After an exhausting rainy day, a young woman fights against her growingly overwhelming feelings.

• Director: Julia Skala, Oscar Jacobson
• Country: Germany
• Year: 2020
• Runtime: 6 minutes

The Knife talks about the power of motherly love. The aim of the project was to create a situation and environment in which a mother would be forced to show her love for her daughter through physical sacrifice. The film depicts the primitive instincts which help the mother to protect her child from danger.

• Director: Timotej Lukovič
• Country: Slovakia
• Year: 2021
• Runtime: 5 minutes

I’m sitting here with my girl but she’s only in my head and she wants me to take her to the ocean – in a biplane!

• Director: Tine Kluth
• Country: United Kingdom
• Year: 2020
• Runtime: 4 minutes

The Dalang’s Tale is an animated short film about domestic violence with visuals inspired by Malaysian traditional wayang kulit or shadowpuppets. Two stories intertwine: one of a workaholic father and his growing impatience with his young son as they make their way to watch a shadow puppet master or dalang’s show and the other of a man who dotes on his son but secretly inflicts acts of abuse on his wife before he disappears after a violent incident.

• Director: Irwan Junaidy, Maizura Abas, ‘Atiqah Mohd Abu Bakar
• Country: Malaysia
• Year: 2021
• Runtime: 6 minutes

The 17th of October, 1961. Algerian workers get down the streets to manifest against the mandatory curfew imposed by the Police prefecture.

• Director: Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Nicolas Mayeur, Etienne Moulin, Hadrien Pinot, Lisa Vicente, Philippine Singer, Alice Letailleur
• Country: France
• Year: 2021
• Runtime: 8 minutes

After a harrassing day, Marion, a young woman in her twenties, recounts her story to a policeman, hoping to be unterstood. For her, the responsible one is part of the hounds. For him, she is the one responsible.

• Director: Louise Cottin-Euziol, Lou-Anne Abdou, Antoine Blossier Gacic, Charline Hedreville, Agathe Moulin, Victoria Normand, Gabriel Saint-Frison
• Country: France
• Year: 2021
• Runtime: 6 minutes

A series of crimes is devastating the city and there is only one person who is capable of finding the culprit: Toni Clues. When Mr. and Ms. Mendoza are murdered, their family decides to hire him. But time is against him as new victims begin to appear and the police are nowhere to be see. He will have to use all his track-hunting skills to try to solve the mystery: who is behind such gory deaths?

• Director: Rubén Garcerá
• Country: Spain
• Year: 2021
• Runtime: 12 minutes

A young man wants to marry a pretty Alsatian girl and go ask her father, but the latest is a very bizarre, scary man, master of sauerkraut. The young man, despite his clumsiness, decides to cook him a sauerkraut in order to get his daughter’s hand. Literally.

• Director: Andréa Marszalek, Hugo Greiner, Maïté Dufour, Floraya Marlin, Alix Poirier, Camille Krempp
• Country: France
• Year: 2021
• Runtime: 7 minutes