29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

IC Shorts 1

May 04 2026, Monday, 21:30 (87')

Culturgest, Small Auditorium • C.183

SCREENING WITH Q&A

Son

The son lives on the streets; the mother walks the avenues in search of traces. The only proof of life are the graffiti he leaves on the city’s walls — which she begins to document. Then, as if that paint were a letter, she takes up the spray can in search of a reply. 
Leona Cauklija
Sweden

2025, 13'

A Small Fiction of My Mother in Beijing

In the second chapter of the Mommy trilogy, Dorothea Sing Zhang unveils the solitary daily life of her mother, a star of Chinese opera. The mostly silent, echoing backstage spaces become a mirror of the emotional distance between them.
Dorothea Sing Zhang
China

2025, 12'

Buckskin

There are lives whose stories demand to be known. Carroll B. Williams Jr. was a pioneering forestry engineer, academic researcher, and entomologist — the first African American to be hired by the U.S. Forest Service — whose legacy within the American forest landscape is immeasurable. Mars Verrone, their grandson and the film’s director, dedicates this portrait to him.
Mars Verrone
United States

2025, 17'

Kontrewers

In a Polish folktale, a young possessed woman has lived for centuries inside the mysterious Kontrewers Stone. Zuza Banasińska — who presented work at IndieLisboa in 2024 — draws on this ghostly figure to set fiction and reality simmering in the same pot. Her 102-year-old grandmother, confined to her bedroom and gently waving toward death, encounters — and becomes enchanted by — the relic (or by the haunting presence that inhabits it), in a lucid affirmation that communication is far more than words.
Zuza Banasińska
Netherlands / Poland / France

2026, 21'

Rio Remains Beautiful

The streets of Rio de Janeiro overflow with samba — it is Carnival. Ilma writes to her son, whose whereabouts have long been unknown; in her letter, she sends news of her country, itself faded or perhaps never truly found, a victim of a history of colonization that continues to breed oppression. Every celebration carries its reverse side.
Felipe Casanova
Belgium / Brazil / Switzerland

2025, 24'

International Competition

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DIRECTOR

Felipe Casanova, Zuza Banasińska

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