STUDENT FICTION / STILL LIFE

A young lifeguard is challenged to a race by Saja, an aging swimmer he tried to save who wants to prove that his glory days are not yet over.

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.

Bara collects lifelike baby-dolls to fill the void left by her absentee son. When her prized doll vanishes, she is pushed into a surreal search that blurs reality and fantasy.

The 1990s: In the chaos following the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, two friends set out to rebuild their lives—by smuggling German cars into the wreckage of post-Soviet Russia.

In a weathered house among dense rows of trees, an elderly couple spends their days in peace. The approaching storm signals the presence of a young man whose arrival they have been expecting.

Exhausted, Yasmin (28) struggles through her shift as a paramedic. She fights her way through the day, juggling critical emergency calls and the pressure of supporting her family alone. When she's forced to secretly take her little sister along in the ambulance, she's on the verge of losing control on the way to a cardiac arrest.