SECTION: Short Film Competition

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Quirky humour meets shocking strokes of fate. A man speaks out against ethnic cleansing and a father-son duo struggle for the future of Kosovo. Breakdowns open up unexpected perspectives - whether in an electric car or on the way back from a failed romantic vacation. A Roma influencer gallops through the lockdown, mirrors are banned in a dystopian future and an unlikely couple searches for fire-breathing dragons. In this year's Short Film Competition, worlds turned upside down send us on a roller-coaster of emotions.

The filmmakers participating in the Short Film Competition have a chance to win the main prize and a special prize (to the director).

The jury awards the following prizes in the Short Film Competition:

Main prize 2,500 EUR

donated by Druckzone, Cottbus.

Special prize (to the director)

1.500 EUR donated by Tiede +

In addition to the prize money there is also the prize sculpture LUBINA (Sorbian: the lovely). Here you can see a video of the creation of the LUBINA.

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE FIGHT

PRAVAISTINA

Andrea Slaviček
HR/ES / 2023 / 14 min

Tragic-comic film about the challenges of puberty, in which hysteria and indifference are always right next to each other.

THE GHOSTS YOU DRAW ON MY BACK

DUHOVI NA MOJIM LEĐIMA

Nikola Stojanović
RS/EE / 2023 / 14 min

Fruit juice on your lips, scabs on your skin, the sound of big machines in your ear and a hand digging into warm sand. An atmospherically dense puzzle about grief and the non-chronological timeliness of memory.

LIVE

NA ŻYWO

Mara Tamkovich
PL / 2023 / 13 min

While state authorities are violently going against the protesters on the streets of Minsk, two journalists are reporting live from the kitchen of a private apartment. But time seems to be working against them.

AS IT WAS

Anastasia Solonevych, Damian Kocur
PL/UA / 2023 / 15 min

After an argument with her boyfriend a young woman is driving home. There she plays the piano, celebrates, walks through the sunrise. Everything seems normal, but nothing is normal because her home is Kyiv. A tender film about trying to live an ...

1991

Linas Žiūra
LT / 2023 / 12 min

Lithuania 1991: Laconically, border guards are carrying out their duties. But it only seems calm, tension is in the air. The Lithuanian border guards are subjected to constant harassment from Russian soldiers and no one knows whether the verbal ...

PRISHTINA, 2002

PRISHTINË, 2022

Trëndelina Halili
XK / 2022 / 19 min

Prishtina in the summer of 2002. Leti and Dona are in the middle of puberty. They eat ice cream, daydream, talk about boys – sometimes the truth and sometimes a more imagined version of it. And all of this, while the crumbling concrete around them ...

NIGHT STOP

Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
FI / 2022 / 13 min

After an accident with his bike, a deaf teenager is stranded on a country road. Mysterious figures are walking around there and dusk is slowly setting in. Twin Peaks horror in the Finnish province.

IT‘S ALL RIGHT

Anton Zhuk
BY / 2022 / 15 min

A farm in the provinces of Belarus. Equipped with a homemade weapon, a boy rehearses warrior poses. Will he kill the majestic domestic pig? Intense thriller that is about nothing less than the roots of violence. 

CHILD´S PLAY

LAPSEMÄNG

Silver Õun
EE / 2023 / 13 min

Two boys are chopping wood – what could go wrong? Precisely observed, underlined with subtle sarcasm, this film tells the story of how two families deal with responsibility and guilt.

BOY

DJEČAK

Hrvoje Mabić
HR / 2023 / 15 min

A storm sweeps across the country, lightning streaks through the sky. In the house, the dead eyes of hunting trophies stare into space, while a boy seeks refuge in the barn next door. A dark fairy tale about exclusion and racism.

SELF

Konrad Kultys
PL / 2023 / 19 min

A young girl is being discharged from hospital – her face without any expressions, holding a newborn baby. While the family is still pretending that everything is normal, unease is already creeping into the pictures and with it the question: Can ...

PERCEPTION

POČITKY

Lukáš Mach
CZ / 2023 / 16 min

In this playfully melancholic film about saying goodbye, you can feel the scratchy fabric of the sofa, breathe in the dust of the books and sniff the scent of cherry blossoms. A cinematic meditation on the sensuality of loneliness.