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Grandmamauntsistercat (Zuza Banasińska, 2024)

    Grandmamauntsistercat

    Zuza Banasińska, Poland, The Netherlands, 2024, 23’

    The classic Slavic witch Baba Jaga is reimagined as a “prehistoric goddess from the times of the matriarchy” using found footage from the Polish Educational Film Studio archive. This transformation incites layered reflections on kinship and identity, guided by a child grappling with binary gender roles. 

    The often sexist and anthropocentric images, created as didactic materials in the communist era, are repurposed into an emotive portrait of a multispecies matriarchal family seeking freedom and empowerment.

    Leonie Woodfin (IFFR)

    Bio Zuza Banasińska

    Audiovisual artist Zuza Banasińska (1994) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Universität der Künste in Berlin, and Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Their practice concentrates on the creation of video-based environments in which virtual and real elements are hybridised beyond distinction, resulting in an affective mapping. Their artistic projects have been displayed at U-Jazdowski CCA in Warsaw, Dům Umění Mesta Brna in the Czech Republic, and Blindside in Melbourne. 

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    “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025

    02.02.2026

    As a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image, yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, together with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, critics, and scholars worldwide to participate in a first-ever poll of its kind. Invitees were asked to nominate ten audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. Through this non-academic approach to canon-building, this has led to an inspiring list of 105 titles.

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    • This film was #78 in the “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025
      voted by Afsun Moshiry, David Bakum, Heleen Gerritsen, Anne Turek
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    Pirate Boys

    Pol Merchan, Germany, 2018, 13’

    Punk author Kathy Acker’s work is the starting point for a conversation about gender identity and body transformation and is linked to the punk movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

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    Working Knowledge of Ritual

    Hannan Jones, Australia, 2023, 4’

    By interweaving esoteric texts and images, Working Knowledge of Ritual underscores the interconnectedness of spirituality and nature. The film muses on our energies alongside the natural world, inspired by the writings of Leonard Jones.

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    Swollen Stigma

    Sarah Pucill, United Kingdom, 1998, 21’

    Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of view jump between the protagonist, fantasy spaces, and her lover, making an internal world leak into what is external.

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    Water and Salt

    Luisa Mello, Belgium, Brazil, 2019, 10’

    A journey through the consciousness of a woman whose country is under threat from a fascist government.

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    Expires in 12 days
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    MY BBY 8L3W

    NEOZOON, France, Germany, 2014, 3’

    This found footage collage reveals eerie similarities that unambiguously lay bare a pattern: boundaries are being crossed in the relationship between humans and animals.

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    A Letter to Mohamed

    Christine Moderbacher, Belgium, Tunisia, Austria, 2013, 35’

    This is a cinematic letter to the title character, who left Tunisia and now lives in Belgium. Shot in the first year after the Tunisian revolution, this is a poetic journey through a troubled landscape. Between order and chaos, the film reveals a land of disillusionment but also of humour and hope.

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    All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

    Enzo Smits, Belgium, 2014, 19’

    A portrait of young skateboarders growing up in a Flemish suburban town. We meet different characters going through their daily routines: riding around on their skateboards, waiting, hanging out, daydreaming...

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    I Am Good At Karate

    Jess Dadds, United Kingdom, 2021, 11’

    Portrait of a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate. They wander around a housing estate in East Kent, locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon.

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