Competition 3

“2nd Day & the End of the World” is a 12 minutes handrawn op paper, Hyper-Family-Drama about processes of secession, post-traumatic attacks, tempting body conditions & powerless loneliness in a climate-catastropic universe.

Gluttony is a poetic short film driven by ECHLO’s original poem and music. It frames consumption not as a moral failure, but as an existential attempt to fill an inner void. The protagonist carries a literal hole in her chest—a raw space of longing that no amount of external stimulation can satisfy. Moving through surreal landscapes, she reaches for beauty and objects, yet every momentary relief collapses back into the void. The film redefines gluttony as an “excess of input”—the endless scrolling and distraction used to avoid the silence of modern life. Her body becomes a battleground of ritualistic consumption and exhaustion. Ultimately, Gluttony offers a compassionate lens on this hunger, viewing it as a universal human symptom. Rather than condemning excess, the film invites viewers to witness their own longing with tenderness and clarity.

Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.

The dreamer wakes up in abstract vastness. In this surreal space, terrain is unfixed and moves in time. As the dreamer starts running from the impermanent, they come to accept the unknown. Nothing can remain still.

Between blurred walls, a being subjected to controls and interfaces undergoes a metamorphosis that gradually fragments it, in a futile attempt to complete an endless task.

Lost in her daydreams and oblivious to the cuckoo egg in her nest, a bird mother is breeding her own catastrophe.

This experimental film delves into the century-old history of Hong Kong’s iconic tram system. Through a nonlinear collage of industrial materials — wood, concrete and steel — the film reconstructs the tram as a contested vessel of cultural identity, embodying the tensions and transformations of urban modernity.

Célian, a 6-year-old kid with autism spectrum disorder, splits his time between a harsh and dull reality and a profuse and disjoined imagination in which he takes refuge. He’s interested in everything: astronomy, biology, chemistry… but given his young age, all this information tends to collide in his little head. While his life is punctuated by a whole series of rituals, one day something happens that perturbates his well-oiled daily routine, pushing him to take a decision on his own, while respecting his parents’ orders as well as possible. He will set off on an adventure, alone, and at the risk of his own life, and will overcome all the obstacles he will encounter by escaping into his imagination.

My father David Nerwen, was a visual artist and graphic designer. He worked in the printing industry where he applied his keen sense of color to offset lithography and color separation processes. As a fiber artist he created hand stitched abstract wool designs on canvas and produced a large body of work ranging in scale from 10 inches to 6 feet in a period of over 50 years.

Color Separation weaves together found and shot footage to reflect on my father’s creative work, his decline in health and the disorientation of losing a parent.

In the film „BLISS“ a group of women escape a traumatic event to create a utopian, self-sufficient community, becoming a living caryatid that explores the power of femininity, nature, and the search for grace

A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.