12pm / World Shorts 6 / 80 mins / Screen 6

As It Was
Damian Kocur, Anastasia Solonevych / Poland, Ukraine / 2024 / 15 mins
Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. On her way to Kyiv, she finds out that her family will only arrive a day later. She meets her friend Kyrylo.

Percebes
Alexandra Ramires (Xá), Laura Goncalves / Portugal / 2024 / 11
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called Percebes, the goose barnacle.

Constructing An Island
Ebba Gustaffson / Sweden / 2024 / 17 mins
When anxiety has been high, stories about a remote island in northern Finland have been calming, but a journey there reveals that the existence on the island does not match what has been told.

An Orange For Jaffa
Mohammed Almughanni / Palestine / 2024 / 29 mins
Mohammed, a young Palestinian man, is desperately looking for a taxi that will allow him to cross a checkpoint. Farouk, the cab driver, hesitates because the young man does not have a permit. At the checkpoint, Farouk discovers that Mohammed has already failed to cross the border... Trouble begins.

Hold On For Dear Life
Simone Fiorentino / Italy / 2024 / 9 mins
A young man wanders around his bomb-wounded city with his dog and his noseless friend Jean-Michel, while trying to keep his everyday life intact.