Kurzfilm
International Short Film Competition
6 short films • 70min • DCP
DCP • Austrian premiere
14.03.2026, 18:30 Leokino Talk with film guests (EN)
DIAMETRALE Short Film Competition 2026
The most beautiful, most surprising and weirdest submissions from all around the world (6 out of 800+). The jury will honour the most impressiv film with The Golden Frame + price money of 1.500 EUR donated by Land Tirol.
For the third time there is an online audience voting and you can award the Audience Prize sponsored by the Nonseum + price money of 500 EUR donated by Stadt Innsbruck.
• Prelude: Best-of Kürzestfilm Festspiele Wien 2024 (3min)
The Musical Spider
Selder Henry Moore • SE 2024 • 11min • seOF+enUT • DCP
Plattenberg lives with his wife and their deformed kid, Lillen, who is only a living head. Mrs Plattenberg is constantly playing piano to a dancing spider. Drunk one night, Plattenberg kills the spider, sending his wife into a catatonic state. But secretly, Runt is plotting his revenge.
Marla Harms LIVE!
Anna Macleod • US 2025 • 5min • ND • DCP
Set in a dark, brooding city, Marla Harms performs for an impossible show. Ushered by an eccentric M.C. She can’t escape her fate, as she inevitably faces her fears head on.
A Good Day
Tiago Rosa-Rosso • PT 2025 • 18min • ptOF+enUT • DCP
António wakes up to find an exact replica of himself floating lifeless in the pool. With no possible explanation, he and his family try to cope with the confusion, distrust, and an overwhelming sense of grief that settles among them. Amidst the absurdity and conflict, life goes on, unperturbed, as if not much has changed.
Fresh Values
Drew Durepos, Isaac Brooks • US 2025 • 12min • enOF+enUT • DCP
In the near future, a struggling urban food co-op adopts AR technology to save their store. The strategy proves too successful.
Häppchen
Nelly Schmidtlein • DE 2025 • 11min • ND • DCP
A young girl wants to go to a party, but three enormous stalks are growing out of her forehead.
Vapeurs
Anne Katz • DE 2023 • 10min • deOF+enUT • DCP
A student plagued by an mysterious illness encounters gynecologists in candy-colored practice rooms who disinterestedly dismiss her pain, but soon come to regret it.
