SAT SEPT 6 - SUN SEPT 7

2025

Saturday Sept 6

11:00 - 12:30 If the Light Had a Skin / 1h 4m

International short films

This programme is a luminous meditation on summer’s rhythms, where sunlight becomes both subject and collaborator. Sensorial intimacies and tenderness of remembered moments are weaved into a study of relationships through interactions with nature and light.

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Write Your Sunlight On My Skin
Billy Palumbo | 4min | United States

The elements collide to make serenity out of turmoil, and anxiety gives way to a new normal. Point the way and I will follow.

A blurry, close-up photo of a person's shoulder and part of their arm, with a background showing a building with windows and a potted plant.

Ashes of Roses
Sasha Waters | 11min | United States

This movie is about loving things that are embarrassing and people who are inappropriate. It's an essay film reflection on popular trash; football parties; older men; adolescent desire and the outrageous yet mundane humiliations of being a teenage girl in the 1980s.

Person holding a decorated ceramic egg with a floral design.

Sunny 16 Helsinki
Eve Le Fessant Coussonneau | 7min | France

On the border between Finland and Russia, lazy summer vibes become stifling. Under the burning sun, on an island, two beings rave. Tender wander or anxious waiting on a sensorial experience.

Close-up of a dried, brown leaf showing detailed veins and a jagged edge with dark tips.

Four Times
Jeff Sermon | 28min | Belgium

Four Times is an experimental meditation on the cyclical nature of seasons, landscapes and relationships.

Sunlight filters through a dense green forest with numerous tall trees, some with moss on their trunks. There is a caption at the bottom that reads, 'But I want to be alone with you, what are you talking about?'.

Close-up of a plant with dark, velvety leaves and small flowers or buds, rendered in an unusual blue monochrome tone.

Serene Hues
Rita Tse | 4min | Canada

Serene Hues, hand-processed, solarized, tinted, and toned, is a meditative journey into the tranquility and vibrant beauty of nature.

Fjord Time
Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson, Carleen Maur | 4min | United States

Two young sisters guide us through a meditation on time, play, and nature—using the present moment as a spell against acceleration.

Colorful beach ball in front of cityscape with tall buildings and a church with a dome, under a blue sky with clouds.

Light’s Return
Kathleen Rugh | 3min | United States

Before all magic was lost, the sun awoke to meet me on the surface of the river. The film captures an in-camera edit of this fleeting encounter.

Sunset shining through trees on a wooden deck with outdoor furniture and shadows cast on the deck.

pressing
stephanie barber | 3min | United States

A performance and exercise in the prosaic as mythologized through memory. Concision and the infinite that is always entwined with remembering and forgetting.