Before her breakout feature How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker explored the struggle to express painful truths in a culture of dismissive silence. As enlightening as it is immersive, this powerful short confirms that the British filmmaker is one of the nation’s most exciting new talents.

Entirely comprised of surveillance videos, Joële Walinga’s mold-breaking documentary emphasizes the omnipresence of cameras in modern life. Though produced under unnatural conditions, the found footage, which moves with the rhythm of seasonal changes, also paints an arresting portrait of humanity.

Set to the percussive sound of a John Cage composition, Daniel Warth’s transfixing film focuses on an artist at work on an intricate figurine. Giving gorgeous (and comic!) form to ideas of masquerade, this spellbinding short gestures to whole worlds of feminist thought in just eighteen minutes.