International Competition 4: Fruits of Labour

International Competition presents the short films selected into the competition.

Language: Eng, Fin Duration: 91 min Age Limit: 7+

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  • kalenteri-ikoni Fri 7.3.

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  • Okienko

    Through the Window
    Director: Daniel Stopa
    Country: Poland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 10 min

    They come to buy newspapers and cigarettes, boast, complain, or talk. A mother with a teething baby, a woman worried about her cat’s disease, an old man devoted to the Catholic radio… How many people in the kiosk window with so many small and big human stories, funny and bitter ones, always authentic and not leaving a viewer indifferent.

  • Requiem in Salt

    Director: Sylvia Nicolaides, Nicolas Iordanou
    Country: Cyprus
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 17 min

    It is about death, salt and art.

  • Mother

    Director: Bayaman Zhoomartovich Asanaliev
    Country: Kyrgyzstan
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 13 min

    Bayaman, a young documentarian, becomes intrigued for the first time in his life by how his mother Rakhat manages to work at the maternity ward as an obstetrician-gynecologist. Taking a small camera with him, the young man rushes to capture the night shift, where difficult births, cesarean sections, and even household conversations take place. Sometimes, Bayaman feels like all the hustle and bustle inside the maternity ward is a separate world with its own rules and behind-the-scenes heroes.

  • Rhubarb Rhubarb

    Director: Kate McMullen
    Country: United Kingdom
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 17 min

    In the legendary Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle, Jo and her elderly father produce the pink delicacy that made the region world-famous a century ago. Harvesting by candlelight like their ancestors before them, they could not prepare for the danger looming in the dark.

  • Una monedita

    Just a Coin
    Director: Emanuel Vázquez Santana
    Country: Argentina, Spain
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 9 min

    Pablo is a young man who works cleaning car windshields. With a conflictive family environment and the challenge of spending all day on the street, he faces indifference and rejection while fighting not to lose hope.

  • Le film de sa vie

    The Film of His Life
    Director: Jules Carrin
    Country: Switzerland, France
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 25 min

    A depressed film director returns to the countryside of his childhood under the pretext of preparing a new film, accompanied by an alcoholic producer. But things don't go according to plan and ghosts from the past resurface.