Official selection

Anxiety started consuming the muscles of my trapezius. I gradually stopped being able to swallow without thinking, because swallowing became forced. Amidst some exams to rule out bigger issues, or issues of a different, more tangible nature, one of the first hypotheses gained strength: finally, anxiety began to eat away at my body. Pássaro Azul is both a letter to my ancestors and a quest to understand what torments me and causes such acute anxiety – and how all these seemingly unrelated pieces can intertwine.

Little Anna dreams of growing up and becoming part of the adult world. But when her mother and father begin to argue, she doesn’t just grow up magically fast—she even ages prematurely…

A boundary-blurring journey through the subconscious, this surrealist animation fuses two distinct artistic visions into a single fever dream. Matej Longauer’s hallucinatory time-lapse visions with Richard Dömös’s intimate, portrait-driven iconography drawn from the aesthetics of BDSM. The result is a hypnotic, confrontational exploration of desire and disintegration- psychosexual dreamscape.

A tiny bird restores the pianist's final hope by revealing the music hidden in everyday moments.

After forty years, Milutin and Mica returned to the school where they began their teaching careers. The dilapidated walls and dim shadows inside the school awakened memories of pupils from the distant past, as well as a way of education that seemed to have disappeared forever.

It's Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and her need to escape.