The Official Selection of the 14th edition of Early Bird Film Festival is made! We've watched more than 1200 films from 80+ countries. Some films made us cry, some films made us laugh, some films made us ask questions, some films made us argue. Thank you!
We feel compelled to share that many of the submitted films were not selected in the festival's competition program, only because they didn't meet the simplest, but very important technical requirement - to have English subtitles, if the dialog is not in English. Others were made by high school students or independent filmmakers, which also does not meet the selection criteria of the Festival. Still we would like to thank to all the participants for their passion and commitment.
What was important to us? We tried to keep the holistic approach - we were looking at the films taking everything into account: idea, story, dialogues, music, acting, directing, etc. And since our Festival is a meeting point for people around the globe, we've tried to select films from as many different cultures as possible.
Here are the selected 117 films which will take part in the Competition program of the Festival in the following categories:
| Project Title | Directors | Country |
|---|---|---|
| A Minute With Her | Anna Bellettato | Germany |
| A Useless Man | Berk Kusbeygi | Turkey |
| Amal | Dilek Ince | United States |
| An Attempt at Murder | Evgenia Kazankina | Russia |
| And Then The Wind Blows | Diana Mincheva-Iordanova | Bulgaria |
| Assaut | Tamás Fekete | Hungary |
| Balkans Justice | Srdjan Jovancov | Bulgaria |
| Beast | Sandra Schröder | Germany |
| Between The Lines | Shantanu Naik | India |
| Billion | Evghenii Dudceac | Russia |
| Blacky and Faulty | Marko Dzambazoski | Macedonia |
| Blood sister | Guillaume Comtois | Canada |
| Bloom | Qian Yuan (Sin Yuen) | United Kingdom |
| Blue Sky, Clean Earth | Mahyar Mandegar | Iran |
| Bond | Bernadette Mayer | Hungary |
| Chernomor | Oleg Urazaykin | Russia |
| Comfort Room | Leia Reyna Pasumbal | Philippines |
| Daughterland | Andrea Di Paola | Italy |
| Dregs | Kordian Kadziela | Poland |
| Earthly People | Ádám Freund | Hungary |
| Farta | Silvia Cannarozzi | Germany |
| Gotcha! | Stefani Doytchinova | Bulgaria |
| Hottest Summer Days | Masa Sarovic | Serbia |
| Last Day | Klaudija Matvejevaitė | Lithuania |
| Lena | Gustavo Campos | Brazil |
| Little Family Troubles | Dimitris Georgiev | Bulgaria |
| Lone Wolf | Hero Hemmingsley | Netherlands |
| Man overboard! | Annelies Nouwen | Belgium |
| No Sex | Alexey Ionov | Russia |
| Nothing Really Happened | Sándor Csoma | Hungary |
| On the Side | Alma Hemmo | Israel |
| Paulina | Lucia Lalor | Argentina |
| Press Play | Luca Casartelli | Italy |
| Purgatory | Jihane Keyrouz | Lebanon |
| Puzzles | Aglaja Filipović | Serbia |
| Quick’n’Clean | Maria Neheimer | Germany |
| Raspberries | Mat Mot | Poland |
| Saturday Daydream | Alper Kizilboga | Turkey |
| Sisyphus' Glove | Yang Yuhao | China |
| Slaughter | Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi | Iran |
| Strings | Paula Zambrano | Venezuela |
| The Border | Seyedmohammad Jeddi | Italy |
| The Debt | Marie Arce | Peru |
| The Helmet | Ramazan Kılıç | Turkey |
| The House | Aldo Marku | Albania |
| The Lake | Catherine Kasima Kanda | Poland |
| The Rabbi | Uriya Hertz | Israel |
| The Rat | Anna Urbanczyk | Poland |
| The Update | Mor Hanay | Israel |
| Till Cash Do Us Part | Rita Borodiyanski | Israel |
| Until Dawn Comes | Aarón Acuña | Costa Rica |
| You mean...us | Cristina García Zarzosa | Spain |
| Zebra | Billie Appleton | United Kingdom |
| Zorn | Lorenz Piehl | Germany |
| Project Title | Directors | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Between us | Maciej Miller | Poland |
| Carry My Voice | Hasan Demirtas | United States |
| Comments | Jannis Alexander Kiefer | Germany |
| Dust | Jakub Radej | Poland |
| Dyslexia | Anna Damyanova | Bulgaria |
| Girlhood | Heleen Declercq | Belgium |
| Hetna - A Modern Opera Singer | Nicolai af Rosenborg | Denmark |
| Hidden Heaven | Çağatay Çelikbaş | Turkey |
| How To Become A Pope? | Justyna Mytnik | Poland |
| Landslide | Aglaja Filipovic | Serbia |
| Life in Gray | Leonardo Martinelli | Brazil |
| Love Immigrant | Adi Toledano, Ori Netterman | Israel |
| Not Another War Movie | Stephanie Koussa | Lebanon |
| Ocampo | Lena Solesky | Argentina |
| Souls of Stone | Nikolay Urumov | Bulgaria |
| Ta'rîz; Tooth for a Tooth, Word for a Word | Sezer Aggez | Turkey |
| The Bride's Tree | Shadi Habib Allah | Israel |
| The Dreamer | Krasimir Kalushev | Bulgaria |
| The Gamer | Matúš Men | Slovakia |
| The Pearl Inside the Oyster | Daria Zahaleanu | United Arab Emirates |
| Project Title | Directors | Country |
|---|---|---|
| A Sweet Story | Moritz Biene | Germany |
| Animare | Stefan Voivodov | Bulgaria |
| Cake Day | Jeroen Koelewijn | Netherlands |
| Dacha, Aliens, Cucumbers | Ekaterina Mikheeva | Russia |
| From the same thread | Antonia Piña, Lorène Friesenbichler , Rucha Dhayarkar | Spain |
| Here and Here | Michaela Mihalyi | Czech Republic |
| If You Can | Hanna Rybak | Poland |
| Inner void | Adva Santo, Tamir Aharoni | Israel |
| Kim | Lucas Lermytte, Simon Krieger, Mathilde Dugardin | France |
| Las del diente | Ana Perez Lopez | Spain |
| Midnight elegy | Silviya Ivanova | Bulgaria |
| Monster | Laura Pop | Romania |
| My Body | Sandralee Zinzen, Nicolas Nivesse | France |
| My first day in Weimar | Marina Belikova | Germany |
| Nightlights | Katarzyna Pieróg | Poland |
| No Gravity | Charline Parisot, Jérémy Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Cosmidis | France |
| Nö! | Christian Kaufmann | Germany |
| Raccoon and the Light | Hanna Kim | United States |
| Saving Pooh | Julia Trachtenberg | Israel |
| Sisters | Shiri Algor | Israel |
| Somewhere Soft | Satoe Yoshinari | Norway |
| Take a deep breath! | Zahra Safdari Shadloo | Iran |
| The children of concrete | Jonathan Phanhsay-Chamson | France |
| The Stained Club | Mélanie Lopez, Simon Boucly, Marie Ciesielski | France |
| The Woman | Diana Monova | Bulgaria |
| Toren | Daan Lucas | Netherlands |
| Trauma | Shalini Singh | India |
| Travelogue Tel Aviv | Samuel Patthey | Switzerland |
| Whispering Onion | Akari Hiraoka | United Kingdom |
| Wolf’s Lullaby | Polina Morozova, Valeriya Solotska | United Kingdom |
| Project Title | Directors | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Adaptation | Manne | Armenia |
| Coastland | Miruna Dunu | Romania/Netherlands |
| Colors | Shereen Deen, Sandra Hofer | Austria |
| Honest | Peyton W Finch | United States |
| I Don't Know | Vivek Jain, Kirti Pherwani | India |
| Letter to the Outsider | Dorothy Cheung | Netherlands |
| Memories of the Modern Life | Inês Soares | Portugal |
| Normalized Woman | Lo-Yi Lee | Taiwan |
| On a Monotonous Day | Arif Arman Badol | Bangladesh |
| Small Game Hunting | Agnese Làposi, Martina Vanini | Switzerland |
| The Heart of Spring | Chen Chen | New Zealand |
| The Journey of the Soul | María Gabriella Cárdenas Stempel | Venezuela |
| The Sunday Night Drinkers Club | Ollie Gardner | United Kingdom |