Best Short Student Documentary

Everything for the arts - and that’s it! Through her selfless actions, Inga Birgitta Spur enabled the artist Sigurjón Ólafsson to create his work. The love for him and for his art led the native Dane after the Second World War to Iceland, despite all the language and cultural challenges. There she dedicated her life full of love and strength to his art to this day. Even at over 90 years old, she still runs the museum in Reykjavik that she founded after Sigurjón's death, dedicated to his art. TORN gives us a glimpse of her perspective of this artist's oeuvre and her relationship with his art.

In the industrial landscape - among mines, coking plants and ironworks - lives Andrzej Wojtasik, who, after a fifteen-year sentence, completed a two-year resocialization course at a center for former prisoners. Andrzej tries to re-establish contact with his family, but when the answering machine comes on again, he realizes that the problem of social resocialization lies not only with the inmates.

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.