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MV/Experimental/Fashion

11:00 am

9 March 2026

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The central hub of TCFF during the festival week.
Pop-Up HQ is where audiences can find festival information, meet the team, purchase tickets, discover merchandise, and connect with filmmakers, artists, and fellow festival-goers. A casual, welcoming space designed to make TCFF feel human, accessible, and alive beyond the cinema.

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FILMS

Reborn Aida Korman

Directed By:
Aida Korman
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"ReBorn" follows a woman escaping the noise of the city to reclaim the lost pieces of herself. In an abandoned sock factory, its graffiti-covered walls become an open-air museum, whispering stories of identity, rebellion, and style. Wearing ReBorn street couture, she immerses herself in the colors, textures, and rhythm of the asphalt.

Her journey leads her high into the mountains, to the nomadic village of Lukomir. Here, where the wind carries the whispers of ancestors and medieval stećak stones guard forgotten tales, she finds silence. Draped in haute couture inspired by traditional folk costumes, she reconnects with her true self.

"ReBorn" is a visual and emotional journey — from graffiti to stećaks, from urban grit to mountain serenity. A story of escape, encounter, and rebirth.

La Bruna

Directed By:
Davude Micciulla
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I wanted to pay tribute to this story, by giving it a modern touch.
The Festa della Bruna is the most important and heartfelt celebration in the city of Matera, held every year on July 2nd in honor of Maria Santissima della Bruna, the city’s patron saint.

According to legend, in 1389 the Virgin appeared to a peasant, asking him to deliver a message to the bishop. To honor her, a grand cart carrying her statue was paraded through the city. At the end of the procession, the crowd stormed the float and tore it apart — a ritual that has since been repeated every year as a symbol of renewal and rebirth.

Bleeding

Directed By:
Dany Horiuchi
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Mollie, a young woman in her twenties, is struggling with her mental health. She writes a diary entry, pouring out all the emotions she can’t express aloud. Her words reveal the depth of her isolation and the hopelessness of feeling all this pain bleed out of her without anyone noticing.

Quand la terre respire

Directed By:
Sarah Abdel-Jelil
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‘When the earth breathes.’
This film is composed of footage which I filmed on a sand dune in Tinyargue, Mauritania, the Atlantic Ocean, a Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and at a studio in Minneapolis, MN.
I composed this soundscape with audio of my own breath, vocalizations, and sounds of the Mediterranean sea in Nice, France. The audio includes a few seconds of Ghadhi Mehdi, a tour guide in the Sahara in northern Mauritania, speaking about tectonic plates, volcanic eruptions, and the moment of separation of Africa from the Americas – how there was so much pressure, the earth had to breathe.

Hawling's Time Experiment

Directed By:
Zhenghui Chen
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Hawling, a struggling writer unable to pay his rent, decides to alter Stephen Hawking's Time Experiment to spark the birth of his next work. However, after encountering the landlady and the "Interstellar Evil Force" from the future, he finds himself embroiled in a series of time-space paradoxes.

The Silence Protocol

Directed By:
Humberto Dias Fernandes Pacheco
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Clara, a newly hired nurse at a psychiatric hospital, witnesses abuse in the institution’s neglected wards. When she tries to report the torture of a patient, she ends up being interrogated by the police. But instead of clarifying the facts, her answers only deepen the suspicions.

Futsukayoi

Directed By:
Gabriel Kei
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A Japanese office worker wearing a wooden mask finds himself performing his tasks much more easily and quickly than his colleagues, which arouses the curiosity and praise of the latter. Without knowing that this mask is not the cause of his powers, but rather its consequences.

Scroll Variation

Directed By:
Natalie Greene
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Scroll Variation is a short cut-out animation that explores the motifs and historical associations of the "scroll." The film brings to life writer Meg Whiteford's poetic nonfiction. Alluding to the waters surrounding New York City, Scroll Variation animates found imagery and original photographs of ironwork into a glittery, metallic world. As the film progresses, the iron bends, twirls, and coils into new shapes untethered from their fixed positions and suspended in cloudy landscapes or underwater tableaux. The scroll is a character dancing through its own history in this experimental documentary.

Hel Aan Semaya

Directed By:
SS Heliodor
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Paranoia

Directed By:
Aiden LaBruno
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A betrayed lover discovers she was the other woman all along. Consumed by vengeance and a love that borders on obsession, Avangelia will stop at nothing to claim what she believes is rightfully hers.

Mau Moko

Directed By:
Jermaine Leef
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The music video for “Mau Moko” by Alien Weaponry is a powerful visual statement about cultural identity and reclaiming indigenous pride. Set against a backdrop of striking imagery, the video weaves historical symbolism with modern defiance, celebrating the Māori tradition of Tā Moko—the sacred art of facial tattooing.

The narrative centres around the resilience of the Māori people, whose customs and spiritual practices were suppressed under colonial rule. Through fierce performance scenes and emotionally charged visuals of the female lead and moko wearers, the video confronts stereotypes and challenges the viewer’s understanding of what moko represents.

Saintly

Directed By:
Lumyth Projects
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Music Video for Michaela Tempers release 'Saintly'

Industrial Sunset

Directed By:
Daniel Le Hai, Julian Pawlak
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Short fashion film with collection by Dominik Żyża. Story explores collection inspired by city of Łódź, especially the industrial areas. Film is centered around themes of class power struggles and urban identity of XIX-th century Łódź.

Echo Bloom

Directed By:
Kasumi Hiraoka
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She was born in a clothing factory, a girl stitched into life among cloth and thread, in the quiet hum of machines.

One afternoon, she fell asleep on her desk, a quiet black hole at the center of the workshop.
When she awoke, she was no longer on Earth. 
In this strange, otherworldly place, she meets a boy and falls in love, before suddenly vanishing. The boy begins his search, following her absence all the way to Tokyo. 
Where did she go? 
When did she pass away? 
Was she in the universe, or in the realm beyond death? 

To be continued.
Shot entirely in the working atelier of THEULTRABLACK—a new brand born from the very factory that produces garments for Paris collections by Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto—this film features its real seamstresses as the dancers who hauntingly move through the factory floor.
The film stars Leon, Paris Collection runway regular for Rick Owens and more, and YUUMIKO, a top model for ZARA, adidas, and Levi’s.
At the helm is director Kasumi Hiraoka, whose fashion-forward cinematic vision captivated audiences at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
In the film’s final sequence, clothing becomes a vessel of rebirth, and something deeper is awakened as a resurrection unfolds at the very place where new fashion is born.

Ke Kino Lua

Directed By:
Eve Davidson
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Ke Kino Lua means the dual-natured in Hawaiian. After moving to Salt Lake City for his first day of work, does Kaleo stick to his island roots or accept western corporate culture?

Whispers From the Core

Directed By:
Marcelle Abela
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Under the charred veil of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl, survivors bear treachery’s shroud, hunting redemption through a generational silence that shrieks with ghosts of the forgotten.

The Way Through

Directed By:
Maeva
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"The Way Through" is an award-winning experimental short film that externalizes deeply dense emotions that can sometimes make their presence known during the human experience. It offers the viewer experiential knowledge of how to travel through emotionally charged situations, such as an otherwise healthy, safe and non-incestuous romantic love that is only forbidden due to societal expectations, prejudices, etc.

Dynamics

Directed By:
Teo Baehler
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DYNAMICS (Frozen Movements) is an experimental, dreamy and surreal stop-motion film, created using everyday materials. The film offers a visual reflection on transformations that emerge through the intuitive blending of dissimilar elements. The result is a non-narrative art film where fantasy, form and texture merge into a sensory experience.
This short animation invites viewers to surrender to a world where logic gives way to atmosphere and intuition. The hypnotic soundscape enhances the avant-garde character of the film and leaves plenty of room for personal interpretation.

Hello Anna

Directed By:
Mohammad Hossein Soleimani Fard
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Hello Anna tells story of Maryam Mirzakhani who immigrated years ago and achieved many successes in the world arena. But on the other hand, we hear a story of Raha, who immigrated many years ago, but experienced though and bitter days and her dreams did not come true. Sormeh hears their story and Rasha takes pictures of all the moments with her camera. Rasha and sormeh have known each other since childhood, sormeh has changed a lot these days and has come out of a serious relationship, she has decided to emigrate and pursue her dreams alone, no one knows how fate will turn out for her, but Rasha...

The kashmir song

Directed By:
Kovid Mittal
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Aditya re-visits his Home in Kashmir, where he had spent his childhood after 25 years. Haunted and longing to return to the Valley that remained with him forever like a part of his body. It was not just melancholy, it was not just nostalgia, the gnawing was deep and inexpressible. He is not an exception. The trauma that still lingers in the minds of people who were made homeless during that phase.

Mashi Hob

Directed By:
SS Heliodor
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The video clip features the use of 3D visual and cinematic motion photography techniques. It accurately and realistically captures the movement of the artist's entire face and body and then merges the images into a virtual model with other visuals and characters frame by frame.

That Thing That Makes You Win

Directed By:
Jean-Yves "Jeeve" Ducornet
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This video is one of twelve from my upcoming visual album, which explores my journey as a music producer, a romantic, and a survivor of Los Angeles life.
The featured song tells the story of a deceitful man posing as a legitimate music producer and songwriter. Though surrounded by truly talented musicians and lyricists, he contributes little to the creative process—yet he takes center stage, claiming outsized credit for work that isn’t his.
In the video, this fraudulent figure is portrayed through a metaphorical lens: a shady 1800s county fair operator. He stages a spectacle filled with second-rate attractions, mediocre performers, and flimsy sets—yet somehow, he thrives, stealing the spotlight and profiting off illusion. The fair becomes a satirical reflection of the modern music industry’s dark corners, where smoke and mirrors can eclipse real artistry.

Baigun Baigun

Directed By:
Reneel Singh
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Baigun Baigun is a bold, bilingual music video that blends Fijian Hindi and English to celebrate the spirit of Westernized Desis with humor, flair, and unapologetic swag. With catchy beats, cheeky lyrics, and sharp visuals, this vibrant piece flips the script on traditional expectations

Other I

Directed By:
Alina Popescu
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In a vast cathedral devoted to a strange, otherworldly deity, a young girl offers gifts that begin as harmless token of devotion but escalate into brutal sacrifices of her own body. This haunting allegory asks what happens when blind faith and the comforts we never question demand more of us than we have to give.

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