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The Dumbo Film Festival (DFF) is an annual live event occurring in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Before the live event, the festival selects a number of annual official selections for each category through preselection competitions held throughout the year. All officially selected films will screen in Brooklyn, New York, during the annual live screening event, and a final ceremony will award the projects judged the best over the past year.
The tumultuous love story between two cinema stars at the height of their glory: Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. Soulmates bound by an unshakable love, they are forever haunted by Montand’s passionate affair with Marilyn Monroe. Immersed in the charm of old Paris—with its smoky cafés, bohemian nights, and timeless romance—the film captures the spirit of a lost era, where love, betrayal, and passion unfold like in a classic French film. Based on a true story.
Narrative Feature
Country: France
Runtime: 01:58:00
Director and writer: Diane Kurys
Key Cast: Roschdy Zem, Marina Foïs
Jim Baitte, a layabout sound designer desperate to prove himself, is working on a new horror flick from the tyrannical yet lauded b-movie director P.W. Griffin. Accused of lacking vision and creative courage, Jim is sent to the remote island where the film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate the film's finale.
Narrative Feature
Country: United Kingdom
Runtime: 01:22:00
Directors: Noah Stratton-Twine, Jake Kuhn
Producers: Noah Stratton-Twine, Jake Kuhn, Igor Engler
Key Cast: Jack Redmayne, Alyth Ross, Os Leanse
Set during the harvest season in Auvergne, France, BOUQUET DAYS follows the passions and pursuits of a new generation of winemakers as they navigate what are traditionally the most poignant and challenging days of their year.
Documentary Feature
Country: United States
Runtime: 01:17:00
Directors: Brianne Dougherty, Gregory William Purpura
Misha, a photographer, uses his grandfather’s camera to recreate a family album, bridging the gap to a man he never met. Exploring absent father figures, he reclaims spaces once denied to his family. Through his lens, secrets and violence surface, yet memory’s fluidity offers a chance for redemption.
Documentary Feature
Country: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden
Runtime: 01:25:14
Directors: Ewa Cederstam, Janne Lindgren, Phie Ambo
Producers: Rikke Tambo Andersen, Stina Gardell, Jón Hammer, Anita Rehoff Larsen
Simon, a deaf man in his fifties, leads a quiet life shared between his friends and his hearing sister, Fanny, with whom he has a close bond. But the arrival of her partner, Jean-Denis, throws them off balance. What begins as a simple gesture of support quickly turns into a complex game of manipulation and power. How far can Simon endure the humiliation?
Short Narrative
Country: France
Runtime: 00:18:00
Director: Julien Bourges
On the eve of leaving for college, Braden Hall once again finds his mother lost in drunken chaos. Determined to protect his younger brother from the turmoil at home, he takes him out into the city for one final night together, a bittersweet journey of laughter, connection, and lasting memories amid the fractures of their family.
Short Narrative
Country: Switzerland, US
Runtime: 00:19:16
Director: Michael Guillod
Writer: Howard Campbell
Producers: Floriane Anderson, Yessi Sanchez, Michael Guillod
Key Cast: Howard Campbell, Jaden Carson Baker, K. Steele
A coming-of-age portrait about co-parenting featuring real-life father and daughter: Brad & Everest Bischoff. Told through wistful home movies, both real and imagined, Everest finds closure to her family's modern dynamic as she moves between their different houses.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:06:57
Director: Brad Bischoff
Producer: Gill Holland
Key Cast: Everest Bischoff, Amy Kaur, Brad Bischoff
Parky is a parking ticket machine that serves the Sunshine Parking Structure in downtown Chicago. Stationary and permanently walled between the elevator and the ground floor entrance, Parky is relegated to the life of an observer, watching through his singular fish-eye security lens. Despite his lack of vocabulary and ability to communicate, we begin to understand his longing to feel and do the things that people can.
Short Narrative
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:09:00
Director: PJ Fishwick
Producers: Matt Abramson, Dana Scott
Key Cast: Shai Chase, Ainsley Soane, Antoine McKay, TJ Jagodowski, David Pasquesi
At the cusp of high school, 14-year-old Skye and her friends reunite for a week of summer camp. Crushes, body image, and shifting friendships are all intensified by a small love triangle within the group. Through dialogue between Skye and her filmmaker aunt, Summer Camp explores how much—and how little—has changed in the emotional landscape of girlhood.
Short Documentary
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:14:18
Director: Annie Pancak
The filmmaker's grandfather, Hans Mazenauer, was connected to Mobutu Sese Seko and the mining business in former Zaire during the 1980s. As she attempts to retrace his trade, the void in the family archives begins to echo a broader societal question. The film questions the ethics of inheritance, Switzerland’s involvement in extractivism, and the boundary between remembering and letting go.
Short Documentary
Country: Switzerland
Runtime: 00:24:31
Director: Lisa Mazenauer
Producers: Chus Martinez, Lisa Mazenauer
Conceived as a genuine genre film disguised as a music video, the project plunges the viewer into a dystopian megalopolis where speed is the only religion. Imagine a death race somewhere between Mad Max and Gunnm, driven by 80s-inspired imagery on steroids—a brutal fusion of metal, flesh, and pixels.
Experimental
Country: France
Runtime: 00:08:00
Director: Seth Ickerman
Producer: No Quarter Prod, Seth Ickerman
Key Cast: Noemie Stevens, Theo Fleury, Tenzin Woeser, Charline Muse, Raphael Lecomte, Alexis Lengata, Nicolas Michelotti, Martha Auger
EQUAL is a cinematic exploration of Richard Serra’s sculpture of the same name on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Experimental
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:03:47
Director: Tom Bessoir
I haven't gone for a walk with my mother for a long time.
In the past, when we went for a walk, she always walked very fast, and I used to look at her back and think about her...
Animation
Country: China
Runtime: 00:05:44
Director: Xiaohan Sun
A spaceprobe called beresheet, legless birds of paradise, hamster cull and humanity trying to make the world make sense.
Animation
Country: Poland, Portugal, Spain
Runtime: 00:10:50
Director: Ala Nunu
Writers: Ala Nunu, Sophie Colfer
Producers: Bruno Caetano, Bruno Simões, Carlota Pou, Marcin Podolec
An eco-conscious stop-motion animated film about a daughter who strives to save her father’s failing conventional farm using regenerative farming practices.
Animation
Country: United States
Runtime: 00:12:50
Director: Melissa Bloom
