19/09/2026

Two days of lectures and films at Dispersions seminar

The Dispersions seminar leads us into the festival week on Monday, September 21 & Tuesday, September 22, at KIC (Culture and Information Center). The two-day event brings several lectures and film programmes, alongside a workshop, all delving into the 'phenomena of scattered attention'. All the programmes will be in English.

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16/09/2026

Expanding audiovisual possibilities of film with Expanded Cinema and Kino 23

The 22nd edition of 25 FPS Festival features three expanded cinema performances, with a pioneer of the British avant-garde Guy Sherwin, filmmaker and artist Lynn Loo, and moving image composer Luis Macías. Sherwin and Lynn Loo will also present their specially curated film programme, and Kino 23 includes the explosive film Krakatoa by Carlos Casas.
 

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11/09/2026

Painted films, corografías and tracing collectivity in Jury's Choice programs

For the upcoming 25 FPS Festival, the members of our Grand Jury - filmmakers Alia Syed, film programmer and scholar Gloria Vilches and film historian Federico Windhausen - have curated special programs for challenging traditional structures and conventions, featuring ‘painted films’, ‘corografías’, films in the interplay between voice, text and image.

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07/09/2026

Presenting the Croatian Competition & the ESFN panel

This year's Reflexes, competition program of Croatian experimental cinema, comprises eight films, and there will be a panel organized as part of the European Short Film Network's program, titled Beyond the Festival Circuit: Pathways for the Circulation of Short Films.

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03/09/2026

25 FPS 2026: From Resistance to Different Realities

The 25 FPS Festival announces its 22nd edition, taking place September 22 – 26 at Kinoteka Cinema in Zagreb, and kicking off with a iconic opening performance by Guy Sherwin at Histrionski dom. Special events await us at Studio-galerija Klet and the Academy of Fine Arts during the festival, with Dispersions, a two-day seminar, to be held at Surogatkino (KIC), on September 21 & 22.

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31/08/2026

Book promotion: the Croatian edition of A Companion to Experimental Cinema

As part of the upcoming Festival’s program, we will present a Croatian translation of A Companion to Experimental Cinema, an instructive collection of essays edited by Federico Windhausen, a film historian, curator and a member of this year’s Grand Jury.

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