SAT SEPT 6 - SUN SEPT 7
2025
Saturday Sept 6
16:00 - 17:30 | The Moss Gets Louder in the Rain | 1h 27m plus Director Q&A
International short films
A poetic and sensory exploration of the delicate interplay between humans and the natural world. Through rain-soaked landscapes, fog-bound coastlines, and moss-covered wetlands, these films draw on possibilities of reciprocal ecology and embodied perception.
i am a
Dagie Brundert | 2min | Germany
I'm at the sea, it's raining lightly, there's a lot of fog, and there's nobody on the beach, just me, a few seagulls and lots of thoughts. How about the dimensions.
Near Nowhere
Nora Zubizarreta | 6min | United States
Near Nowhere explores wondering and wandering in the natural world. My projects seek to open-up affective spaces before and beyond verbal language. Near Nowhere plays with the fragmented but continuous nature of the experiential, examining the lively tension present in both the landscapes and human relationships with nature.
Chasing Whales
La Fille Renne | 5min | France
Chasing whales is an experimental short documentary film following the journey of the French filmmaker La Fille Renne on the trail of cetaceans, reflecting on our relation to them and the evolution of their hunt in Northern Europe.
The Kittens' Tea Party
MilleFeuille (aka MiruFiyu) | 11min | Canada
In a quiet residential neighbourhood, the tension between domestic, wild and work animals is caught on home security camera, recorded through windows and souvenired in old postcards.
Nox
Mireille Heidbreder | 8min | United States
NOX is a sensory experimental film in which I use a combination of archival and own film prints and digital footage to “re-imagine” moments in which a shift in the balance of the human/natural world has occurred.
A Brilliant Trick
Helka Heinonen | 30min | Finland
How to do a vanishing act backwards? A poetic film about living at the brink of biodiversity loss. The film also deals with growth, boundaries, negotiation and imagining new ways of being.
Rain
Vasilios Papaioannu | 6min | United States
Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people.
Translocations
Nick Jordan | 15min | United Kingdom
Centred on sphagnum moss, Translocations highlights the mutual aid and reciprocal exchange that exists between species in the restoration of a lowland peatbog. Featuring the voice of botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, and a tactile soundtrack score, the film documents the human and more-than-human life, energies and actions that are transforming an intensively farmed and damaged terrestrial environment back into a flourishing wetland habitat.
Fog Day
Patrycja Loranc, Sam Johnson | 5min | United Kingdom
This film, shot and edited within one day after encountering a location in Rodney Stoke, Somerset, covered in silken fog, evokes the “mutual permeability and mutual creation of self and other” (Marks, 2000) in experiments with somatic camera and organic exploration.
