COMPETITION PROGRAMME 2 - Are You OK?
ARTIS LARGE HALL
Wednesday, 20 August 2025
9:10 PM – 10:35 PM
85 minutes
Have you ever felt society failing you? Calling “slut” on the street, demanding beauty and perfection while people rot quietly in the corner. If you feel alone — don’t worry, you’re not. We hope you’re OK. But if you’re not, it just means you’re still alive.
Tickets available HERE!
Films will be screened in the original language with English subtitles.
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MORE ABOUT THE FILMS:
La Perra
Director: Carla Melo Gampert
Year: 2023
Length: 14 min 5 sec
Country: France, Colombia
Production: June Films, Evidencia Films
In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.
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LARVAL
Director: Alice Bloomfield
Year: 2025
Length: 12 min 10 sec
Country: United Kingdom
Production: Alice Bloomfield
Living a lonely life of isolation, a girl dreams of luxury and beauty. She fantasises about possessing the looks of her celebrity idol and winning the heart of her unrequited love, an oblivious worker at her local takeaway.
In a surreal, dreamlike turn of events, featuring a moth-like spirit, she discovers that perhaps she should have been more careful what she wished for.
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Potatoes
Director: Klaus Hoefs
Year: 2024
Length: 4 min
Country: Germany
Production: Klaus Hoefs
A boy grows up proudly on a traditional farm and is secretly in love with his best friend. Like many before her, she is getting married and moving to the big city of Berlin. For the wedding, she orders her bridal shoes from Amazon. The family gathers in the front yard, waiting for the delivery. The boy dreams of meeting her, dressed only in her bridal shoes, by the pigsty. Days later, she is long gone, and he waits for a bus to take him away from his old life. But the bus passes by, and he keeps waiting and waiting for the next one.
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Sublime
Director: Marie Heribel, Candice Yernaux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent and Lucas Foutrier
Year: 2024
Length: 8 min 2 sec
Country: France
Production: Piktura
In a society where beauty is revered like a deity, a doll seeks to find her place.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/982709884
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The Crooked Heads
Director: Jakub Krzyszpin
Year: 2025
Length: 8 min 25 sec
Country: Poland
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
A forgotten Polish neighborhood drowns in the haze of coal mine smoke. A young man shaves his head, dons a tracksuit, and faces his brothers shadow and the weight of his past.
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The Sunset Special 2
Director: Nicolas Gebbe
Year: 2024
Length: 18 min 52 sec
Country: Germany
Production: Nicolas Gebbe
This exclusive luxury cruise presents itself as the perfect holiday and family utopia. However, all artificial facades of this attractive consumer product dissolve, as a psychedelic dream world unfolds, illusions break and the crude reality beyond superficial comfort is unveiled.
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When It Comes (It Will Have Your Eyes)
Director: Izibene Oñederra
Year: 2024
Length: 12 min 46 sec
Country: Spain
Production: Sultana Films
A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?