Short Film Factory @ Uzina Foto, Târgu Mureș
September 14, 2025
The final evening of Short Film Factory 2025 closes the three-day event with a rich and varied program of twelve short films from around the world. From poetic dramas and powerful documentaries to playful animations and experimental works, the closing night celebrates the diversity and depth of contemporary short cinema.
Audiences will encounter stories of belonging, memory, war, and resilience — alongside moments of humor, intimacy, and surreal imagination.
Screening Line-up
Across the Table
- Genre: Comedy / Drama
- Duration: 5 min
- Country: Canada
- Director: Sara Mihailescu
- Synopsis: At a dinner party, a little boy and his grandmother — both outsiders — find a quiet sense of belonging in one another.
IN VIADI
- Genre: Dance Short Film
- Duration: 17 min
- Country: Switzerland
- Directors: Alun Meyerhans & Ellen Wolf
- Synopsis: A poetic journey of self-reconnection, set against the raw beauty of the Swiss Alps. Five dancers mirror inner conflicts, transforming silence and landscape into movement.
- Instagram: @movingmountains.ch
Who Will Take Care of You When You’re Old?
- Genre: Drama
- Duration: 10 min
- Country: Slovenia
- Director: Sašo Dudić
- Synopsis: A father and son navigate care, distance, and unspoken wounds in an intimate family drama about responsibility and unresolved love.
- Instagram: @saso_tavcitattoo
Amal
- Genre: Drama
- Duration: 12 min
- Country: USA
- Director: Zahraa Zeni
- Synopsis: In Aleppo, a father protects his daughter by turning the sound of falling bombs into a game, shielding her from war’s brutality.
- Website: tfkrfilms.com
- Instagram: @tfkrfilms
Chronicle of Crime in Modrići
- Genre: Documentary
- Duration: 26:27
- Country: Croatia
- Director: Luka Klapan
- Synopsis: Survivors and locals reflect on a 1993 war crime in Modrići, revisiting wounds of the past and the struggle to heal.
BATCAN
- Genre: 1 Minute Social Drama
- Duration: 1 min
- Country: Switzerland
- Director: Riu Lohri
- Synopsis: A symbolic short about a man’s can and a hero’s struggle.
- Instagram: @momokofilm
That Day, the Panic Attacked Me.
- Genre: Animated Mini Short
- Duration: 3 min
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Maureen Weng
- Instagram: @mw_0oo0oo_mw
24 Hour Coin Laundry
- Genre: Animation
- Duration: 4 min
- Country: Canada
- Director: Yutong Zhang
- Synopsis: An old woman loads a washing machine with items from her past — until she steps inside herself.
- Instagram: @yutonguez
Are You With Me?
- Genre: Poetic Drama
- Duration: 6 min
- Country: Norway
- Director: Christian Søgaard
- Synopsis: A lyrical meditation on identity and belonging, exploring youth, curiosity, and inner turmoil through symbolic imagery.
- Instagram: @chrissogaard_ | @aur.works
- TikTok: christian.sogaard
- Facebook: Christian Søgaard | Aur Works
The Sight Is a Wound
- Genre: Experimental Short Film
- Duration: 7 min
- Country: UK / Iran
- Director: Parham Ghalamdar
- Synopsis: A poetic visual essay on spectatorship and trauma, blending archival traces with painterly cinema to reflect on violence and witness.
- Instagram: @parham.ghalamdar
Still Here
- Genre: Documentary
- Duration: 16 min
- Country: Spain
- Director: Álvaro Hernández Blanco
- Synopsis: In Baja California, Daria and Teresa are the last two speakers of the Ku’ahl indigenous language, resisting cultural extinction through conversation.
16
- Genre: Drama
- Duration: 20 min
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Ryan Kochberg
- Synopsis: A hotel maid begins an affair with a guest on the eve of her 17th birthday.
- Website: ryankochberg.co.uk
Day Three of Short Film Factory 2025 closes the festival with a wide-ranging selection — intimate family stories, voices from conflict zones, playful micro-shorts, and urgent experimental visions — a finale that underscores the power of cinema to reflect, heal, and provoke.
📍 Location: Uzina Foto, Târgu Mureș
📅 Date: September 14, 2025
⏰ Start time: 7:00 PM
🎟️ Admission: Free
