Worlds Clash: Non-competition Films, Selection #1

FOUR WALLS OF MEMORY // 12 min., Joanna Płatek, Poland, 2024

A story about a girl who wanted to escape her own fear, but accidentally traps herself together with it in a small cabin in the woods. Locked inside four walls, with no way out, she has to deal with hunger, cold and the fear of something that once wanted to hurt her… but now lies dead beside her.

GRANDMA NAI WHO PLAYED FAVORITES // 19 min., Chheangkea, Cambodia, France, United States, 2025

During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.

WORLD AT STAKE // 20 min., Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein, Austria, 2025

A golfer fails to strike, a soccer team plays against itself and a rally co-driver faces an identity crisis. They are surrounded by an audience unable to act. Shot in sports video games, the film “A World At Stake” turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains. Nothing less than the world is at stake.

BAD FOR A MOMENT // 15 min., Daniel Soares, Portugal, 2024

A team-building event goes wrong and brings the owner of an architect studio face-to-face with the lower-class neighborhood that his company is gentrifying.

HURIKÁN // 13 min., Jan Saska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, France, Slovakia, 2024

Hurikán rushes out to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.

SPA // 12 min., Ieva Šakalytė, Lithuania, 2024

Four exhausted women, who don’t know each other accidentally meet at the SPA center. There they get into uncomfortable situations, which happens to be the first step to face their personal problems. Moreover, there is a fifth character, it’s the SPA center itself, trying to be perfect, but failing.