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
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
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Between reality and allegory, this film reappropriates a forest once forbidden to women, reimagining it from the perspective of those lost to the stake.

NOCTURNE FOR A FOREST
- Catarina Vasconcelos
- 2023
- Portugal
- s.t. English
- 16 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
In a bid to bridge the gap between the two, the filmmaker juxtaposes fragments of her native Ukraine at war with childlike images from the books she is using to learn Portuguese.

SMOKE OF THE FIRE
- Daryna Mamaisur
- 2023
- Ukraine, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary
- s.t. French or English
- 22 min