ON THE EDGE Competition

5.12.2025, 18:00
Klub Fama, 5 Legionowa St
admission free

THEIR EYES
director: Nicolas Gourault
director of cinematography: Yvon, Oliver, Jonel
France 2025, 23’

A screen-based investigation about the invisible workers who teach AI how to read the world.

WE ARE ANIMALS
director: Lorenzo Pallotta
director of cinematography: Lorenzo Pallotta
music: Freddie Murphy, Chiara Lee
Italy 2025, 14’

A man transforms into an animal and shares his emotions and fears. “We Are Animals” explores this metamorphosis as a metaphor for human contradictions, addressing relevant themes such as gender fluidity, power, domestic violence, and judgment, both in small towns and broader contexts.

INSIGNIFICANT SPECKS OF DUST IN A TAPESTRY OF STARS
director: Kyllachy
United Kingdom 2024, 8’15”

Astronauts venture to the moon in search of fresh resources. Illegal miners scavenge depleted gold deposits in Africa. The true cost of progress is complex.

IMAGES OF THE SUMMER
director: Tonči Bakotin
director of cinematography: D. Škrobonja, Tonči Bakotin
music: Ruzina Frankulin
Croatia 2025, 21’09”

At first thought, the seagull’s routine changes only with extreme or sudden changes in weather conditions. But there is another, almost unnoticeable change that runs in parallel. It is a slow change, brought on by human achievements, one of the most significant of which is air travel. Consequently, these changes spread to the economy and ecology.

風流少女殺人事件
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY FOR THE LADY AVENGERS
director: Birdy Wei-Ting Hung
director of cinematography: Ai Chung
music: Yun Fang Tseng
Taiwan, USA 2024, 12’

Taiwan, 1980s. Hot summer day, watermelon juice, and a teenage girl’s sexual awakening with her celluloid fantasies. Shot on 16mm.

WORLD AT STAKE
directors: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
director of cinematography: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
music: Adrian Jonas Haim
Austria 2025, 17’

Shot in sports video games, the film turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains. Nothing less than the world is at stake.

WATER SPORTS
director: Whammy Alcazaren
director of cinematography: Berhil Cruz
music: Caloy Soliongco, Sage Ilagan, obese.dogma777
Philippines 2024, 20’

Sad boys Jelson and Ipe harness the power of their love in an attempt to survive a world devastated by climate change.