A Summer’s End Poem 
dir. Lam Can-Zhao

time: 15 min.
production: Chima, 2024

Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer

Good Guy
dir. Mikołaj Piszczan

time: 22 min. 19 s.
production: Poland, 2023

Mockumentary about a self-proclaimed life-coach with a cringe personality, who tries to connect with people by trying to change their lives „for the better” – but his methods leave much to be desired.

Lodz Film School

Honey Bunny
dir. Gracjana Piechula

time: 23 min. 30 s.
production: Poland, 2024

Retired firefighter Staszek shares everything with his beloved wife Alinka, except for one thing – the bedroom. Staszek finds it easier to show affection to the fluffy rabbits he raises in his backyard shed than to Alinka. When he discovers that, secretly from him, his wife has taken a job as a cuddler in a cuddling salon – Honey Bunny, he must confront not only her, but also his own sexuality and needs.

Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School

Here for You
dir. Cezary Orłowski

time: 24 min. 10 s.
production: Poland, 2024

Love, intimacy, and sexuality. These are topics that mother of Bartek, a young man with Down syndrome avoids discussing. In the somber setting of his mother’s funeral home, Bartek diligently prepares dead bodies for burial. However, when he encounters a girl who has recently arrived in his town, he embarks on a journey of first love.

Debut
Warsaw Film School

MAVERA
dir. Batuhan Ibrahim

time: 22 min. 30 s.
production: North Macedonia, 2023

After the death of her father, Biljana is tying to sell the house and help sister Vicky leave the small town for a better future. But first, she has to pass through the dysfunctional bureaucracy labyrinth, proving that her father is really dead. And the clock is ticking.

Hedgehog’s dilemma
dir. Mateusz Rybiński

time: 16 min.
production: Poland, 2023

As a new patient, the main character finds himself drawn to a long-term resident and struggles to navigate their growing connection amidst the challenges of recovery. His newfound feelings bring to light the age-old dilemma of the “hedgehog’s dilemma”, in which the desire for closeness and connection is constantly at odds with the need for self-protection and distance.

Debut
Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School

Naked Eye
dir. Helena Oborska

time: 28 min. 25 s.
production: Poland, 2023

Trying to fill her inner void, a lonely maid is spying at hotel guests. Her desires are fueled by a soap opera she is obsessed with. One day, when the star of the episode she has just seen appears at the hotel, the dreams of the emotion-starved woman start crawling out of her imagination. She is ready to do anything to fulfill her wild fantasy and make the TV romance come true.

Studio Munka

Mr Shoeman
dir Michał Łukowicz

time: 23 min. 25 s.
production: Poland, 2024

Mateusz Wróbel is a Polish teacher. A few years ago, he quit his job at school and opened a cobbler’s workshop at the old train station in Czechowice-Dziedzice. This year, Mateusz is waiting for the birth of his son, which becomes a pretext for many conversations with clients about shoes, poetry and life…

Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School

An Oragne from Jaffa
dir. Mohammed Almughanni

time: 26 min. 49 s.
production: Poland, 2023

Mohammed, a young Palestinian, is desperately looking for a taxi that will allow him to cross a checkpoint to join his mother who is waiting for him on the Israeli side to accompany her to Jaffa, near Tel Aviv. Farouk, the taxi driver, hesitates because the young man does not have a pass but only a European resident student card. Arrived at the checkpoint, Farouk discovers that Mohammed has already tried to cross another checkpoint through Qalandia without success…
The trouble begins…

Lodz Film School

The Professional Parent
dir. Erik Jasaň

time: 14 min. 30 s.
production: Slovenia, 2024

Ingrid lives in a small village in eastern Slovakia, where the Roma population is the victim of a tenacious stigma. Despite this, Ingrid decides to become the legal representative of a young Roma girl, which upsets the fragile balance of her home.

Debut

Sheep
dir. Hadi Babaeifar

time: 13 min. 15 s.
production: Iran, 2024

A little girl in Tehran, living with her mother, decides to save sheep from being sacrificed for the traditional ceremony called Eid-e-Ghorban.

Stimulants & Empathogens
dir. Mateusz Pacewicz

time: 25 min
production: Poland, 2024

Antek, a a closeted teenage gay from a rich family, invites a drug dealer – Kuba – he has a hopeless crush on – to his villa under the pretext of another drug transaction. However, he does not know that Kuba has a mission that he received from his superiors – his Father and his Brother. The dealer’s family suspects that Antek resells their mephedrone at a profit at his school, so Kuba is supposed to investigate the situation.

Debut
Wajda School

Such a Perfect Day
dir. Piotr Pluta

time: 18 min. 11 s.
production: Poland, 2024

Tomasz needs money. Today he will win it all back – his manufacture, his wife, and his son, who is turning 10 years old. Fortunately, his gambling addiction helps him win a lot of money. Today will be the day. However, trying to make his son happy may turn out to be a disaster for him.

Debut
Gdyńska Szkoła Filmowa

Dancing in the corner
dir. Jan Bujnowski

time: 13: min. 45 s.
production: Poland, 2024

After the fall of communism in 1989, colour TVs are no longer a luxury good in Poland. The screens in many Polish homes are beginning to look more like the reality outside the window. But is reality truly colourful?

Lodz Film School

Together
dir. William Wrubel

time: 11 min 32 s.
production: US, 2023

Disillusioned by the concept of monogamy, Ben and Sophie arrange to have a threesome with a mysterious mutual acquaintance. In Ben’s half-furnished Brooklyn apartment they wait impatiently for the third to arrive. However, as day turns to night, it becomes clear that this acquaintance of theirs may never show up.

Debut

ALL MY FUCKING SUPERHEROES
dir. Piotr Kabat

time 12 min.
production: Poland, 2023

A young director travels to LA to sign a contract with a Hollywood film studio. Seemingly ordinary taxi ride turns into an epic odyssey through film history, pop culture, and personal memories. The film blends the visual styles of comics and movies.

Crab Day
dir. Ross Stringer

time: 11 min.
production: United Kingdom, 2023

As part of a fishing community’s annual ritual, a young boy must kill his first crab in order to become a man and gain his father’s approval.

Four walls of memory
dir. Joanna Płatek

time: 11 min. 46 s.
production: Poland, 2024

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.

UAP Poznań

Dragfox
dir. Lisa Ott

time: 8 min. 10 s.
production: United Kingdom, 2024

Sam’s search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ.

The National Film & Television School (NFTS)

Familes’ Albums
dir. Moïa Jobin-Paré

time: 8 min.
production: Canada, 2023

Photographic images, scenes of everyday life. Connected together, a new landscape emerges.

How to be loved?
dir. Nawojka Wierzbowska

time: 10 min. 30 s.
production: Poland, 2023

The story of a Boy who really wants to be stroked by his Mommy. Unfortunately – the woman’s attention is completely focused on her beloved dog. What is Boy capable of to get Mommy’s attention?

Studio Munka

MoMo & LuLu
dir. Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi

time: 9 min.
production: Poland, 2023

In a hostile world two underwater creatures meet and fall in love. Will their love be enough to stay together?

Studio Munka

Us, the sea and the sad end
dir. Małgorzata Rybak

time: 2 min. 
production: Poland,, 2023

When you finally arrive at your favorite snorkeling spot but then suddenly everything is getting out of control. But do you know why?

Nabu
dir Joanna Rusinek

time: 5 min. 23 s.
production: Poland, 2023

Nabu lives with her brother in a little village, somewhere beyond the seas. One day the village comes under attack and burns to the ground. The children lose sight of one another in the commotion. The following day Nabu embarks on a journey, clutching her brother’s toy monkey close to her heart, full of hope to find him. Her uneasy journey is interrupted by some soldiers guarding invisible borders. Against all odds, she finds herself on a boat among other refugees, but the tiny girl is soon swept overboard by a giant wave. Nabu floats on the surface, slowly embraced by darkness. On the shore, not one sunbather notices that a tiny toy monkey has been washed up by the waves.

Void Spaces
dir. Marta Koch

times: 13 min 42 s.
production: Poland, 2024

During a therapy session, traumatic memories return in expressive and evocative images. Order slowly emerges from chaos. Thanks to the new perspective, it is easier for the heroine to find a language to describe difficult experiences.

Animoon Studio, Lodz Film School

Ready
dir. Eirini Vianelli

time: 10 min 50 s.
production: Greece, 2023

Employees in the Greek Parliament deal with boredom and antagonistic co-workers. They navigate their existential anxiety through the common areas of their historic office building, burdening them with its inescapable, rich history. Power games make tensions rise, causing them to break out in song. Music will make them earnest, understanding and will (hopefully) set them free before it’s too late.

Duck Broth
dir. Maria Dakszewicz

time: 4 min. 41 s.
production: Poland, 2024

Exhausted from the night’s adventures, a man takes a bath and enters into dialogue with a rubber duck. Together, they roam through the events of the previous evening, in a hunger infused exploration of the urban eateries.

Lodz Film School

Swifts
dir. Ada Napiorkowski

times: 5 min. 1 s.
poduction: Estonia, 2024

Like each year, the swifts are coming back to their homes in the sleeping districts. This time they don’t find any humans. The space is filled with spirits.

Estonian Academy of Arts

The Waiting
dir. Volker Schlecht

time: 15 min. 
production: Germany, 2023

Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.

Potatoes
dir. Marcin Podolec

time: 4 min 3 s.
production: Poland, 2023

A trembling line tells a story of family relationships. Sometimes, it’s worth letting go, both: for yourself and for others.