A curated program featuring films selected from the 2025 call for submissions and presented across nine days of festival screenings. The lineup spans Fiction, Documentary, Animation, VR, Short Films, New Media Installations, and Work-in-Progress projects developed within the Festival’s Creative Labs. These works were showcased in prestigious cinemas and cultural venues, offering audiences an immersive journey through bold storytelling, innovative formats, and new visions of contemporary cinema. Together, they reflect the Festival’s commitment to celebrating experimentation, diversity of voices, and the future of moving images.
(USA, dir. David Charles Rodrigues - Official documentary Selection) is an intimate and authorised feature documentary that captures the final year of avant-garde artist and gender revolutionary Genesis P-Orridge, a pioneering figure in music, performance art, and cultural experimentation. The film draws on extensive archival footage, personal video diaries, and new material to portray P-Orridge’s life, work, and philosophy as they confront mortality, while highlighting their influence on experimental music and counter-culture through appearances by collaborators such as William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, and Alice Genese. S/He Is Still Her/E offers a poignant look at a boundary-breaking life lived beyond conventions, blending artistic legacy with vulnerability and self-reflection.
(Brazil, dir. Elisa Telles & Begê Muniz – Official short films Selection) follows Sara, a 12-year-old girl from the Amazon who begins to form emotional connections with other young people her age. As she navigates these new bonds, a series of supernatural events and visions of Indigenous rituals disrupt her everyday life, awakening a deeper sense of awareness. The film weaves coming-of-age sensibilities with spiritual and ancestral dimensions, offering a powerful reflection on identity, belonging, and the invisible forces that shape existence.
(Taiwan, dir. Tuan Mu - Official VR Selection) This immersive virtual reality work engages audiences with a contemplative meditation on the body in the age of technology. Grounded in Buddhist reflection on physicality and perception, the piece invites viewers into a sensory exploration of embodied experience, blending traditional philosophy with digital immersion in virtual reality.
(Argentina, dir. Manuel Embalse - official documentary selection) reflects on landscapes marked by abandonment and transformation, where fragments of the past persist within the structures of the present. Through a contemplative and atmospheric approach, the film explores memory, decay, and the silent dialogue between human presence and ruined spaces, revealing how new forms of life and meaning emerge from what has been left behind.
(Chile - Canada, dir. Flavia Furtado - WIP Official Selection) is an avant-garde feature that follows a woman’s journey through dreams, memory, and alternate dimensions as she seeks liberation from societal constraints. Blending documentary and fiction, the film uses over one hundred mirrors, immersive light reflections, animation, and experimental visual language to probe consciousness, identity, and unseen forces of the universe. Set against cosmological inquiry and inner transformation, The Seven Mirrors confronts the effects of capitalism on the self while offering a poetic, visually striking meditation on freedom, perception, and the boundaries between inner visions and outer worlds.
(Chile, dir. Natalia Cabrera - Official VR Selection) immersive virtual reality experience that invites audiences to embody the life cycle of a fungus—from spore to mycelium to mushroom—to explore our planet’s ecological balance and the power of fungi as Earth’s principal bioremediation agents. Through VR, participants undergo a sensory transformation that highlights the interconnectedness of life and the hidden networks sustaining ecosystems, using digital immersion to spark empathy and environmental reflection. Hypha has been exhibited internationally, including at the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program.
(Canada, dir. Yanie Dupont-Hébert - Official fiction feature film Selection) interweaves three emotional states—life, love, and chaos—into a sensory cinematic experience. Combining poetic visuals and abstract storytelling, the film reflects on the complexity of human connection and the beauty found within emotional disorder.
(Mexico, dir. Chris Molina- Official Shorts film Selection) is an avant-garde short film that explores self-identity through a blend of imagery and cinematic reflection. The piece poses the fundamental question “Who am I?” by using visual combinations that suggest how images can reveal inner life and personal truth beyond words alone. As an experimental work created for the Hack MAFIZ challenge and festival contexts, Autorretrato uses its formal approach to probe self-representation and the expressive potential of cinema as a mirror for the self.
(Chile, dir. Susana Díaz - Official documentary selection) The stories of Chilean musicians across underground scenes from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Through interviews and performances, it highlights how artists navigate cultural change, artistic autonomy, and the challenges of producing music outside mainstream structures, celebrating the diversity and resilience of Chile’s sonic movements.
(Brazil, dir. Diego Lacerda – Official short films Selection) is a coming-of-age film that follows a young protagonist navigating the fragile threshold between childhood and adolescence. Through an intimate and sensitive lens, the film explores the uncertainties of growing up, the desire for independence, and the emotional landscapes that emerge when facing the unknown. Blending realism with subtle poetic elements, Hoje Eu Só Volto Amanhã reflects on youth, vulnerability, and the small yet decisive moments that shape identity.
(Chile, dir. Patricio Espinoza Aibar - Official Short Film Selection) is a poignant short fiction film that delves into the masks imposed by society in Chile in the late 1990s, telling a heartfelt story of a mother who overcomes hardship and survives on the edge of poverty alongside her son, who senses he is different and becomes her greatest pride. The film shines a light on love, identity, and resilience within a cultural context marked by social expectations and personal struggle, blending emotional depth with powerful representation.
(Brazil, 2024, dir. Gustavo Ribeiro - official documentary selection) is a documentary that portrays the lives of residents in a community established over 50 years ago in São Paulo, composed of two favelas and a public housing project. As the area stands on the brink of urban development, its future becomes uncertain due to resistance from neighboring affluent communities in a movement known as “Not In My Backyard.” Through an intimate and socially engaged lens, the film examines urban inequality, spatial segregation, and the tensions between progress and exclusion in contemporary Brazilian cities.
(U.S.A - Chile, dir. Camilo Salas - Official short films selection) is a hybrid documentary that explores the unsettling reality of mass surveillance in the contemporary world. Blending experimental cinema, performance, and documentary language, the film examines how omnipresent cameras and artificial intelligence systems continuously observe and record our lives—often without our consent. Through a dystopian lens rooted in real technologies already embedded in everyday life, Computer Vision raises urgent questions about control, privacy, and the invisible mechanisms shaping our behavior in an era dominated by data, vision systems, and algorithmic power.
(France, dir. Junes Dreyfus - Official short films selection) is a DIY digital road movie that explores the textures, rhythms, and temporalities of transfem hitchhiking. Blending everyday conversations—shifting between sincerity and fabrication—with endless highways, reconstructed gas stations, and digitally compressed horizons, the film unfolds as a non-linear journey shaped by movement and uncertainty. Created over two years through iterative processes and digital manipulation, Dragking Highway becomes a fragmented yet intimate meditation on memory, vulnerability, and the unstable boundaries between truth and reconstruction in transit.
(Mexico / Bolivia, dir. Yashira Yordan - Official short films selection) follows two Bolivian teenagers who escape their mundane lives by playing Dragon, a retro video game. When they steal the treasure of a marginalized man trapped in the 1990s, they unleash his fury—and he vows revenge, hunting them down to burn them alive.
(Venezuela, dir. Ximena Pereira Official short films selection) explores a fractured feminine identity through an intimate and symbolic journey of transformation. Moving between physical vulnerability and spiritual awakening, the film follows a woman confronting the collapse of her own image in a world that continuously demands perfection and sacrifice. Blending poetic realism with experimental gestures, La Diosa Quebrada reflects on the body as a territory of resistance, desire, and rebirth, where personal fracture becomes a possibility for reconfiguration and power.
(Chile - dir. Lu Muniri – Work in Progress Official Selection) is a documentary project in development that explores the emotional and existential terrain of departure—the physical act of leaving home as a catalyst for inner transformation. As part of a Work in Progress selection that highlights characters navigating separation, change, and the reshaping of traditions and worldviews, the film reflects on how movement across spaces becomes inseparable from shifts within the self. Through intimate observation and evolving narrative, The Idea of Leaving examines the tension between what we leave behind and the possibilities opened up by what lies ahead.
(Mexico, dir. Edmar Soria - Official short films Selection) is an experimental narrative that blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination. Through fragmented encounters and symbolic imagery, the film constructs a dreamlike universe where identity, desire, and inner conflict collide, inviting the viewer into a hypnotic exploration of the subconscious.
(Belgium / Brazil, dir. Mariana Machado – Official short films Selection) is a poetic fiction film that explores desire, illusion, and the fragile boundaries between what we wish for and what we become. Guided by the idea that “magic is people, illusionism is what traps them,” the film unfolds as an intimate reflection on how longing shapes identity and perception. Through a sensorial and atmospheric approach, Tudo o Que Quiser invites the viewer into a space where fantasy and reality intertwine, revealing the subtle forces that govern human desire.
(Chile, dir. Catalina Alarcón - Official VR Selection) is an immersive virtual reality documentary that brings audiences into the lived realities of incarcerated Chilean mothers who dream of reuniting with their families. Co-created with the women from a prison in Valparaíso, the 20-minute VR experience uses 360° video, interactivity, and 3D-modeled personal objects to build a virtual museum of memories that connects them with home. Through the VR headset, families send 360° video messages from outside, allowing fleeting moments of closeness and emotional reunion that highlight the power of technology to bridge separation and reflect on family, memory, and longing.
(USA, dir. Cydney Tucker – Official Short Film Selection) follows two Black transgender activists as they campaign for mayor while striving to build safe housing for transgender women of color in New Orleans. The film intimately captures their political work, community engagement, and personal journeys, highlighting resilience, leadership, and the pursuit of social justice. Through a focused and compassionate lens, the story explores the intersections of activism, identity, and the urgent need for safe spaces within marginalized communities.
(dir. Javi de Miguel – Official short film Selection) is a collaborative music video that celebrates ballroom culture while honoring the history and lived experiences of trans femininity. Emerging from a collective creative process, the piece creates a space of visibility, memory, and empowerment, where performance becomes both artistic expression and political gesture. Blending movement, presence, and identity, Femme Queen stands as a vibrant tribute to trans resilience, community, and self-affirmation.
(Chile, dir. Camilo Rodriguez - Official short films selection) centers on Mina, a 30-year-old sex worker who, after suddenly losing her vagina, isolates herself in her apartment and records a video recounting her life and her plans for revenge against those who attacked Scarlet, one of her loved ones. As Mina navigates this disturbing bodily transformation, she becomes determined to seek justice for Scarlet and put an end to the nightmare she inhabits—a world where virtuality, isolation, and loneliness threaten to consume everything.
(Brazil - Argentina - Chile , dir. Flavia Furtado -Official documentary Selection) Poetic documentary that reflects on Latin American cultural identity through the vibrant world of flea markets and street fairs. Filmed over five years in Chile, Brazil, and Argentina using recycled cameras and materials, the film explores how discarded objects become repositories of memory, dignity, and social history amid the practices of circular economy. Treasures weaves together the voices of market-workers and the stories behind found objects to reveal an unconventional, archaeological, and anti-capitalist universe where sustainability, survival, and community intertwine.
(Chile, dir. Ninfa María - Official AI Short films Selection) follows an intimate journey driven by absence and longing. As a woman searches for what has been lost—whether a person, a memory, or a sense of self—the film unfolds as a quiet meditation on grief, resilience, and the fragile traces that connect us to those who are no longer there.
(Chile - dir. Lua Cheia - Official Selection Work in Progress) is a video performance and homage to goddesses and dissident identities, expressed through visceral butoh-inspired movement and symbolic imagery. Merging dance, ritual, and experimental cinema, the work highlights embodied transformations under the full moon—invoking ancestral female forces and queer spiritualities through choreography that gives voice to what lies beyond spoken language. Rooted in a performative lineage that uses the body to convey inner and outer thresholds, Clamor a Yacurmana reflects on collective myth-making, corporeal resistance, and the liminal space where myth, identity, and movement intertwine.
