Li Anne Liew’s glide: a gentle ghost drifting through LA

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   Li Anne Liew’s glide: a gentle ghost drifting through LA

   A short film shot on one roll a day, where a sentimental ghost watches strangers and mourns lives she never lived.
   Malaysian filmmaker Li Anne Liew’s glide (all the people i’ll never be) is a sun-softened, film-shot reverie about a ghost who learns to grieve by watching other people. Watch
   
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   Jyoti Mistry — The God that Destroys

   An experimental short that weaves archival imagery and new 16mm into a Sámi cosmogony about colonial and capitalist violence.
   Jyoti Mistry’s The God that Destroys stitches archival frames and fresh 16mm to probe Sámi cosmology and the legacies of colonial extraction. Watch
   
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   Leandros Braounos & Daniel Howells: Winter Slaap, a black‑and‑white South African fable

   A student Afrikaans short that turns Drakensberg vistas into a bleak, period world.
   Co‑directors Leandros Braounos and Daniel Howells shape a slow, atmospheric short—shot in the Drakensberg, graded for 16mm texture and scored by Braam du Toit. Watch
   
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   Tara Gajović’s Over the Threshold — a graduation short with startling cinematography

   A 26-year-old Serbian filmmaker’s Cannes-screened graduation film that fixes an intimate marriage moment inside Serbia’s social fabric.
   Tara Gajović made Over the Threshold as her graduation short; Directors Notes calls it one of the most strikingly shot films in Sarajevo’s programme. Watch
   
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   Jacque Rabie’s Hyodo’s Paradise: a humane short about a man and his dolls

   A 22‑minute documentary that sidesteps spectacle to follow Hyodo in the private rhythms of his museum home.
   Rabie’s 22‑minute Hyodo’s Paradise resists gawking, building intimacy across a language barrier while forcing the director to confront his own judgments. Watch
   

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Isaac BrownDirector · Sydney

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Luna CarmoonDirector · London

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Jake ErlandDirector · Cinematographer · London

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Rory Alexander StewartWriter · Director · UK

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Alvynn DiagneDirector · Editor · Shanghai

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Gabriel Moses & Jake GabbayDirector · Cinematographer · London

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Petr VlčekDirector · Prague

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YeeiidDirector · London

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Nico de SolaDirector · London

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