Official selection of the 23rd IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival!
10 SECONDS (dir. Chih Hao Shen / China / Croatia / Taiwan / 2026)
A DIVE IN THE GARDEN (dir. Ingrid Pucci / Estonia / 2025)
A WARM NIGHT (dir. Andreea Ștefănescu / Romania / 2025)
A WHISPER I HEAR (dir. Aleksa Bujisic / Montenegro / 2025)
ABRIL, IT’S NOT WINTER TODAY (dir. Mabel Lozano / Spain / 2025)
AGAPITO (dir. Arvin Belarmino, Kyla Romero / Philippines / 2025)
ALI (dir. Adnan Al Rajeev / Bangladesh / Philippines / 2025)
ALIEN RIDER (dir. Jacopo Domenichini / Estonia / 2025)
ALL THAT LIES BENEATH (dir. Jules Roux / Czechia / 2025)
ALL THIS DEATH (dir. Fadi Syriani / Lebanon / 2025)
APHRODITE'S ISLAND (dir. Roxani Varela / Greece / 2025)
ASTRA LA VISTA (dir. Johannes Bachmann / Switzerland / 2025)
ATALAYA (dir. Rebeca Elena Carini / Spain / 2025)
ATLANTIC (dir. Alexander Stamatiadis / Greece / 2025)
AUGUST (dir. Dan Grabnar / Serbia / 2024)
BECAUSE TODAY IS SATURDAY (dir. Alice Eça Guimarães / Portugal / 2025)
BENEATH WHICH RIVERS FLOW (dir. Ali Yahya / Iraq / 2025)
BEYOND MEASURE (dir. David Ferrier / Australia / 2024)
BEYOND THE CONFLICT (dir. Atharva Raut / India / UK / 2024)
BEYOND THE FAÇADE (dir. Eyup Kus / Austria / 2024)
BICYCLE FACE (dir. Amaia Nerekan Umaran, Itziar Zorita Agirre / Spain / 2025)
BLACKMUCK (dir. Tin Zanic / Croatia / 2025)
BLUE BIRD (PT: "PÁSSARO AZUL") (dir. Miguel Munhá / Portugal / 2025
BOATMAN (dir. Audrey Lejeune / France / 2025)
BOYS MY AGE (dir. Alexia Roc / Canada / 2026)
BRUTE (dir. Jérémy Comte / Canada / 2026)
BUTTERFLY (dir. Sara Stijović / Montenegro / 2026)
CANDY BAR (dir. Nash Edgerton / Australia / 2025)
CAPRICCIO (dir. Gábor Ulrich / Hungary / 2025)
CAPTIVES (dir. Noémie Polycarpe, Mélodi Baskal, Rose Frappa-Denis, Hugo Barbier, Katia Doze, Lisa Giacobbi, Lisa Sabat / France / 2025)
CHIMNEYSWEEPER (dir. Nastimir Tzatchev / Bulgaria / 2026)
CLOTHESPIN (dir. Filip Dučić / Croatia / Poland / 2024 )
CLUB 127 (dir. Svilen Dimitrov / Bulgaria / 2026)
CORPS EN CHUTE (dir. Nicolas Schönberger / France / Germany / 2025)
CORRAL NEGRO (dir. Laura Torres Codina / Spain / 2024)
DEAD ROOTS (dir. Meglen Trpkov Anzik / Netherlands / 2025)
DEAR MOTHER (dir. Theodor Solin / Sweden / 2025)
DEATH'S PEAK (dir. Willy Fair / UK / 2025)
DIVE (dir. Nikola Romčević / Serbia / 2025)
DOG ALONE (dir. Marta Reis Andrade / Portugal / 2025)
DREAM UP THE TITLE (dir. Klaudia Fortuniak / Poland / 2025)
DROSERA (dir. Boris Tilquin, Maud Carpentier / Belgium / 2025)
ECHO (dir. Dan Grabnar / Serbia / Slovenia / 2025)
EGO (dir. Vegard Dahle / Norway / 2025)
ELECTRICKS (dir. Kryštof Kindl / Czechia / 2025)
EMBLA (dir. Katla Sólnes / Iceland / 2025)
EMPTY CAN (dir. Jinuk Choi / South Korea / USA / 2025)
EYE JAM (dir. Julia Jolliffe / UK / 2025)
FAČUK (dir. Maida Srabovic / Croatia / Slovenia / 2025)
FANTAS (dir. Halima Elkhatabi / Canada / 2024)
FISH MOON (dir. Andrey Koulev / Bulgaria / 2026)
FLYING CARPET (dir. Justin Amorim / Portugal / 2025)
FOUR WALLS OF MEMORY (dir. Joanna Platek / Poland / 2024)
FRECKLES (dir. Nevena Nikolova / Bulgaria / 2025)
FROM ECUADOR WITH LOVE (dir. Jonathan Brunner / Ecuador / Germany / 2025)
FRUCTUS FLIEGUS (dir. Emilia Zieser / Germany / 2025)
GENTLY (dir. Jamaica Kindlová / Czechia / 2026)
GHOSTING MOTHER (dir. Bernard Mescherowsky / Germany / 2025)
GIRLS: SEQUOIA ADVENTURES (dir. Edoardo Pasquini, Viktor Ivanov / Bulgaria / Italy / 2025)
GOATS! (dir. Tonći Gaćina / Croatia / 2025)
GONE WRONG (dir. Anne-Linh Jérôme, Ambre Butel, Roman Saunier, Maxime Arnould, Juliette Houël, Adrian Villeda, Alisson Colombe, Ylan Dinguidar / France / 2025)
HAND (dir. Jing Wang / Japan / 2025)
HATKER (dir. Alejandro Ariel Martin / Argentina / 2025)
HEADWINDS (dir. Manuel Camia / Italy / 2025)
HOMING (dir. Hansel Rodrigues, Elizabeth Atherton / Spain / 2026)
HORDE (dir. Janina Ksieska / Poland / 2025)
HOW TO BUILD A SAND CASTLE (dir. Nour Khamis / Equador / 2025)
HOW TO LISTEN TO FOUNTAINS (dir. Eva Sajanová / Slovakia / 2025)
HOW (dir. Marko Mestrovic / Croatia / 2025)
HYENA (dir. Altay Ulan Yang / China / USA / 2025)
HYSTERICAL FIT OF LAUGHTER (dir. Dušan Zorić, Matija Gluščević / Croatia / Serbia / 2025)
ICARUS (dir. Christos Kardana / Belgium / France / Greece / UK / 2025)
IN TEN MINUTES (dir. Xiaoyue Fu / China / 2025)
IN THE NAME OF THE SON (dir. Nikolay Urumov / Bulgaria / 2026)
INHALE (dir. Melana Sokhadze / Georgia / 2024) JACARÉ (dir. Victor Quintanilha / Brazil / 2025)
IVAR (dir. Markus Tangre / Norway / 2025)
JACARÉ (dir. Victor Quintanilha / Brazil / 2025)
JAZZ INFERNAL (dir. Will Niava / Canada / 2025)
JOURNEY OF THE STARS (dir. Klaudia Grancová / Slovakia / 2025)
KOKI, CIAO (dir. Quenton Miller / Netherlands / 2025)
KUDRET (dir. Mehmet Oğuz Yıldırım / Turkey / 2025)
LAST TROPICS (dir. Thanasis Trouboukis / Greece / 2025)
LAZYBONES THE GIANT (dir. Yassen Grigorov / Bulgaria / 2025)
LES VIEUX (dir. Axelle Fuset, Boris Boidron, Fanny Ghesquiere, Lucile Brunet, Jérémy La, Lauren Félines, Maëlys Guillemoteau, Manuel Mabayog / France / 2025)
LO QUE DESAPARECE (dir. Nono Ayuso, Rodrigo Inada / Argentina / Mexico / Spain / UK / USA / 2024)
MADE IN X (dir. Sofia Ivanova-Kozhevnikova / UK / 2025)
ME AND YOU AND SMOKE (dir. Rachel Shiloach / UK / 2025)
MIND YOUR STEP (dir. Alina Milkina / Netherlands / 2026)
MITHER (dir. James Fox / UK / 2025)
MOTHER CLAY (dir. Armin Rangani, Raha Amirfazli / USA / 2025)
MOVING MOUNTAINS (dir. Jessica Poon / Germany / 2024)
NEPHILA (dir. Kristian Zahariev / Bulgaria / 2025)
NESTING (dir. Iyanah Bativala / Czechia / 2025)
NESTLING (dir. Georgi Martev / Bulgaria / 2026)
NIGHTTIME WITH VAMPIRES (dir. Lina Pavlova / Bulgaria / 2025)
NIKOLA, NIKOLA (dir. Leon Ristov / North Macedonia / USA / 2026)
NOBODY BARKS (dir. Júlia Coldwell Serra / Spain / 2025)
OF STONE (dir. Simo Ilić / Serbia / 2025)
ON SAINT NICHOLAS' EVE (dir. Emy Mirel Ivasca / Romania / 2025)
ONCE IN A BODY (dir. María Cristina Pérez / Colombia / USA / 2025)
ONE-WAY CYCLE (dir. Alicia Núñez Puerto / Spain / Portugal / 2025)
PALE SUN (dir. Adrian Moyse Dullin, Jawahine Zentar / France / 2026)
PAST THE HILL OF NAPOLEON'S HAT (dir. Arnas Balčiūnas / Lithuania / 2025)
PEDRO TOMÁS EXPLAINS THE WORLD (dir. Kornelijus Stučkus / Spain / 2025)
PEGASUS (dir. Jean-Erasme Giudicelli / France / 2024)
PLAYGROUND (dir. Matej Longauer, Richard Domos / Slovakia / 2025)
PLAYING GOD (dir. Matteo Burani / Italy / 2024)
PLEDGE (dir. Kristian Iliev / Bulgaria / 2025)
POPLARS (dir. Alexandros Vounatsos / Greece / 2025)
PRACTICAL ITALIAN GRAMMAR (dir. Daniel Cortés / Colombia / Cuba / Germany / 2025)
RISEN FROM RUINS (dir. Harry Besel / Germany / 2025)
SABA (dir. Liron Topaz / USA / 2026)
SCHROEDINGER'S MAN (dir. Asparuh Frangov / Bulgaria / 2025)
SCRAMBLED EGGS (dir. Daniel Varbanov / Bulgaria / 2025)
SHOES AND HOOVES (dir. Viktória Traub / Hungary / 2024)
SIREN (dir. Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier / Canada / 2025)
SKRFF (dir. Corrie Francis Parks, Daniel Nuderscher / Austria / 2024)
SLAP!! (dir. Mikołaj Piszczan / Poland / 2025)
SMALL HOURS (dir. Oscar Wyndham Lewis / UK / 2026)
SNAKE SOUP (dir. Zack Demirtshyan / Armenia / 2025)
SONATA (dir. Tullio Edoardo Rocca / Italy / 2025)
SOS (dir. Anita Morina / Kosovo / 2025)
SPIRIT.DUST.ASHES.SOIL. (dir. Michèle Widmer / Switzerland / 2025)
SPRAY AND PRAY (dir. Veneta Androva / Bulgaria / Germany / 2026)
STARLING (dir. Sara Grgurić / Croatia / 2026)
STATUES ALSO DIE? (dir. Thais Fernandes / Belgium / Brazil / Hungary / Portugal / 2025)
STILL SEXY (dir. Panos Zygouros / Germany / 2025)
STRANGE TEEN SPIRIT (dir. Frank Ternier / France / 2025)
STROKES OF WILDFLOWERS (dir. Livvy Seabrook-Wilkins / UK / 2025)
SUBHARMONICS (dir. Marcell Mostoha / Denmark / Hungary / 2026)
SUNDAYS WITH BEATRICE (dir. Hunter Fine / USA / 2025)
SWITCH (dir. Dalibor Rajninger / Bulgaria / 2026)
SYMPHONY OF SKOPJE (dir. Kristijan Kostadinovski / North Macedonia / 2025)
TANDEM (dir. Rafael Karim Kousz / Austria / Germany / 2025)
TANK (dir. Sami Abusamra / Bulgaria / UK / 2025)
TARIK (dir. Adem Tutić / Serbia / 2025)
TAUT (dir. Ilya Lorenz Barrett / Germany / 2025)
TEENAGE COWBOY (dir. Matteo Gariglio / Switzerland / 2024)
THE BRIDE OF MONT BLANC (dir. Grace T.S.P / UK / 2025)
THE BULL (dir. Victor Nauwynck / Belgium / 2024)
THE DOGLEG (dir. Piotr Szubra / Poland / 2025)
THE END OF HUMAN RACE | PART ONE (dir. Vesely Marek / Austria / 2025)
THE GHOSTS (dir. Federico Papagna / Italy / 2025)
THE KEY (dir. Magdalena Kalieva / Bulgaria / 2025)
THE LAND OF SLUMBER (dir. Jules Vésigot-Wahl / France / 2025)
THE LAST GAMMON (dir. Elmaz Ekrem Littlewood / UK / 2025)
THE MAGICIAN (dir. Bogdan Muresanu / Croatia / France / Romania / 2025)
THE MAN IN THE SHOWERS (dir. Hakim Atoui / France / 2025)
THE MOST HONEST ACTOR (dir. Carson Beale / Czechia / 2025)
THE NEST (dir. Aurélien Coquery, Léa Kermanach, Soline Mauguin, Abel Tixador, Jean Baounon, Romane Selter-Fiette / France / 2025)
THE NEW STATUE (dir. Stefan Dodurov, Nikolay Gunderov / Bulgaria / 2025)
THE PEEL (dir. NanTung Lin / Belgium / Finland / Portugal / Taiwan / 2025)
THE PIANO (dir. Avery Kroll / USA / 2025)
THE PISTON KING (dir. Mazen Hamed Alhaj Salem / Jordan / 2024)
THE RABBIT IS DEAD (dir. Hanis Bagashov / Bulgaria / North Macedonia / 2025)
THE ROAD (dir. Daniel Ahmakov / Bulgaria / 2025)
THE ROBIN THAT NEVER RETURN (dir. Jani Ahlstedt / Finland / 2025)
THE STONEMASON’S DAUGHTER (dir. Arturo Franco / Spain / 2025)
THE UNDYING PAIN OF EXISTENCE (dir. Oscar Jacobson / Germany / 2025)
THE WHALE ISLAND (dir. Yan Chen, Yiming Feng, Yici Cao, Yechu Jin / China / 2025)
THERE IS NO JUNGLE (dir. Marcjanna Urbańska / Poland / 2025)
THINGS MANY EYES HAVE SEEN (dir. Yannick Mosimann / Switzerland / 2025)
TOPSPIN (dir. Michael W Zhang / USA / 2025)
TOWER (dir. Siqi Wei / Japan / 2025)
TRANCE (dir. Jona Schloßer / Germany / 2026)
VENEZIA DIORAMA (dir. Nicolas Piret / Belgium / 2026)
VULTURES (dir. Dian Weys / France / South Africa / 2025)
WARP AND WEFT (dir. Isolda Milenkovic / UK / 2025)
WE USED TO BE FRIENDS. (dir. Lena Dandanelle, Lea Majer, Carolin Kubut / Germany / 2024)
WHAT DOES THE MUD WHISPER? (dir. Dea Tcholokava / Georgia / 2025)
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND (dir. Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte / Canada / 2025)
WHEEE (dir. Kiril Todorov / Bulgaria / 2026)
WHEN OCEAN RISES (dir. Yongxin Wang / Germany / 2025)
WHERE THE WATER USED TO BE (dir. Vanja Vujin / Serbia / 2025)
WHITE VEIL (dir. Žiga Ciber / Ireland / 2025)
WHO LIT THE MOON? (dir. Maya Bocheva / Bulgaria / 2024)
WILD CHERRY (dir. Panos Ziogas / Greece / 2025)
WILL-O’-THE-WISPS (dir. Martin Jeřábek / Czech Republic / 2025)
WISH YOU WERE EAR (dir. Mirjana Balogh / Hungary / 2025)
WISHFUL THINKING (dir. Gergana Dyankova / Estonia / 2025)
WOLFIE (dir. Philippe Kastner / Czechia / 2025)
WON’T BE HERE (dir. Jiali Tan, Haoyuan Zhu / China / 2025)
WOUNDED EDGES (dir. Yannick Mosimann / Switzerland / 2025)
YELLOW BUCKET (dir. Simon Brooke / UK / 2025)
ZIZOU (dir. Khaled Moeit / Egypt / France / Qatar / 2025)
ZǑU (dir. Hannah Wu / UK / 2025)
ZRYWKA (dir. Aram Menua Jesajan / Poland / 2025)
Thank YOU for all the films submitted! Sincere admirations to the teams behind them and all the efforts made to produce these works and make them reach us! Keep up the great work and hope to see more of your work soon!
Congratulations to all those selected – see you soon in Pernik!
