Official selection

Charcoal animation reveals the fear of home through the eyes of a little boy who has to be constantly on alert and ready to escape.

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 flickering diary of time, memory, and erosion, «Things Many Eyes Have Seen» unfolds over a month on an island. Hand-processed in salty seawater, its 16mm images dissolve and transform. The landscape flashes by in broken frames of light and shadow, as if the world itself was stuttering between memory and motion. A meditation on seeing and being seen, the film lingers like a fading dream, where observer and landscape blur into one.

In the midst of an existential crisis, Y. ostracizes himself to live the rest of his days in solitude, locked in an underground bunker with a system designed to euthanize him at a random time. Both dead and alive, his fragile peace is shattered by a series of apparitions - symbols of the very things that make us human in the first place.

Blending raw documentary realism with surreal, stylised dreamscapes, visual activist film MADE IN X follows a young immigrant navigating life on the margins of a society that sees her as a label before a person. From workplace microaggressions to housing discrimination, her daily struggles are interwoven with poetic sequences where traditional garments, textures, and memories become tools of resistance and an escape. As fashion transforms into a language of identity and protest, the film explores how origin defines worth - not only for fashion items, but for people as well.

Héron wants nothing more than to be seen for her hard work and her perfectionism. However, just before a big performance, her long-time dance partner is suddenly replaced: Héron now finds herself with a new dancer – Celeste – by her side. Celeste is the exact opposite of Héron: inexperienced, free-spirited, and completely undisciplined. In her attempt to defend her position in the ensemble, Héron is increasingly confronted with her own limits – and with the question of how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice for the choreography.