Movies 17. FKA
International Competition Authors Spotlight – Block III
Total duration of the block: 90 min.
All films are screened in their original language with English subtitles.

There is no jungle
Director: Marcjanna Urbańska
Poland, 2026, 11 min. 5 s..
In the grey, rainy city lives a monkey, trapped in the hell of procrastination. Every attempt at creative work ends in an escape into his own imagination, into a world full of colors and adventures, and every return to reality is increasingly overwhelming and gray. The monkey must face itself in order to find a space to live between worlds.
Lodz Film School, Fumi Studio
An animation shown at: ETER Anima Festival (2026)

The Echoes
Director: Joanna Fuczko
Poland, 2025, 4 min. 2 s.
A short story about loss and memory, inspired by the forced resettlement of the Lemko community from the Carpathian Mountains. Created independently, the animation combines different techniques, including traditional charcoal drawing. It is a short, moving story about the Lemko experience and lost identity.
An animation shown at: ETER Anima Festival (2026)

The Nest
Director: Jakub Baniak
Poland, 2026, 10 min. 10 s.
When a man ignores an unsettling presence in his home, the space he once controlled begins to shift, fall apart, and slowly consume everything in its path.
Animoon
An animation shown at: Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy (2026)

A short film about war
Director: Nadim Suleiman
Poland, 2026, 25 min.
Fahed, a young directing student who fled to Poland from his war-torn homeland, is confronted with his past on the set of a WWII film, where fact and fiction blur.
Lodz Film School
A short film shown at: FPFF Gdynia (2026), Koszaliński Festiwal Debiutów Filmowych MŁODZI I FILM (2026), Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy (2026)

Frankie the rabbit’s final preparations
Director: Marianna Mrozek
Poland, 2025, 3 min. 10 s.
The eccentric rabbit Frankie had planned it for a long time. The rope, the height of the chair, the load-bearing capacity of the ceiling hook. Finally, the day came and he hung, exactly as he planned.
Lodz Film School
An animation shown at: Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy (2026), Festiwal Filmu i Sztuki DWA BRZEGI w Kazimierzu Dolnym (2026)

Spiritus Sanctus
Director: Michał Toczek
Poland, 2026, 15 min.
June 1999. Bogdan has to buy alcohol for his wife’s 50th birthday but the timing couldn’t be worse – the Pope’s visit brings about a city-wide prohibition. A simple shopping jaunt quickly turns into a metaphysical odyssey filled with with absurd events, curious meetings, and bizarre obstacles. With every step, it becomes less clear whether what he is searching for is still vodka or something much more profound.
Studio Munka
A short film shown at: Cannes Film Festival (2026), FPFF Gdyni (2026), Koszaliński Festiwal Debiutów Filmowych MŁODZI I FILM (2026), Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy (2026), TAURON Nowe Horyzonty (2026)

Feel no fear with me
Director: Monika Klimkiewicz-Dudziec
Poland, 2025, 17 min. 56s.
Polish-Belarusian border. Podlasie. 12-year-old Ola, daughter of a gambling-addict border guard, is forced by her father to smuggle cigarettes in the border forests. One day, instead of cigarettes, Ola picks up a refugee.
Warsaw Film School








