Central-Mart

Director: Alicja Błaszczyńska
Poland, 2025, 11 min. 47 s

Six egoists and one store. Central-Mart is a dark comedy telling a story of few individuals who through their malice and ruthlessness fall into spiral of absurd events. Their lives entwine and create a web of grotesque occurences, mosty because of their egoism, slyness and ignorance. Regardless if they’re too picky, too cunning or too self-absorbed, every action pushes them towards an inevitable catastrophy.

Fumi Studio
An animation shown at: ETER Anima Festival (2026)

Fanatic

Director: Mateusz Jarmulski
Poland, 2025, 9 min.

What happens when a hero blindly pursues his goal, consumed by brutal rivalry? This is a ruthless play on fantasy conventions, where an existential crisis of masculinity proves more dangerous than dungeon monsters. A story of people so deeply attached to their roles that they fail to notice the coming end of the world.

An animation shown at: Koszaliński Festiwal Debiutów Filmowych MŁODZI I FILM (2026), Animator (2026), Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy (2026)

Frozen Lands

Director: Thomas Schira, Takeiki Flon

Belgium, 2026, 28 min.

In hopes to get his friend Tak out of a deep depression, Tom takes him to work in the far north. He clumsily tries to take him on an adventure that will bring him back to life. But as they make their way, night falls, rain pours down, and the polar ground crumbles. Blending fiction and documentary, the directors bring their own experiences to the screen. The film creates a space for healing and explores the power of friendship.

RUBIS productions
A short film shown at: Doclisboa (international premiere, 2026), Brussels Short Film Festival (2026)

The Garden

Director: Carolina Charadán, Miguel Machado
Canada, Cuba, Mexico, 2025, 12 min. 1 s.

A dreamlike oil-on-glass short where Juana Borrero, 19th-century Cuban painter-poet, wanders a tropical Eden guided by a Blue Rabbit and facing a wounded Velociraptor-an evocative meditation on memory, transformation, and the blurred lines between art and dream.

Pentacle Productions

Visit into irradiated land

Director: Anne-Sophie Girault
France, 2026, 18 min. 51 s.

Sophie guides visitors through the exclusion zone around the Golfech nuclear plant in southern France. Years after the disaster, she outfits tourists in protective suits and leads gyropod tours across irradiated land where decontamination teams still work.

Pentacle Productions
An animation shown at: MFF Cannes 2026 (Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes)

Bad ideas

Director: Jan Bujnowski
Poland, 2025, 110 min.

Is there any connection between sunglasses, high school friends and diminutive names? And could it have something to do with sombrero hats?

A short film shown at: Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy (2025), FPFF Gdynia (2026), Koszaliński Festiwal Debiutów Filmowych MŁODZI I FILM (2026), Octopus Festiwal (2026), Palm Springs International ShortFest (2026), Drama International Short Film Festival (2026), Festival du Nouveau Cinema (2025).

Sad Men Are Hard to Look At

Director: Paulina Michta
Poland, 2026, 29 min. 29 s.

After the suicide of her younger brother Maks, 31-year-old Wanda returns home to collect the recordings he left her. The CDs reveal his life through his own eyes – and hints of a buried family secret. Her emotionally distant father, Ernest, hovers over her every step, uneasy with her growing determination to understand what happened. Guided by the footage, Wanda reconnects with Michał, a childhood neighbor whose older brother vanished years ago – a mystery the village never solved. Following the clues Maks left behind, Wanda is drawn into a web of guilt, silence, and long-buried secrets that refuse to stay hidden, pushing her toward a truth she may not be ready to face.

Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School
A short film shown at: FPFF Gdynia (2026)