Short documentary film competition – part I
WEDNESDAY, 04.03.2026, 10:00-11:45, (LOT CINEMA, ST. POCZTOWA 11)
THE STONEMASON’S DAUGHTE
O Fieiro, a small village of no more than twelve houses and nine inhabitants, among them Rosa – a ninety-year-old woman who dedicates her last years to watching the rain through the window. Her father was a canteiro, a house builder, before the reservoir changed everything. Rosa remembers how her father lifted the stones and the people transported them from one place to another.
ESP, A filla do canteiro, 2025, 12:00, dir. Arturo Franco, prod. Ana Román Escobar
DICIEMBRE
Ever since Diciembre rode his skateboard down a Medellín highway, a question has been heard again and again: what kind of person would do this? Through a trip to Mallorca, this short film explores a philosophy centred on what he calls his madness.
ESP/MEX, 2025, 20:00, dir./ prod. Diego Poncelet
HITCH 60
Maureen, a teenage girl immersed in London’s 1960s Mod scene, dreams of something greater than the world of fashion and pop music. She craves adventure and to break away from her mundane job in the city, so she convinces her best friend Sherry to embark on a daring journey toward the Middle East. Nearly six decades later, the two women reflect on their unforgettable adventures of the golden age of hitchhiking.
QAT/UK, 2025, 19:00, dir. Sara Al Obaidly, prod. Basel Owies
DEAD TONGUE
In 1980, Ricardo Rifo was instructed as a dog trainer by Ingrid Olderöck, the most powerful woman of the secret police during the Chilean dictatorship. Four decades later, in the midst of an inhospitable and devastated landscape, the farmer wanders besieged by the impossibility of enunciating the horror.
CHL, Lengua muerta, 2025, 24:00, dir. José Jiménez, prod. Sebastián Sanchez Barrientos
IN RETROSPECT
1970. A small town is being built for the Summer Olympics in Munich: a subway station, a stadium, a swimming pool and the large the Olympia shopping mall. Many migrants work on the construction site.
2016. Nine people are murdered in a right-wing terrorist attack at the Olympia shopping mall. All the victims have a migrant background.
1982. Sohrab Shahid Saless, an Iranian director, shoots a film in West-Germany as a response to the rapid increase in racism.
D, Rückblickend betrachtet, 2025, 15:00, dir./ prod. Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi