Competition Programs | International Competition: We Had All the Time in the World
UNIT.Core | B.8
02.10 
 

UNIT.Verse | B.12

03.10

 

18+

 

These stories whisper of suspended memories and lost moments, conversations across generations, and threads that bind us through pain and hope. Here, the chaos of everyday life meets the quiet magic of reflection. Past and present merge, and the weight of trauma becomes lighter. These films invite us to slow down, listen closely, and find meaning in the pauses between seconds.

Running time 73 min.

  • HEY DAD
    WeiFan Wang

    Taiwan | 05:37 | 2024

    I’ve practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. I’m starting my countdown again, another 20 years. Maybe it might be the right time by then.

  • Off-Time
    Nata Metlukh

    USA, Japan, Ukraine | 10:45 | 2025

    A data engineer rushes through life, believing multitasking saves time—but it only creates chaos. Despite his strict control over time, nothing gets done: his home is a mess, work overflows, and breakfast is always burnt. He discovers joy in life only when time breaks apart.

  • I Beg Your Pardon
    John W. Lustig

    USA | 04:46 | 2024

    A man commits a terrible crime and the consequences are not what you’d expect.

  • My Grandmother is a Skydiver
    Polina Piddubna

    Germany, Ukraine | 12:56 | 2025

    Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother's safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to restore and rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.

  • Lights, Haze
    Tata Managadze

    Belgium, Finland, Georgia, Portugal | 08:04 | 2024

    Lights, Haze is a poetic documentary that explores the ambivalence of memory through the real locations on the outskirts of Tbilisi. The film uses light as a central symbolic element to express the complexity of these reflections.

  • Cannot sleep!
    Yingjie Zhou

    Japan | 02:27 | 2024

    Sleep in the same state as before. A wonderful and magical economic experiment where one's head changes and one's head falls. Finally, the appearance of the image is reduced.

  • Psychonauts
    Niko Radas

    Croatia | 08:00 | 2025

    Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.

  • Sulaimani
    Vinnie Ann Bose

    France | 20:00 | 2025

    One evening, Alia and Neena, two young Indian women, each come to dinner at Sulaimani, an Indian restaurant in Paris. The meal brings back sometimes buried emotions for them and “releases” certain memories which little by little reveal to us why they left their country.