October 24
Short Film Competition | Competitive Screening III
Teatro-Cine / 11:00 a.m.
- Pirateland, by Stavros Petropoulos | Greece, Norway, Slovenia | 2025 | 28′
- Skinny Bottines, by Romain F. Dubois | Canada | 2026 | 19′
- Vivomorto, by André Santos & Marco Leão | Portugal | 2026 | 15′
- The 140-Kilo Cat Man, by Joonas Makkonen | Finland | 2025 | 15′
- Hurle! Ça Pousse!, by Anna Murie | France | 2026 | 3′
- L’Amie en Commun, by Louis Douillez | France | 2026 | 23′
Eat & Greet
Café Concert / 1:00 p.m.
A networking lunch that brings filmmakers, guests, and audience members together around the same table for an informal and relaxed gathering of people with different experiences and backgrounds. This is an opportunity to break the ice, meet new people, and build connections beyond the movie screenings.
Special Screening | Sad Forever
, Teatro-Cine / 2:30 p.m.
Triste para Sempre is an emerging film festival dedicated to the complexity of sadness. This year, it is joining forces with HaHaArt for a short film screening that celebrates laughter in the face of sadness and comedies with less-than-happy endings.
- Petit-bras, by Sion Hubert | France | 2025 | 20′
- T’es Morte Hélène, by Michiel Blanchart | Belgium | 2021 | 25′
- I’ve Stolen Your Ashes, by Felipe Olaya Meza | Spain | 2024 | 23′
ON Comedy Cinema |
Comedy, Horror, and Animation Walk into a Bar
Café Concerto / 4:30 p.m.
Comedy, horror, and animation are often treated as film genres, but are they really comparable? A “coffee-break chat” among directors, producers, and programmers to discuss what’s at stake when we classify a film, why we call such different things “genres,” and what happens when a film refuses to fit into a single category.
Feature Film Competition III
Theater-Cinema / 6:00 p.m.
Complaint No. 713317, by Yasser Shafiey | Egypt | 2026 | 82’
Magdy and Sama live peacefully until a broken refrigerator sparks an irrational and inglorious battle against the absurdity of bureaucracy. As Magdy tries to file a simple complaint, his apartment in Cairo becomes a stage for frustration, revealing tensions surrounding gender, love, and aging.
Short Film Competition | Competitive Screening IV
Teatro-Cine / 9:45 p.m.
- Orla, by Marie Lukacova | Czech Republic | 2026 | 21′
- Gunther a Ses Raisons, by Bérenger Barry | France | 2025 | 19′
- Fish & Chips, by Bartłomiej Błaszczyński | Poland | 2025 | 20′
- Canard & Choucroute, by Eloi Henriod | Switzerland | 10′
- Some Things That Happen by the River, by Daniel Soares | Portugal | 2026 | 14′
- Cara de Cona, by Guillermo de Oliveira | Spain | 2025 | 18’
Midnight Madness #2
, Teatro-Cine / 12:00 a.m.
Dead Lover, by Grace Glowicki | U.S. | 2025 | 84’
A lonely gravedigger who smells of corpses meets the man of her dreams, but the romance ends when he drowns at sea. Devastated by grief, she goes to morbid extremes to bring him back to life through macabre experiments. U A highly eccentric, low-budget Gothic romance, *Dead Lover* had its world premiere at Sundance, screened at TIFF, and won awards at SXSW.