Official Selection

We are excited to reveal the Official Selection for this year’s 20th Anniversary of the Early Bird International Student Film Festival!

With over 1300 submissions from talented student filmmakers around the globe, we are deeply grateful to every participant who shared their incredible work with us. Your creativity and passion have truly impressed us.

After careful review, we are proud to announce that 70 films have been selected to be showcased in this special anniversary edition of the festival. A huge congratulations to the selected filmmakers! We look forward to celebrating with you all and making this milestone festival a memorable one. 

Fiction

filmdirectorcountry
AllégresseGillie CinneriBelgium
Bridge of SignsGerogi GenchevBulgaria
BunkPiotr JasinskiCzech Republic
Cat & MousePeter ChiviyskiBulgaria
Chasing the DistanceMauricio RojoMexico
DesyncMinerva Marie NavascaCanada
DictatorShekhar BassiPoland
Dog Days Are OverKinga PudełekPoland
EnduroDimos GanasGreece
FatherKristian GeorgievBulgaria
Father's SonNadan PinesIsrael
Hedgehog's DilemmaMateusz RybińskiPoland
HerstoryTomasz StuleblakPoland
Home CookingAhmet ToğaçTürkiye
I Was Busy Dreaming About BoysKatharina SporrerGermany
In MemoryZofia SawickaPoland
In Sickness and in HealthDevina VassilevaBulgaria
La PatéticaAna RevertSpain
Lament No. 1Jakub JakubikPoland
Laundromat 24/7Skaistė BartkutėLithuania
Love and SubstancesLukas TreudlerGermany
LungeNegar HassanzadehIran
My Father’s SonVilmos HeimHungary
ON AIR, IN AIRDavid BošnjakCroatia
OrangeNóra HorváthRomania, Hungary
PerspectiveKiaraPetrovaBulgaria
PragmaBianka SzelesteyHungary
PreyMarina Fontenelle, Nathalie SusemihlBrazil
SonSaman HosseinpuorIran, Switzerland
Start New GameShai EzraIsrael
Story of a NightLiza ChakanavaCzech Republic
StrangersAlexandra MaydavskaBulgaria
Sweet, Sweet LifeNooa RuuthFinland
The Black CatStella PetrovaBulgaria
The Distance Daniel GuliyevAzerbaijan
The OtherFlorent ThysBelgium
The Plain SingsGita FeiziIran
The SalesmanPatryk KaflowskiPoland
The StrangerMilorad MilatovićCroatia
Three Women Named Svetlana Natalia BoorsmaNetherlands
Two of UsSimona EvstatievaBulgaria
Very Good MandarineJoséphine LasquierBelgium
WorkerMohsin TariqPakistan

Documentary

filmdirectorcountry
AnimaKristin IvanovaBulgaria
Follow the StickersMatthew WattsUnited Kingdom
I Dreamt of a Boat, ManhattanLuchino Paparella, Alexandre KrajewskiBelgium
Looking UpStephanie Guest, Charlotte Gillespie, Lily WinterNew Zealand
Marie & MeDiane PremiCanada
Mr. De GarieLaura Marroquin-ÉthierCanada
OceAnthropogenicHafidz Ardis SetiamihardjaIndonesia
PasarChi Siang, Zenden TanSingapore
SiltKatia SimeonovaBulgaria
Swim HigherCecilia PalmeriItaly
The Museum Keepers. Chapter 1. IvankivSolomiia KozolupUkraine
The Other Side of BeautySami Saif SirelkhatimSudan
The Slow Train: Old Engine Ignites New LifeXirui NiuChina
The Spiral Between Sound and SilenceKristina GeorgievaBulgaria
ТhreadMihail AtanasovBulgaria

Animation

filmdirectorcountry
Cat, Fox and the WolfAurore Muller FeugaFrance
Deep Dive Noga Erlich KochaviIsrael
DhakiraSalma Gaoua, Amandine Van Hille, Aïda-Marie Tadevosian, Cyprien FermautFrance
EM;Pășcan Claudia AlexandraRomania
Fire and SparkFlavia MateiRomania
Garlic SoupKristian ZaharievBulgaria
My Father's CarJeremy Andriambolisoa, Cérine Raouraoua, William Ghyselen, Benjamin GermeFrance
On the 8th DayAgathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo DuhautoisFrance
REM-sleepHusam ZakarayaNetherlands
Split EndsKarly Phuong Kim NguyenUnited States
Tuned OffDaria RusevaBulgaria