Best Short Student Documentary

Inga Birgitta Spur found art as her life's calling at a young age. Her love for the artist Sigurjón Ólafsson and his art led the native Dane after World War 2 to Iceland. There she dedicated her live to enabling Sigurjón to create his works, despite the challenges of a foreign country and unfamiliar culture. Now, at over 90 years, she still directs the Museum she founded for her late husband. TORN gives us a glimpse of her perspective of this artist's oeuvre and her relationship with his art.

Andrzej has completed a two-year course at the center for former prisoners in Silesia, the mining region in Poland, which was intended to bring him back into the society after detension. However, it turns out that the society does not forget about the past. The landscape outside Andrzej's room window and repeating sound of the voicemail intensify his loneliness.

As the only road leading to the Caucasus mountain region of Tusheti, Georgia, closes for 7 months of winter, a handful of holdouts remain.

In "The Wolf" Bela gets lost in the forest, where she follows a wolf through his transformation into a werewolf. "The Wolf" is also a film about filmmaking, taxidermy, werewolf horror, digibeta tapes, non actor students, untrained animals, no-budget special effects, and a director who comments on her failure.

In "Tough Moves" 13-year-old Arminius navigates the contrasting worlds of his unique sport: chessboxing. In one moment, he is immersed in the calm concentration of the chessboard; in the next, he is engaged in the intense physicality of the boxing ring. This challenging balance extends into his home life, where his father, also his boxing coach, imposes rigorous training. Together, they prepare for the upcoming German championship.

In a Singapore children's home, girls navigate friendship, hope, and identity, illuminating unseen stories in a poignant exploration of resilience.

In the Netherlands, an anarchist collective JAN10 battles the ongoing housing crisis by squatting empty buildings, which poses a threat to the established capitalist interests.

I’m dopamine—the molecule that powers your joy, motivation, and desires.

The Streets Know My Name follows a young Togolese survivor of child trafficking as he rebuilds his life in Nigeria. Blending documentary and fiction, the film traces his search for identity and home across borders, shedding light on resilience, memory, and the long shadows of a stolen past.

An unusual friendship between a filmmaker and a bird unfolds through filming with a phone camera.

Motherhood is not always what you expect: an exploration of one woman's experience with post-natal depression.

An essay on Long Covid and dreaming birds.

When the first snow falls, the fifth season begins in the village surrounded by mountains. Once a year, the ‘untamed and wild’ is allowed to burst out of the men under the protection of the masks.