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Download our catalogs, view the programs digitally, or search for films from all previous editions of the Minimalen Short Film Festival, from 1988 to the present day.
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Films
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In a vocational high school, Mikkel struggle with anger, and male-role expectations of being tough. When a new teacher dares to speak about emotions, everything begins to shift.

By chance, drama teacher Sigrun witnesses her colleague’s teaching methods causing discomfort for one of the students. Should she let art be art, or protect the student?
elida.helgeland@gmail.com

An examination of how large language models and generative AI may create algorithmic narratives, recontextualizing a line from Marguerite Duras’s screenplay for Hiroshima mon amour (1959): “You didn’t see the hospital in Hiroshima.”

A mother sees her homeless son's tags wherever she goes.
balder@bankfilm.se

A data engineer rushes through life, believing multitasking saves time — but it only creates chaos. Despite his strict control over time, nothing gets done: his home is a mess, work overflows, and the breakfast is always burnt.

An experimental lo-fi documentary shot on a vintage smartphone, weaving cinepoetic images of Spoleto with AI-generated medieval Italian verse inspired by its modernist sculpture heritage.

As the winter season begins in Crete, a family of locals, owners of a small struggling bed & breakfast, gets an unexpected visit from a Norwegian family of tourists looking for a tour into the piratic past of the area.
festivals@manifest.pictures

A boy shares the science of our solar system with his two year-old sister, as documentary scenes of the night sky collide with social media conspiracies.
info@simonellisfilms.com

Daria has written her first manuscript, about falling in love with a mysterious girl called ‘abi’ (blue). The night flowers in her garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes.

Two sisters meet after a few years of being apart, but the past seems to be the only thing that binds them together.
emanuel@curtas.pt

Julius returns home to find his mother has replaced him with Albert, a lodger who now occupies his old room — and her affections.

A man working for a U.S. company arrives in a coastal town in Mexico to supervise the construction of the first hotel in the area. He starts feeling uncomfortable as the townspeople express their frustration over the invasion of their beaches, until one night the confrontation reaches a breaking point.
parinafilms.contact@gmail.com



