December 9, 2025
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS (21st Edition)
Fiction
1. Chop Chop! (d. Ievgen Koshyn) - 13 min, United Kingdom, 2025
2. A Film by Roland Wehap (d. Roland Wehap) - 29 min, Austria, 2025
3. Black Shawl (d. Kamila Boichenko) - 27 min, Poland, 2025
4. We Took Your Mum (d. Evgeniy Viharev) - 18 min, Russia, 2025
5. A Life in the Shadows (d. Nanna Isabella Hjorslev) - 13 min, Denmark, 2025
6. Citizen of the world (d. Vasily Gronskiy) - 18 min, Germany, 2025
7. Ruins (d. Vagelis Karampasoglou, Alexandros Saoulidis) - 40 min, Greece, 2025
8. Lev Berger (d. Jan Fabris) - 25 min, Slovenia, 2025
9. Voiceless (d. Thomas Schubert) - 20 min, United Kingdom, 2025
10. Nimble like a fish (d. Adrian Ciubotaru) - 6 min, Romania, 2025
11. Emmanuel (d. JA Williams) - 37 min, United States, 2025
12. Veloutex (d. Théo Nourdin) - 25 min, France, 2025
13. FRECKLES (d. Nevena Nikolova) - 17 min, Bulgaria, 2025
14. IF (d. Charlie Painter) - 7 min, United Kingdom, 2025
15. A warm night (d. Andreea Ștefănescu) - 12 min, Romania, 2025
16. The Mulberry Tree (d. Cornelia Schöpf, Federico Campana) - 19 min, Italy, 2024
Animation
1. 2:30 (d. Sophie Caswell) - 5 min, United States, 2025
2. The nail (d. Dóra László) - 5 min, Hungary, 2025
3. Bachelor pad (d. Matilda Ogilvy) - 3 min, United Kingdom, 2025
4. How We Hamsters Die (d. Phoebe Burdick) - 6 min, United States, 2025
5. Journey from the Forest of Eels (d. Karl Doran, Winston Tsang) - 3 min, United Kingdom, 2025
6. Ai and Aiko’s Christmas -Genki’s True Tree- (d. Takuma Aomatsu) - 14 min, Japan, 2023
7. Puppy Brand Breakfast (d. Aimili Alifu, Ziyue Zhang) - 2 min, United Kingdom, 2025
8. The sign of Power (d. Šarlota Ema Horáčková) - 13 min, Slovakia, 2024
Documentary
1. Tidal (d. Juliane Ebner) - 12 min, Germany, 2025
2. Heat Of The Border (d. Robert Rafael dos Santos) - 20 min, Brazil, 2025
3. Swanlake (d. Stella Traub) - 6 min, Germany, 2025
4. The Shadow of the Bear - A Carpathian Quest (d. Giannakopoulos Efstathios) - 9 min, Greece, 2025
Music Video
1. Echo Hotel - The Way It Goes (d. Jeremiah Hawke) - 4 min, Australia, 2023
2. Monsters (d. Xinyi Li) - 3 min, United States, 2025
3. Oscines (d. Lesley-anne Rose) - 4 min, United Kingdom, 2025
4. Walk With Me Through The Fire - The Curse of KK Hammond (d. K.K. Hammond) - 6 min, United Kingdom, 2025
5. Goodbye / Nevesoma (d. Anastasia Bezhan) - 2 min, United States, 2025
Experimental
1. Do You Have Any Games On Your Phone? (d. Mari Valdivia) - 4 min, United States, 2025
2. The _____ Between Us (d. Maayan Reiter) - 10 min, Germany, 2025
3. The Nightingale and the Rose (d. María Paula Ríos) - 5 min, Mexico, 2025
4. Tangled Wool (d. Ausrine Kurgonaite) - 5 min, Lithuania, 20254
5. Now That I've Lost My Buffalo I Don't Know Who to Grind (d. Allie Trigoso, Diane Christiansen, Jessie Mott) - 5 min, United States, 2025
Screenplay (written)
(not enough contenders)