EASTWARD WINDOW Competition Set I

6.12.2025, 16:45
Kino Forum, Legionowa 5 St
admission free

PANAŠI
ALIKE
director: Adas Burkšaitis
director of cinematography: Narvydas Naujalis
music: Mindaugas Lapinskis
Lithuania 2025, 15’

Vaidotas (60) hires a young actress to recreate his first date from many years ago. The actress’s incredible physical resemblance to the woman who was at the date back then becomes an opportunity for Vaidotas’s experience to be reborn.

KIIEVI TORT
KYIV CAKE
director: Mykyta Lyskov
Estonia, Ukraine 2025, 22’10”

The events of the movie unfold in modern Ukraine. A child is born into a poor family, the parents do everything possible to survive, but just when the crisis reaches its peak, a new danger flares up.

PES A VLK
DOG AND WOLF

director: Terézia Halamová
director of cinematography: Dusan Husár
music: Krystof Blabla
Czech Republic 2025, 20’

Rudo is a 25-year-old stripper who has chosen to embrace a life of perpetual partying and sleep deprivation. As he navigates through the chaotic nightlife fueled by drugs and dance, memories of his ex-girlfriend Misha haunt him, reminding him of broken promises and lost connections.

KÁMEN OSUDU
STONE OF DESTINY

director: Julie Černá
music: Johuš Matuš
Czech Republic 2025, 11’

The animated musical follows the journey of the anthropomorphized Stone of Destiny. On a path filled with mysterious encounters and hidden symbols, he is driven by a desire for freedom. Singing Stone is accompanied not only by a newfound freedom, but also by a fear of failure.

ELUTEELISED
COHABITANTS

director: Viesturs Kairišs
director of cinematography: Wojciech Staroń PSC, Tomasz Pawlik
music: Juris Vaivods
Estonia 2024, 20’

Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian island in Lake Peipus, on the very border of Russia. The Russian Old Believers who inhabited the island appeared here 300 years ago. As the waves have washed the island smaller and smaller, the community here has also fused over time, inevitably reaching the brink of extinction. However, the local culture and sense of life that developed in isolation from the rest of the “Russian world” has not yet completely disappeared from Piirissaar.