Short 100 Minutes – Documentary Films

12′01″ Mexico

Director: Natalia Bruschtein

Tatiana was 16 when an unexpected experience turned her way home into a moment of rupture. „Un momento“ revisits that memory through her voice, using intimate narration and evocative imagery.

13′30″ Canada

Director: Halime Akturk

A Yazidi survivor of ISIS’s genocide recounts her experiences under nearly three years of captivity, and attempts to come to terms with her trauma while forging a new path for herself and her children in Canada.

 

10’55“ Poland

Director: Daniel Stopa

How many people in the kiosk window so many small and big human stories, funny and bitter ones, always authentic and not leaving a viewer indifferent.

14′58″ India

Directors: Shadab Farooq

"In the only village in the world inhabited exclusively by deaf and mute people, where silence reigns, tensions rise as Misra Katun approaches childbirth. The villagers gather around her home and beat the drums, awaiting the newborn's answer."

10’53“ Bulgaria

Director: Aysel Kycyksu

A mother and daughter uncover the letters they wrote to eachother a decade ago. Can they face the truths they once shared?

13′09″ North Macedonia / UK

Director: Jana Hunterová

In a remote mountain village in North Macedonia, 80-year-old Ljubica lives in close connection with the land of her ancestors. Her days follow the rhythm of nature—caring for animals, gathering herbs, and sustaining a life shaped by simplicity and endurance. Despite solitude and harsh conditions, she finds a quiet sense of freedom and belonging. The film portrays a disappearing way of life and a deep, enduring relationship between human and landscape.

20′26″ Belgium

Director: Arne Reszczynski

As young adults move out and begin shaping lives of their own, daily contact with their parents gives way to occasional phone calls.While the parent-child hierarchy slowly fades, so grows the quiet realization that our parents are growing older — and that these conversations might matter more than we think. DIME DE CASA explores how distance creates a new kind of closeness, and how we learn to approach the idea of “home” from a different angle.

9′ Lithuania

Director: Sotera Kupinaitė

Boxing coaches watch female teenage boxers participating at the competition and experience hardships, victory and defeat.

13’45“ Russia

Director: Kira Istomina

A film about a man who stops to understand what's truly important in life. Sometimes the path to light begins with acknowledging one's own emptiness.