For the unique 2x25 project, the Film Fest Gent asked 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made a short film. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture. "Passing Time" began with Uruguayan composer Florencia Di Concilio's music and was completed with Terence Davies' reading of his own poem about his late sister, delivered over a single serene shot of the countryside near his home in Essex.

In an ancient agricultural house, silence crushes the soul of an untamed eighteen year-old, Chiara.

Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting signs in her grandmother: Alzheimer’s is slowing her down. A new film begins, a tougher one: the story of a couple that must face a tremendous challenge. Struggling against the tide of oblivion, the task of filmmaking becomes the ultimate act of resistance. Trying to retain the last images of her grandparents, an intimate conversation begins and echoes through the songs that play on the radio, conjuring lost stories and memories.

Alan is 10 and he’s celebrating Christmas with his family

Lydia, Lorenzo and Augustine work at Minerva, a space station in Earth orbit. The station is the most important part of a defense system that helps to maintain world peace. One day, the three get a new directive: World War. Disagreements arise and the key question becomes: what is our individual responsibility?

After being told that her husband Greg Davis, a Vietnam veteran and photographer, died unexpectedly in 2003 from defoliant during the Vietnam War, Director Sakata began to travel to Vietnam to learn what had happened to him. There, she witnessed children born with severe disabilities due to the effects of Agent Orange, even 30 years after the war, and the families who nurtured and cared for them. Although Vietnam has achieved remarkable economic development since then, the victims and their families have been left behind. The film depicts these people, the doctors who continue their support activities, and the former journalists who filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government and the company that produced the defoliant, as they continue to face the scars of the war.

It is the dream of the Persian avant-garde composer Nader Mashayekhi to bring modern classical music to his country Iran. His dream becomes reality when he is asked to conduct the Teheran Symphony Orchestra.

A correlation of moments filmed throughout 2022.

Pete's first ever DVD, 'Passing Time', is a 100-minute long testament to one of most promising singer/songwriters to emerge in local music in recent times and jam-packed with all the features you could want from a music DVD: a 60-minute, five-camera live recording of Pete's recent show at The Metro Theatre in Sydney; intimate, in-studio footage of the making of the album 'Feeler'; on the road footage of Pete and the band from the 'Feel' tour and Pete's three video clips for 'Feeler', 'Lines' and 'So Beautiful'.

A young woman and young man meet during the early morning on the beach. Their love begins and continues through the years. Place and time hold special meaning in their hearts.

Made during the COVID-19 lockdown. A film reflecting each passing day.

Madbouly works at Al-Basha mansion with his wife and two sons. Al-Basha has a playboy son named Mohsen who commits a murder and asks his father to find someone to take the fall instead of him. He negotiates with Madbouly to go to prison instead of Mohsen in exchange for money . Madbouly agrees and events escalate.

"As Time Passes, Love and Sorrow Will ..." - A woman give birth to a illegitimate child, she leaves her husband and disappear completely. The husband hire a nanny to foster the child. The nanny and the child become very close.

Stuck in his past, an old man enters an emotional delirium while trying to go back in time.

What can we do when art fails? Or when film fails art? Time Passes is Ane Hjort Guttu’s response to such questions. Inspired by Peter Watkins’ Edward Munch, the result is a brilliantly incisive film about not only the artistic process but also time, power and the possibility of living a life of dignity.

Short animated film

A family separated by affective conflicts and lost in the world by the illusion of multiplying money, is reencontrase through the body of the matriarch who is prepared for the burial. This reunion is the opportunity to settle accounts with the past and recall a happy time that has passed.

Set in the Shanghai Shores at the beginning of the 20th century, where warlords begin to seize their powers; many heroes emerge, and revolutionary movements begin to rise. Making use of their wealth, the influential Rong family often abused their powers to commit various heinous crimes. In order to uphold justice, Feng Shizhen decide to embark on the road of revenge. She successfully sneaked into the Rong family, and became a tutor of the young master Rong Jiashang. However, in the midst of testing and making use of each other, Feng Shizhen slowly finds herself falling for the enemy's son. When the truth of the injustice and grievances that happened twenty years ago begin to surface, the two lovers who were initially in two different camps work together to brave through numerous hurdles, and ultimately reveal the shocking truth.