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#LastDaysToWatch FOUND&LOST by Reza Rasouli 👁️ Good intentions yield messy consequences in this wry morality tale about Tamim, a past‑retirement‑age worker from the Middle East who ekes out a living in a noisy, sweaty Vienna nightclub. When a typically giddy patron misplaces his wallet in the gents, Tamim tries to do what he thinks is the right thing... From the director of NIGHT OF PASSAGE, a humanistic and empathetic slice of life energised by a propulsive, Safdie‑esque score.

This film is part of the MIOB in Shorts Award program. MIOB (Moving Images – Open Borders) has been active since 2020. Each of its festival member nominates two European short films, which are then made available online, allowing audiences across Europe to watch and vote for their favorite.

Who will win? The choice is yours. Vote until October 15!

The films will also be screened at the FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany) in November. The winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the festival.

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#LastDaysToWatch MARELLE by Kristjan Poom 🐷 From the unfathomable depths of the soul: In this absurd, satirical short comedy, Markus, an otherwise calm and contented small-town father, is pushed to the limits of his sanity. His new neighbors get a miniature pig and, of all names, call it exactly the same as his daughter — Marelle. Where does this anger come from? And where will it lead him?

This film is part of the MIOB in Shorts Award program. MIOB (Moving Images – Open Borders) has been active since 2020. Each of its festival member nominates two European short films, which are then made available online, allowing audiences across Europe to watch and vote for their favorite.

Who will win? The choice is yours. Vote until October 15!

The films will also be screened at the FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany) in November. The winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the festival.

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#LastDayToWatch FALL OF THE IBIS KING by Mikai Geronimo and Josh O’Caoimh 🎭 The antagonist of a theater production becomes increasingly unsettled by the sudden return of the former lead actor.

This film is presented in partnership with Festival Scope—the online platform for festivals and film lovers—and available until October 1, 2026.

FALL OF THE IBIS KING had its world premiere at the 2021 edition of Venice and was also nominated for the European Film Award. It played multiple festivals and was nominated and awarded with numerous prizes.

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#LastWeekToWatch THE SOWER OF STARS by Lois Patiño 🌠 Distant lights draw the city. Shining ships arrive with sleeping people and the night turns liquid. The sower of stars wakes them up and they travel through the city, talking about this and that, while saying goodbye to everything.

This film is presented in partnership with Festival Scope—the online platform for festivals and film lovers—and available until October 1, 2026.

THE SOWER OF STARS celebrated its World Premiere at Berlinale in 2022 and was nominated for the European Film Awards. It screened various film festivals across the world and won awards for Best Director, Best Editing and Best Documentary, among others.

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#NowStreaming TEM FÉ by Helen Esther Aschauer and Leonor Patrocinio ♾️ Set against a vibrant tapestry of music and movement, the film poetically explores female energy, resilience, and ancestral roots. Through striking visuals and soundscapes, the film celebrates the strength of women and their spiritual bond across generations.

This film is part of the MIOB in Shorts Award program. MIOB (Moving Images – Open Borders) has been active since 2020. Each of its festival member nominates two European short films, which are then made available online, allowing audiences across Europe to watch and vote for their favorite.

Who will win? The choice is yours. Vote until October 15!

The films will also be screened at the FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany) in November. The winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the festival.

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#NowStreaming ANXIOUS BODY by Yoriko Mizushiri 🤏 The tactile is at the heart of Yoriko Mizushiri’s work. Beautiful hands and fingers—standing in for the body as a whole—curiously explore the image, cautiously feeling their way through it. Their counterpart is the adhesive tape, which follows a logic of its own. In her sensual, delicate animations, the artist explores the relationship between touch and pain, the body and bodily sensation.

This film is presented in partnership with Festival Scope—the online platform for festivals and film lovers—and available until October 1, 2026.

ANXIOUS BODY had its world premiere at Quinzaine 2021 and has been nominated and awarded numerous times during its festival run.

This film is not available in Japan.

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#NowStreaming MEET DOUG by Théo Jollet 🌑 In a small town in the center of France, Doug and his friends hang around the municipal stadium. They form a little aimless community, having fun making jokes and rapping freestyles, earning petty from small theft and other illicit sales. This frail balance is then disquiet by the appearance of a mystical entity during one of their football games.

This film is presented in partnership with Festival Scope—the online platform for festivals and film lovers—and available until October 1, 2026.

MEET DOUG won the Grand Price at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2022 and was also screened at numerous other festivals, like International Film Festival Rotterdam and Sarajevo Film Festival.

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#NowStreaming FROM SOMETHING TO NOTHING by Michael Heindl 🪵 Using thousands of shots of tree bark and moss, Vienna-based artist Michael Heindl condenses the disappearance of a forest patch into a visual experience. The film is not a protest, but an inventory. It turns the creeping loss of natural spaces through industrial expansion into a sensual experience, becoming a poetic reflection on what remains when nothing is left.

This film is part of the MIOB in Shorts Award program. MIOB (Moving Images – Open Borders) has been active since 2020. Each of its festival member nominates two European short films, which are then made available online, allowing audiences across Europe to watch and vote for their favorite.

Who will win? The choice is yours. Vote until October 15!

The films will also be screened at the FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany) in November. The winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the festival.

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#NowStreaming BEYOND SILENCE by Marnie Blok 🌫️ Two women, two generations, same trauma. One has been silent for over thirty years, the other “only” for a year and a half. Where one decides to remain silent after a confrontation, the other finds the courage to break the silence.

This film is part of the MIOB in Shorts Award program. MIOB (Moving Images – Open Borders) has been active since 2020. Each of its festival member nominates two European short films, which are then made available online, allowing audiences across Europe to watch and vote for their favorite.

Who will win? The choice is yours. Vote until October 15!

The films will also be screened at the FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany) in November. The winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the festival.

This film is only available in Europe.

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#NowStreaming HAPPILY EVER AFTER by Élodie Beaumont Tarillon 📺 One winter evening in ‘95, Carole left behind a violent husband and three children. Prince Charmings are not to be trusted.

This film is presented in partnership with Festival Scope—the online platform for festivals and film lovers—and available until October 1, 2026.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2025 and was also selected for the National Competition at Clermont-Ferrand 2026.

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#NowStreaming E/RASED WORLDS by Aušra Lukošiūnienė 🗃️ A contemporary, archive-driven meditation on how the past never ends—it returns in fragments, echoes of images, and questions that refuse to fade.

E/RASED WORLDS weaves a dialogue between photographer legacy and the gaze of today: personal stories, rediscovered reels, and newly filmed documentary moments meet in one space where the past shows through the present. The film opens the memory-scape of a vanished borderland inviting us to reconsider loss, impermanence, and attempts to preserve disappearing worlds. Moving at a calm, contemplative rhythm, archival fragments intertwine with photography and observations of everyday life.

This film is part of the MIOB in Shorts Award program. MIOB (Moving Images – Open Borders) has been active since 2020. Each of its festival member nominates two European short films, which are then made available online, allowing audiences across Europe to watch and vote for their favorite.

Who will win? The choice is yours. Vote until October 15!

The films will also be screened at the FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany) in November. The winner will be announced at the closing ceremony of the festival.

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#NowStreaming UPSHOT by Maha Haj 🌿 Suleiman and Mona are a couple who lead a solitary life in which they care for animals and trees and have constant heated discussions about their children’s life choices. However, one day, their routine is disturbed when a stranger shows up, calling to mind a painful past.

This film is presented in partnership with Festival Scope—the online platform for festivals and film lovers—and available until October 1, 2026.

UPSHOT premiered at the 2024 edition of Locarno and won the Pardino d’Oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film. It also screened Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2025 and was awarded with the Public Prize in the International Competition.

This film is not available in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

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