This year, we received over 1,200 film submissions from all around the world. After a careful selection process, 73 films from 30 countries have been chosen to compete and be presented in our festival program.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to all the talented young filmmakers who shared their work with us. Your creativity and passion continue to make Early Bird a truly global celebration of student cinema.
Fiction
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
10 Minutes Younger | Nisreen Yaseen | Palestine |
A Pigeon | Vuk Popovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
A Three Dog Night | Ömer Yavuzoğlu | Turkey |
A Warm Night | Andreea Ștefănescu | Romania |
After All | Chongyan Liu | France |
After The Silence | Jean-François Cameron | Canada |
August | Dan Grabnar | Serbia |
Betelgeuse | Pidoux Loïc | Switzerland |
Between The Lines | Niklas Pollmann | Austria |
Broken Magic | Platon Ogarev, Marcjanna Lelek | Poland |
Clay | Kristian Georgiev | Bulgaria |
Curfew | Yelyzaveta Toptyhina | Ukraine |
Diogene | Sami Atil | France |
Ends and Beginnings | Klaudia Fortuniak | Poland |
Hitchhikers | Denitsa Ganeva | Bulgaria |
Houdini | Mariusz Rusinski | Poland |
Jugar A Ser Mayor | Andrea Gómez Vallejo | Spain |
Last Nights of Summer | Fatema Yasser | Egypt |
Life, Death & Pickles | Lotta Schweikert | Austria |
Morning Coffee | Maria Andonova | Bulgaria |
My Own Body | Katica Kozma | Hungary |
Pit-pool | Ana Vučićević | Serbia |
Pitylos | Galatia Lagoutari | Greece |
Pledge | Kristian Iliev | Bulgaria |
Pop | Lina Kountoura | Greece |
Posterity | Emil Alexandrov | Bulgaria |
Sleeppers | Dimitris Konstantinou | Greece |
Summer Triangle | Maryam Esmaeili, Ali Babai | Iran |
Tarik | Adem Tutić | Serbia |
Testimony of Disappointment | Magdalena Synoradzka | Poland |
The Abyss | Albert Nakov | Bulgaria |
The Contact | Mert Erez | Turkey |
The Frog | Simone Paggetti | Italy |
The Funeral | Petya Maleshevska | Bulgaria |
The Gaze | Magda El Bayoumi | Germany |
The Missing Call | Alfonso Santander | Colombia |
The Things We Do for Love and a Foreign Passport | Ayal Sgerski | Israel |
The Way Fish Are | Eliya Dekel | Israel |
Things I Remember from Summer 2004 | Bat Sa'ar Raviv | Israel |
| Unsportsmanlike | Arina Litvinova | Romania |
Documentary
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
A Sanctuary for Authentic People | Alexander Paunov | Bulgaria |
All the Colors of Youth | Agnieszka Kalińska | Poland |
Freedom | Adrián Sánchez Serrano | Spain |
Havra Street | Mehmet Yıldız | Turkey |
Istanbul Convention Keeps Alive! | F. Esra Yildiz | Turkey |
Lion's Wrinkle and Crow's Feet | Juliette Léonard | Belgium |
Marinică, My Boy | Mihnea Toma | Romania |
Mitakpa | Shrijan Raj Pandey | Nepal |
Offside - An Unequal Game | Katja Stirnemann | Switzerland |
Roots | Nikolai Dimitrov | Bulgaria |
St. Sofia: The Shadow Beneath Her | Velemir Mitkov | Bulgaria |
The Big Day / Schützenfest | Lennart Hüper, Lennart Miketa | Austria |
Under the Skins | Petar Penev | Bulgaria |
What Is This Stupid Question? | Yonatan Shabat | Israel |
Animation
| film | director | country |
|---|---|---|
Beast | Andrea Miletić | Croatia |
Bond | Erika Imbriani | Hungary |
Courage | Margot Jacquet, Nathan Baudry, Marion Choudin, Jeanne Desplanques, Lise Delcroix, Salomé Cognon | France |
Dear Emily | Fernanda Coli | Brazil |
Dear You | Tanya Bozhinova | Bulgaria |
Expectation | Corin Anderson | United Kingdom |
Flames | Aleksa Trayanova | Bulgaria |
Good Girl | Dóra Napsugár Kovács | Hungary |
Immature | Eddy Wu | The Netherlands, Taiwan |
Narcissus and Echo | Franciska Goretity | Hungary |
Né Una Né Due | Lucia Catalini | Itay |
Next Station | Thiago Marsola | Brazil |
OMBR | Charles Menet, Mathis Binauld, Célia Rakotoarisoa, Lucie Jelmoni, Margaux Bonnet, Rick Vanel Njike Ngassam | France |
Ravenera | Teodor Ralev | Bulgaria |
Tech Check | Zlatelina Tsokova | Netherlands |
The Elevator | Oliver Mottram | United Kingdom |
The Rock Tensions | Markus Lehtokumpu | Finland |
Tokyo-1987 | Irakli Belkania | Georgia |
Turkish Delight | Kaya Krasteva | Bulgaria |