American Shorts
American Shorts is a special program curated in collaboration with Warsaw’s CINEMAFORUM festival. Together, we've selected the most compelling and emotionally resonant short films of the past season, stories we’re excited to share with our audience.
This year's selection is a journey through loss and reinvention, love in its many forms, and the search for understanding, of others and, so importantly, of oneself. For a brief moment, we walk alongside the characters through city streets and across decades. More often than not, it’s young women who lead the way — and we’re here to listen.
Ancestra
An image of motherhood created using AI – and the latest project of the Primordial Soup studio, founded by legendary director and producer Darren Aronofsky.
Debaters
A young, shy student takes part in the Oxford debate for the first time. The topic of discussion is the minimum wage, and the judge in this game is Bethany, played by J. Smith-Cameron, familiar from the Succession series.
The Last Goodbye
During the funeral of her beloved grandmother, Basia – a young Polish woman living in New York – returns to the circle of family traditions, superstitions and expectations. An unexpected confrontation with an old love and a series of disturbing events force her to question her life and make a decision about who she really wants to be.
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Fame and Other Four Letter Words
Imagine that you are a celebrity and one day you wake up in a world where no one recognizes you. Welcome to Celebrity Sermon's reality.
Second Bedroom
What makes you feel at home in a new place? Agnes and her father Peter stroll through Brooklyn in search of a new apartment.
Paradise Man (ii)
Full of warm animation that will lift your spirits when you need it.
How to Shoot a Ghost
Another joint project by Charlie Kaufman and Jessie Buckley. The actress plays the role of a photographer who meets a translator (Josef Akiki) on her way. Together, like ghosts, they roam the streets of Athens; immersed in memories, they try to describe what was elusive to them in life.
