Swimming with Wings
New to The Netherlands, a young Israeli girl learns how to swim with clothes on.
Festival Year: 2024
Mum’s Spaghetti
MC Poppy and her beatboxing border terrier, Snoop, are the new kids in town—and they’re ready to make their reputation known.
Rice
When a young man moves into a new home, his neighbors notice that he’s in need of food and comfort.
Kilig!
A reluctant Filipino American girl takes a trip with her mother to Palawan to visit family. Their priorities clash at first, but there’s something in the water.
Canta Santiago
A young mariachi faces his first performance alone and discovers his brother has always been by his side.
My name is Edgar and I Have a Cow
When Edgar rescues a newborn calf from a food factory, he learns that raising a cow isn’t as easy as it seems.
In the End We’re All Music
In the microcosm of an indoor swimming hall, three women discover what it means to be strong in their own way.
Unibrow
When Leyla tries to fix her unibrow, she accidentally makes things worse. When the new girl at school offers to help make her brow smaller, Leyla feels her world begin to grow bigger.
Ceiba Y Sus Raíces Taínas
Disaster strikes the island of Puerto Rico as Guabancex, Spirit of Chaos, leads a hurricane. Only Ceiba can prevent catastrophic doom.
It Was Up There
The true and hilarious story of a couple who, while driving through an unpopulated New Mexico desert, see something unexplainable up in the night sky.
About a Cow
An imaginative and playful collage of the life of cows.
The Name
A young kid struggles to live a double life in secret, fearing that coming out might tear apart his relationship with his mom.
The Girl with the Red Beret
The metro: a musical place where the city’s weirdest and wildest convene.
Boat People
As a child in Vietnam, Thao’s mother often rescued ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later, they return the favor.
Head in the Clouds
A student with her head high in the clouds must creatively elude her strict teacher in order to remain there.
The Shortest Relationship in the World
Two passersby experience everything in the span of a blip.
Sports Day
A girl struggles for her mom’s approval at a school sports event.
Monsters
Roaa, Zainab, and Noe Noe all fled to the Netherlands for different reasons, but each girl has created an imaginary monster of her own.
Papa Bouteille
Glimpses of a child’s everyday life reveal moments of a father’s love and struggles.
Directed by Lucie Carraz, Eleonore Deprun, Lalita Bruguiere, Clement Breto, Pierre Étienne Mazet, & Fred Marcassoli
Directed by Lucie Carraz, Eleonore Deprun, Lalita Bruguiere, Clement Breto, Pierre Étienne Mazet, & Fred Marcassoli
Goodbye Mamajee
Pondicherry, India. On the eve of his departure to France, Noor is devastated at the thought of leaving his uncle Mamajee.
Directed by Taslyne Oumarkatar, Marie Susanyan, Jin-Hyung Park, Antoine Furic, Emma Daillie, & Léonardo Girardi
Zeb’s Spider
What begins as a way of coping with an uninvited arachnid soon takes on a monstrous life of its own.
Rhino
Rhino is looking forward to his date, but doesn’t anticipate the problem right in front of his nose. Directed by Fest alum Julia Ocker!
Marque Dos
An aspiring tour manager moves up the ranks while self-discovery faces off with the demands of her dream job.
Now the Wolves Will Run
We are the little girls that you could not scare.
Head in the Clouds
Alfonso, a young squirrel, loves taking pictures of clouds, sometimes taking extreme measures to capture them.
Little Birds
From a shelter in northern Mexico, the voices of boys and girls show that dreams survive even the most trying migrations.
Daffy in Wackyland
In the first stop-motion Looney Tunes short ever made, we find Daffy Duck desperately chasing The Dodo through Wackyland in search of a simple meal.
Pufferfish
In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish must act as tough as possible, but looks can be deceiving…Directed by Fest alum Julia Ocker!
#DouDou Challenge
Olivia’s social media obsession leaves her abandoned in a highway service area, where her attempts to get off her phone take an unexpected turn. Directed by Julie Majcher, Alexandra Delaunay-Fernandez, Sixtine Emerat, Marine Benabdallah-Crolais, Scott Pardailhé-Galabrun, & Noémie Segalowicz
Ethel
Ethel’s fascination with her late mother’s figure skating career puts her on perilously thin ice.