Editions
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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Catalogues
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Films
Search for a film from any of our previous festivals.

At sunset in Red Hook, Brooklyn, this site-responsive butoh performance film explores liminal space and ghostly energies emerging between land and water, day and night, body and landscape.
evanraysuzuki@gmail.com

A young woman, dressed in a tracksuit, walks through the backstreets of Sevilla into a housing project. This is Carmen Avilés - the young street superstar of flamenco.
andymargetson@gmail.com

Inspired by Yvonne Rainer’s iconic short film Hand Movie (1966), the film zooms in on a hand carrying an entire choreography on its own. HANDY explores desire and imagination linked to both the presence and absence of another body, and is part of the Butch Tribute series.
annchristin.kongsness@gmail.com

A choreography in dissolution. A stop-motion animation composed of still images —self-portraits in dance— printed and scanned by hand. As the physical prints gradually move along the scanner bed, the choreography transforms, fragmenting into a visual echo of movement and memory.

On her 34th birthday, Alesya retreats to the solitude of her remote home. When a mysterious box appears at her doorstep, her tightly controlled world begins to shift. A slow-burning, sensorial exploration of desire, resistance, and the fragile beauty of contact.
mikki.sindhunata@gmail.com

Memory and movement revive the Gaelic concerts once held by Melbourne’s Irish diaspora in the early 1900s. With no archival footage, the film crafts its own interpretation, merging tradition and contemporaneity in a poetic reflection on Irish identity.

Four good friends travel through time and space for an alchemical and sensuous celebration full of phantasms. Familiar yet unexpected faces appear along the way.

A young woman remains suspended in emotional limbo after years of social suppression in Iran. Life echoes faintly around her as she dissolves slowly into nature. The film meditates on human fragility and the quiet tension between stillness and survival.

Traumas affect our breath and our movement, it disrupts our rythm, but the harmonic frequency in nature can help us find it back.

Laura is a Skolt Sámi woman who grew up outside the Sámi region. Through quadrille dance she reaches out to her unknown cultural heritage.

Kielo finds it hard to sit still in class. She takes a break venturing into the corridors of her imagination.

At the Baltic’s halocline, where salt and fresh waters tense against merging, three coastal dwellers embody the memory of the sea and reflect on vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience.



