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.

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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.

A grayscale, grainy picture of a person's feet with toes visible, viewed from above.

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.

Two deer standing on a hillside with trees and mountains in the background, black and white photo.

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.

A film strip showing four progressively clearer images of a person lying on the ground next to a large rock or boulder, with an open landscape background during daylight.

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.

A white cat with brown patches, seen through a glass surface, with enlarged googly eyes attached to the glass for a humorous effect.

Close-up of a carved stone face sculpture on a rocky cliff face with trees and cloudy sky in the background.

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.

Two girls standing in a grassy field holding green and purple balloons on strings, with a partly cloudy sky in the background.

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.

A black and white photo showing a small figure on a shoreline with a vast sky above. The sky appears dark with a few bright spots, possibly celestial objects. Text in the center reads "rain vasilios papaioannu."

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.

A landscape with a body of water and dry grass, under a cloudy sky at sunset, with a superimposed image of a person's eye with long lashes and a golden-brown eye color.

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.