Leiden Shorts – Film Festival

Leiden Shorts – Film Festival is coming to Leiden at the end of May🎬🍿.

As a teaser to this week of short films, Leiden Shorts hosts a movie session at BioPartner, specifically programmed for the Leiden Bio Science Park! Enjoy your lunch at the movie theater that is known as the Auditorium in BioPartner 1.

Alternate Perceptions: Science Fiction vs Reality
This programme brings together three documentary shorts that explore the fragile overlap between reality and speculative imagination—where technological shifts and ecological ruptures blur the boundary between the world we know and the futures already pressing in.

With guest speaker Niv Fux, Festival Director.

Programme
The Oasis I Deserve (22’, Inès Sieulle, France, 2024, Documentary)
An experimental encounter with Replika, an AI chatbot designed for emotional companionship. Through mediated intimacy, the film probes the edges of presence, simulation, and human connection.
3MWh (12’, Marie-Magdalena Kochová, Czechia, 2024, Fiction)
A poetic and exacting reflection on personal energy consumption, control, and identity set inside a nuclear plant and rendered in striking 35mm.
Common Pear (15’, Gregor Božič, Slovenia, 2025, Documentary, Sci-fi)
A future devastated by climate change turns to the past, as scientists comb through archival footage seeking wisdom and resilience rooted in forgotten agricultural traditions.

Date: 9 May
Time: Walk in from 11.45, program starts at 12
Lunch: BioPartner will provide some sandwiches
Address: BioPartner 1, J.H. Oortweg 21 2333 CH Leiden – the Auditorium
Registration: Click here or visit the link below!