Festival de Cortos de Bogotá / Short Film Festival

Between documentary and poetic essay, CARAVAN is a film about immigrant children in Montreal, going through language integration in school. Through a series of playful portraits where the children pretend to be either immigrants or customs officers, the film aims to transcend our complex sociopolitical reality by foregrounding the human element that is common to us all.

Immigrant workers built a shopping mall for the Munich Olympics 1972. In 2016 this same place becomes the site of a racist shooting. And now this hate.“, concludes a woman in a Sohrab Shahid Saless’ film „Addressee Unknown“ (1983)

Each year, 40,000 eighth-graders visit the Vukovar Memorial Centre dedicated to the Croatian War of Independence. The goal is to broaden their knowledge about the war and the prolonged siege of Vukovar in 1991, a town that suffered the most during the Serbian occupation. Twenty-nine years after the end of the war and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, a class of students from Istria visits Vukovar.

In the 1990s, Chinese-Canadian artist Lloyd Wong began a video work about his living with HIV. It remained unfinished. Thirty years after his death, Lesley Loksi Chan edited the material. Rough and unprocessed, this film explores the meaning of incompletion.

The oil in the film is shown as a living organism with a heart and arteries. This organism can foresee a disaster caused by human intervention.

A man transforms into an animal and shares his emotions and fears. We Are Animals explores this metamorphosis as a metaphor for human contradictions, addressing relevant themes such as gender fluidity, power, domestic violence, and judgment, both in small towns and broader contexts. World Premiere Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025