Competition Programs for 25 FPS 2025!
Our Competition programs for the 21st 25 FPS Festival have been finalized. A total of 25 films have been selected for the Internationational Competition and five films in the Croatian program, which now becomes a separate competitive section.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Al Basateen, Antoine Chapon, 25’, FR, 2025
Archipelago of Earthen Bones – To Bunya, Malena Szlam, 20’, AU, CA, CL, 2024
Arguments in Favour of Love, Gabriel Abrantes, 10’, PT, 2025
Being John Smith, John Smith, 27’, UK, 2024
Buseok, Kyujae Park, 18’, KR, 2024
Climate Control, Sarah Lasley, 15’, US, DE, 2025
Die ganze Nacht, Alejo Franzetti, 15’, DE, AR, BF, 2025
Green Grey Black Brown, Yuyan Wang, 11’, FR, KR, CN, 2024
Hemispheres, Eric Stewart, 8’, US, 2025
L'mina, Randa Maroufi, 26’, FR, MA, 2025
Les rites de passage, Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell, 14’, DE, 2024
Loynes, Dorian Jespers, 25’, BE, FR, MK, UK, 2025
Momentum, Nada El-Omari, 19’, CA, 2025
ODAMADO, Émilien Dubuc, 26’, FR, 2024
Okay Keskidee! Let Me See Inside, Rhea Storr, 20’, UK, 2025
Parientes del Valle Luminoso, Juan Francisco Rodríguez, 12’, CO, DE, 2025
Pidikwe, Caroline Monnet, 10’, CA, 2025
Pneuma, Adrià Expòsit-Goy, 16’, ES, 2025
Scrap, Noémie Lobry, 18’, FR, 2025
Sinking Feeling, Zachary Epcar, 21’, US, 2024
Soixante-sept millisecondes, fleuryfontaine, 15’, FR, 2025
The Garden of Electric Delights, Billy Roisz, 12’, AT, 2025
L’ Acqua Xe Morta / The Water Is Dead, Benjamin Darville, 15’, UK, DE, 2025
Their Eyes, Nicolas Gourault, 23’, FR, 2025
Wind, Mike Hoolboom, 9’, CA, 2023
CROATIAN COMPETITION / REFLEXES 2025
Alisa u zemlji, Maja Ležaić, 11’, HR, 2025
Balkon na ulicu, Marija Georgiev, 6’, HR, 2025
Crnognoj, Tin Žanić, 12’, HR, 2025
Exterminata, Vladislav Knežević, 24’, HR, 2025
Interferencije, Karla Mesek, 8’, HR, 2025
Our Grand jury – Erika Balsom (film scholar and critic, UK), Stoffel Debuysere (film scholar and curator, BE) & Michael Robinson (film director and professor, US) – will decide on the awards in the International Competition and also present their programs, while the Critics Award and Croatian Competition Grand Prix will be in the hands (and minds) of our Critics jury – Bartol Babić Vukmir (film critic, HR), Dario Dunatov (film selector and journalist, HR) & Vanja Gajić (film critic, SI).
The Festival will open with an exhibition of sculptural film installations by visual artist Rosa Barba, Meaning Distances, on September 23, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Invited to present their expanded cinema performances are the French trio La Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, with their first performance in Zagreb since 2009, and Spanish artist Enrique del Castillo with a sound performance using optical readers.
We are eagerly awaiting September and our celebration of experimental cinema (and beyond)!
Stills: Buseok (1), Their Eyes (2), Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya (3), The Orchards (4), Pidikwe (5), Arguments in Favour of Love (6), Scrap (7)