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Made for the MAP 48 Hour Filmmaking Challenge 2025. Two women are waiting to collect ashes of their passed lover.

CHIPPEL BAY is festival nominated student short film exploring family, memory, and the secrets that hold us together - or tear us apart. When estranged brothers Otis and Edward mysteriously awaken on a surreal version of their childhood beach, they must confront their painful past and uncover a hidden truth to find their way home. But some truths can change everything.

Sága is a strange, withdrawn, androgynous young girl. She has no friends and spends most of her time locked away at home. But Sága wasn't always like this; her life and personality changed dramatically at puberty when a terrible curse took hold of her. For years, she has managed to hide her dark secret from the world... But for how much longer?

After being ghosted by a romantic partner during a trip to Bangkok, the artist situates a contemporary act within a timeless Southeast Asian ghost cultural gesture, transforming personal heartbreak into a surreal exploration of ghosthood while reimagining its embodiment through ten playful yet haunting guidelines. Shifting between satire and introspection, the film contemplates the fragility of relationships and the futility and opacity of communication in the hyper-connected digital age.

Raúl records his routine on the high seas with a mini VHS. It's 1991. On board his first ship, the Raúl Primero, he records what words can't explain. On dry land, his son, Adrián, has just been born. Thirty years later, Adrián embarks for the Gran Sol, guided by those old recordings that his father filmed between networks, storms and dawns. In the solitude of the boat, with the engine vibrating in the chest and the wind hitting the deck, he tries to understand the distance that separated them. Recording his own journey, between memories and movement, he finds a way to approach, as if filming he could tell his father what he never dared to pronounce.

An home movie documentary about a young man with a camera who tries to recount and reframe a pivotal moment in his childhood: the death of his mother. An intimate and personal story about what remains of that mother-son relationship, now marked by an unbridgeable distance and an absence with which it is necessary to come to terms.

Short film shot in Uscio, Genoa, May 7, 1989.

Between June 1940 and August 1944, Otto Abetz, German ambassador in Paris, and Fernand de Brinon, ambassador of the Vichy regime in Paris, met almost daily and developed official collaboration between the governments of Vichy and Nazi Germany.

After a "dream" about a guardian of the forest, Samuel, a 25-year-old boy unmotivated by adulthood, recalls the story he experienced as a child: One day, he found a small gnome village in the middle of the forest. He always went to play there to try to spot some creature, until one of the times he returned, he found it destroyed. He salvaged a few remaining pieces, and his mother stored them in a trunk in the basement. That morning, after so many years, he decided to go down to the basement in search of the trunk. With it under his arm, he set off on a hike back into the forest to see the ruins of the village, hoping to find at least some sign of a creature living there. When he gave up on everything, he found a door in the trunk of an old tree. Behind it, the rebuilt village appeared, and the lights began to turn on.

Between 1944 and 1953, 170,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians put up fierce resistance to the Soviet invasion, hiding deep in the vast Baltic forests. Driven by a dream of freedom, they defied a ruthless empire with few resources but unwavering determination. Through previously unseen archives and the poignant accounts of the last survivors, this documentary reveals their clandestine struggle, their heroic sacrifices, and their legacy, timeless symbols of a desperate fight to escape the Soviet stranglehold and preserve the flame of independence.

Yak, a troubled pop musician, receives shocking news. His father, who’d rushed back to his home country of Syria decades ago, and whom Yak had nearly forgotten about, is in a coma in a Cologne hospital. There’s another surprise: Yak has a 15-year-old half-sister named Latifa, who speaks only Arabic. Circumstances compel him to travel across Germany with her.

The extraordinary and polarising story of Nadya Suleman, mother to octuplets.

Strung along by the backdrop of a hard-to-grasp outside world, we follow a life-size puppet who yearns to connect to its own rhythm. The rhythms of the city itself become a key contribution to the emotional movement.

Henry runs the Britpop Conservation Society and no one else cares. This mockumentary shows how everyone is a bit obsessed with something, but some more than others.

The film shows how strong women took up the fight against social injustice and for their own rights and how the uprising of 1525 changed people's lives.

A group of neighbors has been evicted from the communal housing where they had lived all their lives. They decide to take revenge on the speculator responsible for the injustice. Led by Lázaro, the oldest neighbor and a man of strong convictions, their aim is making him pay for the consequences of his greed and send a message to the rest of the world.

A woman is going to get a tattoo.

Dating back to the 1800s, Birmingham’s roller skating scene is a flourishing, diverse community - but it lacks dedicated spaces. This community documentary explores the history of one roller venue, The Tower Ballroom, and considers what it tells us about the power of community action.

Marked by the death of his aunt, iranian director Amirhossein Beik embarks on an intimate journey, fueled by his experience of exile and mourning, to question how our societies treat their dead. A poetic and absurd journey into the fragile links between death, memory, and forgetting.

A huge success when it premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1900, Gustave Charpentier’s (1860-1956) “musical novel in four acts and five scenes” was panned by the critics, who considered its depiction of female desire and its heroine’s rebellion against her family to be scandalous. In this new reading, Christof Loy (Salomé) – famous for his meticulous productions, precise direction and refined aesthetic – has detected beneath the innovative theme of female emancipation an unspoken aspect of Charpentier’s libretto: the toxic family relationship in which Louise finds herself trapped, and the hold that her possessive – even abusive – father exerts over her with the complicity of her mother. Keen to tell the story without judging the characters, the director draws the audience into Louise’s subconscious, highlighting the darker side of a society that, far from emancipating its daughters, only offers them cheap romance as a deflection from the frustrations of their limited prospects.

In an isolated house in the middle of the woods consists a family: in which the Father is convinced his son is the new Messiah. But as the son begins to question his upbringing and education, it creates friction among the family.

A collective experimental short / essay film—a fragment of a surreal inner landscape. Two performers torment themselves with immense sorrow in sand and slime, while a narrator from Hong Kong, speaking in a dreamlike monologue, attempts to rename a trauma that has been forced into forgetting. Through somatic exercises, the three creators explore the grief buried within their bodies. Gestures of grieving are captured through 3D scanning and transformed into digital copies so the two bodies become one, questioning how we can share our grief. In a third place beyond memory and reality, grief is born as a creature. Shaped by the embodied research of the creators, it transcends the digital/material realm, flesh, and language—transforming into a shared and liberated presence.

For over a year, cameras followed Jordan Bardella, an elected official from Seine-Saint-Denis with a meteoric rise in the RN, through meetings, debates, and trips.

13-year-old Laura feels adrift in her newly stitched-together family. Just as the forests and endless palm plantations begin to feel like home, she uncovers a lurking secret that threatens the women she holds close.

Mauricette Bonnarien, a 27-year-old woman, works at the port of Dégrad des Cannes as a dockworker. The rest of the time, she performs slam poetry. Very self-conscious about her surname, given to her ancestor when slavery was abolished, she has begun the administrative process of changing her name. Only her mother knows about it. Now it's time to tell the rest of her family and friends.

Presidential airplanes are not like other planes. Cutting edge technology, luxurious amenities and exceptional security measures transform these planes into national symbols of power.

A mother faced with the idea of her own death secretly follows a dangerous and forbidden process aimed at mastering death.

In a remote mountain village, the ritual of the chain of time occurs every year: here, a child, chosen by the Priestess, must deliver her the symbol of the childhood.

After the tragic loss of her parents, Violet discovers a Unicorn in the mystical forest near her Aunt and Uncle's cottage. This sparks her to undergo a mission to save the forest from local property developers.

An unusual detective arrives on a volcanic island in the south of Japan, searching for a missing person. As time goes by, he gets to know the islanders, who seem to be keeping a secret. Like the vapours of the volcano.

Homo Plastic is a journey into the heart of the Plastic Age. From the icy waters of Antarctica to the most remote tropical shores, no place is free from pollution. This documentary explores how an invention that transformed the way we live has ultimately altered life itself. Plastic doesn't just float in the oceans—it has infiltrated our bodies, our landscapes, and our history. With both scientific precision and emotional depth, the film maps out a global crisis we can no longer ignore. A portrait as haunting as it is beautiful, reflecting the price of progress... but also the possibility of rewriting our legacy.

Ghost Resorts is about absence, in places where skiers once frolicked freely. Those moments of joyful laughter on the slopes have been replaced by a mysterious sense of emptiness. But the skiing remains, still. “the Ghost Resorts series is an exploration of the ski culture, of an heritage, a golden age, those places where there was life, that have closed, but where skiing still remains”

Over 100 students venture into a large-scale scientific experiment. Since most people do not know exactly how a computer works, they recreate the data processing processes of a computer chip live in their auditorium. The process is observed with skepticism from the control room, because each processor particle has a very specific task.

What if giants had built the pyramids? Created using artificial intelligence, this video has gone viral on social media. Between archaeological “fake news” and fantastical mythology, why do the mysteries of ancient Egypt continue to captivate us?

A radio astrologist believes he can hear his dead daughter out in space.

The documentary Gregorio Ordóñez, el asesinato que despertó la rebelión contra ETA is an exercise of memory recalling the figure of the People's Party councillor and Deputy Mayor of San Sebastián on the 30th year of his assassination. The production looks back at the circumstances of his attack, the context of the Basque Country and San Sebastián in particular in 1995 and the events that followed his murder.

Mid Downs Radio is one of the longest-running hospital radio stations in the UK. This short documentary celebrates the eccentric and unlikely cast of volunteer presenters who keep the radio running, providing small moments of joy to patients that are spending their days in hospital beds.

Dave is on a mission to find the last gammon in London for his bird's brekkie, and nothing — not even the impending apocalypse - can stop him.

In two English cities with a shared, bloody history, the Jewish communities push for a more honest relationship with the past.

Little Naya’s father is always taken away from her because of his endless job. Only this time, motivated by her favorite fishing tv show, she takes on the quest of catching the legendary fish: her father.

Escape down the rabbit hole. Rave in its darkness.

Having lost her memory, A. could barely recall glimpses of her childhood in Argentina. After her death, her son visits the empty house for the last time. A sensory journey through a house without objects but filled with memory.

In a remote village, a boy struggles under the suffocating grip of his dictatorial father. As he desperately seeks freedom, he soon realises that escape is not as simple as it seems.

A few teen and youthful protesters in Iran, after being arrested by the governing regime, are offered forced labor in lieu of imprisonment. They go on a terrifying mission in the dark of night.

In Australia’s coal country, the inside story of one Aboriginal family fighting to stop a mine on their traditional land. Adani, which owns the mine, says it’s operating lawfully.

A doubling of mise-en-scène. Views of a city and a family. Political Berlin, private Bavaria. Painting within the film image. Realities observed within a necessarily shifting frame. A mobile phone film with the potential for deceleration. A social medium.

An aging school band chats at length about their last concert at their old school, while truly strange things are happening in the Kreideberg district of Lüneburg. What's the deal with the weird coots, and what is the strange hacker up to?

The story follows the events of a lackluster — and frankly, quite boring — party at the ΑΣΦ Fraternity. Seen through the eyes of Dylan and Logan, two fraternity members, everything changes when they stumble upon the key to turn an ordinary party into an unforgettable adventure and change the night forever: a little bit of magic.

Principal Boy follows the audition, rehearsal, and performance of the central character in British pantomime, known as the ‘principal boy’. Traditionally a young male protagonist, the character is conventionally played by a woman in drag. Using and subverting traditional British pantomime conventions, Principal Boy explores the presence and absence of trans and gender-nonconforming people in mainstream culture, including film and stage productions.⁠ ⁠

Following on from the duos formed by Arthur Teboul & Baptiste Trotignon and Thomas Enhco & Clara Ysé, ARTE Concert's Piano Day features a new creation: A unique encounter between pianist Édouard Ferlet and the polymorphous artist Marguerite Thiam.

Catalina Feliu is eighty-nine years old and lives in the first house built in Magaluf. She adapts to the changes in her environment: she sleeps when Magaluf wakes up.