Short documentary film competition – part VI
FRIDAY, 06.03.2026, 12:45-14:45, (LOT CINEMA, ST. POCZTOWA 11)
THE GUIDING LIGHT
Through this film, the last female lighthouse keepers pay an intimate and reflexive tribute to the profession that’s defined their lives. It’s not just a profession that’s disappearing… This is a collective requiem for a way of life that’s becoming extinct.
ESP, La luz que nos guia, 2025, 20:00, dir./ prod. Cristina Rodriguez Paz
THE MEASURERS
In a small corner of Spain, Mari Carmen, a 75-year-old woman, and other “measurers” preserve ancient magical-religious traditions. Passed down through generations, these rituals are used to relieve heatstroke, soothe digestive ailments or ward off the “evil eye”.
ESP, Las medidoras, 2025, 20:00, dir./ prod. Gustavo R. Cuneo
THE SUN IS LOW
After breaking up with her partner, a mother takes her eight-year-old son on a camper trip. Now these two will be able to start their lives just together. The journey is accompanied by very insightful conversations between mother and son and painted landscapes. The roles of mother and son are reversed during this short expedition. It is a road movie that becomes a metaphor for the life of a mother and her child.
PL, 2025, 18:08, dir./ prod. Marta Ojrzyńska
GREEN GREY BLACK BROWN
A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.
KOR/FRA/CHN, 2025, 10:00, dir./ prod. Yuyan Wang
NOT ENOUGH FOR THE LOVE INSIDE
Cássio and Otto are two boys in love with each other, but the challenge of losing their sight is also a challenge to stay together.
BRA, O amor não cabe na sala, 2024, 18:00, dir. Wallace Nogueira, Marcelo Matos De Oliveira, prod. Marcelo Matos De Oliveira
GREEN GREY BLACK BROWN
A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime—an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.
KOR/FRA/CHN, 2025, 10:00, dir./ prod. Yuyan Wang
THROUGH THE WINDOW
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 so many small and big human stories, always authentic and not leaving a viewer indifferent?
PL, 2025, 10:00, dir. Daniel Stopa, prod. STUDIO MUNKA – Jerzy Kapuściński, Ewa Jastrzębska, Magdalena Tomanek