‘26. eco shorts competition
WATERWORLDS
by multiple filmmakersThis shorts programme consists of the following films:
WATER GIRLby Sandra Desmazières 2025 | France, Portugal, The Netherlands | 15’
An elderly freediver reflects on her life and an unfulfilled longing, with the sea as a constant presence. A lyrical, hand-drawn and colourful animation exploring universal themes.
BENEATH WHICH RIVERS FLOW
by Ali Yahya
eco shorts competition | 2025 | Iraq | 16’
In the tranquil marshlands of southern Iraq, young Ibrahim lovingly tends to his buffalo, but disruption looms on the horizon.
LAST TROPICS
by Thanasis Trouboukis
eco shorts competition | Dutch premiere | 2025 | Greece | 20’
As time begins to abandon their coastal village, three young protagonists turn to illegal dynamite fishing in an attempt to escape their precarious situation.
ACID CITY
by Jack Wedge & Will Freudenheim
eco shorts competition | 2026 | USA | 12’
A self-sufficient island city rises from a vast acidic ocean beneath apocalyptic red skies. In this travelogue from the future, Acid City’s eclectic residents take life as it comes.
Eco Shorts: Waterworlds | June 3 | 19:00 | Droog | + aftertalk Milieudefensie & Bogna Bochińska
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Bogna Bochińska is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Her research interests include elemental media, blue humanities, environmental memory, folklore, and identity. She is part of the Fuck Healing (?) collective, which operates across multidisciplinary theories and artistic practices of healing. In her PhD project, she conceptualizes the European river Oder as a site for memory-making in the context of environmental personhood and West Polish identity. In her work, she engages with creative research practice in the form of auto-theoretical storytelling.
Eco Shorts: Waterworlds | June 6 | 17:45 | Studio/K SK2
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