13. MISTER VORKY – SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS 9413

1. A Report about Phantoms : Mr.Y’s Pastime

Author: Yujin Iwai
Producer: Yujin Iwai
Japan, 3:20, 2025.

Abandoned apartments are home to supernatural beings. Mr. Y, with his taste for the macabre, peeks into their lives.

2. Happy Holidays, Olga

Director: Sara Radusinović
Script: Sara Radusinović
Cast: Slađana Zrnić, Jasna Diklić, Ervin Palfi
Production: Kvaka 22
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 21:07, 2026.

As the city celebrates the holidays, a woman who has devoted her life to others seeks a sense of self-worth, but after a humiliating encounter with a stranger, she realizes she has no one to return to except her ailing mother.

3. Cosmonauts

Director: Leo Černic
Script: Leo Černic
Production: Finta film, Staragara
Slovenia, Italy, 14:10, 2026.

On an intergalactic cruise for singles, lonely souls chase a kiss, a caress, or just a glimpse of love among the stars.

4. Grandpa’s Fur

Director: Teodor Stoilov, Nellie Rajala
Script: Teodor Stoilov, Nellie Rajala
Cast: Stefan Petrov, Marin Yanev, Yordan Rusin
Production: Warsaw Film School
Bulgaria, Poland, 19:38, 2026.

In a Bulgarian village, six-year-old Gabo watches his grandfather’s consciousness fade. His innocent belief in the tradition of Kukeri drifts into a haunting darkness.

5. Cats

Director: Danilo Stanimirović
Script: Danilo Stanimirović, Irena Parezanović
Cast: Sergej Totić, Jovana Stević
Production: FMK

Serbia, Switzerland, 10:00, 2025.

When eight-year-old Miša finds an abandoned kitten in the street, he tries to provoke the affection his parents are not providing.

6. Disturbia

Director: Mira Yankova
Script: Mira Yankova
Animator: Mira Yankova
Bulgaria, 6:23, 2025.

Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.

7.Grapes

Director: Jovana Lazin
Script: Jovana Lazin

Cast: Boško Puletić, Bojan Žirović
Production: FDU
Serbia, 10:30, 2025.

The short film “Grapes” presents the problems of a family dealing with aging of one of its members, and shows how different generations cope with life and change.

8. Hold

Director: Chen-Wei Chang, Jen-Chieh Lee, Qi-Chen Xie 
Script: Chen-Wei Chang
Animator: Chen-Wei Chang, Jen-Chieh Lee, Qi-Chen Xie

Production: Southern-Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Taiwan, 2:28, 2026.

After growing up, there are many identities and different problems to face, but the self still remains in childhood. This film records the first time of facing a complex and collapsing self after growing up.

9. SOLITUDE SHIFT

Director: Igor M. Toholj
Script: Igor M. Toholj

Editor: Duško Stanivuk
Production: Zero produkcija
Serbia, 9:45, 2025.

Personal experimental film essay depicting director’s sense of temporary eremition. Visual and auditive melange of reminiscences connected to the sights and locations in half of a century long time framing.

10.  Overnight Coup

Director: Marina Xenofontos
Script: Marina Xenofontos

Cast: Lily Waldvogel, Marina Hadjipieri, Ifigenia Karagiorgi, Nefeli Psara
Cyprus, 16:16, 2025.

A fragmented biography through the gaze of geography and memory. Following a group of girls’ journey from Limassol to Ayia Napa, this short film tracks the motions of an average night out, while simultaneously navigating the more obscure undercurrents of the landscapes and locations they inhabit

11. The World Spins

Author: Filip Marojević
Production: AFC DKSG
Serbia, 2:07, 2026.

A memory, a wink, a turn, a trap. A child’s play.

12. On Conductor Street

Director: Gintė Regina
Script: Gintė Regina

Cast: Gintare Parulyte, Valerijus Jevsejevas
Production: Artišokai
Lithuania, 14:59, 2026.

A woman returns to old Vilnius in search of her grandmother’s house, to find a city that is rapidly erasing the past in favour of the future. She wanders the changing streets and bumps into colourful local characters — but as night falls, reaching her goal becomes increasingly difficult. The film is a poetic meditation on constant movement and a longing to belong.

13. Before you gone

Director: Xie ChIa-Ping
Script: Xie ChIa-Ping
Animator: Xie ChIa-Ping, Lin Xiao-Ting
Production: Tainan National University of the Arts

Taiwan, 8:16, 2026.

Today, It’s a year after you gone, I sit in front of you and telling you about the past of our family , as well as my deepest longing and regrets for you. Emotions weave between memory and reality, leaving behind what was never spoken.

14. Casabianca

Director: Vladislav Knežević
Editor: Vladislav Knežević, Mario Kalogjera
Production: Kino klub Zagreb
Croatia, 8:52, 2026.

The poem Casabianca from 1826., depicting the death of a boy sailor on a French warship, is a paradigmatic vision of war casualty. Although striving to appear as being based on reason, the argument is inherently irrational and analogous to the essence of machine logic that, through the data overload visualizes a hallucination as the final consequence.

15. Embers

Director: Yi-Chen Cheng, Chan-Kai Lin
Script: Yi-Chen Cheng
Animator: Yi-Chen Cheng, Chan-Kai Lin, Yu-En Shi
Production: Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Taiwan, 6:28, 2026.

In a frozen, snow-covered apocalypse town, Aser accidentally encounters the only surviving small snowfire beast and begins a escape…

16. Little House

Director: Nika Jurman
Script: Nika Jurman

Cast: Lea Cverle, Milivoj Miki Roš, Vesna Poznič
Production: Vertigo
Slovenia, 16:13, 2026.

Manicurist Tatjana (35) lives above her parents’ home, just like everyone else in the village. But when a friend who has just built her dream house drops by for a manicure, Tatjana decides it’s time to create a home and a life of her own.

17. Sandia

Author: Mélissa Faivre
France, Germany, 7:52, 2025.

Sandia is an exploration of the multiple facets of the Sandia mountain range located in New Mexico. It reveals the mountain’s cold and hostile peaks and slopes in contrast to the warm and arid desert at its base. Aesthetically, the digital image is altered and mystified by techniques reappropriated from the tradition of experimental films, such as frame by frame printing, painting, collage and scratching.

18. Who Owns Fire?

Author: Peter Whittenberger
USA, 2:40, 2026.

Who Owns Fire? is an animated poetry film that explores the evolving equilibrium of finite resources between artificial intelligence and the fundamental needs of organic life. 

19. Step By Step Toward Home

Director: Evrim İnci
Script: Elif Feyza De

Cast: Mehrac Ismayilov
Producer: Berker Bülbüloğlu
Azerbaijan, 26:00, 2026.

Although Karabakh returned to Azerbaijan’s control after the most recent war, the hundreds of thousands of landmines left behind continue to prolong the consequences of the conflict. More than 500,000 mines planted by Armenian forces during their withdrawal remain one of the greatest obstacles to restoring normal life in the region. This documentary focuses on the difficult struggle of Mehrach Ismayilov, who has worked in mine clearance operations for years, and portrays the process of clearing mined lands, the risks involved, and the extraordinary efforts made to make the territory safe again after the war.