiotis Toly A.K. Kouroumalis
Writer’s Name: Apostolos Peter Panagiotis Toly A.K. Kouroumalis
Producer: Apostolos Peter Panagiotis Toly A.K. Kouroumalis
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada
Language: English
Runtime: 40 minutes 59 seconds
Film Description:
Paint and scratch experimental animation film drives the patterns of a glamour girl lost in a play. mandela effect- Schema Theory: People tend to misremember visual details if those incorrect details fit their preconceived expectations (e.g., imagining a rich businessman like Mr. Monopoly wearing a monocle).
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Original Film Title: Abiding Madeira
Director’s Name: João Monge
Writer’s Name: João Monge, Eduardo Pimentel
Producer: João Monge, Andre Carvalho, José Valente
Country of Origin: Portugal
Country of Filming: Portugal
Language: English
Runtime: 49 minutes
Film Description:
Abiding Madeira observes the presence of surfer Alex Botelho within the island that shaped him. In Madeira, waves, rock and water have been shaping the territory for millennia. Against that scale, the human presence becomes temporary.
The film shifts the centre of the narrative. It is not a story about a man confronting the ocean, but about a human body existing inside a system far older than itself.
Between sea, stone and memory, time stretches beyond the human rhythm. The island does not react. It does not answer. It simply continues.
What remains is not conquest, but coexistence.
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Original Film Title: ROUGH _about the inner depths of fear.
Director’s Name: Carsten Fuhrmann
Writer’s Name: inorganic fishing Authors’ Lab Berlin
Producer: kollektv soziales geräusch
Country of Origin: Germany
Country of Filming: Germany
Language: German
Runtime: 11 minutes 27 seconds
Film Description:
Inspired by poetic texts such as “also… ich hab”, “Rohrtext Nr.1”, and “Schlaftext Nr.3”, the film unfolds a visual and auditory translation of fragmented, splintered language. Sentence breaks, neologisms, and sound play create an experience of uncertainty, hope, and existential disorientation. Physical imagery, spatial contrasts, and the interplay of openness and confinement reflect inner states and dream logic. The film shows how language can be both a tool of expression and a limitation – an open space for association and reflection.
As an association-based film, ROUGH deliberately moves away from linear narrative. It links images, sound, and language through mood, repetition, and rupture – like daydreams. The goal is to make inner spaces communicable and tangible. Viewers are invited to navigate meanings for themselves, wandering between hope, fragmentation, and identity.
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Original Film Title: Rooted
Director’s Name: Sailesh Rajan Israni
Writer’s Name: Sailesh Rajan Israni
Producer: Sailesh Rajan Israni
Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates
Country of Filming: United Arab Emirates
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
Film Description:
In a Real Estate Industry obsessed with Luxury, Scale, and Spectacle, Rooted is a about a 20 years journey of a Real Estate Developer with quiet counter-narrative of building with purpose for the people who need housing the most in the City.
Set against the ever-changing skyline of Dubai, the documentary follows how Dubai has evolved and its juxtaposition with a family, their work, and the spaces they create and plan succession. Through unhurried observation, Rooted explores what it means to build while remaining grounded: in values, in responsibility, and in time.
Rather than celebrating architecture as object or scale as success, Rooted treats the built environment as memory—something inherited, inhabited, and ultimately passed on. Homes are not endpoints, but continuations. Buildings do not conclude stories; they hold them.
Dubai, often portrayed as a city of extremes, appears here differently: not as a symbol of excess, but as a place where permanence is negotiated daily—between tradition and modernity, ambition and restraint, legacy and change.
Rooted asks a simple, enduring question:
What does it mean to grow without losing where you come from?
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