WALDHORN at the 2026 INEFF Conference/ University of Salford in Manchester on 18-19 June 2026.
Screening of past Festival films and discussion with filmmakers
Thursday 18 June, 16:30-19:00, Newton Building
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Gargantua
24m10s, United Kingdom, Directed by Stephen Crowe This is an animated film about a wild book from renaissance France. The original novel is a chaotic feast of booze, bodies and brains – once described by Voltaire as “the worst filth ever vomited up by a drunken monk.” The story (?) centres around two giants who devour armies and gobble knowledge as they explore the known and unknown world.
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The Sippy Cup Incident
9m47s, United States, Directed by Caroline Rumley Surveillance, stay-at-home-moms, and a mysterious flood converge.
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Missing Meaning
8m40s, Portugal, Directed by Vasco Diogo This film is entirely created using a mobile phone and various applications, most of which are AI-driven. It is a journey through the fears, nightmares, heroes and wonders of an infant’s openness to the world.
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Waldhorn
8m, Sweden, Directed by Leyla Rodriguez ‘WALDHORN’ is a reality check to the ancient call of the wild. The two protagonists of this epic journey feature an immediate verbal dimension: speaking softly yet clearly, they let go of chaos and lethargy and set out to attend a mystical
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The Element of Surprise
9m36s, United States, Directed by Pawel Grajnert ‘The Element of Surprise’ is a pseudo-narrative film set in a post-industrial age city. Two men plagued by the paranoia of being hunted down for reasons unknown, flee the city hoping, at least in part, to free themselves from the constant awareness of something suspicious and corrupt. In the fractured narrative that often swaps character perspectives, we see a couple’s dispute, a man being chased down, and a questionable television advert.
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London Quick City
6m45s, United Kingdom, Directed by Mark G Lonsdale A lone figure, dressed like an office worker, runs through a deserted capital city. This experimental short, filmed on Super 8 in the 1990s, explores both a lost London and the idea of our relentless motion, daily disengagement and sense of dislocation.
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Little Women
14m59s, Slovenia, Directed by Nika Jurman An ambitious but somewhat lazy village photographer tries to survive in the big city. To earn some money and shine in a prestigious society, she attends a posh party. Hanging out with the people there, she decides to radically change her life. Can she make it without killing anyone in the process?
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Parto
11m46s, Peru, Directed by Jesus Neyra In the script, in the silence of the piece. The silence gets to you and talks to you about sadness and loneliness, these two relatives that can’t talk no more.
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