Official selection

What memories lie hidden in abandoned houses? The rooms stand still as untouched time capsules – lifeless yet full of stories. Who were the people who once called this place home? All that remains is the echo of their existence: An invisible imprint on the walls, in the dust, in the silence. It is the spirit of the place, floating between decay and oblivion. It murmurs through the faded wedding photograph, drifts through the scattered notes on the desk, and lingers in the wine glass covered in ash. What endures is fertile ground, breathing new life into the space.

After a traumatic encounter shatters a young director’s relationship with men, she stages a casting call as an experiment—using performance, observation, and dark humour to interrogate masculinity and her proximity to it.

A harsh, callous environment, a forest covering the mountain slopes and the thunderous crash of falling trees, interrupted only by the heavy breathing of horses. In these conditions, the relationship between humans and animals is put to the test. Where is the line between exploitation and humane treatment? How do we define our place in the natural world? This film certainly does not provide clear answers.

A charismatic young professor begins to struggle at his new job at Sofia University after an awkward encounter with the older chairman of the department threatens to expose a mutual secret.

A crowd of people under the influence of the alluring rhythm feels a sudden urge to come to a mysterious tower that’s standing in a middle of nowhere. Inside they are not able to stop moving, jumping or dancing. Unaware, they are performing a ritual arranged by a creature spinning on the top of the tower. Through the chaos that ensues walks a disoriented, indifferent, untouched by the mania person, who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Miguel and his family are preparing to emigrate from Cuba to Italy where part of his family is already living. While they wait, they begin to take the first step in the life of every migrant: learning the language of the country they want to go to.