The International Competition presents a diverse range of short films from various locations and genres. This category embodies our festival's desire to explore new and innovative approaches to filmmaking.
🎤 Films are screened in their original language, with Ukrainian and English subtitles.
💬 Screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the film crews.
❗ These films may contain potentially triggering or disturbing elements, such as,
🔞 Recommended Age:16+
Other screening of the program: September 6, 20:00, ZHOVTEN | ANSHLAG
FOUR WALLS OF MEMORY
Director: Joanna Płatek
Country: Poland
Duration: 12
A story about a girl who wanted to escape her own fear, but accidentally traps herself together with it in a small cabin in the woods. Locked inside four walls, with no way out, she has to deal with hunger, cold and the fear of something that once wanted to hurt her... but now lies dead beside her.
THE MAN WHO COULDN'T REMAIN SILENT
Director: Nebojša Slijepčević
Country: Croatia
Duration: 13
February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of five hundred passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.
VOX HUMANA
Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Country: Philippines
Duration: 22
In the aftermath of an earthquake, the police find a man in the woods. A zoologist, a sound recorder, and a news team grapple with the truth that he may be the cause of all the natural disasters that devastated this small mountain town.
IN RETROSPECT
Director: Mila Zhlutenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Country: Germany
Duration: 14
Immigrant workers build a shopping mall for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
In 2016 nine people with migrant backgrounds are killed in a racist attack at this same mall.
„Why such hatred?“
asks a woman in a Sohrab Shahid Saless’ film „Addressee Unknown“, shot in the 1980s.
DOG AND WOLF
Director: Terézia Halamová
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 20
Rudo is a 25-year-old stripper who has chosen to embrace a life of perpetual partying and sleep deprivation. As he navigates through the chaotic nightlife fueled by drugs and dance, memories of his ex-girlfriend Misha haunt him, reminding him of broken promises and lost connections.