Marko Kostić, art director of the Festival and selector of one-minute films (film director and critic, Belgrade).
An Isolation
director: Gordana Smudja, Serbia, 2020, Documentary film
Can isolation change our nature?
Wondermiss
director: Ružica Nikolić, Serbia, 2026, Animated film
Through frame-by-frame animation, the film Wondermiss highlights the ordinary things we usually ignore. In a world stripped of meaning, a single moment can make everything significant, reminding us through live meetings that we are responsible for the miracle of life. Ultimately, we choose where to direct our attention.
I don’t know what I could intelligently say about this day
director: Zoran Ilić, Serbia, 2026, Experimental film
Through a reduced visual language, the artist explores the limits of language, memory, and personal experience. The split image and subtle changes within the frame create a space for contemplating identity, time, and the impossibility of fully expressing everyday experience.
Miki and Bubi – Boomy Bonbons
director: Mihailo Ilić, Serbia, 2026, Animated film
Miki and Bubi, for the first time, in a bombastic rival adventure.
Cannes Carpet Catharsis
director: Ana Trkulja, Germany, Serbia, 2025, Experimental film
After the Cannes spotlight fades, a solitary cleaner methodically vacuums the iconic red carpet. Slow-motion imagery merges with eerie plasma-wave recordings from NASA’s Juno probe, transforming routine maintenance into a cosmic meditation on fame, labor, and stardust.
CTRL+Z Stuck in the Edit
director: Srdjan Mitrović Hitch,Serbia, 2026, Experimental film
In film theory, the director is God. But for Bob, that hierarchy collapses with a single keystroke. While eating a piece of cake, he realizes his reality is controlled by an invisible Editor. Trapped in a digital purgatory of violent jump cuts and forced rewinds, Bob experiences ultimate existential horror, proving that in the digital age, the only true God has their finger on CTRL+Z.
We Are Hissing
director: Miloš Stojanović, Serbia, 2026, Experimental film
A tense prisoner is traversing the allowed space back and forth, while thinking or hearing voices. In an attempt to shave he finds out that there are two or three sides to the mirror.
Hunting the Talason
director: Miloš P. Ignjatović, Serbia, 2026, Experimental film
Talasons are a type of spirit that attach themselves exclusively to buildings, and never to the people living in them.
Blue
director: Darko Trajanović, Serbia, 2026, Experimental film
The video work “Blue” uses color as a direct means of expression, bypassing narrative to communicate emotion through visual suggestiveness. Blue symbolizes everything from introspection to vastness, serving as a medium for viewers to explore their own inner landscapes.
The Paris MBA
director: Robert David Duncan, Canada, 2024, Animated film
Comically ill-suited to MBA school life, foreign student and aspiring writer Dave ends up in a struggle for his soul as the creative and practical sides of himself battle it out in the literary streets of Paris.
Coltwife
director: Andrii Makarchenko, Ukraine, 2025, Fiction film
He kept her in a cage the whole time, and this is what came of it. She spent her last minute before her arrest just like that.
Defiance
director: Alkistis Voulgari, Greece, 2024, Experimental film
Extra short poetry film based on the poem “Defiance” by Maḥmūd Darwīsh
Trump’s Folly
director: Chris Furby, Ujedinjeno United Kingdom, 2025,Animated film
Too much oil…
The southernmost tip of Italy
director: Francesco Capuano, Italy, 2023, Experimental film
An experimental short film exploring the sea’s beauty and power through its bond with Sicily’s extreme point, Isola delle Correnti. Personified through serene yet engaging sights and sounds, the sea becomes the protagonist. In under a minute, the island symbolizes an audiovisual connection between nature, man, and the divine
Key
director: Anne Ciecko, United States, 2025, Animated film
A stop-motion exploration of iconography and chromatics.
Azim
director: Teo Flygt, Sweden, 2025, Documentary film
Azim Alizade was 14 years old when he was forced to flee to Sweden alone. He came to Kungälv, to his brother who had made the same journey two years earlier. This is where he grew up and where his friends, his security, and his community are. Azim is an active citizen who is deeply involved in his school and his sports club. After 10 years, he risks being sent back to a country where he has no one left and where his future is uncertain.
Echo
director: Stanka Gjurić, Croatia, 2026, Experimental film
Between the inner and outer worlds remain only echoes that bind memory, dream, perception, and time.
7
director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun, Ukraine, 2025, Documentary film
“7” is a poetic ultra-short film capturing a fleur-de-lis seven days after blooming, a fleeting metaphor of beauty, memory and fading moments.
Catoptrics
directors: Egzona& Dave Lojek, Germany, 2026, Experimental film
Between vanity and the pressure to conform, the abyss of desires opens up.
How do you phrase desires clearly in front of a magic mirror? When wishes become reality, annoyance turns into despair. Are four attempts enough?
Memories of a hallucination
director: Debjit Bagchi, India, 2026, Experimental film
The film deals with the memories of a sight and sound. Are they real memories? Or they are just another hallucination? The film tries not to question that..
Biography
director: Kunal Biswas, India, 2026, Experimental film
This film is inspired by a quotation of Hazrat Inayat Khan, an Indian Sufi mystic – “God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.”
Body image mirror
director: Chris Furby, United Kingdom, 2025, Animated film
The reflection in the mirror says you have turned into a robot. Later on the horizon your legs turn into robots and there’s no help for it…
Tunnel visions
director: João Pedro Barriga, Portugal, 2026, Experimental film
During the years in the tunnel, while they could not see the light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel dwellers used their visions to glimpse hope. Perhaps a hint from beyond would show them the direction to their salvation. For years, they trained the connection between their consciousness and the cosmos, never ceasing to believe that it would welcome them outside.
The Small Red, Big Blue
directors: Hamed Nobari &Asghar Besharati, Iran, 2025, Experimental film
Sea and fishes are important for all childrean of world
The interval between
directors: Sui Kei WONG, Kwan Yi NG, Lok Sze WANG, Wai Lam CHEN, Hong Kong, 2026, Animated film
A tactile exploration of form in motion, which explores the transient space where one form dissolves and another begins. Utilizing soft pastel hand-drawings and kinestasis stop-motion to capture the rhythmic tension of the momentum. Through the constant metamorphosis of organic shapes, it probes the delicate balance of visual impact and the visceral beauty of change.
Roller
director: Pierre Yves Clouin, France, 2026, Documentary film
Roller, signpost , swan
Velebit trolls
director: Damir Alter Matijević, Croatia, 2026, Experimental film
A short film about two trolls who use illusion and fog to create a cabaret in which shadows dance and actors perform incredible acrobatics. However, everything disappears in an instant and they are chased by a dog, and then geese. They escape from their lies and untruths and become geese themselves
The Sound of Music of the War
director: Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun, Ukraine, 2024, Documentary film
How does the war at the frontline sound like? What happens in a minute? What minute is considered great? A soldier turns on his smartphone cam for a random minute to share what he’s experiencing on the front lines of the biggest war since World War II.
Nothing is foreign here
director: Chih Hao Shen, Belgium, 2026, Animated film
In a sea reshaped by human traces, creatures drift and adapt among objects never meant for them.
Nothing is foreign here—life persists quietly, revealing resilience, absurdity, and the subtle rhythms of coexistence.
The girl on the train
director: Mark Rigler, United Kingdom, 2026, Experimental film
Daisy’s mum died, nearly a year ago now. She’s fine. Getting on with it. She’s busy. She can’t complain. Except she’s got this slight issue with an invisible guy that won’t leave her alone…
An aerial comedy about grief, memory and flying luggage racks.
Rose Dream
director: HONGXIANG Zhou, China, 2025, Animated film
Transform the flight from heaven to earth into a dreamlike journey of love.
Hamlet_A Grammar Test on the Use of the Verb “to be”
director: Vittorio Caratozzolo & Class 2 A (2022-23), Italy, 2025, Experimental film
Is or isn’t the famous Hamlet’s monologue a meditation about the relevance of “to be” or “not to be”?
Unease
director: Chris Furby, United Kingdom, 2026, Animated film
Something haunts the cloud pattens as they morph and repeat on the roadside billboard. In this time, in this moment – unease creeps into the world.
By hand
director: Roman Sinitsyn, Russian Federation, 2026, Documentary film
A quiet portrait of a man in a Russian village, who knows how to work with his hands.
Fade
director: Eloy Gurucharri, Spain, 2026, Documentary film
Something is ending. Or beginning. FADE offers no certainty — only a window, a silhouette, and the slow erasure of both. A wordless exploration of loss, transition, and the moments we can no longer distinguish from memory.
Possibly the first short film edited entirely on a Steam Deck.
Soulmate
director: Luojia GAN, China, 2026, Animated film
“Follow Dingdang to Learn Chinese Poems” is a series of AIGC-animated short videos dedicated to disseminating the essence of traditional Chinese culture. Created collaboratively by Dingdang and her father, the production integrates various AI tools including Kuaishou Kling, DeepSeek, and MuseAI. “Follow Dingdang to Learn Chinese Poems—Soulmate ” is based on the story of Boya and Zhong Ziqi two thousand years ago.
Street street street
directors: Wan Yin HUNG& Sum Yee LAU& Ching Yin Yu, Hong Kong, 2026, Animated film
This abstract short film focuses on the local and cultural aspects of Hong Kong, turning the unique patterns and store arts to the symbols on local mailboxes to bring our audience on a journey down Hong Kong’s memory lane
New Rank
director: Hristina Belousova, Uzbekistan, 2026, Animated film
A lonely traffic cop, a whistle, and the invisible rhythm of the highway. A one-minute study of rank, patience, and unexpected transformation.
Thirst
director: Asghar Besharati, Iran, 2021, Documentary film
Birds are thirst, so help to nature….
Temple Pulse
directors: Yibing CHEN, Yifei CAO, Qi DENG, Hong Kong, 2026, Animated film
Temple Pulse is a one-minute abstract experimental animation. It focuses on the eaves of Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong. Through photography and After Effects editing, it transforms traditional architecture into a strong visual rhythm, revealing the collision and fusion of mordern art technique and traditional culture elements.
Patterns
director: Yue Sum NG, Hong Kong, 2026, Animated film
Patterns deconstructs the urban landscape into rhythmic abstractions. Zooming in on weathered tiles, we recompose these patterns into hypnotic optical flows. The familiar city dissolves into a pulsating geometry, transforming overlooked textures into a meditative symphony of light, form, and movement.
Overheads
director: Chris Furby, United Kingdom, 2025, Animirani film/ Animated film
Look to the skies! The haunting of central London.
World Bardo: What Bees Need
director: Finn Harvor, South Korea, 2026, Experimental film
A minute haiku about balancing development and nature.
Luminescent
director: Pak Long LO, Hong Kong, 2026, Animated film
The film presents a variety of abstract light forms, playing with patterns, shapes, colour and movement. Using fundamental functions of the camera, it reaches beyond the limitations of usual light sources we see merely with our naked eyes. The aim is to turn recognisable light sources into abstract animation, creating an energetic dance sequence of lights to let audiences immerse themselves into a dreamlike experience.
Starfish
director: Pedro Sena Nunes,Portugal, 2025, Experimental film
A breath. A gesture. A bloom.
Under the tree’s shadow, movement remembers how to blossom.
Faces
director: Sabrina AN, Kiu Tung NG, Wing Yi WONG, Ching Yu YU, Hong Kong, 2026, Animated film
“FACES” is a fast, rhythmic, experimental montage of human diversity emphasised as a visual harmony. The aesthetics lie within the sequencing of a diverse pool of expressions and facial features, highlighted through portrait shots and extreme close-ups. The film encapsulates an optical presentation of human characteristics warping into abstract forms.
Katharsis
director: Maria Papadopoulou, Greece, 2026, Experimental film
Katharsis, is a one-minute experimental short film that explores the fragile boundary between reality and dreams. Through a surreal visual approach, the square frame becomes a space of constant transformation. The film opens and closes with color imagery, marking the realm of reality, while the black-and-white sequences in between unfold as an oneiric and introspective landscape. Within this passage, memory, imagination, and the subconscious intertwine, creating a brief visual journey toward inner catharsis.
Barb’s Hi-Vis Furniture
director: Aasiya D’Urso, United States, 2025, Animated film
Barb harks her wares (small neon colored furniture)
No Kings
director: Víctor Gonzalez Rubio, Spain, 2026, Experimental film
No kings, no gods, no fatherland, fight between, people vs. power, sheep vs. divinities, world vs. yards.
The spectacle of power
director: Anna Monika Balcerak, Poland, 2026, Animated film
A minor offense leads to an unexpected twist of events.
Tang Poetry: Chinese Painting
director: Luojia GAN, China, 2026, Animated film
“Follow Dingdang to Learn Chinese Poems” is a series of AIGC-animated short videos dedicated to disseminating the essence of traditional Chinese culture. Created collaboratively by Dingdang and her father, the production integrates various AI tools including Seedance, Kuaishou Kling, DeepSeek, and MuseAI. “Follow Dingdang to Learn Chinese Poems—Tang Poetry: Chinese Painting” is based on the work of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei.
Behind the curtains
director: Chris Furby, United Kingdom, 2025, Animated film
An unexpected night at the theatre…
Maybe Next Year
director: Peter Hoffman Kimball, Iceland, United States, 2026, Fiction film
An old rusted ship in an ancient valley housing unimaginable secrets. A father’s trip with his children to explore takes a shocking turn.
Dot…
director: Lam Cho Kiu, Hong Kong, 2026, Animated film
“Dot…” is an experimental animation that primarily focuses on points, lines, and colors. We used hand-drawing and collage as the main mediums, followed by digital editing and processing to create the animation.
Libre
director: Ignacio Revuelta, Spain, 2026, Experimental film
In a quiet room, a goldfish lives its small, circular life. Then the world changes. What follows is a story about freedom and whose freedom we choose to see.
Palki: A Century of Faith
director: Hema Seth, India, 2026, Documentary film
For more than 100 years, the sacred Palki procession has been an integral part of Shirdi’s spiritual life. Moving through the revered sites associated with Sai Baba, the procession brings together devotees in a heartfelt celebration of faith, devotion, and tradition. Through evocative visuals and intimate moments, this film explores a timeless ritual that continues to inspire and unite generations.
Diy
director: Fábio Biondo, Brazil, 2026, Animated film
In a time when everything is demanded, while some demand, others do.
Prompt humanity
director: Yyirong Liu, China, 2026, Experimental film
In AIGC, prompts like “CEO” automatically generate men, while “nurse” generates women. The film Prompt: Humanity exposes these hidden defaults.
AI has no malice; it simply reflects and amplifies decades of human stereotypes and data we feed it daily.
Boy & Cat
director: Chih Hao Shen, Belgium, 2026, Animated film
A boy spends a quiet summer with a cat. As the season slowly changes, he begins to notice how companionship can gently fade. Through soft needle-felted animation, the film captures small moments of presence, distance, and growing up.
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