Wind 4’
by Robert Loebel
Germany, 2013
No Dialogues
Wind is an animated short film set in a perpetually windy world where daily life is shaped by constant natural force. The inhabitants appear exposed and vulnerable to the weather, yet they have adapted in highly inventive ways. Instead of resisting the wind, they integrate it into their routines and survival strategies. The wind becomes not just an obstacle but a structuring principle of their society.
Robert Loebel (1984, former GDR) is a German animator, illustrator, and filmmaker. Influenced by Eastern European animated films, he developed a strong passion for animation and studied graphic design and illustration in Germany. His graduation film Wind gained international recognition and was screened at festivals worldwide, followed by further award-winning short films and collaborative work with the animation collective Klimpa.
Underground 7’
by Yiannis Christoforou
Greece/Cyprus, 2024
Greek
Underground explores the genre of dark fantasy, to tell a story about nature, the cycle
of life and ourselves. Sometimes what seems to be the end is just the beginning.
Yiannis Christoforou is an award-winning filmmaker based in Athens, with extensive experience in both live action and animation. To date, he has directed and produced several short films and over a hundred commissioned projects that have been presented at festivals around the world.
The Spectacle 20’
by Yasmin van Dorp
Sweden, 2025
English, Turkish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Russian
The Spectacle is a short reflective documentary that explores the world of modern tourism. Filmed in various locations across Europe, the documentary unveils the transformation of serene landscapes into bustling tourist attractions. What remains truly seen and felt amidst the curated snapshots of our adventures?
Yasmin, a Dutch filmmaker, lives between Stockholm and Amsterdam. Her work offers a critical reflection on how human beings move in the modern era. With her debut short film The Spectacle, she won the Best Emerging Director Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Her first feature doc project has been selected for both the IDFA Project Space 2025 and the Vision du Réel Industry Pitching 2026.
The Nature of Sound, 3’
by MELODYSHEEP
United States, 2017
English
A journey into the world of sound and music with Julius Sumner Miller, Brian Greene, Bill Nye, Yehudi Menuhin and more.
MELODYSHEEP is John D. Boswell, a Washington State-based musician and filmmaker.
Boom 7’
by Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier, Laurie Pereira Del Figueiredo, Charles Di Cicco, Yannick Jacquin
France, 2022
No dialogue
Two not-so-bright birds struggle to protect their eggs from a volcanic eruption.
A 3D animation created as a graduation film by a group of students from the École des Nouvelles Images in Avignon.
Uranium Hunters 19’
by Davide Palella
2025, Italy
Italian
Planet Earth, the year 2960 AD. A group of uranium hunters returns to the Blue Planet in search of the precious metal. The crackling of a Geiger counter leads one team member deep into a cave. There, the explorer encounters an ancient relic from the old world, awakening it from a slumber that has lasted for centuries, perhaps millennia.
Davide Palella (1996) graduated from NABA in 2019. Since then, he has made several short films that have been selected for various film festivals, including the Locarno Film Festival, Festival dei Popoli, and the Warsaw International Film Festival. He has worked under the guidance of Michelangelo Frammartino and Pedro Costa and has taken part in development programmes (Biennale College Cinema, Ties That Bind (EAVE), and In Progress MFN).
Terremoto 8’
by Massimiliano Di Lauro and Lorenzo Latrofa
Italy, 2025
Italian
Terremoto is a child whose exuberance is impossible to contain, and this is how he came to be given his nickname. The parallel with the force of an earthquake takes us on a journey through his emotions and inner world, revealing the roots of his most primal impulses. Terremoto struggles to become the person others expect him to be. This is his story.
Di Lauro is an illustrator from Apulia. His books have been translated into seven languages. He collaborates with Italian and international magazines and with the animation studio La Testuggine. Latrofa is a filmmaker, a member of ASIFA, the Italian animation association, and founder of La Testuggine. He is currently working on his first feature film, Aida and the Breath of the Mountain.
Some Thing, 7’
by Elena Walf
Germany, 2015
No Dialogues
Oil, gold and fire are the treasures inside the proud giant mountains. For the little mountain it's impossible to keep up with that. He's just in possession of this tiny, strange, and useless SOME THING.
Walf was born in Moscow in 1982. After studying design at the Moscow State University of Graphic Arts, she worked as an illustrator for the Russian-German children's magazine Schrumdirum. She has illustrated numerous children's books published in Russia, Germany, Taiwan and South Korea. In 2015, she graduated from the renowned Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Post-production at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Jour de Colère 9’
by Hippolyte Burkhart
France, 2019
No Dialogue
In the depths of winter, a faint gust of wind is heard. It grows stronger, tearing leaves from the trees as it passes. Branches creak; stones roll. Slowly, the storm intensifies. The river swells; trees fall. The storm sweeps everything away. And yet, amidst this chaos, some creatures still manage to survive…
Hippolyte Burkhart-Uhlen is a documentary filmmaker who graduated from IFFCAM, after studying at Ciné-Sup (Nantes) and INSAS (Brussels). He lives and works in the Vosges mountains, and his films explore our relationship with Nature, seeking to create a sensory and immersive cinema experience.
Immersive, 23’
by Rohan Thomas
Norway, France, UK, 2025
English
Immersive takes viewers on a journey to hydrothermal vents, revealing the mysterious life in the deep ocean and the fragile ecosystems at risk from deep-sea mining.
Rohan Thomas is a filmmaker, artist and musician. His multi-disciplinary approach includes painting, sound, music, and cinematography. As a video artist, he also engages in theatre production and multimedia installation.
Food for Everyone: Deities, Nature and Humans 13’
by Prin Rodriguez
Peru, 2025
Spanish
Voices enter into dialogue with nature as equals. They speak of nourishment, emotional bonds, and of how there can be no future without a past.
Prin Rodriguez is a Peruvian photographer whose work explores identity and family legacy through experimental narratives that intertwine individual and collective memory. Co-founder of the Pariacaca collective, she has been recognized by the Prince Claus Fund's Mentorship Awards, World Press Photo 6x6, and the VII Mentor Program, and her work has been exhibited internationally.
Fire 3’
by Saulo Jamariqueli and Dirk Rees
Brasil/UK, 2017
No dialogues
The ability to control fire brought about a dramatic change in the habits of early humans. In this piece, we collaborated with fire breathers who masterfully manipulate fire in their performances. The film was shot in super slow motion using a Phantom camera at 1,000 frames per second
Saulo Jamariqueli was born in São Paulo and lives in Berlin. He works across animation, film, art direction, editing, motion design, 3D, and AI-assisted production.
Dirk Rees is an advertising, portrait, and landscape photographer based in London who travels and works worldwide.
Astronauta 16’
By Giorgio Giampà
Italy/Mexico/Guatemala/France, 2025
Spagnolo
Audely, 39, works as a lumberjack in the Guatemalan jungle. At home, his daughter Carol, 11, dreams of entering that same forest. Audely thinks about it, then goes to the moon.
Giorgio Giampà is an award-winning producer, composer and short-film director. His projects have been screened and have won awards at Venice, Sundance, Toronto and the Berlinale. He studied cinematography with Beppe Lanci (Tarkovsky, Bellocchio, Cavani). Astronauta is his directorial debut and serves as a prequel to the feature film currently in development, Isabel Hernandez.Stromboli
A Body Called Life 15’
by Spencer Mc Donald
US, 2024
English
A self-isolated young man known as James explores the hidden world of microscopic organisms, developing a tender connection with these nearly invisible creatures as he seeks to understand his place in the cosmos and come to terms with the scars of his past.
Spencer MacDonald (he/him) lives in Berlin. He explores the overlap between human stories and environmental mysteries blending documentary and fiction. Scarlet Medusa, his debut short film, was screened at several festivals, as the Palm Springs ShortFest and the Atlanta Film Festival. His second film, A Body Called Life, was selected in over 35 festivals and has qualified for the 2025 Oscars. He is currently developing his first feature film, Passengers.
The Entangled Forest 17’
by Nick Jordan
UK, 2023
English
The Entangled Forest explores the interrelationships between trees and fungi in forest ecosystems. Ecologist Suzanne Simard, a pioneer in the study of tree and fungal communities, explains the "biological neural network" of forests and how interactions between mycelium and trees create a resilient community of interdependent species. The film weaves her observations together with a collaborative soundtrack.
Nick Jordan is an artist/filmmaker whose work explores the interconnectedness of cultural, social and natural ecologies. His self-shot and self-edited hybrid documentaries develop layered, indirect narratives through an intuitive, experiential engagement with materials, people and environments. His films have been presented at international exhibitions and film festivals. He is also the curator of the Braziers International Film Festival in the UK.
Scarlet Medusa, 18’
by Spencer MacDonald
US, 2020
Japanese
At the edge of a coastal tourist town in Japan, an aging scientist works to unlock the biological secret of immortality held in the life cycle of a tiny jellyfish.
Spencer MacDonald (he/him) lives in Berlin. He explores the overlap between human stories and environmental mysteries blending documentary and fiction. Scarlet Medusa, his debut short film, was screened at several festivals, like the Palm Springs ShortFest and the Atlanta Film Festival. His second film, A Body Called Life, was selected in over 35 festivals and has qualified for the 2025 Oscars. He is currently developing his first feature film, Passengers.
A Conversation Between Trees 9’
by Dan Hoopert
No dialogue
A Conversation Between Trees is part of an ongoing series of artworks exploring the relationship between image and sound. In a journey through various 3DGS scans recorded in Epping Forest the artwork intends to give an abstract visualisation of the mycorrhizal network of communication present within forest ecosystems. Graphic shapes driven by data pulled from the scans respond to time, temperature, light and environmental change. MIDI data and control values are taken from the same data points to drive various synthesisers and sound engines to create an immersive world of unseen biological processes driven by the forest itself.
Dan Hoopert is a self taught 3D artist based in London. His work is often research based, focused around re-creating and abstracting elements from the natural world using a wide variety of datasets and custom built processes. Using 3D software and a strong eye for realism Dan aims to create immersive works that give a feeling of phenomena through abstract image and sound, blurring the lines between physical and digital.
VR Ayahuasca - Kosmik Journey 20’
by Jan Kounen
France – Luxembourg
2019
English
Ayahuasca - Kosmik Journey is a twenty-minute immersive journey into one of the world's most enigmatic spiritual practices: ayahuasca, a medicinal plant brew used in the healing ceremonies of the Shipibo-Conibo people.
Jen Kounen studied decorative arts in France before becoming a director, screenwriter and producer. His first feature, Dobermann (1997), starred Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci. He went on to direct Blueberry (2004) and a series of documentaries on shamanism inspired by his travels in South America. His 2007 film 99 Francs earned him the Raimu Award for Best Director. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky closed the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. He is currently developing three VR films.
VR Montegelato 15’
By Davide Rapp
Italy
2021
Italian & English
MONTEGELATO is a VR film created entirely through montage, the first of its kind. Hundreds of cinematic sequences form a three-dimensional collage of the Monte Gelato waterfalls (Rome, Italy), drawn from more than 180 film, television and commercial productions. From peplum to western, from comedy to thriller, from science fiction to erotica, sounds and images merge into an immersive landscape that carries the waterfalls across time and space.
Davide Rapp (Italy, 1980). Trained as an architect, in 2014 he presented Elements at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – Fundamentals, Venice Biennale, a 32-minute montage film exploring the fundamental elements of architecture through a sequence of over 500 film clips. His montage films and video essays have been screened at museums and international film festivals and highlighted by publications such as Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound. He is the founder and creative director of the Milan-based creative agency.