We are more than happy with the great interest in this edition of the Festival. Thank you! We received more than 1300 films from 91 countries. The selection committee was seriously challenged by the original approach of the films and the diversity of the subject matter.
The Official selection is already a fact. Here are the 61 films that will participate in the Early Bird 2022 competition program in the categories:
Fiction
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandria | Thiago Cavalheiro, Luís Miguel Pereira | Portugal |
| And the Night Remained | Anze Grcar | Slovenia |
| Another Time | Sarah Zammit | Malta |
| Backyard Camping | Mor Hanay | Israel |
| Burnout | Nemanja Mladenovic | Serbia |
| Danny Boy | Yarden Avriel | Israel |
| Digital Investigations | Jonathan B. Behr | Germany |
| Ferial Coffee | Mohanad Elkashef | Egypt |
| Fish Fingers | Lars Mulle | Switzerland |
| Five Fingers | Louisa Olivia Brockmann | Germany |
| January | Alisher Zhadigerov | Kazakhstan |
| Junko | Minsho Limbu | Nepal |
| Kharkiv Music Fest Did Happen | Vyacheslav Turyanytsya | Ukraine |
| Kingsdown | Eliza Riley | United Kingdom |
| Mia Moglie | Ana Liébana | Spain |
| Moles | Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola | Switzerland |
| My Brother a Fisherman | Alicja Sokół | Poland |
| Our First Hit | Sara Grgurić | Croatia |
| Paprika | Omer Cohen | Israel |
| Preparation | Ilia Asitashvili | Georgia |
| Rooftop | Nevena Krassimirova Nikolova | Bulgaria |
| Russian Vodka | Seyed Payam Hosseini | Iran |
| Talking with My Stranger | Lora Markova | Bulgaria |
| That's Not All | Stefane Eskelsen | Brazil |
| The Architect | Mathieu Lorain Dignard | Canada |
| The Guilt | Bianca Palmieri Balduini | Spain |
| The Immortal | Nikolay Urumov | Bulgaria |
| The Little Girls | Mohamad Reza Misaggi | Iran |
| Theatrical Romance | Teodora-Kosara Popova | Bulgaria |
| Two Familiar Strangers | Markus Müller | Germany |
| Weltmeister | Zlatina Tochkova | Bulgaria |
| When the Sun Comes Up | Viktorija Samardzic | Croatia |
| When You Forget July | Sara Radusinović | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Wigs | Angela Dimeska | North Macedonia |
| Yuta | Matheus Malburg | Brazil |
| Zawal | Mujtaba Saeed | Germany |
| Zipper | Aleksandr Kim | Germany |
Documentary
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Words about Passing Away | Łukasz Iwanicz | Poland |
| Bloody Tradition - Agree to Disagree | Jitse de Graaf, Martijn Kramer | Netherlands |
| Guardians | Minerva Marie Navasca | Canada |
| In the Shadows | Luis Felipe Ferra | United Kingdom |
| Influencer 3.0 | Selin Su Kılınçarslan | Turkey |
| Man's Best Friend | Gaya Elstein | Israel |
| Morning Routine | Robert Kocsis | Romania |
| Samira | Anna Anat Gofman Banai | Israel |
| The Hunt | Daniel Krusteva | Bulgaria |
| The Longest Seconds | Uziel Francisco Quevedo, Celina Montes Pérez | Mexico |
Tic Tac | Yaroslav Stavrev | Bulgaria |
Animation
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
| Death at the Bus Stop | Maja Kjellstad Aanonsen | Norway |
| Flow | Fruzsina Eszes | Hungary |
| Homesick Lungs | Felix Klee | Germany |
| Journey in Amnesia | Anouk Kilian-Debord | Belgium |
| Kolaj | Gülce Besen Dilek | Germany |
| La Meute | L.Cottin-Euziol, L.Abdou, A.Gacic, C.Hedreville, A.Moulin, V. Normand, G.Saint-Frison | France |
| Orange Peel | Isidora Vulic | Serbia |
| Shush | Vitoria Tan | Singapore |
| The Glazier's Daughter | Lucía López | Argentina |
| The Most Boring Granny in the Whole World | Damaris Zielke | Germany |
| The Potter's Daughter | Edern Guichard | France |
| The Seine's Tears | Y.Belaid, E.Benard, N.Mayeur, E.oulin, H.Pinot, L.Vicente, P.Singer, A.Letailleur | France |
Water | Triparna Maiti | India |