Because Today is Saturday/ Porque hoje é Sábado, dir. Alice Eça Guimarães, Portugal 2025, 12’24’’
It's Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and her need to escape.
Wish You Were Ear, dir. Mirjana Balogh, Hungary 2025, 10’14’’
In a world, where after each break-up, ex-partners must exchange a chosen body part, Wish You Were Ear follows a fragmented protagonist who, upon seeing their lost ear, embarks on a journey of self-acceptance.
I died in Irpin, dir. Anastasiia Falileieva, Slovakia, Ukraine 2024, 11’29’’
24 February 2022 my boyfriend and I fled from Kyiv to Irpin. We spent 10 days in blockaded city and managed to escape with the last evacuation convoy. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.
Tennis, Oranges, dir. Sean Pecknold, USA 2024, 10’53’’
A robotic vacuum suffering from burnout quits its job at a hospital and sets out to find community and a greater purpose on a quiet street where two lonely rabbits are stuck in perpetual loops.
Can you hear me?/ Czy Ty mnie słyszysz?, dir. Anastazja Naumenko, Poland 2025, 15’
Nastia’s Zoom lessons on using a laptop for her mom are disrupted by unstable internet-and resurfacing family traumas.
The Sycamore, dir. Jared D. Wess, USA 2025, 3’35’’
Two weary travellers seek out shade and sustenance from an idle tree. Based on the fable, "The Travellers and the Plane Tree" by Aesop.
Brown Morning/ Matin Brun, dir. Carlo Vogele, France, Luxembourg 2025, 9’02’’
From small compromises to great acts of cowardice, brown animals gradually invade households and take control. An authoritarian regime with absurd laws begins to take shape. To avoid trouble, Charly submits to the rules of this colorless world and comes to discover, at his own expense, the horror of fascism.
