• 8th edition / shorts in competition
Movies that push boundaries
Geographical, cultural, social, and intimate frontiers, where travel becomes an experience, a choice, a shift in perspective.
The shorts selected for this edition cross these boundaries, question them, and inhabit them. They tell stories of transition, of identities in transformation, of distances that are shortened or redefined .
The short films of the Eighth Edition
Fictional short movies on any theme
Narrative Shorts
A section open to the plurality of cinematic storytelling.
Narrative Shorts brings together fictional works that move freely between genres, languages, and narrative forms, allowing for personal visions and diverse approaches to storytelling. Films that construct worlds, relationships, and conflicts, offering a glimpse into the present through narrative, between reality and imagination.
Tales of the Real
Docu Shorts
Reality as a territory to be crossed.
Docu Shorts welcomes works that engage with the world through a documentary lens, exploring contexts, stories, and people with care and awareness. A cinema that observes and connects, capable of conveying complexity without simplification.
Andaras Noas (New Paths)
Andaras Noas (New Paths)
Stories that are born when something changes.
Andaras Noas is dedicated to short movies that narrate passages, departures, returns, and transformations, whether real or internal. These journeys mark a before and after, opening up new paths and new possibilities.
Documentaries on territories and communities
Gazes from the World
Perspectives that cross places and cultures.
This section features films that explore territories, communities, and identities through a situated and informed perspective. A cinema that navigates differences, listening and building connections between distant experiences and contexts.
Unconventional visions
Strange Worlds
Forms that question language.
Strange Worlds welcomes experimental works or works characterized by strong, non-linear imagery that push the boundaries of narrative conventions. Films that open up spaces for research and expressive freedom, exploring new possibilities for cinema.
Animated short movies
Animation
Animation as a universal language.
This section brings together works that use a variety of techniques and styles to create distinct visual worlds. From traditional storytelling to experimental approaches, animation serves as a tool for broadening our horizons and imagining new forms.
Short movies related to Sardinia
Sardinian Gazes
A space dedicated to the perspectives that originate in or pass through Sardinia.
Films that explore the region, its communities, and their transformations, conveying its complexity, memory, and imagination through intimate and contemporary perspectives. This section reflects the festival's profound connection to the region, offering a diverse and ever-evolving portrait of Sardinia.
Narratives for new generations
First Routes – New Generations
Films that speak to new generations with a direct and authentic voice, raising questions, stimulating dialogue, and accompanying their first steps on a journey of growth and awareness. Stories that don't address young people as recipients, but as an active space for opportunity, listening, and transformation .
Freestyle Productions
Off Course
A freestyle section, without constraints of genre, form or duration.
Movies that deviate from the established path, following their own expressive needs and an autonomous direction. Works that defy categories and find their most authentic form in deviating from the norm .
