Line-Up – Festivalul ANONIMVL

Romanian short film competition

LITTLE REBELS CINEMA CLUB

Indonesia, 2024

Runtime: 17 minutes

Director: Khozy Rizal

With: Jordan Omar, Muzakki Ramdhan, Mian Tiara

Synopsis

Set in 2008, Doddy, a 14 year old boy, tries to recreate an iconic scene of a zombie film with three of his best friends, using a handycam belonging to Anji, his sad and angry emo brother.

Director Khozy Rizal

ALIȘVERIȘ

2025

Runtime: 15 minutes

Director: Vasile Todinca

Cast: Florentina Năstase, Ilinca Manolache, Gabriel Spahiu, Cătălina Romaneț

Synopsis

Tatiana, an unemployed woman, spends her days selling her personal things in order to survive. Today she has an important deadline and she might end up selling a piece of her body in order to keep a roof over her head.

Director: Vasile Todinca

HOW I LEARNED NOT TO KILL MYSELF

2025

Runtime: 20 minutes

Director: Norbert Boda

With: Corina Ciontu, Șerban Ghilvaci, Teona Stavarachi, Alexandru Chindriș

Synopsis

Ophelia, a young woman, works as a waitress and lives quietly, with headphones on and constant thoughts of suicide. One night, she meets a strange guy at the bar, and a peculiar connection forms between them, as he offers to help her carry out her plan. That same night, however, her father dies.

Director: Norbert Boda

DANCE, QUEEN

2024

Runtime: 19 minutes

Director: Maria Mitulescu

With: Thea Zaharia, Anastasia Florea, Ana Salomia, Valentina Moghina

Synopsis

A perfectly fried ordinary night for a group of teenagers in Vama Veche, until it isn’t. Sasha navigates discomfort in a phantasmagoric journey that awakens associations of sensations that she would not have expected...

Director Maria Mitulescu

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

2025

Runtime: 18 minutes

Director: Claudiu Mitcu

With: Ana Covalciuc, Alex Călin, Diana Cavallioti, Rodica Negrea, Nelu Serghei

Synopsis

The attempt to spend a romantic anniversary at a hotel in Bucharest ends badly for Laura and Marius, having to return to their apartment early. At home they find that romance still exists. Unfortunately, not for them.

Director Claudiu Mitcu

Truth or Dare

2024

Runtime: 17 minutes

Director: Simona Borcea

Cast: Raffaela Rusu, Teodora Moscal, Marin Cumatrenco, Mihai Trăsnea

Synopsis

Alexandra and Denisa, two adolescent sisters, spend the summer holiday in the countryside. Alexandra tries to gain the attention of the older boys and show her older sister that she’s no longer just a kid.

Director Simona Borcea

FRACTI

2024

Runtime: 5 minutes

Director: Lavinia Petrache

Synopsis

Humans live their routines inside an ethereal village floating in the sky. What happens when one of them causes the world to end?

Director Lavinia Petrache

THE MAGICIAN

2025

Runtime: 24 minutes

Director: Bogdan Mureșanu

Voices: Cosmin Șofron, Mihai Gruia Sandu, Ionut Achivoaie, Ioana Flora

Synopsis

Sulina, 1910. It’s the inauguration of the first power station in this Romanian port city. Amid the jubilation of a modern, cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a magician from another era, tries to play his last card.

Director Bogdan Mureșanu

MAMA!

2024

Runtime: 15 minutes

Director: Theodor Ioniță

With: Irina Pavlescu, Ștefania Cazan, Natalia Pop, Simona Popescu

Synopsis

A young mother brings her newborn to a hospital for treatment of a respiratory blockage. In the emergency room, the baby arrives in critical condition, but the mother is nowhere to be found.

Director Theodor Ioniță

NIGHT TERROR

Night Terror

2024

Runtime: 5 minutes

Director: Carmen-Maria Dumitru

Cast: Octavian Muntean

Synopsis

A man is trapped in an abandoned hotel by the sea, constantly threatened by apparitions and strange phenomena, and finally manages to defeat the monstrous spirit that follows him.

Director Carmen-Maria Dumitru

SO REFRESHING

2025

Runtime: 20 de minute

Director: Irina Alexiu

With: Cabiria Morgenstern, Fern Bain Smith, Teodora Nechiță

Synopsis

A quirky Tinder match between a queer Romanian and a London baker leads to a culture-clashing ride through awkward truths, identity, and unexpected intimacy.

Director Irina Alexiu

SUNNY

2025

Runtime: 21 minutes

Director: Andreea Parfenov

With: Karina Jianu, Valeriu Andriuță

Synopsis

Before leaving for University, Sara goes on a fishing trip with her father. The time spent together in the isolation of the Danube Delta, can either bring them closer or widen the gap in their relationship.

Director Andreea Parfenov

ALL THAT REMAINS

2024

Runtime: 24 minutes

Director: Andrei Redinciuc

With: Coca Bloos, Cezar Antal, Alexandru Pavel, Angela Ioan

Synopsis

Elena, a 77 years old woman, has little options to choose from. She decides to put her mentally handicapped son in a soci...

Director Andrei Redinciuc

HUNTERS IN THE SNOW

2024

Runtime: 21 minutes

Director: Mihai Mincan

With: Ștefan Voicu, Istvan Teglas, Dar Ursu

Synopsis

In the aftermath of a hunting expedition gone wrong, three men must reconsider their friendship, revealing each other’s strange and twisted secrets.

Director Mihai Mincan

International short film competition

400 CASSETTES

Greece, 2024

Runtime: 14 minutes

Director: Thelyia Petraki

With: Panayiota Yiagli, Ellιε Galousi

Synopsis

After a lesson about cosmic archaeologists and a water-fight in the schoolyard, Elly steals Faye’s soul and Faye gives Elly a rare birthday present.

But then when the night falls,
under a sky full of stars,
a song from the past
will remind the girls that
nothing really lasts forever.

Director Thelyia Petraki

ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE

Turkey, 2024

Runtime: 20 minutes

Director: Cansu Baydar

With: Rahaf Armanazi, İsa Karataş, Büşra Albayrak, Ferhat Akgün, Ubey Gül

Synopsis

Having fled the war in Syria, Hanna and her young brother Nader find themselves staying in a run-down neighbourhood of Istanbul. Hanna spends her days learning nail design in order to earn a living, while dreaming of finding a way to migrate to Europe. When she meets a Turkish guy, İbo, on a night out, she finds herself trying to balance her identity and desires with the needs of her young brother.

Director: Cansu Baydar

AMARELA

Brazil, 2024

Runtime: 15 minutes

Director: André Hayato Saito

With: Melissa Uehara, Ricardo Oshiro, Carolina Hamanaka

Synopsis

On the day of the World Cup final between Brazil and France, Erika Oguihara, a Japanese-Brazilian teenager who rejects her family traditions, experiences a violence that seems invisible and plunges into a painful sea of emotions.

Director: André Hayato Saito

CURA SANA

Spain, 2024

Runtime: 18 minutes

Director: Lucía G. Romero

With: Roser Rendon Ena, Rasvely Lissette Donaire Restituyo, Yaneys Cabrera Ramirez

Synopsis

JESSICA and ALMA, two sisters in a situation of domestic violence, will begin to treat each other with love instead of violence through one of their routine trips to the food stamp office on the night of San Juan, a Spanish holiday.

Director Lucía G. Romero

GRANDMA NAI WHO PLAYED FAVORITES

Cambodia, France, USA, 2025

Runtime: 19 minutes

Director: Chheangke

With: Bonrotanak Rith, Saroeun Nay

Synopsis

During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her Queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.

Director Chheangke

HIPPOPOTAMI

China, Hong Kong, 2025

Runtime: 13 minutes

Director: Lin Jianjie (JJ)

With: Zhang Zhiyong, Wang Zixi, Xu Ge, Wang Zhenhua

Synopsis

In the suburb of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride which will forever change her perspective on life.

Director: Lin Jianjie (JJ)

IMMACULATA

Germany, France, 2024

Runtime: 22 minutes

Director: Kim Lêa Sakkal

With: Devrim Lingnau, Deleila Piasko, Jan Bluthardt

Synopsis

Derya is pregnant, but she hasn't had sex. As we gaze into her life, a housekeeper in the height of a dry summer, signs of the supernatural and the divine emerge, prompting us to question the true origin of her mysterious pregnancy.

Director Kim Lêa Sakkal

JAMES

Guatemala, Mexico, 2024

Runtime: 20 minutes

Director: Andres Rodríguez

With: James Maldonado, Jose Poz, Erick Maldonado

Synopsis

The loneliness of the city feels immense for an indigenous teen like James, who is fighting for his happiness, innocence, and above all, to not feel abandoned in the urban vastness. Only now James is beginning to realize that building his own path means destroying those of others.

Director Andres Rodríguez

LITTLE REBELS CINEMA CLUB

Indonesia, 2024

Runtime: 17 minutes

Director: Khozy Rizal

With: Jordan Omar, Muzakki Ramdhan, Mian Tiara

Synopsis

Set in 2008, Doddy, a 14 year old boy, tries to recreate an iconic scene of a zombie film with three of his best friends, using a handycam belonging to Anji, his sad and angry emo brother.

Director Khozy Rizal

THREE KEENINGS

UK, Ireland, USA, 2024

Runtime: 10 minutes

Director: Oliver McGoldrick

With: Seamus O’Hara, Sean Kearns, Caitriona Hinds

Synopsis

Ian is a struggling actor who finds himself in the unconventional role of a professional mourner. As he tours the Northern Irish countryside, his practised mask of apathy begins to slip amongst the humour and heartache of the local funeral circuit.

Director Oliver McGoldrick

TREES PAINTED IN TAR

Denmark, 2024

Runtime: 14 minutes

Director: Casper Rudolf

With: Magnus Juhl Andersen, Søren Malling

Synopsis

A hunting trip turns into a nightmare, when a teenage boy has to choose between his father's acceptance or his own integrity.

Director Casper Rudolf

WASSUPKAYLEE

France, USA, 2025

Runtime: 18 minutes

Director: Casper Rudolf

With: Devin Freeman France, Taj Cross, Annie Schwartz

Synopsis

Kaylee Hord, a 17-year-old prank video influencer, is the newest member of a popular TikTok content house where she struggles to fit in and pay the rent. But when a new and intense friendship offers the chance of viral fame, Kaylee learns how far she'll go to belong.

Director Casper Rudolf