The festival (21 – 27 April 2026) is also organising a retrospective (Portrait) of the Romanian producer Ada Solomon, who has been the new Chair of the Board of the European Film Academy since 1 January 2026.
Virve Aruoja and Jaan Toominga’s recently digitally restored film Colorful Dreams (1974), restored by the Estonian Film Institute (filmi.ee) will screen in the Kaleidoscope programme. The film was digitised in the National Archives of Estonia film archive and restored in 2024 by PlanPro OÜ with the support of the A Season of Classic Films programme.
Other sections of the festival are the Short Film Programme, and Symposium “Cinematic Strategies of Resistance” (23 – 26 April 2026) with films from 1968 to early 1990s.
Main Competition:
Amira’s Children (Czech Republic)
Directed by Marketa Erkt Valkova
The Wind Blows Wherever It Wants (Georgia, USA)
Directed by Ivan Boiko
God Will Not Help / Bog neće pomoći (Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia)
Directed by Hana Jušić
Produced by Kinorama
Coproduced by Nightswim, microFILM, Horsefly Films, Maneki Films, Perfo Production, ERT S.A.
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Eurimages, the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC), the Romanian Film Centre, the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece | Co- Production Window, European Union – NextGenerationEU, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde – Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée – Institut Français, the Slovenian Film Centre, Viba Film, ERT S.A., HRT, Re-Act
A Good Night Kiss / Irenale (Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria)
Directed by Giedrė Žickytė
Produced by Moonmakers
Coproduced by Allfilm, Agitprop
Supported by the Lithuanian Film Centre, Eurimages, Creative Europe MEDIA, the Estonian Film Institute, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Vilnius Goethe Institute, the Estonian Cultural Endowment, the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT)
The Queen and the Smoke House / Baltyk (Poland)
Directed by Iga Lis
Laguna (Lithuania, France)
Directed by Šarūnas Bartas
Cat on My Mind / Es domāju par kaķi (Latvia)
Directed by Laila Pakalniņa
Produced by Hargla Company
Supported by the National Film Centre of Latvia, the State Cultural Capital Foundation of Latvia
The Beauty and the Donkey (Switzerland, Kosovo, France, USA)
Directed by Dea Gjinovici
Clouds Move with Great Speed (Ukraine)
Directed by Roman Ostrovskyi
China Sea (Lithuania, Taiwan, Poland, Czech Republic)
Directed by Jurgis Matulevičius
Sorella di clausura (Romania, Serbia, Italia, Spain)
Directed by Ivana Mladenović
Produced by microFILM, Dunav 84
Coproduced by Nightswim, Boogaloo Films
Supported by the Romanian National Film Centre, Film Center Serbia, the Serbian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals, Eurimages
Black Red Yellow (Kyrgystan)
Directed by Aktan ArymKubat
The Other Side of Summer / Na druhé straně léta (Czech Republic)
Directed by Vojtech Strakatý
Produced by Beginner's Mind
Coproduced by Wolfgang & Dolly, Czech Television, Sleepwalker
Supported by the Czech Audiovisual Fund, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Outliving Shakespeare (Armenia, the Netherlands)
Directed by Inna Sahakyan, Ruben Ghazaryan
Kartli (Georgia, France)
Directed by Tamar Kalandadze, Julien Pebrel
Produced by Sakdoc Film
Tell Me What You Feel (Poland)
Directed by Lukasz Ronduda
