SELECTED FILMS FOR 22ND IN THE PALACE ISFF

SELECTED FILMS FOR 22ND IN THE PALACE ISFF

SELECTED FILMS FOR 22ND IN THE PALACE ISFF

 

$100 (A HUNDRED DOLLARS BILL) (dir. Momchil Karamitev / Bulgaria / 2024)

12 ASTERISCI (dir. Telemach Wiesinger / Germany / 2024)

5-CENT AMERICAN FLAG (dir. Vito A. Rowlands / USA / 2024)

74 (dir. Charalambos Margaritis / Cyprus / 2024)

A BIRD FLEW (dir. Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz / Cuba / 2024)

A FRIEND OF DOROTHY (dir. Lee Knight / UK / 2025)

A GREAT DAY (dir. Georgi Yovchev / Bulgaria 2024)

A LIFE OF WRESTLING (dir. Gabriel Murisier / Switzerland / 2024)

A PIECE OF MEAT (dir. Péter Goretic / Hungary / 2023)

A PLEASURE (dir. Sonia Estevez / Spain / 2024)

A SHORT TRIP (dir. Erenik Beqiri / Albania / 2023)

A TAREA (dir. Alfonso O'Donnell / Spain / 2025)

Á TOI LES OREILLES (dir. Alexandre Isabelle / Canada / 2024)

ALMA’S CONDITION (dir. Sara Naves / Portugal/Spain / 2024)

AMEN (dir. Orphee Coutier, Bettina Demarty, Kimie Maingonnat, Laurene Perego, Louise Poulain, Avril Zunder / France / 2024)

ANEMOS (dir. Vera Munzi, Caterina Savadori / Italy / 2024)

ANGEL (dir. Margarita Ruseva / Bulgaria / 2023)

ANGELA (dir. Brendan Cleaves / UK / 2024)

ANOTHER MANIAC (dir. Nikola Koparov / Bulgaria / 2025)

AS I WAS A TREE (dir. Jalal Maghout / Germany  / 2024)

AWAITING THE LIGHTNING BOLT (dir. Marco Russo / Italy / 2024)

AZKENA (dir. Ane Inés Landeta, Lorea Lyons / Spain / 2024)

BABY BLUES (dir. Sophie Lynch, Alannah McQuaid / Ireland / 2024)

BALCONADA (dir. Iva Tokmakchieva / Bulgaria/France / 2025)

BALLAD OF FERRIS THE SELF-APPOINTED KNIGHT AND SMOKIE THE FIRE BREATHING DRAGON (dir. Penko Gelev / Bulgaria / 2024)

BALLOONS (dir. Jakub Michnikowski / Poland / 2025)

BARK (dir. Branislav Milatovic / Montenegro / 2025)

BEYOND THE SEA (dir. Jona Schloßer / Germany / 2023)

BEYOND THESE WALLS (dir. Christine Seow / UK / 2024)

BIKEMANIAC (dir. Arturo Artal Lozano, Juan Carrascal Ynigo / Spain / 2024)

BIRDY MAN (dir. Anni Zhang, Yutong Qiu / USA / 2024)

BIRTH CONTROLLED (dir. Isa Fraga-Abaza / USA / 2024)

BLOODLINE (dir. Wojciech Węglarz / Poland / 2024)

BLOODSPORT (dir. Kate Brooke / UK / 2024)

BOYAN AND PETRA (dir. Alexander Milchev / Bulgaria / 2024)

BRAIDED (dir. Chenxi Zhang / USA / 2023)

BREAKS (dir. Christina Yianni / UK / 2024)

BRIGHT SUMMER DAYS (dir. Nevena Desivojevic / Serbia / 2024)

CANNED (dir. Hasse Van Overbeke / Belgium / 2024)

CARIES (dir. Aline Höchli / Switzerland / 2025)

CAT & MOUSE (dir. Peter Chiviyski / Bulgaria / 2024)

CATLANDS (dir. Ana Cigon / Slovenia / Croatia / 2024)

CATS (dir. Danilo Stanimirović / Serbia / 2024)

CATS HAVE NO ROOTS (dir. Anthoniy Hristov / Bulgaria / 2024)

CHANGING ROOMS (dir. Violette Gitton / France / 2024)

CHASING ROO (dir. Skye Fitzgerald / USA / 2024)

CHASING WHALES (dir. La Fille Renne / France / 2025)

CHIQUITA PICONERA (dir. Mey Montero / Spain / 2024)

CHOICE (dir. Marko Crnogorski / North Macedonia / 2025)

CONNECTED (dir. Simeon Sokerov / Bulgaria / 2024)

DAGON (dir. Paolo Gaudio / Italy / 2024)

DARK ROOM (dir. Julian Rachev / Bulgaria / 2024)

DAWN (dir. YuFang Chang, Matthieu Dejoux, Maxime Forestier, Lucas Jonckheere, Noah Mercier, Marie Pradeilles, Apolline Royer, Lorys Stora / France / 2024)

DEAD RED KITE (dir. Finn Morgan-Roberts / UK / 2023)

DEAR YOU, (dir. Tanya Bozhinova / Bulgaria / 2024)

DOG AND WOLF (dir. Terézia Halamová / Czech Republic / 2024)

DREAM CAR WASH (dir. Edoardo Brighenti / UK / 2024)

EARTH COAL (dir. Bastien Dupriez / France / 2024)

EDGES (dir. Júlia Faria, Giulia Levy / Spain / 2024)

EL CANON (dir.  Martín Seeger / Chile / 2024)

ELEMENTAL (dir. Marie Gayeski / USA / 2024)

ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (dir. Micha Muhl / Germany / 2024)

ELLA, EL AGUA (dir. Miguel Angel San Joaquin / Argentina / 2024)

ENTROPIC MEMORY (dir. Nicolas Brault / Canada / 2024)

ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG (dir. Lili Koss / Bulgaria / 2024)

ERIN'S SLEEP (dir. Edwin Hasler, Mayla Valdés Santos / UK / 2024)

EVERY LINE BECOMES A CIRCLE (dir. Lynnette Luis, Christopher Leete, Ottilie Maters / Germany / 2024)

FATHER'S LETTERS (dir. Alexey Evstigneev / France / 2024)

FEFERLE (dir. Alica Khaet / Germany / 2024)

FEVER DREAM JANTIEN (JAN10) (dir. Maros Pulscak / Estonia / 2024)

FINAL WHISTLE (dir. Lotti Bauer / Switzerland / 2024)

FISHBOWL WORLD (dir. Marco Antonio Toledo Oval / Spain / 2023)

FLIP (dir. Ivailo Boliarov / Bulgaria / 2023)

FLOW OF BEING (dir. Helen Unt / Estonia / Bulgaria / 2024)

FREERIDE IN C (dir. Edmunds Jansons / Latvia / 2024)

FURROW (dir. Nayden Nikolov / Bulgaria / 2024)

GEKAS (dir. Dimitris Moutsiakas / Greece / 2024)

GILBERT (dir. Arturo Lacal, Alex Salu, Jordi Jiménez / Spain / 2024)

GLORIA (dir. Anton Tammi / Finland / 2024)

GOD'S WORK (dir. Maria Ivanova / Bulgaria / 2024)

GRANNY MUST DIE (dir. Yi-Jung Chen / Taiwan / 2024)

HAMLOUL (dir.  Hajar Abdeaziz / United Arab Emirates / 2024)

HARVEST OF LIGHT (dir. Esin Özalp Öztürk / Turkey / 2024)

HISTORY OF HUMANITY, SUMMARIZED. (FOR KIDS) (dir. Stefano Bertelli / Italy / 2024)

HOLDING ON (dir. Emma Croft / UK / 2024)

HOLY HEAVÊNESS (dir. Farnoosh Abedi Renani, Negah Khezre Fardyardad / Iran / 2025)

HUMANA CORPUS (dir. Coraline Zorea / France / 2024)

I WAS BUSY DREAMING ABOUT BOYS (dir. Katharina Sporrer / Germany / 2023)

ICARUS, COME (dir. Ziya Lemin / Belgium / 2024)

ICE BREATH (dir. Leonard Alecu / Romania / 2024)

IF I FLOAT (dir. Bogdan Alecsandru / Romania / 2024)

IL BURATTINO E LA BALENA (dir. Roberto Catani / Italy / 2024)

IMMERSIVE (dir. Rohan Thomas / Norway / 2024)

IN HER SHOES (dir. Gergana Dyankova / Estonia / 2024)

INSIDE, THE VALLEY SINGS (dir. Nathan Fagan / Ireland / 2024)

INTERMISSION (dir. Milo Bonnard / UK / 2024)

IT AIN'T WHERE YOU FROM (dir. Philip Jamal Rachid / United Arab Emirates / 2023)

J'AIME PAS PERDRE (dir. Matthieu Perret / France / 2024)

JAR OF TIME (dir. Nevena Semova / Bulgaria / 2025)

JOKO (dir. Izabela Plucińska / Czech Republic/Germany/Poland / 2024)

JOUR DE VENT (dir. Martin Chailloux, Ai Kim Crespin, Elise Golfouse, Chloe Lab, Huga Taillez, Camille Truding       / France / 2024)

JUNGLE LAW (dir. Madli Lääne / Estonia / 2024)

JUST KIDS (dir. Alessandro Riconda / UK / 2024)

KOKA (dir. Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk / Poland / 2024)

LARVAL (dir. Alice Bloomfield / UK / 2025)

LENA AND VLADIMIR (dir. Igor Aleksov / North Macedonia / 2023)

LESSON LEARNED (dir. Bálint Szimler / Hungary / 2024)

LEVANTER (dir.  Vanina Kondova / Bulgaria / 2024)

LEVITATION (dir. Zhang Xiquan / France / 2024)

LITTLE ATTILA (dir. Gregorio Mattiocco / Italy / 2024)

LITTLE VICTORIES (dir. Rafaël Beauchamp / Canada / 2024)

LONG UNFORGOTTEN (dir. Hristo Petkov / Bulgaria / 2024)

LOSING TOUCH (dir. Charlie Black / Germany/UK / 2024)

LOVE IN THE TIME OF INFLATION (dir. Zuzanna Zofia Heller / Poland / 2024)

LUZ DIABLA (dir. Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza / Argentina / 2024 )

LYNX (dir. Stefan Voyvodov / Bulgaria / 2024)

MACHINE BOYS (dir. Karimah Ashasu / Germany / 2024)

MADWOMEN IN THE ATTIC (dir. Tamara García Iglesias / Spain / 2024)

MAJINI (dir. Joshua Neubert, Victor Muhagachi / Germany / 2024)

MANMADE (dir. Plum Stupple-Harris / UK / 2023)

MANUAL OF HAPPINESS (dir. Lora Markova / Bulgaria / 2024)

MAPUTO (dir. Lucas Birolli Abrahão / Brazil / 2024)

MARION (dir. Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine / UK / 2024)

MASKS (dir. Amina Krami / Germany / 2024)

MATER BENEFACTA (dir. Marc Riba, Anna Solanas / Spain / 2024)

METAMORPHOSIS (dir. Tommaso Mazzarini, Vesselin Nedelchev / Bulgaria / 2024)

MONA LISA (dir. Jan Daniel / Czech Republic / 2024)

MORAL SUPPORT (dir. Vuk Jevremovic / Germany / 2024)

MORNING SHADOWS (dir. Rita Cruchinho Neves / Portugal / 2023)

MOTHER'S CHILD (dir. Naomi Noir / Netherlands / 2024)

MY MOTHER IS A COW (dir. Moara Passoni / Brazil / 2024)

NEBBIA (dir. Tommaso Diaceri / Italy / 2024)

NEXT IN LINE (dir. Seyma Dag / UK / 2023)

NO ROOM (dir. Jelena Oroz / Croatia / 2024)

OCTOPUS BANANA HOTCHPOTCH (dir. Milanka Fabjancic / Slovenia / 2024)

ON HOLD (dir. Delia Hess / Switzerland / 2024)

ON THE WAY (dir. Samir Karahoda / Kosovo / 2024)

ONE METER IS SIX CENTIMETERS (dir. Juš Jeraj, Atila Urbančič / Slovenia / 2024)

OPLÀ (dir. Giulia Camba / Italy / 2025)

OS CAÇADORES (dir. David Pinheiro Vicente / Portugal / 2024)

P (dir. Stelios Koupetoris / Greece / 2024)

PALMENTO (dir. Christopher L Barnes / UK / 2024)

PARADISO (dir. Ivan Dimitrov / Spain / 2024)

PEAR GARDEN (dir. Shadab Shayegan / Germany / 2024)

PIRULETAS (dir. Carlos Martínez Pérez / Spain / 2024)

PIZZA FLASH (dir. Luca Guanci / Italy / 2024)

PLACEKEEPERS (dir. Robert B Hope / USA / 2024)

POTTER'S MIRROR (dir. Katherine O'Connor / UK / 2024)

PREDATOR (dir. Javier Fesser / Spain / 2024)

PREMISE (dir. Ambra Garlaschelli, Roberto Grasso / Italy / 2024 )

PUNTER (dir. Jason Adam Maselle / USA / 2024)

PUT ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET (dir. Zeljko Vukicevic / UK / 2024)

RAGAMUFFIN (dir. Kaitlyn Mikayla / USA / 2024)

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY (dir. Ronan Mackenzie / UK / 2024)

RED (dir. Sophie Horry / France / 2024)

RED APRIL (dir. Boris Vesselinov / USA / 2024)

REMASTERED BRUTALITY (dir.  Alinur Bagci / Turkey / 2024)

ROOT NOTE (dir. Guy Larsen / UK / 2023)

ROUGE (dir. Jason Boussioux / France / 2024)

SATURN (dir. Eric Esau / USA / 2023)

SAUNA DAY (dir. Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash / Estonia / 2024)

SAVING SUPERMAN (dir. Adam Oppenheim, Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian, Julie Spiller / USA / 2024)

SAY WUFF! (dir. Fabian Podeszwa / Germany / 2024)

SHIFTING TIDES (dir. Yoan Petrov / Bulgaria / 2024)

SILENT STABLE (dir. Nathan Coen / France / 2024)

SIX (dir. Leoni Xerovasila / Greece / 2024)

SLAVIC COWBOY (dir. Iyanah Firdaus Bativala / Czech Republic / 2024)

SNOW BEAR (dir. Aaron Blaise / USA / 2024)

SPOT (dir. Sara Alavanić / Croatia / 2024)

STEPMOTHER (dir. Negar Naghavi / France / 2023)

STRAIGHT TO THE BOTTOM (dir. Christian Varbanovski / Czech Republic / 2024)

STRANGERS (dir. Alexandra Maydavska  / Bulgaria / 2024)

SUBLIME (dir. Marie Heribel, Candice Yernaux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent, Lucas Foutrier / France / 2024)

SUGAR CUBE (dir. Aleksandar Suvandzhiev / Bulgaria / 2024)

SWANLAKE (dir. Stella Traub / Germany / 2024)

THAT'S HOW I LOVE YOU (dir. Mário Macedo /  Croatia / 2024)

THE BEST TIME OF YOUR LIFE (dir. Danae Grannetia / Netherlands / 2023)

THE BIRDS (dir. Pedro Magano / Portugal / 2024)

THE BLUE FARAWAY (dir. Sofia Spotti / UK / 2023)

THE BOY WHO CHEATED DEATH (dir. Pipou Phuong Nguyen / France/Vietnam / 2024)

THE DAY SHE WILL BE BORN (dir. Emil Spahiyski / Bulgaria/Romania / 2025)

THE EGGREGORES' THEORY (dir. Andrea Gatopoulos / Italy / 2024)

THE EXECUTIONER (dir. Delyan Ivaylov Mihaylov / Bulgaria / 2024)

THE FISHERMAN (dir. Peter Raijekov / Bulgaria / 2024)

THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS (dir. Simone Spampinato / Italy / 2024)

THE GHOST (dir. Jakub Gomółka / Poland / 2024)

THE HAUNTED HOUSE HOTEL (dir. Moe Acharki / Bulgaria / 2024)

THE HOLD (dir. JD Donnelly / UK / 2024)

THE HORSE TAIL (dir. Justyna Łuczaj – Salej / Poland / 2023)

THE HUMAN VOICE (dir. Iphigenie Worbes, Andreas Schröder / Germany / 2024)

THE KEEP (dir. Federico Conti / Italy / 2024)

THE KITCHEN (dir. Valér Futej / Czech Republic / 2024)

THE LAST OF THE HAND WEAVERS (dir. Simon Barr / Ireland / 2024)

THE LOST WHITE (dir. Laura Pizzato / Italy / 2024)

THE MAKING OF US (dir. Gavin Stewart / UK / 2024)

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (dir. Rune Callewaert / Belgium / 2024)

THE MOLECULE OF HAPPINESS (dir. Martin Studnický / Czech Republic / 2024)

THE MUSHROOM MAN (dir. Petros Niamonitakis / Greece / 2024)

THE NEXT TIME (dir. Julian Lona / Spain / Argentina / 2024)

THE NIGHTMARE OF THE RUNNING ONES (dir. Ivan Kashlakov / Bulgaria / 2023)

THE PEARL COMB (dir. Ali Cook / UK / 2024)

THE RIVER (dir. Elise Levy / France / 2024)

THE SARDINE ROASTER (dir. Adrián Ordóñez / Spain / 2024)

THE SEA IN BETWEEN (dir. Lun Sevnik / Czech Republic / 2024)

THE SINGERS (dir. Sam Davis / USA / 2025)

THE SONG OF THE SHEEP (dir. Jules Marcel, Anaïs Castro de Angel, Juliette Bigo, Evan Lambert, Alex Le Ruyet, Jeanne Bigo, Anaïs Ledoux / France / 2024)

THE STREETS KNOW MY NAME (dir. Eghoghon Sarah Ifidon / UK / 2024)

THE SUNSET TIME (dir.  Ognjen Petković / Serbia / 2025 )

THE THREE SISTERS (dir. Timur Kognov / Cyprus / 2024)

THE TRAP (dir. Vitalii Havura / Poland / 2024)

THE WEED'S GARDENER (dir. Assia Kovanova / Bulgaria / 2025)

THE WOLF (dir. Naama Heiman / Germany / 2024)

THE WOLF (dir. Theodore Ushev / Canada / 2024)

THE WORLD SHOULD PERISH (dir. Péter Hajmási / Hungary / 2025)

THIS IS OURS (dir. Simon London / UK / 2023)

THREE BIRDS (dir. Zarja Menart / Slovenia / Croatia / 2024)

THREE KEENINGS (dir. Oliver McGoldrick / UK / 2024)

TIDY HOUSE (dir. Douglas Dezzani / UK / 2024)

TORN (dir. Simone Hart, Jón H. Geirfinnsson / Austria / 2024)

TOUGH MOVES (dir. Jakob Michal / Germany / 2024)

TRASH (dir. Alexey Kozhuharov / Bulgaria / 2024)

TRASH (dir. Gregory Bouzid, Maxime Crançon, Robin Delaporte , Mattéo Durand, Romain Fleischer, Alexis Le Ral, Margaux Lutz, Fanny Vecchie / France / 2024)

TRAUGOTT (dir. Dirk Schäfer / Turkey / 2024)

TWO OF US (dir. Simona Evstatieva / Bulgaria / 2024)

ULTRAPOLICE (dir. Thibault Fauconnet / France / 2023)

UNDER THE SHADY OAK (dir. Hossein Allahyari / Iran / 2024)

UNDERGROUND (dir. Yiannis Christoforou / Greece / 2024)

UNHINGED (dir. Zoe Brennan-Whitmore / Ireland / 2023)

VOID SPACES (dir. Marta Koch / Poland / 2024)

WEIGHT (dir. Dale Leadon-Bolger / Ireland / 2024)

WHAT STAYS AFTER (dir. Dimitris Georgiev / Bulgaria / 2025)

WHEN IT COMES (IT WILL HAVE YOUR EYES) (dir. Izibene Oñederra / Spain / 2024)

WHERE BLUE MEETS RED (dir. Tamás Patrovits / Hungary / 2024)

WHERE TIME STOOD STILL (dir.  Nino Benashvili / Georgia / 2024)

WHO IS PROF. CHIRKOV? (dir. Elma Neykova / Bulgaria / 2024)

WHY DID YOU COME BACK EVERY SUMMER (dir. Juli Suàrez / Spain / 2024)

WHY DID YOU LEAVE THE HORSE ALONE? (dir.  Faouzi Bensaïdi / France / 2024)

WHY DON'T YOU TOUCH ME? (dir. Eliška Oz / Czech Republic / 2025)

WILD ANIMAL (dir. Tianyun Lyu / USA / 2024)

WORKERS' WINGS (dir.  Ilir Hasanaj / Kosovo / 2024)

YOU`RE STRONG! (dir. Daniel Ahmakov / Bulgaria/Germany / 2024)

ZANGE (dir. Iris Baglanea / Greece / 2024)