TIME SENSITIVE CHARACTERS | Coralie Hina Gourdon | FRA | 16’
In gaming's online realm, sleep becomes an art. Streamers blend dreams, gamers doze mid-game, revealing life's quirky essence. ASMR experts craft a soundscape and a game designer imparts characters a tool: time-sensibility. Sleep, digital engagement and games turn sleep into poetic online tales.

Girlfriend Experience | Ingvild Dahlgren | NOR | 26’
Kath (25) is selling sex in Oslo, alongside her best friend, Andrea. When Andrea decides to walk away, Kath tries to ignore it and maintain their business on her own. But the presence of Andrea is following her, and Kath is forced to face her grief.

FEMININE BORDERLINES | Kea Patricia Wagner | DEU | 20’
When unassuming 16-year-old Arlette breaks out of a Christian free community to finally feel seen, she flees with the help of her best friend Yara and the unscrupulous manager Lila into the flashy BabyKittens world and leads a double life that soon makes her realise the patriarchal structures behind the supposedly emancipated social media façade.

CCSTOP | Hugo Gomes | PRT | 29’
Porto, Portugal.
A space that once was a shopping center has, over the past two decades, become the core of the city's musical creation.
Through the building’s corridors, bands play, people share their thoughts.
External forces shut the space down, but the city rises — for the building, for the artists, for culture.

They Can Hear Your Smile | Michael Jiřinec | CZE | 12’
The eponymous debt collection call center’s marketing slogan is taken to its extreme, depersonalized operators are roused from their lethargy by unbridled laughter. Not mockery, but pure, contagious laughter at the tragicomedy of trapped debtors, its echo tearing apart the operator’s apathy and the walls of the claustrophobic open-plan office.