KINO NIGHT, which has become an unbreakable festival tradition and breaks attendance records, will once again treat the festival audience to 5 hours of good short cinema! The generous programme includes 19 inspiring, tear-jerking, eyebrow-raising and nerve-tickling films. The Film Night will take place exclusively on 17 January in all Festival cities. Don't miss the chance to enjoy the most creative films of recent years by foreign and Lithuanian filmmakers! FILMS Ashen Sun Director. Camille Monnier / animated / France, Belgium / 2024 / 13 min. As the sun rises, Charlie gets bored and dreams of going to the seaside. Unfortunately, she is forced to stay in a crappy motel with her cousin Jess. The teenagers disagree and fight about everything. The radio announces the end of the world. The pool is empty, the sun is scorching and the tension is rising: the ecological apocalypse announced on the radio is suddenly becoming reality. Pen / Left-Handed Pen Dir. Adas Burkšaitis / feature / Lithuania / 2024 / 18 min. A sunny summer afternoon in a suburban school. A teacher learns that her son's bad exam paper will ruin his dream of studying at a prestigious foreign university. The film raises questions about morality and the pressure to achieve the desired result. What compromises is the mother willing to make to ensure her son's future success? Bad For a Moment Director. Daniel Soares / fiction / Portugal / 2024 / 15 min. When a company event takes a turn for the worse, the owner of an architectural studio finds himself confronted with a lower-class neighbourhood that his company is gentrifying. Montsouris Park Director. Guil Sela / fiction / France / 2024 / 14 min. On a sunny autumn day, Jacques and Nathan are looking for interesting people in Monsouri Park for their documentary. Two friends catch their attention and are caught up in an unexpected moment. Dancing in the Corner Dir. Jan Bujnowski / feature / Poland / 2024 / 14 min. After the fall of communism in Poland in 1989, colour TV is no longer a luxury item. In most Polish homes, the screens are beginning to resemble the reality outside the window. But is reality really in colour? The Miracle Director. Nienke Deutz / animation / Belgium, Netherlands, France / 2023 / 15 min. "The Miracle is a place where the sun shines all the time, there are plenty of opportunities to relax and food is plentiful. But how do you get used to a place where things you don't own are constantly thrown in your face? Immaculata / Immaculata Director. Kim Lêa Sakkal / feature / Germany, France / 2024 / 22 min. Derry is pregnant, although she has not yet had sex. In the height of summer, supernatural signs awaken doubts about the real reason for her mysterious conception. I Buy Directed by. Martynas Norvaišas / feature / Lithuania / 2024 / 8 min. Customers of a shopping mall in a car park list their purchases for the day. Item by item, their lists merge into a meditative flow of goods in which buying is not in the light of consumerism but in the light of existentialism. Kawauso / Kawauso Director. Akihito Izuhara / animation / Japan / 2023 / 15 min. "Kawauso means Japanese river otter. One day, a girl meets a Japanese river otter. They try to get along, but they don't get along very well. This is because the Japanese river otter is now extinct and can no longer communicate with the girl. On the road / On the Way Dir. Samir Karahoda / fiction / Kosovo / 2024 / 15 min. While driving in a car, a child and his father engage in a complex discussion that gives a clearer understanding of the reality of today's Kosovo society. Pigeons are dying, when the city is on fire Dir. Stavros Markoulakis / fiction / Greece, Netherlands / 2023 / 21 min. On the hottest day of the year, two guys meet. A few hours later, a pigeon flies into their apartment and can't fly away. In this heat wave, everyone dreams of escaping the sweltering city. Happy holidays! / Happy Next Year! Dir. Lukas Kacinauskas / feature / Lithuania / 2024 / 18 min. On New Year's morning, Šarūnas wakes up in his bed, with the barely familiar but very charismatic Martinas by his side, and Šarūnas's girlfriend Iveta taking a shower. He tries to understand what happened yesterday, and will life ever be the same again? Meanwhile, Martin wishes him a happy next year. Shoes and Hooves Dir. Viktoria Traub / animation / Hungary / 2024 / 15 min. Paula, a centaur who works as a pedicurist in a small town, dreams of having human feet. She meets and falls in love at first sight with Arnold, a human crocodile. Will Paula dare to take the first steps towards her own identity? What will be the price of her struggle to fit in and suppress her true self? A Wake Dir. Marius Pocevičius / feature / Lithuania / 2025 (world premiere) / 12 min. During a pandemic, a daughter tries to organise her mother's funeral as traditionally as possible to avoid spreading unpleasant gossip, but the funeral still turns into chaos. Which Which / VOLCELEST Dir. Éric Briche / animated / France / 2023 / 15 min. Winter. In search of food, a little marmot comes to a farm where chickens are kept. His arrival threatens the fragile existence of the man who lives there. You can't get what you want but you can get me Dir. Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh / documentary / Netherlands, Finland / 2024 / 13 min. Transgender artist couple, Samira Elagoz and Z Walsh, have created a sincere and racy ode to their mad love from moments captured in photographs over the years: their first kiss, meeting their parents, virtual sharing of seductive photos, a beach wedding, a sex-change operation, recovering from the surgery and so on. She Stays / She Stays Director. Marinthia Gutiérrez / fiction / Mexico / 2024 / 10 min. In the heart of nighttime Tijuana, Laura faces her destiny. Mushrooms / Shrooms Director. Jorge Jácome / fiction, documentary, experimental / Portugal / 2023 / 18 min. Scientists experiment with the benefits of the "magic mushroom" psilocybin in the treatment of depression. In Lisbon, Dan, a young Venezuelan man, collects mushrooms in the woods and, like a latter-day Robin Hood, sends them in carrier pigeons all over the city to those in need of help.