A woman in white crouches in front of a bathroom and searches for answers through unspoken conversations. This cryptic, introspective tale opens questions about power and identity.

Filmmaker: Wyatt Ritchie

Trigger Warning: Coercive intimacy

A silent passenger. A moving window. A grieving heart. The filmmaker's visual poem explores the crushing and beautiful weight of existence from the safe confines of a car, offering a Crip perspective on a world both distant and deeply felt.

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Filmmaker: Tanya Kim

In this videogame-inspired short, unable to sleep, a relatable character navigates apparently simple choices but seems less and less in control while they deal with sensory overwhelm like a rain that won't stop.

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Filmmaker: Nela Gluhak

When a mysterious television becomes a portal to a magical version of their hometown, a community of neurodivergent and disabled artists embark on a delightfully chaotic quest to find the elusive Bigfoot, encountering wizards, mermaids, and Hannah Montana dancers along the way.

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Filmmakers: Art Explorers

Trigger Warning: Photosensitivity

Guided by a curious and gentle Hedgehog, this refreshing documentary dives into the story of Gaura, an artist with ADHD traits. A mix of animation, video and illustration depicts vignettes from a solitary childhood to adult struggles with procrastination and existential questions, and offers a window into genuine reflections on identity, creativity, and self-understanding.

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Filmmaker: Olia Kolesnyk

An intimate short documentary featuring Minneapolis-based artist Maxwell Freudenthal, who must reconcile his ADHD with his artistic process.

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Filmmaker: Andrew Coons

To cope with trauma, a person's true self is locked away in a box that grows quiet with time. When the person starts to heal, they find the courage to finally confront whatever they buried long ago.

Filmmaker: Lex Nazareth

In this intimate and gentle documentary, seven adolescents with motor or sensory disabilities reflect on how they inhabit and experience their bodies. Trying to define expressions such as "broken heart" or "head in the clouds" while revisiting their own life experiences, the young people share their thoughts with emotion and sincerity.

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Filmmakers: Lisa Chabbert, Pauline Lebellenger

Trigger Warning: Photosensitivity

Brothers Joaquim and Call go to school together, but Call is forced to battle his loneliness in the form of a monster that feeds off his insecurities. 13-year-old Antônio's short film is a powerful reminder that rejection doesn't define your worth.

Filmmaker: Antônio Carreira Alvim Macedo Soares

A simple dropped mug of tea can cause a variety of reactions from devastation to manic euphoria depending on one's state of mind. This theatrical short film contrasts two extreme mental states of someone with bipolar disorder, exploring how this one event can fracture into entirely separate realities.

Filmmaker: Marionet Associação Cultural

Trigger Warning: intense emotional distress

Within the sterile walls of a psychiatric hospital, a soul navigates a sea of empty faces. This raw animation charts a journey through abandonment and powerlessness, culminating in a transformative flight—not from illness, but through it, on wings of hard-won hope.

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Filmmaker: Gulya Rodigi

Overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities of a world they can't stop thinking about, a person seeks to leave their mark. Their journey is a quiet rebellion among the noise of our universe's vastness, searching for a way to say what words alone cannot.

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Filmmaker: Matt Harlow

In a reflection on memory and identity, a person questions the meaning of "home" and explores "belonging" as a role they learned to play, intertwining familiarity with the exhaustion of performance.

Filmmaker: Lisa Aleta Nazareth

When the filmmaker finds a dead body behind his flat, his hyperfixation on finding out the person's name plunges him into a rabbit hole of digital research while navigating pressure, distractions and communication differences.
 

Filmmaker: Steven Fraser

Trigger Warning: Nudity

When a lonely man one day wakes up as a horse, he has to confront the fact that his human life no longer works for him. He sets out to find his herd.
 

Filmmakers: Annigje Peters, Manouk Moreau

A father crafts a world of unwavering love and acceptance for his autistic son, a beautiful sanctuary built from his mind's chorus of love and affirmation. All while haunted by the looming reality of a world that may only see a diagnosis—a number that can't begin to define his child.
 

Filmmaker: Victor Augusto Mendivil
Trigger Warning: Photosensitivity.

When a confident and curious kid struggles more and more in school, her artistic joy gets overshadowed by anxiety and self-doubt - until, later in life, a doctor's visit puts her experiences into a new perspective. Crafted in beautiful, tactile stop-motion, this short film highlights the importance of early diagnosis.

Filmmaker: Grace Margherita Moretti

While on the phone with their mother, Andro tries to bring order to a mess that seems to actively resist it. A colourful, hand-animated short film about the interplay of neurodivergence and trauma, highlighting the damage that can be caused by a well-meaning but toxic parent.
 

Filmmaker: Tortor Smith
Trigger Warning: Verbal Abuse

A vanished box of butterflies. A grandmother who no longer remembers. A mother's painful mantra. This film pieces together a childhood memory to answer an accusation with a defiant truth: the heart is capable of love, even when the proof of it has flown away.
 

Filmmaker: Sonata Vilkevičiūtė

Trigger Warning: Emotional Abuse

An experimental, painterly animated film that traces a quiet longing to fly, to connect, to belong. Guided by wind, colour, and shifting forms, it drifts through an enchanting dreamscape shaped by curiosity and imagination, where the unreachable feels momentarily near.

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Filmmaker: Rachel James Carrière

When a kind healer is kidnapped by a fearsome Beast, her severed shadow must embark on a perilous journey through an enchanted forest to save her, discovering that the curse can only be broken by an act of compassion for the monster's hidden pain.

Filmmaker: Olga Stalev

During a heat wave, an outsider yearning for connection forces herself to attend a party where someone in a seemingly similar situation offers her a brief taste of belonging. This expressionist short film blends the beautifully mundane with the magical.

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Filmmaker: Jonathan Guzmán Monet

Two young adults with Tourette's syndrome find an unexpected refuge in each other after meeting in a therapy waiting room. Bonding over conversations about life, death, and everything in between, they discover a connection that turns their tics into a private language of love.

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Filmmaker: Paolo Cipoletta

Trigger Warning: Nudity.

Poppete takes the stage to perform a striptease and immediately poses a provocative question: who is the performance truly for? Collaborating with professional strippers, "Awooga!" uses stop-motion to explore the fine line between exploitation and the unapologetic self-love of owning one's body.

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Filmmaker: Sofia Liukonen

Trigger Warning: Nudity