We are pleased to announce the Official Selection of the 17th edition of Early Bird International Student Film Festival. In 2021 we received more than 1100 films from 90 countries for preliminary selection. These impressive numbers strengthen our faith in the abilities and talents of young filmmakers around the world who have continued to make art despite the difficulties of the past year. Thank you all.
We are excited to present the selected 78 films that will participate in the Competition program of Early Bird 2021 in the following categories:
Fiction
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
| 10 seconds | Evgenia Taneva | Bulgaria |
| A Mess at Apartment 14 | Radu Barbu | Romania |
| A Swimming Lesson from Dad | Biró Melinda Ildikó | Hungary |
| A Unicorn in Tel Aviv | Zohar Ballas | Israel |
| About Separation | Kawthar Younis | Egypt |
| Alone Together | Aglaja Filipović | Serbia |
| Awakening | Nikolay Urumov | Bulgaria |
| Barley | Andrija Mugoša | Montenegro |
| Be Patient | Liubov Honcharenko | Ukraine |
| Coo Coo | Svetlana Belorussova | Russia |
| Day off | Liliya Duplinskaya | Russia |
| Days Lost | Jovana Avramovic | Serbia |
| Eve & Fatima | Julie Redon | Canada |
| Everything in its Right Place | Nikola Stojanovic | Serbia |
| Forgiveness | Julian Rachev | Bulgaria |
| Game | Orlin Menkadzhiev | Bulgaria |
| Good German Work | Jannis Alexander Kiefer | Germany |
| Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt | Germain Kanda | Romania |
| Identibye | Sajjad Shahhatami | Iran |
| In the Woods | Sara Grgurić | Croatia |
| M for Murder or "l'art pour l'art" | David Jovanović | Serbia |
| Moon Landing | Melany Mora | Costa Rica |
| On the inside | Julia Kudoyar | Russia |
| Oscar | Riccardo Copreni | Italy |
| Pınar | Melek Bahce | Poland |
| Reina | Ozan Mermer | Germany / Mexico |
| Ribs | Gvozden Ilic | Serbia |
| Selina | Greta Benkelmann | Germany |
| Silent Zone | Caren Wuhrer | Germany |
| Something must happen | Dániel Botos | Hungary |
| Southbound | Juan Albarracín | Spain |
| Stadtmusik | Elisabeth van Damke | Germany |
| Stamp | Lovro Mrđen | Croatia / Belgium |
| The Crossroads | Anna Nosatova | Russia |
| The End of the Circle | Dimitris Georgiev | Bulgaria |
| The House Has Horns | Stefan Tomić | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| The King | Maria Claudia Blanco | France |
| The Revolt of the Suit | Kristina Hristova | Bulgaria |
| Together | Alma Buhagiar | Romania |
| Transmission | Jedrzej Michalak | Poland |
| Verdiana | Elena Beatrice, Daniele Lince | Italy |
| We’ll never get lost together again | Eugene Koshin | Russia |
| Y.Brotsky | Asha Shovgan | Russia |
Documentary
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
| Apnoia | Vanessa Payri | Canada |
| Balora | Abdolghader Khaledi | Iran |
| Frontline | Santiago María López Piuma | Spain |
| Ignacio | Justin Beaulieu | Canada |
| Just Don't Sing | Jedrzej Michalak | Poland / France |
| Life on the Edge | Abhishek Dixit | India |
| My friend | Marin Cumatrenco | Romania |
| My Gypsy Road | Vilma Kartalska | Bulgaria |
| Now I am Irena | Jasmina Beširević | Croatia |
| Our daily dance | Matúš Druga | Slovakia |
| Sacrificed | David Sanchez | Canada |
| Tanda | Teodora-Kosara Popova | Bulgaria |
| The hook you will not bite | José David Apel | Argentina |
| The Roots | Stefan Tomić | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| We Come One by One and We Leave at One’s | Mihnea Toma | Romania |
| Zimmermann | Ana Leticia Zimmermann | Brazil |
Animation
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
| Blinded By Love | Yige Yang | United Kingdom |
| Chocolate | Lili Zhang | China |
| Disoriented | Fleur Orgeas, Aristote Douroudakis, Tomoe Inoue, Shivani Khot, Ya Ching Liu, Victoria Richard | France |
| Dogs Smell Like the Sea | Anastasiya Lisovets | Russia |
| Hiding | Tom Carey | United Kingdom |
| Lights Out | Audrey Dupupet , Sherilyn Laurie | United States |
| Migrants | Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte, Zoé Devise | France |
| Moon Blood | Katia Korzinov | Israel |
| Oceania | Stefan Voyvodov | Bulgaria |
| Pandemiau | Nasstia Velásquez Vidal | Chile |
| Password to the * * * * * | Adél Szegedi | Hungary |
| Spacious | Pauline Muszi | Germany |
| Suburb | Miles Jezuita | United Kingdom |
| The Bear | Yongtao Hu | United States |
| The Bond | Miljana Tešović | Serbia |
| The Matchbox | Tanya Bozhinova | Bulgaria |
| Thin Ice | Pauline Epiard, Valentine Ventura, Tiphaine Burguburu, Clémentine Vasseur, Lisa Laîné, Élodie Laborde | France |
| Under Pressure | Vasil Bogdanov | Bulgaria |
| Welter of Words | Tessa van Vuren | Netherlands |