SECTION: Short Film Competition

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Once again, it's curtain up for "The Long Night of Short Films" on Friday evening. 12 films from 10 production countries show how to get to the point quickly or digress briefly, between punchline and mind game, romance and black humour, fantasy and social metaphor.

The jury awards the following prizes in the Short Film Competition:

Main prize 2,500 EUR

donated by Druckzone, Cottbus.

Special prize (to the director)

1.500 EUR donated by Tiede +

In addition to the prize money there is also the prize sculpture LUBINA (Sorbian: the lovely). Here you can see a video of the creation of the LUBINA.

What do you think?

CE ZICI?

Ioana Vatamanu-Mărgineanu
MD / 2021 / 21 min

Situation comedy or thriller? When a young hitchhiking couple get into the car of a suspicious-looking man, you can never be sure.

Slave

NIEWOLNIK

Grzegorz Piekarski
PL / 2021 / 29 min

What if convicts, rather than serve their sentences in prison, were to work as domestic slaves? A dark parable about a distorted social order.

Capsule 1956

CAPSULA 1956

Amiran Dolidze
GE / 2022 / 20 min

With its humorously blustering tone, this short film, captured in the style of Georgian films from the 1930s, tells the story of the revolutionary introduction of the television. In a series of almost preposterous episodes, marriages and friendships ...

Golden Leggins

GKCHP

Arkadii Nepytaliuk
UA / 2022 / 20 min

A day in the life of a Soviet pioneer camp, where young people experience first love whilst their minders pursue their sexual desires and engage in corrupt dealings.

The Inheritance

MOȘTENIREA

Marian Marian Fărcuț
RO / 2021 / 14 min

An old man has died. His carer calls the police and begins to plan for the funeral, and yet wait a minute... Something doesn't seem quite right here.

In The Circle

W KRĘGU

Jan Naszewski
PL / 2022 / 23 min

An entertaining chamber play-like comedy about a women’s circle at which women want to open up and relax; with little success. Taking a satirical approach, the film holds up a mirror to modern-day do-gooder hipster ideals.

Days Without

PROKHODIAT DNY

Ivar Erik Yeoman
EE/ GB-SCT/ PT / 2022 / 15 min

After a chaotic incident involving his wife, a worker is left alone with his one-year-old daughter. He begins to experience doubts about his abilities as a father, as well as about whether he will ever see his wife again.

Last Time

PASKUTINIS KARTAS

Rinaldas Tomaševičius
LT / 2021 / 18 min

A heart-breaking heroin junkie drama about a couple who are expecting a child and, at the same time, desperately struggling to raise money for rehab. Yet when they’ve almost reached their goal, the reality of their addiction catches up with them ...

Primal Therapy

SUOTERAPIA

Santtu Salminen
FI / 2021 / 20 min

A ludicrous trip to the forest with a businessman who is on the verge of burnout and looking for new energy through a special form of self-therapy. In the process he discovers the animal inside himself.

Rites

RITUÁLY

Damian Vondrasek
CZ / 2022 / 16 min

A boy with a cleft lip tries to prove his worth to a street gang, and yet the enticing adventure suddenly turns into a traumatising initiation ritual caught on smartphone. With its vibrant images, the film captures the mania of generation TikTok. ...

High-Stand

LESEN

Péter Karácsony
HU/AT / 2022 / 16 min

Two hunters want to spend a relaxing afternoon in the forest; everything turns out differently however as the tables are turned.