Mini FiSahara
Filante
France | 2024 | 9’
Director: Marion Jamault
Every night, Paulette observes the same shooting star in the sky. She makes her deepest wish : to find her mysteriously missing pet rat. The days go by, but the animal doesn’t return. Paulette wants to understand what’s wrong with her star.
Hoofs on skates
Lithuania | 2024 | 12’
Director: Ignas Meilūnas
In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a mysterious and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. The creatures of the lake need help so it is time to learn how to talk to a stranger, not letting the fear and preconceptions rule.
Forever
France | 2024 | 6’
Directors: Théo Djekou, Pierre Ferrari, Cyrine Jouini, Pauline Philippart, Anissa Terrier
While golfers play on the other side of the fence, peaceful garden gnomes find themselves attacked by stray golf balls.
Go Fishboy
France | 2022 | 6’
Directors: Denise Cirone, Sebastian Doringer, Andrey Kolesov, Chia-Yu Liu, Zhen Tian, Lan Zhou
A respected chef from a lineage of sushi makers attempts to connect with his son through the shared knowledge of the family trade. Tensions arise as he begins to notice a strange pattern of behavior in the young boy.
Thaba Ye
France | 2022 | 7’
Directors: Batueva, Preetam Dhar, Merel Hamers, Hannah Judd, Mogau Kekana, Leroy Le Roux
Under the shadow of a mysterious Mountain in a remote part of South Africa, where legends of the local Bapedi people say that those who go there never come back, Thato has to face her fears in order to save her sick brother.
Gauze
France | 2025 | 7’
Directors: Noran Fikri Alezabi, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, Xiaonan Zhou
14-year-old Zain, a Palestinian swimming champion, faces war and man-made famine. He becomes the sole caregiver to his little brother. When aid drops into the sea, desperate for food, Zain is forced to swim—not for passion, but for survival.
My Brother, My Brother
England, France, Germany | 2025 | 15’
Directors: Abdelrahman & Saad Dnewar
The complexities of a past shared by two identical twins: Omar and Wesam. A split narrative retells the two sides of their memories – from the instant they were fused together in their mother’s womb to the moment they are parted by the tragic death of one of them.
Pallasos en Rebeldía Pallasos en Rebeldía is a project that brings together artists from different countries so they can share their hopes and dreams with those affected by military conflicts and by systemic acts of injustice, through a combination of laughter, clowning, and circus performance art. For yet another year, the clowns are coming to FiSahara to make the Sahrawi boys and girls laugh their heads off. They will march in the parades and visit Ausserd’s many dairas to bring the kids some laughter. They will build a circus on the desert sands.
