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European BOO: Connection-Disconnection
The films in this section explore how technology, relationships, and fantasies change our ability to be together—and alone with ourselves. In At Least I Will Be 8 294 400 Pixel, a young man sets out to find a girl whose face he discovers in visualizations of his memories generated by artificial intelligence. My Secret Cyberlove presents a sitcom story about Robert and his sex robot. In the intimate film Scars We Love, a painful conversation between two ex-partners turns into an emotional confrontation full of tears and escapism into memories. The surreal Wish You Were Ear shows a world where people exchange body parts after a breakup and seek wholeness through fragments of past loves. Lost in Galactic Translation follows a lonely scientist who makes contact with aliens and dreams of a new sense of belonging. And Pubert Jimbob opens up a strange, hallucinatory world into which a young man is drawn by a single strange object. Together, the films form a collage of the desire for connection and the necessity of disconnection, which is as inevitable as it is confusing today.
At Least I Will Be 8 294 400 pixel (dir. Marco Talarico, 2024, 15 min, Italy)
Lost in Galactic Translation (dir. Rasmus Lindkvist, 2025, 3 min, Sweden)
My Secret Cyberlove (dir. Bartek Stankiewicz, 2024, 30 min, Poland)
Pubert Jimbob (dir. Quirijn Dees, 2024, 16 min, Belgium)
Scars We Love (dir. Raphaël Jouzeau, 2024, 15 min, France)
Wish You Were Ear (dir. Mirjana Balogh, 2025, 11 min, Hungary)
Total duration is 90 minutes.
Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.
Award for European short film (feature, documentary, experimental, animated). A European film is defined as a film by a European director or a film primarily produced in at least one European country. A short film is defined as a film with a running time of 30 minutes or less. The winners are selected by a professional jury composed of international experts. The competition selection combines professional films and exceptional student works – some of which resonate at major international festivals, while others are our fresh discoveries from places where bold short films are created. We focus on films intended primarily for adult audiences, but we also specifically select titles that appeal to seniors, children, or teenage audiences. The key criterion for us is quality and the search for the best films that resonate across generations and borders.
