I believe in cinema as a world of possibilities — the one which makes you look up to all that heavens allows (most of the time), to quote the title of a Douglas Sirk film. And short films allow much more possibilities, more styles of filmmaking, more types of characters, more everything. I think this selection shows it: if there’s a thread, all the films pulled ideas floating around in this new decade — what I call the Roaming Twenties. So you have superheroes (Naked by Kirill Khachaturov), the end of the world (August Sky by Jasmin Tenucci), distant relationships and family gaps which feel like abysses (A Whole Heart by Eliya Melamed & Mamma by Aslak Danbolt) or non-communication in a supposedly connected world (The Right Words by Adrian Moyse Dullin). So many ways to see the world, to reconsider it in a humorous way (Amerigo and the New World by Laurent Crouzeix), to be caught as a glimpse behind the smoke breathen by capitalism and exploitation (Carbón by Davide Tisato). And sometimes, this world stares back into our eyes (The Golden Buttons by Alexey Evstigneev)… I was moved, I was intrigued, I looked up at these directors!