Focus: Experiment is a competition for filmmakers who are looking for new forms of storytelling, contradicting logic, broken patterns and changing of the composition rules. As a result of their experiments, unique productions arise that help us look at our world from a whole new perspective.

The Eyeball Person, dir . Yuri Muraoka (Japan) 2023, 12’, 16+ 

This film is about gazes and goodbyes. An attempt to weave images with words and to weave a poem with images. I realize that living is suffering to see that Nemu, the one of my daughters, squirms with the struggle and sunflowers squirm to try to bloom.

Film presented at the Oberhousen ISFF.

Sweet Moon, dir. Mayur Prakash Kulkarni (India) 2024, 14’, 13+

An experiment exploring the boundaries between the sense of sight and hearing. We observe time and space through a visual journey of patterns, colors and correlations.

Polish premiere.

Square the Circle, dir. Hanna Hovitie (Finland) 2023, 17’, 16+

How to be a circle in a square world? In a two-dimensional space, beyond time, a person seeks their belonging to the world through a journey to infinity.

Polish premiere.

Nothing Special, dir. Efrat Berger (France) 2024, 15’, 15+

Two women wait between four walls. One wants death to come for her. The other wants her life to finally begin.

Film awarded at Ann Arbor FF.

Polish premiere.

Suffer, dir. Ka-yeon Seo (Republic of Korea) 2022, 15’, 13+

The director’s personal story of an unexpected illness that paralyzed her legs, and the painful road to recovery.

Polish premiere.