With immense joy and gratitude to all the submitters, selectors, and programmers, we present the official selection of 15th Short Waves Festival!
➔ Over 1500 submissions
➔ 14 competition programs
➔ 79 films selected for the International, Polish, MOVES and RAW competitions
➔ 27 countries (productions from around the world, including France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, the USA, Canada, the Philippines, Malaysia, Iran, Czechia, Estonia, Rwanda, and 14 productions from Poland)
International Competition
- A Kind of Testament / Stephen Vuillemin / France / 2023 / 17’
- ALEXX196 & the pink sand beach / Loïc Hobi / Switzerland / 2023 / 24’
- An Exemplary Punk / Diandra Arriaga / Mexico / 2023 / 11’
- Cyclepaths / Anton Cla / Belgium / 2023 / 12’
- Dildotectonics / Tomás Paula Marques / Portugal / 2023 / 16’
- Grasshopper / Jussi Eerola / Finland / 2023 / 9’
- Hito / Stephen Lopez / Philippines / 2023 / 21’
- I Saw the Face of the Devil / Julia Kowalski / France / 2023 / 35’
- ‘I Want to Go Higher’ / Amanda van Hesteren / the Netherlands / 2023 / 23’
- La herida luminosa: Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays / Christian Avilés / Spain / 2022 / 23’
- Luzonensis Osteoporosis / Glenn Barit / Philippines / 2022 / 23’
- Men of the night / Judith Auffray / France / 2022 / 17’
- Sunspots / Yannick Mosimann / Switzerland / 2022 / 8’
- Scenic View / Maija Blåfield / Finland / 2023 / 15’
- Vitanuova / Niles Atallah / Chile, Mexico, Spain / 2023 / 13’
- Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh at / Kinga Michalska / Canada / 2023 / 36’
- Why Are You Image Plus? / Diogo Baldaia / Portugal / 2023 / 9’
- The Despair of Monkeys / Julián García Long / France / 2023 / 17’
- The End Justifies the Fears / Marcos Montes de Oca / Brazil, Argentina / 2023 / 16’
- The Film You Are About to See / Maxime Martinot / France / 2023 / 10’
- The Wandering Ghost / Félix de Givry / France / 2023 / 14’
- Yugotransport – We Are All on the Same Bus / Boris Hadzija / Germany / 2022 / 23’
- Zoopticon / Thies Mynther, Jon Frickey, Sandra Trostel / Germany / 2023 / 29’
Polish Competition
- As It Was / Damian Kocur, Anastasiia Solonevych / Poland, Ukraine / 2023 / 15’
- Barwoczuły (Panchromatic) / Joanna Zuzanna Suchożebrska / Poland / 2022 / 10’
- Brama Św. Piotra (Saint Peter’s Gate) / Natalia Sara Skorupa / Poland / 2023 / 11’
- No Way Forward, No Way Back / Maciej Stępniewski / Poland / 2022 / 3’
- PASTELOZA / Marta Marianna Kubiak / Poland / 2022 / 5’
- Płot (The Fence) / Tomasz Wolski / Poland / 2022 / 19’
- Skraj (Edge) / Edmund Aleksander Krempiński, Jakub Dylewski / Poland / 2023 / 18’
- Stwór (The Creature) / Damian Kosowski / Poland / 2022 / 22’
- The Body Dissolver / Dominik Ritszel / Poland / 2023 / 11’
- The Night Falls Quietly / Mieszko Dobek / Poland / 2023 / 9’
- W lesie są ludzie (There Are People in the Forest) / Szymon Ruczyński / Poland / 2023 / 10’
- ZIMA / Tomasz Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki / Poland / 2023 / 26’
MOVES Competition
- 100m / Monika Szpunar / Poland / 2022 / 5’
- And Me, I’m Dancing Too / Mohammad Valizadegan / Iran / 2023 / 21’
- Backflip / Nikita Diakur / France, Germany / 2022 / 12’
- Beast / Iwona Pasińska / Poland / 2022 / 9’
- Bright Hours / Brennan Gerard, Ryan Kelly / France / 2023 / 28’
- Cracks Will Come / Daniel Mateo Vallejo / Colombia / 2022 / 18’
- CYBO / Lou Wildemann / Germany / 2022 / 4’
- Dear Passengers / Madli Lääne / Estonia / 2022 / 11’
- FIST / Thomas Bos / the Netherlands / 2022 / 13’
- Flow. Flux. Frame. / Izabela Wiktoria Nykiel, Adrianna Metryka / Poland / 2023 / 10’
- Future Futures – Walter’s Very Bad Day / Brian J. Johnson / Canada / 2022 / 8’
- Impossible Image / Karen Pearlman / Australia / 2023 / 8’
- Issues with My Other Half / Anna Vasof / Austria / 2023 / 6’
- Obscura / Lucas Kua / Singapore / 2023 / 5’
- Marie. Eduardo. Sophie / Thomas Corriveau / Canada / 2022 / 3’
- Reminiscences / Virginie Brunelle / Canada / 2022 / 12’
- Shells / Marie-Magdalena Kochová / Czech Republic / 2022 / 9’
- Terra Mater / Kantarama Gahigiri / Rwanda / 2023 / 10’
- Until / Tanin Torabi / Iran / 2022 / 14’
- Unless We Dance / Fernanda Pineda Palencia, Hanz Rippe Gabriele / Colombia / 2023 / 15’
- Urban Genesis / Fu Le / France / 2023 / 18’
- Usures / Sebastien de Buyl / Belgium / 2022 / 28’
RAW Competition
- A Straight Story / João Garcia Neto / Portugal / 2023 / 10’
- Backup / Gerrit Kuge / Germany / 2023 / 29’
- Cinema for the Dead / Bruno Moreno, Renato Sircilli / Brazil / 2023 / 14’
- Contrapunctus V / Kenji Ouellet / Germany / 2022 / 17’
- Di Visi di Pietra Memoria / Andrea Bordoli / Switzerland / 2022 / 9’
- Ecstasy / Matti Harju / Finland / 2022 / 10’
- Elantra Is Almost A Life / Maja Skjøth Hegelund / United States / 2023 / 7’
- Enlighten / Isabel Medeiros / Portugal / 2023 / 17’
- Enflightenment / Wey Yinn Teo / Malaysia / 2023 / 11’
- For Mouna / Spencer James Bogaert / Belgium / 2022 / 14’
- Flyby Kathy / Pedro Bastos / Portugal / 2023 / 10’
- Furrie / Lucie Grannec / France / 2022 / 9’
- Kibonumwe / Meteorite I / Simon Rittmeier / Germany / 2022 / 12’
- Lamarck / Marian Mayland / Germany / 2022 / 27’
- Manta Ray / Anton Bialas / France / 2022 / 30’
- Mars / Yann les Jours / France / 2023 / 1’
- Promise of a Wild Love / Davi Mello / Brazil / 2022 / 23’
- Slimane / Carlos Pereira / Germany / 2023 / 19’
- The Seventh Shift / Nataliya Ilchuk / Ukraine / 2023 / 15’
- The Shortest Relationship in the World / Xiaoxuan Han / China / 2023 / 1’
- We All Want a Place to Call Our Own / Daniela Delgado Viteri / Ecuador / 2022 / 13’
The 15th Short Waves Festival will take place from November 14 to November 19 (and online from November 20 to November 30). We will invite everyone to participate in over fifty film, music, and interdisciplinary events, live podcasts, Q&A sessions, and club events that will take place in cinemas, cultural institutions, and more in Poznań.
