Short Matters!

10 films
All these short documentaries, features films and animations have received a passport to an international career. The selection includes the films nominated for the European Film Awards in 2024 by Europe’s most important festivals. The Krakow Film Festival belongs to this exclusive group and presents the best European short films from last year. One of them is the short fiction ‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent’ by Nebojša Slijepčević (Croatia), which received the European Film Award in the short film category

  • 2720

    dir. Basil da Cunha
    dok2023

    After a violent police raid in a poor clandestine neighbourhood in Lisbon, a 7-year-old girl seeks to find her missing older brother. At the same time, a young newly released ex-convict tries to start anew, free from a life of crime. The fate of these two will cross in the worst way.

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  • An Orange from Jaffa

    dir. Mohammed Almughanni
    fab2023

    A few kilometres from Jerusalem, the Hizma checkpoint. There has been tension here for decades. Mohammed, a young Palestinian with a temporary Polish identity card, tries to get through the Israeli checkpoint. A succession of drivers refuse to give him a lift. Farouk, a taxi driver agrees.

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  • Ardent Other (Le Mal des Ardents)

    dir. Alice Brygo
    dok2022

    A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.

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  • Clamor (Boucan)

    dir. Salomé Da Souza
    fab2023

    Johannes and Gabin are young, cousins and in love with each other: their story takes place in the South of France.

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  • If the Sun Drowned into an Ocean of Clouds (Et si le soleil plongeait dans l’océan des nues)

    dir. Wissam Charaf
    fab2023

    Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet, as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters — mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?

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  • Pacific Vein

    dir. Ulu Braun
    anim2024

    "Pacific Vein" takes us through a painterly panorama of the US West. Assange stands between imperial, Roman fake buildings as a soda maker and ponders the digitalization of our world. Around him, hippies, artists, and homeless people search for meaning while surveillance cameras capture their messages. Media and fiction merge hypnotically with doc-footage. The empire is diligent and nervous, the American Dream glitched into a ghostly autosuggestion. Where is the enemy, who has the image rights?

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  • The Exploding Girl (La Fille qui explose)

    dir. Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
    anim2024

    For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even 2 or 3 times a day. Her record is seven times. She currently has 192 explosions.

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  • The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Čovjek Koji Nije Mogao Šutjeti)

    dir. Nebojsa Slijepcevic
    fab2024

    February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

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  • Wander to Wonder

    dir. Nina Gantz
    anim2023

    Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator of the series has died, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.

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  • Zima

    dir. Tomek Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki
    anim2023

    A cat lover, Jesus leaving the cross and Christmas carollers holding pitchforks in a snowy and icy scenery. ‘Zima’, a psychedelic journey to a small fishing village, collects as if in a lens the behaviour, customs and vices of the Polish provinces. A horror-like animation in the convention of magic realism.

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