International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Bridging science and fiction in the most inventive of ways, this medium-length film is a unique exploration of evolution, extinction, and the future from the point of view of minerals.

LAST THINGS
- Deborah Stratman
- 2023
- United States, France, Portugal
- s.t. French or English
- 50 min
Focus Bidayyat : New Beginnings
An elegy to Yarmouk, known as the capital of the Palestinian diaspora, a place that resisted atrocity with dignity but that no longer exists.

LITTLE PALESTINE, DIARY OF A SIEGE
- Abdallah Al-Khatib
- 2021
- Lebanon, France, Qatar
- s.t. French and English
- 89 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Evoking anxiety through sensory elements, Syrian filmmaker Alhasan Yousef’s non-linear short conveys the anguish and powerlessness he feels around the fate of his homeland.

LOCUS CORDIS
- Alhasan Yousef
- 2023
- Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Syria
- s.t. English
- 20 min