Director: Ann Tsintsadze
Screenplay: Ann Tsintsadze
Production: Ann Tsintsadze
Director of photography: Felix Schwab
Cast: Michaela Behal, Linda Berthold
Akademie: SAE Institute

She lives in a forest with her mother, cut off and isolated, and is not allowed to have any contact with the outside world. Yet she meets her first love. Will she manage to break free?

• DE
• EN

Director: Karolína Hlavičková
Screenplay: Karolína Hlavičková, Matěj Hrudička
Production: Tomas Bata University in Zlín
Cast: Miroslav Krobot
Director of photography: Ivana Dzhanovská
Protagonist*innen: Miroslav Krobot, Hana Doulová Krobotová, Barbora Mottlová, Norbert Žid, Braňo Polák, Gustav Řezníček, Veronika Bellová, Barbora Otáhalová, Marek Flutka, Alena Makayová, Milana Gorská, Marian Škorvaga, Jimmy Bo, Barbora Humlová, Veronika Krajčová, Jana Šindelářová
Akademie: FMC TBU Zlín

Miroslav is hosting a hunting party at his luxury resort. Although things aren’t going quite as he’d like, the guests are having a good time — surrounded by preserved animals. They drink, eat, and dance. Until the moment that takes everyone by surprise.

• CZ
• EN

Director: Polina Prokofeva
Screenplay: Polina Prokofeva
Production: André Devime, Polina Prokofeva, Johannes Beese
Director of photography: Johannes Beese
Cast: Irma Rerikh, Mariia Amelenkova
Animation: Sofi Shapir
Editing: Hanna Stuhlmann
Akademie: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Drawing on letters from women serving long prison sentences in Russia for political reasons, this production combines 2D animation with theater to powerfully and unflinchingly reveal the reality of the abuse of power, pain, and oppression they have endured.

• RU
• EN

Director: Anastázie Rainischová
Screenplay: Anastázie Rainischová
Production: Michaela Režová
Animation: Anastázie Rainischová

Just getting away for a while and not being reachable all the time. No information, no noise, no images. But don’t we always get pulled back into it? A continuous back-and-forth between the sensory overload of everyday life and an island of silence and carefreeness.

• ohne Dialoge / without dialogues / bez dialogów /

Director: Maximilian Nita
Screenplay: Maximilian Nita
Director of photography: Lena Katharina Krause
Production: Maximilian Nita / Saba Mehdizadeh
Editing: Sören Denecke
Production design: Clara Eigeldinger
Cast: Linus Scherz, Joachim Schönfeld

Shortly before an important tennis tournament, Leo runs into his former coach, who abused him years ago. He has been struggling with mental health issues ever since. The encounter causes him to lose his footing, oscillating between the tennis court and the arcade.

• DE
• EN

Director: Yauheni Lytkin
Screenplay: Yauheni Lytkin
Production: Dzianis Ivanou
Director of photography: Valik 
Editing: Mikhail Vasilevich
Cast: Aleh Harbuz, Sviatlana Zeliankouskaya, Aliaksei Burnasenka

In an unusual classroom, a teacher announces an exam in which there are no right answers. Nevertheless, the requirement is clear: all participants must achieve a perfect score.

• RU
• EN