Mockumentary, 8m, Sweden

Follow the daily life of mermaids at the Sea Angels theme park, in a world where they have been forced to reveal their existence to humans by polluted oceans.

Dir/Writ: Cissi Efraimsson, Prod: Saga Gärde

Thriller, 13m, Germany

A constantly freezing man in his forties drives to a lonely petrol station every evening and orders a microwaved Toast Hawaii.

Dir/Writ/Prod: Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Prod: Saskia Stirn

Science Fiction, 11m, Australia

Harriet's disaster of a life gets a lot weirder when she discovers a black hole in her apartment.

Dir/Writ: Tim Sharp, Prod: Cecilia Low

Magical Realism, 13m, New Zealand

Far from their islands in Te Moana-nui-ā-Kiva, three sisters are raised by their father in a small village in Aotearoa. Rei, Upokoina and Matilda G, share a love of basketball.

Dir/Writ: Mīria George, Writ/Prod: Hone Kouka

Fantasy, 13m, New Zealand

An elderly woman wilting away in a retirement home longs to commune with the vibrant natural world outside.

Dir: Alyx Duncan, Writ/Prod: Michele Powles, Prod: Lani-rain Feltham

Magical Realism, 20m, United Kingdom

Peter is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When he shares his footage with an old woman, it sparks memories of a bear that roamed the hills during her childhood.

Dir/Writ: Zhang + Knight, Prod: Medb Riordan, Lexi Kiddo

Absurd, 16m, India

One day a dog named Moti turns into a boy. But in becoming human, Moti loses something vital along the way.

Dir/Writ/Prod: Yash Saraf, Prod: Karan Shah