The festival features five competitive sections as well as a series of guests that include Reha Erdem, one of the most interesting modern Turkish artists who will present his latest film Singing Women, Wojciech Bąkowski, one of the most original and expressive modern Polish visual artists, who also works in video art, writes poetry, music, and performance art and who will be a juror of the Films about Art International Competition.

Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller will be festival guests and jury members of the European Short Film Competition. Hungarian director György Pálfi, whose latest film, Free Fall, captured the best directing prize at the Karlove Vary film festival will be on hand for a Q&A

There is also a chance to meet Israeli director Amos Gitai, Polish director Adan Jodorowsky, and two screenings of Golden Palm winner Winter Sleep, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan as well as the latest Polish films and shorts.