29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

29 APRIL — 09 MAY 2027

IC Shorts 7

May 07 2026, Thursday, 21:30 (84')

Culturgest, Small Auditorium • C.201

SCREENING WITH Q&A

Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep

More than a love letter to Henry the cat, this film drifts into a drowsy performative exercise of life together — gestures, silences, sighs. Mostly horizontal in stance, it moves at a snail’s pace, as if morning never quite ends. What would we be without them?
Marthe Peters
Belgium

2026, 13'

How to Catch a Butterfly

Sexual fetishes of white men toward Asian women have persisted for centuries — burdened with the macabre and racist promiscuity they inherently carry. In 2021, however, when Robert Aaron Long murdered eight women in Atlanta in an attempt to suppress his own desire, a new circle of hell was reached. Through a series of letters, Dutch–Japanese filmmaker Kiriko Mechanichus addresses the killer directly. Why?
Kiriko Mechanicus
Netherlands

2026, 26'

Honey, My Love, So Sweet

In an old movie theater, the oldest question of all: how do I know if I love someone? Life has moved with his mother to the Times Theatre, in downtown Manila, and finds himself stumbling through the tentative first steps of love. Everything within this setting matters: the films, the venue’s fading grandeur, and the quiet wisdom of its projectionist — their confidant.
JT Trinidad
Philippines

2025, 20'

Hotel Oblique

The obsession with wellness has reached every species. In a luxurious retreat that markets relaxation to restless birds, a budgie attempts to rediscover himself. For reasons he cannot quite explain, all he truly wants is to return to the safety of his cage.
Merlin Flügel
Germany

2026, 7'

Stallion and a Crystal Ball

Behind closed curtains, in the murky bedroom of a young man with ambitions of sorcery, unfolds the second short film by Catalan Christian Avilés — a filmmaker deeply interested in the hidden spirituality of adolescence. 
Christian Avilés
Spain

2026, 18'

International Competition

GUESTS

DIRECTOR

Christian Avilés, Kiriko Mechanicus

FILM CREW

Manuel G. Romero

PRODUCERS

Manuel G. Romero

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