PROGRAMME 1
– SURROUNDING INTIMACY
NOKTURNO
Martina Testen, Simon Šerc | SLO 2026 | 12‘02‘‘
Premiere: AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
Nokturno is a short atmospheric film that drifts through a moonlit forest, where the camera slowly traverses shadowed landscapes alive with the sounds of nocturnal animals. The haunting calls of owls, the distant howls of wolves, and the resonant cries of deer and foxes weave together into a rich, immersive soundscape, revealing the hidden symphony of the night.
Luna
Aurora Ovan | IT 2026 | 15‘
Premiere: AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
In the dystopian year 2045, the world is divided into two great countries at war: Nature and the City. Luna, a young, rebellious shaman-in-training, wants to prove to the guardians of Nature that the city’s inhabitants can still change. She enters the City illegally in search of evidence. Luna is a sci-fantasy adventure about how anyone can make a difference to our planet’s future.
Advice on Life | Ratschläge zum Wohlergehen
Hubert Sielecki | A 2025 | 5‘58‘‘
Premiere: CARINTHIAN PREMIERE
His grandfather’s voice offers him advice on life. Set against short clips from wars, mostly showing explosions, the advice takes on a different meaning. In light of today’s conflicts, both text and images feel especially timely.
Marblemumbles
Anna Vasof | A 2025 | 1‘51‘‘
Premiere: CARINTHIAN PREMIERE
“Marblemumbles” is an exploration of urban decay and natural resilience set in a marble quarry. Paper posters of building façades are applied to a heap of marble stones, forming a new city that seems both constructed and mysteriously destroyed. The accompanying film enhances this ambiguity with a soundscape mixing city and quarry noises.
All Buildings Are Beautiful
Christoph Schwarz | A 2026 | 20‘15‘‘
Premiere: CARINTHIAN PREMIERE
The demolition of the former University of Economics on Althangrund in Vienna could become the largest demolition and redevelopment project of the decade in the city. An ageing university complex from the early 1980s is set to make way for a new, sustainable educational campus. This careless treatment of the building fabric and the embodied grey energy within the structure is emblematic of an era in which, despite an accelerating climate crisis, we cling to concepts from the past. To film “All Buildings Are Beautiful”, Christoph Schwarz rented a studio the last year the building was accessible. Slow tracking shots allow the viewer to experience the spaces, whilst Suse Lichtenberger’s voiceover tells the stories of people campaigning to preserve the building. As in “The best city is no city at all” (Austrian Short Film Award 2021), Christoph Schwarz combines personal experiences and a documentary search for clues with climate-driven criticism of growth to create a film essay that is both humorous and poignant.
Bridge Listener | Poslušalka mostov
Miha Mazzini | SLO 2026 | 20‘
Premiere: WORLD PREMIERE
Hana lives alone and keeps the family tradition of running the roadside inn, though no one needs it anymore since traffic was diverted to the highway. One day, she receives a guest: a woman whose profession she didn’t know existed. The bridge listener has come to listen to the highway bridge, but ends up hearing everything else—even the darkest secrets.
No One Ever Looked at Elephants as You Do | Nihče ni nikoli gledal slonov kot ti
Sandra Jovanovska | SLO 2026 | 9‘57‘‘
Premiere: AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
NO ONE EVER LOOKED AT ELEPHANTS AS YOU DO is a lyrical and visually rich animated poem exploring the transformation of motherhood into a pure, primal state of being. Within the mechanical boundaries of the body – skin, body hair, mother’s milk – an intimate alchemy takes place. The baby’s perspective, from the womb to its first steps, becomes a lens through which the mother re-experiences the world. She is no longer just a woman; she becomes an Earth Mother: an ecosystem charged by magic and raw biology. Food morphs into soil, toys into living creatures, and the body into a garden. The film is a hymn to the inexplicable force of the organic bond between mother and infant.