2pm / World Shorts 4 / 81 mins / Screen 6

Summer '96
Mathilde Bédouet / France / 2024 / 12 mins
The eternal ‘August 15 picnic’ on Callot Island. But this year, Paul, his family and their friends find themselves trapped by the tide. Paul, upset, stuck between the world of adults and that of children, becomes aware of his individuality.

Subotopic
Nikki Schuster / Austria / 2023 / 7 mins
The viewer’s gaze dives below the water's surface into ever deeper layers of water. In morphed single-frame switching, bizarre pictorial plants and insect creatures pass by the viewer. A dive into a mystical underwater world where reality and utopia meet.

Concrete Whisper
Jannis Lenz / Austria / 2024 / 13 min
A medieval saga and surrealistic play in a chat group gradually give shape to a creature that makes its tracks through the big city.

Paper Thin
Harry Plowden / UK / 2024 / 10 mins
A young boy draws in his notebook to try and escape the horrors of the world around him.

The Bitch
Carla Melo Gampert / Colombia / 2024 / 14 mins
In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.

The Dawn
Alice Mendy / Switzerland / 2024 / 29 mins
When a parasite contaminates all the drinking water of Dakar, pills are created to neutralize it. Alioune, a young man can no longer afford them. As the days go by, Alioune realizes that he has never been so lucid, and he begins a journey of political and spiritual awakening.