How to deal as young adults with what we inherit from our society? Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel are portraitists of their time. Their latest, quite extreme 3D opus The Exploding Girl is the diary of lonely Candice.  Her body is a colourful mess of textures that has been exploding every day for the past three months. Several times a day sometimes, her record is at seven.

In Marinthia Gutiérrez’s genre-bending She Stays, a girl is accepted to a dance master’s programme abroad. When she goes out with her friends, she notices various girls that are carefully watching her wherever she goes. Distracted and anxious, she is constantly annoyed until she visits a coven of vampire dancers. She Stays is a beautiful love letter to dance and horror.

An ageing director commentates on a porno he directed fifty years ago, reminiscing on his relationship with the lead actor. Evoking the fantastical eroticism and unapologetic camp of James Bidgood’s queer classic Pink Narcissus, British auteur Peter Strickland packs kitsch B-movie erotics with intense emotion into a saucy, shimmering short—a potent merger of desire and memory!

Takotsubo or broken-heart syndrome, is an acute and often serious dysfunction of the heart muscle that usually arises from extraordinary emotional or physical stress. In this witty animated film, Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed so as to free himself from complicated emotions. After the removal, he holds on to his heart for a while longer, in the hope of understanding it better someday.

In 1971, a family living in the town of Hexham was plagued by a series of paranormal events. After bringing home a pair of small stone heads, the family became terrorised by the ghostly sounds and images these objects exerted. Hexham Heads adopts an impressionistic approach to this folk tale. Belgian filmmaking duo Chloë Delanghe and Mattijs Driesen defy the impossibility of capturing ghosts by immersing us in a psycho-geographical journey through infinite doors, windows and passages.