SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 Short Film Competition

PAVILHÃO
2025 Brazil 13 MIN
DIRECTOR Victoria Fiore
Set in Rio de Janeiro, Aleksia wanders on a journey through time — unveiling the origins of samba and its emergence from resilience, joy, spirituality and resistance of her Afro-Brazilian community.

CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG (如你所愿)
2025 Germany | USA 22 MIN
DIRECTOR Hao Zhou
In a struggle of love, legacy and belief, a southwest Chinese family tries to purge an unwanted entity from their queer heir.

LONG LIVE LIVIA
2025 USA 16 MIN
DIRECTOR Zach Dorn
An animator discusses a scene from the TV series, THE SOPRANOS, while meticulously crafting stop-motion recreations of his family’s home movies.

LAB MAN
2025 USA 4 MIN
DIRECTOR Neil Butler
LAB MAN is a docu-portrait about Arturo Arnold, a master of emulsion who processes all the 8mm and 16mm motion picture film for a busy film lab in North Hollywood.

SHANTI RIDES SHOTGUN
2025 USA 8 MIN
DIRECTOR Charles Frank
On Manhattan’s jam-packed streets, NYC’s most iconic driving instructor prepares students for the road ahead.

AL BASATEEN (THE ORCHARDS)
2025 France 24 MIN
DIRECTOR Antoine Chapon
In 2015, the Basateen al-Razi district of Damascus was destroyed as punishment for the population’s uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. A decade later, memories are awakened, resisting deliberate erasure.