Professional Competition 11

1. Tourists 14:57 2025
   

   Directed:	Maria Karlovic
   Screenplay:	Patrik Pass
   Production:	Marc Faye, Agata Jelenekova
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   A married couple, Kornel and Hana, are marking hiking trails when they get lost in the woods. As fear sets in, the couple must face their stagnant relationship and learn how to survive together.

2. Cultivation, harvesting and dispersal of thorns / Mise en culture, récolte et dispersion des épines 11:35 2025
   

   Directed:	Jeanne Girard
   Production:	Marc Faye

   
   

   Growing thorns requires several steps. Planting in soil, waiting for rain, and then harvesting. A Hat-Man scatters the fruits of his gathering under the soles of passersby. Ouch! Ow! Owie! One day, a storm breaks out and wreaks havoc on his meticulously planned orchestration.

3. Bulgakov / Булгаковъ 20:49 2025
   

   Directed:	Stanislav Sokolov
   Screenplay:	Stanislav Sokolov, German Klimov
   Production:	Nikolay Skobeev
   Dialogue Language:	Russian

   
   

   This animated film tells the story of writer Mikhail Bulgakov's work as a journalist for Moscow newspapers and magazines in the early 1920s. Those were difficult and hungry years. The Moscow of this period comes to life on screen.

4. Almost there or a Weenie / Prawie nad morzem czyli Parówa 07:03 2025
   

   Directed:	Alicja Jasina
   Screenplay:	Alicja Jasina, Grzegorz Klepaczka
   Production:	Małgorzata Bosek-Serafińska
   Dialogue Language:	Polish

   
   

   Twenty-year-old Lotar feels like a total failure – he still lives with his grandma, lacks courage, inspiration, and any kind of life plan. The world around him feels like one big stream of criticism. His only escape? Imagination. There, Lotar shines as a charismatic rapper adored by the masses. In real life, he dreams of recording an album, but even stringing together two lines is a struggle. One day, in a supermarket, he runs into… a sassy, sharp-tongued sausage. She challenges him to freestyle battles and doesn’t back down. With each freestyle battle, Lotar grows bolder – and bit by bit, starts to find his voice.

5. Cocoon 07:30 2026
   

   Directed:	Fatemeh Zahedian
   Screenplay:	Fatemeh Zahedian
   Production:	Fatemeh Zahedian

   
   

   Facing her illness, a young girl enters an upside-down world.

6. In The Shadow Of The Heron 02:11 2026
   

   Directed:	Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
   Screenplay:	Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
   Production:	Jacques Collin
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   On a beautiful rainy day, a frog wanders along its water lily pad. Along the water, it encounters a heron. The wading bird has decided it will make short work of the amphibian. Thus begins a duel in the heart of the marsh.

7. ONNA BUGEISHA: WOMAN MARTIAL ARTIST / Onna Bugeisha: Femme experte en arts martiaux 07:03 2026
   

   Directed:	Azuline Teulié
   Production:	Azuline Teulié
   Dialogue Language:	Japanese

   
   

   1868 Japan, during Tsurugajo’s siege, Yuko a woman samurai decides to slip out the castle to go and find some provisions to help her people.

8. I AM HERO AWESOME 12:03 2025
   

   Directed:	Po-Yu Chen
   Dialogue Language:	Chinese

   
   

   In a future world, artificial intelligence has become the core of order. Efficiency and stability are the only standards by which everything is measured, and any deviation may be regarded as an error. During what seems to be a routine delivery, courier D-503 unexpectedly triggers an absurd parable.

9. The Lighthouse Keeper 11:15 Germany 2026
   

   Directed:	Andy Kaiser
   Screenplay:	Andy Kaiser
   Production:	Andy Kaiser, David Schultz
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   Keeper Clive is running out of supplies on his lighthouse somewhere in the Northern Seas. In his despair, he plays a sadly tune on his horn, when a large whale notices him. As his supply ship sinks in a violent thunderstorm and his lighthouse buoy springs a leak, he has to expect the worst - if it weren't for the great whale…. The Lighthouse Keeper is a movie about loneliness in a dangerous environment, and a story about unexpected help and friendship.... and that everything is possible - anytime!

10. Sana 10:00 Peru 2025
    

    Directed:	Manuel Larios
    Screenplay:	Gonzalo Iglesias, Manuel Larios
    Production:	Manuel Larios

    
    

    A young man made of mud, fragmented by the emotional abandonment of his father, takes refuge in an imaginary scenario where he tries to rebuild himself through his own pain, heal his wounds and search for answers.