Class Photo

Director: Arnas Balčiūnas
Lithuania, 2025, 17 min. 12 s.

While revisiting his now-abandoned school, Ignas runs into a former classmate. As they wander through corridors filled with conflicting memories, they try to capture what will soon be gone.

National Film School KIMO, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater

A short film shown at: MFF Cannes 2026 (Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes), Anonimul International Independent Film Festival (2026)

Furia

Director: Fran Moreno Blanco, Santi Pujol Amat
Spain, 2025, 18 min. 42 s.

Eric lives in a juvenile center. He tries to rebuild his relationship with his mother so he can live with her again when he turns 18. When she doesn’t show up to visit him, he runs away to go to her house. There, he discovers she has a new family and that she has moved on with her life without him.

ESCAC Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya
A short film shown at: Żubroffka (2025) Palm Springs ShortFest (2025), Huesca International Film Festival (2025)

Visiting Time

Director: Sebastian Szewczykowski
Poland, 2025, 15 min.

Ula wants to see her deceased son. Together with Dorothy, his girlfriend, she deceives the receptionist to get into the morgue after hours. Their plan falls apart when Julia, a morgue employee, catches Ula standing over the body of her late son. Ula explains that her son can still become a father with a simple procedure. Julia hesitates, but helps, confessing she lost her own son, who was killed in Donetsk. Does the deceased’s body still belong to him, or to those who love him?

Gdynia Film School
A short film shown at: Koszaliński Festiwal Debiutów Filmowych MŁODZI I FILM (2026)

Cosmogonia

Director: Karolina Chabier
Poland, 2025, 15 min. 36 s.

In the beginning, there was darkness, and nothing existed except for a few sparks from a small lamp hanging at the bow of the boat. In the boundless night, the Great One appears – a goddess in the form of a bison. From the depths of the water, the Great One pulls out the Little One – a goddess resembling a goat. A friendship forms between them, and with it, life springs up all around. As the world evolves, both goddesses are consumed by their own creative power.

Animoon

Summer of smooth asphalt

Director: Maria Dakszewicz
Poland, 2025, 6 min. 25.

An amusement park comes to a halt with a short circuit. A toy-radio abandoned in a trash bin exposes the park community’s secrets long drowned out by the clamor. Is a power outage the only way out of a crisis of excess?

Lodz Film School
An animation shown at: Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy (2026), TAURON Nowe Horyzonty (2026)

Oh Shineth!

Director: Paweł Modzelewski
Poland, 2025, 10 min. 32 s.

– “What is a human being?” – this is the question the film’s narrator, who is the director’s alter ego, asks God. “O vv– ‘What is a human being?’—this is the question posed to God by the film’s narrator, who is the author’s alter ego. “O Light!” is an animated story in the form of a prayer of thanksgiving about the search for oneself, for truth, and for the lost meaning of life, as well as the experience of love and salvation.

Studio Munka
An animation shown at: Bengaluru International Short Film Festival

This Is Your Captain Speaking

Director: Nienke Deutz, Digna Van Der Put
Belgium, Netherlands, 2026, 14 min. 15

If you could fly for one day, what would you do? A group of neighbours answers this question and we follow their flight. Along the way, we get to know the characters and it becomes clear this fantasy has a different meaning for everyone.

Miyu Distribution
An animation shown at: International Film Festival Rotterdam (2026)