GERMAN SHORTS AT VILA DO CONDE 2026
International Competition
WHISPERS OF A BURNING SCENT by Mo Harawe (SO/AT/DE)
YOU SAY THAT YOU’RE STAYING AT THE PARTY BECAUSE YOU’RE HAVING FUN (DU SAGST, DASS DU AUF DER PARTY BLEIBST, WEIL ES DIR SPASS MACHT) by Siri Hammarén (DE/DK/SE, HFBK Hamburg)
Experimental Competition
DISSONANCE by Jordan Strafer (Fluentum)
UNRUHE by Carlos Pereira (DFFB)
My Generation
THE WEIGHT OF ALL THINGS (ALLES LIEGT AUF IHR UND IST DIE WELT) by Annie Krause (University of Television and Film Munich HFF)
Take One!
BELOW THE SOUP (SUPPENBLAU by André Correia (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Curtinhas
THE SKY WAS CANDY by Anh Tú Nguyen (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
TIME by Max Mörtl, Robert Löbel (Klimpa Studio)
European Short Film Audience Award
I AM A FLOWER by Ariel Victor Arthanto (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Pet Curtas Open-Air Screening for Families and Dogs
THE PRESENT by Jacob Frey (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
In Focus: Mohammad Rasoulof
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof (DE/FR/IR, Run Way Pictures)
THERE IS NO EVIL by Mohammad Rasoulof (DE/CZ/IR, Cosmopol Film)