November 01, 2026 - Sunday
17:30 Registration
18:00 Opening ceremony
Presenting the Members of the Jury
Special screening of Houdini by Mariusz Rusinski – the winner of Early Bird 2025 Grand Award
November 02, 2026 - Monday
10:00-11:30 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
A Cup of Coffee | Bozhana Marinova | Bulgaria | 15' |
I Could Kill Her | Carolline Weller | Germany | 13' |
| Fish | Amirhossein Taleshi | Iran | 23' |
We’ve Never Been to Portugal | Milana Karaeva | Italy | 15' |
Malpraxis | Tudor Vele | Romania | 24' |
11:30 Discussion
12:00-13:00 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immortals | Edit Nagyistók | Hungary | 20' |
| Speedy! | Jiin Oh | United States | 18' |
The Good Woman | Masha Mollenhauer | Germany | 24' |
13:00 Discussion
14:00-15:30 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Til Death Do Us Part | Edoardo Maione, Alice Gnech | Italy | 20' |
The Lamb in the Room | Daniel Meier | Germany | 12' |
Bloom in the Concrete | Renata Elizondo | Mexico | 26' |
| Sea Skin | Selena Goedeke Tort | Germany | 14' |
| The Red Rider | Branko Perković | Croatia | 6' |
| Verismo | Dise Atalan | Türkiye | 13' |
15:30 Discussion
16:00-17:00 Documentary
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Beneath the Skin | Jasmine Stevenson-Leighton | Bulgaria | 11' |
Creatures | Leopoldo Fernandez | United Kingdom | 11' |
Valentin Petrov: Rise | Samuil Zhelev | Bulgaria | 27' |
Housing Problem | Marko Plejić | Croatia | 15' |
17:00 Discussion
November 03, 2026 - Tuesday
10:00-11:30 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Grandpa's Fur | Teodor Stoilov, Nellie Rajala | Poland | 20' |
| Let Me Cry | Wojtek Jastrzębski | Poland | 25 |
It Might Even Be Real | Yael Bonne | Israel | 7' |
| The Favor | George K. | Thailand | 18' |
| Forget | Zeynep Duru Yalçın | Türkiye | 20' |
11:30 Discussion
12:00-13:00 Animation
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Raindrops | Filip Kirilov Karaivanov | Bulgaria | 4' |
Hotel les Pieds dans l’eau | Maya Vriens | France | 5' |
The Endless Voyage | Rada Skumova, Suzanne Lub | Netherlands | 10' |
| Dark Light | Csenge Csató | Hungary | 5' |
The Long-Stocking Cake | Blagoslava Kirilova, Denislava Georgieva, Evgeni Ganchev | Bulgaria | 6' |
Le Plongeon | Alexis Lucas, Marie-Jean Bonetti, Lucas Rea | France | 6' |
Bonobo & Man | Hannah Schogger | United Kingdom | 5' |
Susurros | Alexandra Pewinski, Marie Lombard, Florian Reignier, Emma Pluchard, Lisa Francillon, Alice Parmentier | France | 7' |
The Hair Tie | Kristina Venelinova Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria | 5' |
The Trial | Lian Cornieux, Ingrid Lala, Agathe Arduini, Ilan Blauwblomme | France | 5' |
13:00 Discussion
14:00-14:30 Competition program Animation
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Gone Out of Rails | Ryan Dimitrov | Bulgaria | 6' |
Wolf Rayet | Emma Corbillon, Julie Demelle, Alexandra Ventouras, Mélanie Sthehlé, Perryne Crevier | France | 5' |
The Body and its Stories | Mihaela Pounova | Bulgaria | 1' |
In Thought | Csenge Ilyefalvi | Hungary | 5' |
Mom, I Am Sick | Viktotia Panova,Tsvetelina Nikolova,Natalia Angelova,Bojidara Kostova,Dara Traycheva,Denis Belishky,Ana-Maria Tsocheva,Stanka Mircheva | Bulgaria | 3' |
| Lamb | Loeka Pringels | Belgium | 2' |
Pockets Full of Pebbles | Elise Kerob | France | 4' |
14:30 Discussion
15:00-17:00 Animating Together: A Participatory Animation Workshop
by Nairy Eivazy, PhD in the Arts, LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven, Belgium
Cultural center G8
November 04, 2026 - Wednesday
10:00-11:30 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Italiano | Mehdi Davachi | Iran | 20' |
Freeze | Niccolò Donatini | Italy | 11' |
| Nail Flower | Eonsik Rho | South Korea | 27' |
Unexpressed | Mariia Felenko | Czechia, Ukraine | 8' |
Inkubus | Reza Sam Mosadegh | Germany | 26' |
11:30 Discussion
12:00-13:00 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Nowhere | Yuli Sachs | Israel | 14' |
The Dogleg | Piotr Szubra | Poland | 25' |
Love, Buried in Seoul | Jongwoo Lee, Jeongwoo Shin, Jihoon Psrk | South Korea | 22' |
13:00 Discussion
14:00-15:30 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
The Burial of the Black Cat | Maryam Esmaeili | Iran | 15' |
Trance | Jona Schloßer | Germany | 20' |
Electricks | Kryštof Kindl | Czechia | 14' |
Cathedral | Uroš Lakić | Serbia | 16' |
Combustion | Arielle Legault | Canada | 8' |
Silent, almost Unnoticed | Philine Jo Hammon, Patrick Fleischer | Germany | 17' |
15:30 Discussion
16:00-17:00 Documentary
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Will you stop believing? | Maria Asenova | Bulgaria | 30' |
The Art of Trying | Mattis Korhonen | Sweden | 9' |
| Otkole | Radost Tsvetkova | Bulgaria | 24' |
17:00 Discussion
November 05, 2026- Thursday
10:00-11:30 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
One Arm | Mateo Milione | Argentina | 17' |
Hybris | Péter Dóczé | Hungary | 20' |
Memories for the Attic | Jovana Lazin | Serbia | 12' |
Rabbit Don’t Run | Maximilian Conway, Elisabeth Jakobi | Austria | 30' |
Beyond the Hill | Andrea Maddalena Bernardi | Italy | 12' |
11:30 Discussion
12:00-13:00 Documentary
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madelin | Erika Batalska | Bulgaria | 13' |
Milk and Honey | Sara Marić | Serbia | 12' |
Middle Earth | Joanna Zabcheva | Bulgaria | 25' |
White Veil | Žiga Ciber | Ireland | 10' |
13:00 Discussion
14:00-15:30 Fiction
Cultural center G8
| film | director | country | duration |
|---|---|---|---|
The Light of Mullae | Kyung-yoon Park | South Korea | 27' |
Today, Mum Died | Anis Bribi | France | 20' |
| Bro | Filip Špinka | Czechia | 29' |
Happy Ever After | Chantale Fitzé | Sweden | 14' |
15:30 Discussion
19:00 Award ceremony
The organizers reserve the right to make changes to the program in the event of unforeseen circumstances.