The competition programmes feel the pulse of current global filmmaking, transforming the city into an international short film hub for six days.
The best works from all competition categories will be honoured with prizes at the Award Ceremony on Sunday.

Other Saints
Jorge Polo/Guilherme Souza / Brazil 2026 / 24'46" / colour / Portuguese / Fic
Along the coast of Búzios, Brazil, a geologist traces rocks bearing witness to the birth of the Atlantic, while a band inhabits the same landscape in another time. As geological and human traces converge, buried histories emerge through sound, memory, and movement.

Una película robada
Camilo Restrepo / Colombia 2026 / 11'31" / colour / Spanish / Exp
It's theft, plain and simple. The filmmaker wanted to make a movie, but he didn't have the money to do it. So he decided to steal one that was already made. They shot it in his country, Colombia, and they did a great job.

Pithead
Wannes Vanspauwen/Pol De Plecker / Belgium/France 2026 / 15'26" / colour / Dutch / Fic
In a freezing dreamlike landscape, a woman braves the blizzard to take refuge in a black metal bar, before discovering a penguin stranded in a nearby tree, separated from its colony.

Singing of the Evening Stars
Iris Sang / China/USA/Estonia 2026 / 22'16" / colour / English / Doc/Exp
One night in downtown Los Angeles, a man hears the call of a cuckoo from his childhood. Seeking the source of the elusive sound, he slips into a dream where the songs of vanished birds uncover what has long been lost and buried in the land and himself.