A / 04
01 / Body
Closer
than skin
4 films / 52 minutes
Short-film festival
27 films · 3 screens · 1 weekend
Season 01 / 2026
≤ 17 minutes
SHORT / SHARP / ALIVE00:17:00●
SHORT / SHARP / ALIVE00:17:00●
SHORT / SHARP / ALIVE00:17:00●
SHORT / SHARP / ALIVE00:17:00●
01 / Manifesto
Time is part of the form
Longer —
does not mean
more.
≤17 brings together films that do not try to become features. The time limit works like an edit: it leaves only what the film needs.
Three programmes loop throughout the weekend. Come for one block or build your own route — no registration, voting or red carpet.
01
17
02 / Signal
Three states of the screen
Before light.
During.
After.
Closer
B / 05
02 / Gaze
What
remains
5 films / 64 minutes
C / 06
03 / Mechanics
Between
frames
6 films / 71 minutes
Sound begins before the image
and ends after it.
03 / Programme
Saturday / 19 September
Build
your route.
Add blocks to your day. The site totals the running time — nothing is submitted and no registration is required.
12:00
Screen 01 / 52 min
Body of the City
4 films about scale and movement
14:10
Screen 03 / 64 min
Quiet Hour
5 films with almost no dialogue
16:30
Screen 02 / 49 min
After the Light
4 films about the memory of images
19:00
Screen 01 / 71 min
Closer to the Edge
6 films about the choice not to retreat
Your route
0 blocks
0 minutes
04 / Rules
Fewer conditions / more cinema
≤17:00
-
01
No longer
End credits are included in the seventeen minutes.
-
02
No recency rule
The year does not matter. The film's precision does.
-
03
No genre rule
Fiction, documentary, animation and everything between.
05 / Venue
Elektrozavod / Moscow
Three screens.
One ticket.
No ceremony.
18—20 September
21 Elektrozavodskaya Street
Courtyard entrance no. 3