PIFF SELECTIONS 2025
3350 KM (Syria)
Director: Sara Kontar
documentary
Father and daughter have been separated by 3,350 kilometres for seven years. He lives in Syria, she lives in exile in Paris. All they have left is to talk on the internet. The daughter records the conversations.
74 (Cyprus)
Director: Charalambos Margaritis
animation
An inept figure takes on the impossible task of dealing with the memory of the 1974 Turkish army invasion in Cyprus and its aftermath.
BLOOD TIES (France)
Director: Hakim Atoui
fiction / black comedy
A brother and a sister unable to confess a secret.
A mother who blames them for their ingratitude and absence.
A dysfunctional medical-assistance robot.
Lunch is served, bon appétit !
FREE WORDS: A POET FROM GAZA (Turkey)
Director: Abdullah Harun Ilhan
documentary
"Free Words" follows Pulitzer Prize winner Mosab Abu Toha, a detained poet from Gaza whose art becomes a powerful voice of resistance and hope amid oppression.
HIM (France)
Director: Matthias Couquet
fiction / drama
François is meeting his friend Pierre in a café. The latter claims to be followed by a stranger, who watches him from a distance, motionless, without Pierre ever managing to approach him. Pierre is sure of it: he's getting closer, relentlessly, and he has bad intentions.
LIKE ALL THE OTHERS (Poland)
Director: Max Bommas
fiction / drama
The anti-war short film "Wie All die Anderen" is about a young soldier, Willi Langner, who, in the face of the ending Second World War refuses sacrificing himself for the madness of National Socialism. However, he's trapped in a bunker which has to be defended against the Soviets together with a comrade and a commander loyal to the regime.
MINUS TWO HUNDRED (Greece)
Director: Nikolas Passaris
fiction / drama
"Vasilis and Ioanna are on their way back home after a ski excursion where they failed to rekindle their broken relationship. The trip comes to a sudden stop while the couple tries to resolve the fiery tension between them.
PREDATOR (Spain)
Director: Javier Fesser
fiction / dark comedy
Two friends are traveling through a lonely place when their car suffers a tragic breakdown.
QUARANTINE (Spain)
Director: Celia De Molina
fiction / comedy
After 40 days, Marina finally sees the light. A coffee shop, a milkshake, a croissant and a lot of bad blood.
THE BLUE HOUSE (Panama)
Director: Martanoemi Noriega
documentary
Inspired by the poetry of Esther María Osses and her 'Casa Azul' (Blue House), this short film follows an art workshop at a rural school in Panama’s Ngäbe-Buglé territory. The children weave together the poet’s life and work with their own oral traditions. Through play, they celebrate nature as a refuge for imagination and shared creativity as a path to freedom.
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US (France)
Director: Léo Fontaine
fiction / drama
At 5 in the morning, Yalla is in a hurry. Without her boss's permission, she leaves her night shift as a nursing assistant. She boards a bus, carrying only a heavy bag filled with clothes. The city is still asleep. Yalla sketches out on a piece of paper the various bus lines she needs to take. It's her first time making this journey...
THE EGGREGORES' THEORY (Italy)
Director: Andrea Gatopoulos
Made with Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
He does not remember much from that time. Things have faded, like the color of a painting after too much light. The only thing that bothers him is this music. It keeps popping up... He thinks he forget what it meant. All he knows, for sure, is that he cannot get it out of his head.
THE LITTLE ANCESTOR (Canada)
Director: Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur
animation
On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house builds itself. The house comes to life and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Brick by brick and beam by beam, each action, big or small, shows life.
THE UNCLE (France)
Director: Maëva Leïla Youbi
fiction / drama
Every evening, Raphaëlle, a six-year-old girl fan of «l’OM», prays for her father Ali, to come home early from his restaurant. One evening, he makes the promise to take her to the Vélodrome Stadium on the next day, forgetting for one evening his environment and its dangers...
TREASURE (Spain)
Director: Carmen Álvarez Muñoz
animation
Trapped in her routine, Mari Pili spends her days bored in the park feeding the birds. One day, a group of crows starts returning the favour by bringing her little presents. Surprised, Mari Pili decides to give them better food, making the crows improve their gifts too.
TROLLING (Spain)
Director: Luis Eduardo Pérez Cuevas
fiction / drama
Marina gets by with a precarious job and a difficult family environment, until an unexpected event forces her to face her worst demons.
UNA MONEDITA (Argentina)
Director: Manu Vazquez Santana
fiction / drama
Pablo is a young man who works cleaning car windshields. With a conflictive family environment and the challenge of spending all day on the street, he faces indifference and rejection while fighting not to lose hope.
VIA DELLE ROSE 36 (Italy)
Director: Kristian Xipolias
fiction / drama
Corviale, Rome. Rita is a young mother working as a farmer. Tired of his lonely life and terrorized of her uncertain future, she begins to dream of a better life thanks to a meeting with a Mental Coach.