LONG NIGHT OF SHORT FILMS I

Behind the closed doors of this hotel lie very different secrets: the guests try to escape the world for an hour, while the housekeeper goes about her work as usual. Moving between realism and the metaphysical, the film reminds us that life is as fragile and fleeting as morning dew.

On a train leaving to Kazakhstan, three young men are stopped by border patrol, forbidden to leave the Russian Federation, even as the officer mockingly notes that they “suddenly all have grandmothers in Kazakhstan”. One of them, Petya, was called for mobilization but he refuses to fight. Instead, he decides to escape and hide in a nearby town, only to find danger waiting at every turn. A ...

A shy Roma boy is asked to reveal his supposed miracle to a TV crew: he can levitate. But the cameras are only interested in the effect, not in him. A powerful metaphor for how the discriminated Roma minority is treated, between sensationalism and exclusion.

A group of homeless people have settled in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town – but on Christmas Eve, the owner shows up at the door. In poetic, documentary-style images, the winner of the 2022 FFC Short Film Competition, Rinaldas Tomaševičius, uses absurd humour to tell a story about the struggle for dignity.

Primary school student Lani knows the value of money, but he values education above all. As part of the Roma minority, he tries to follow his own path, apart from the community around him. When the petty gangster Balja refuses to pay him and his friend Keno for their labour at his scrapyard, they take matters into their own hands, forcing Lani to confront his morals and choices.

A romantic anniversary at a hotel goes thoroughly off track for Laura and Marius – in this chaos, there is no space for real passion. With charisma, sharp wit, and a warm undertone, this comedy skewers bourgeois sensibilities while raising the ultimate question: what does it take to spark the missing adventure in love?