2025 Sala
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Festival 10:40-21-30
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R-time
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 Introduction: festivalen 2025
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20:00
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Block A – Early Voices 11.00–12.00 |
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Brush me
Director Nikolaus Jantsch
in Animation 1-30 min (International) Austria NSF9667 In a bustling bathroom, amidst the chaos of everyday life, two toothbrushes, find themselves drawn to each other. ”Brush me” is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, and the resilience of the toothbrush spirit.
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2:00 |
 Until next weekend
Directors Allan Carmback, Leon Rapp in Short film 10+ min (Nordic countries) Sweden NSF9655 During several nights out, coincidence keeps leading a boy and a girl to the same bus stop.
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15:37
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 Jack London’s To Build a Fire
Director Paul Petropoulos
in Short film 1-10 min (Nordic countries) Sweden NSF9653 A Short Film Adaptation of Jack London’s Classic “To Build a Fire.”A man and his dog travel alone through the frozen wilderness, but overconfidence and a lack of imagination lead to tragic consequences. Nature doesn’t forgive. |
9:00
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 Unrealistic pictures are the missing key to open encrypted rock paintings in Finland Daring hypothesis: Rock paintings in Finland are 3500-7000 years old. This painting is about 6900 years old. Thousands of years ago hunter-fisher-gatherers made mystery paintings on the stonewall. Unrealistic pictures are the missing key to open encrypted rock paintings in Finland.
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 SofaDirector Nicolai Lund in Short film 10+ min (Nordic countries) Norway NSF9490 Celine and Joachim buy a sofa, with a big stain on one of the cushions. They then embark on an impossible mission: to carry it all the way home to the other side of town. |
13:38
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Talk to me
Director Robin Stjernberg in Music Video (International) Sweden NSF9630 The tired rocker Jörgen experiences the dance of a lifetime. This is a music video for Hugo Ivarsson’s song ”Säg till mig” from his debut album ”BonBon
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5:26 |
 Another World
Director K M SOHAG RANA in Shortfilm 10+ min (International) Bangladesh NSF9621 In the unforgiving heart of a sprawling city, two orphaned brothers — ten-year-old Alauddin and his younger sibling Al-Amin — survive on the margins, living off coins begged on sun-scorched pavements and sharing dreams beneath the open sky. |
9:51
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 Portrait
Director Ignacio Rodó in One Minute Film (International) (No animation) Spain NSF9619 Your portrait can capture you. You decide how to shine in it |
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 Gold of the Plateau
Director Miriam Follin in Documentary film 1-10 min (International) China NSF9616 5:52 Spring has arrived on the Tibetan Plateau, and Zhuoma sets out on a search for something quite extraordinary.
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1:00
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 Plates
Director Isak Bergens in Short film 10+ min (Nordic countries) Sweden NSF9613 ”Plates” is an absurd comedy that shifts between bad puns, comedy derived from the sheer absurdity of talking plates, and existentialist philosophy that evokes discomfort in both humans and plates alike.
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11:49
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 Golden Opportunity
Director Vilmer Georgsson
in Short film 10+ min (Nordic countries) Sweden NSF9600 Grigor is a conman who, pressured by his boss, knocks on Britta’s door to scam her out of gold. He’s in a hurry – but Britta has set the table for coffee.
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11:43
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Block C – Feature Spotlight I 13:10–14:35 |
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 Giant’s Kettle
Directors Markku Hakala, Mari Käki
in Feature film Fiction (International) Finland NSF9450 Somewhere up north at the age of peak reason there is a man longing for connection but unable to break loose, and a woman feeling alien to the world which has everything figured out for her, without her.
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01:11:00
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Block D – Youth & Identity 14:40–15:45 |
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 Right Now
Director Svend Colding in Short film 10+ min (Nordic countries) Denmark NSF9596 Laura and Sami are in love, but both feel pressured by their friends’ expectations of what they should experience and accomplish at age 15.
During a party in the local park, Laura makes an unexpected move that catches Sami off guard and forces him to choose between deception and honesty. |
16:19
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 Undying Love
Director Anca Vaida in One Minute Film (International) (No animation) United Kingdom NSF9583 Adam is about to meet Eve, his Tinder date. But while Eve might not be the ”lively” girl he thought she was, can love truly conquer a
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0:59
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 Nordic Nocturne
Director Olli Matti Juhani Hietanen in Documentary 10+ min (Nordic countries) Norway NSF9577 The Finnish documentarist begins his story in Helsinki, Finland, and travels to Tromsø and Finnmark in Norway to explore life during autumn and the beginning of the Polar Night. |
31:11
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 BATCAN
Directors Riu Lohri, David Riedener in One Minute Film (International) (No animation) Switzerland NSF9558 A man‘s can – a hero‘s struggle… |
1:00
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 The Energies: No War
Director finn harvor in One Minute Film (International) (No animation) Korea, Republic of NSF9557 A minute haiku about the resilience — appearances sometimes to the contrary — of peace. |
1:00
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Block E – Stämning, skräck och framtid 15:50–17:16 |
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Må du leva A deadly pandemic has created a decayed world on the brink of collapse. An elderly man does everything he can to cling to the routines of everyday life and to survive. At the same time, the one he loves slowly transforms into something dangerous, unpredictable, and drifts further and further away from him. Life falls apart, and he struggles to hold onto the little hope he has left, desperate not to be left alone in the inevitable downfall. Må Du Leva is an atmospheric zombie drama about the fear of losing everything you hold dear and the sacrifices one is willing to make—no matter the cost. A haunting visual story of death, grief, and hope, where love becomes a final light when everything feels darkest, and the struggle to find meaning in a lost world becomes all that remains. |
76:00 |
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Block F – Creep & Mystery 17:21–18:52 |
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Baby Baby Baby
Director Mathias Kartveit Mikalsen in One Minute Film (International) (No animation) Norway NSF9554 |
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12:00
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 Kröningen
Director Sebastian Storgaard in Short film 10+ min (Nordic countries) Sweden NSF9518 In the silence of an isolated house in the woods, a woman wakes up fearing that her family has been replaced. Her familiar surroundings have been overtaken by a man, Henrik and a young boy, Joakim claiming to be her family.
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17:36
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 Mysterious Purple House
Submitter Joshua Yates in One Minute Film (International) (No animation) NSF9499 A liminal sanctuary where the mundane warps into the mystical.
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1:00
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 A knot in the wood
Director Pascal Chaumont in Shortfilm 10+ min (International) Canada NSF9433 In the 70s, Robert, Ghislaine, and their 7-year-old daughter Caroline lead an average life in the heart of the Laurentians, enjoying the precious family happiness they have built together.
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15:00
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 Neighboorhood Watch
rst anniversary, a young man discovers that his pregnant wife is preparing a surprise. Slowly, he finds out what secrets are hiding in their home and what it is that his wife is hiding. |
11:52
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 Shaolin Office
Director Alexis Bouillé in Shortfilm 10+ min (International) France NSF9394 Exploited by her tyrannical boss, an office worker finds herself working very late at night. Unfortunately, the cleaner gets in the way. And so, the two begin a merciless war…
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13:36
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Block G – Feature Spotlight III 19:00-20:30
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Just like me
Director Andreas Thelander in Feature Film (Nordic countries) Sweden NSF9523 The movie is about the somewhat peculiar but spontaneous Maria (28) who wins 250,000 SEK on a scratch-off lottery ticket on TV. She dreams of a typical ”Svensson” life, which refers to a common, ordinary Swedish family, but she’s not quite sure how to get there.
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Block H – Reserve Time 20:30-21:30
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PARTY 21.30-24.00
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