The 5th edition ART EXPERIMENTAL SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL FRESH STREAM

Flight – A Cinematic AI-Generated Animated Short | Emotional Microfilm About Penguins, Dreams & Belonging Welcome to "Flight" — an emotionally resonant, hyper-real, AI-generated animated short film that follows the heartfelt journey of three penguins defying gravity, expectation, and fate. Crafted with cutting-edge AI tools like Runway, and Kling, and brought to life through ultra-realistic textures and cinematic storytelling, Flight is more than a short film — it’s a metaphor for dreaming beyond limitations. 🎬 Directed through machines by EchoFrame Studio SYNOPSIS: In a frozen world of silent yearning, a brave young king penguin dares to dream of flying. With two loyal friends — a mischievous chinstrap and a thoughtful macaroni penguin — the trio embarks on a journey of discovery, loss, and triumph. As they defy the laws of nature, they remind us that belief, imagination, and friendship can rewrite what’s possible.

A restless night's sleep. A fragile refuge. A regression. Just let me sleep.

"I Don't Know What to Do" is a film about a young girl named Lizzie who spends an afternoon playing with a lizard she found in her garden. An accident occurs, and the lizard is hurt. Filled with sadness, Lizzie gently buries the lizard and places a flower on its grave, highlighting her tenderness and the fleeting nature of life.

A short AI film exploring morals in medieval Japan. During that time, samurai practiced a custom known as "tsujigiri" (辻斬り). This film is a brief sketch of how such an event might have unfolded.

2D animation sci-fi/drama about a world that has become a toxic place, and how one girl confronts it.

The film consisting of several dozens of original risograph prints, is an under-the-camera, straight-ahead animation improvised to the rhythm of the scores of Hungarian Barabás Lőrinc jazz trumpeter and composer.

At the heart of the film is the search for the Ossetian folk song "Khubady" and the fading memories associated with it, particularly in the regions of Georgia and South Ossetia. In February 2024, Keyhani, accompanied by a small film crew, visited the Georgian cities of Tbilisi, Tserovani, Ninigori, and Lagodekhi to find people who still remember this folk song. The uprooting and the longing to one day be able to "return" link the protagonists of the film to Keyhani’s own story, as well as to her family and the formative experiences of her childhood. These are memories that begin to fade, and languages that are no longer spoken. However, the film offers a hopeful look into the future, as the search itself becomes the central theme. "Search for Khubady" challenges the significance of borders and suggests that borders tend to erode identities rather than protect them. The film invites the audience to reflect on the tension between homeland, belonging, and an increasingly interconnected world.

“Deluge” is an ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. Memories are formed, reshaped, and obliterated, relentlessly competing for space. Control is surrendered, and mistakes and second chances are embraced. It is the slow stampede of a vulnerable mind.

*Silver Dust* is a poetic short film exploring solitude, ritual, and transformation. it follows a lone woman as she methodically stretches white strings across her surroundings, weaving an enigmatic pattern. Her actions, both deliberate and instinctive, blur the line between creation and entrapment. With a balanced, natural contrast and a meditative pace, *Silver Dust* invites viewers into a hypnotic experience where meaning lingers in the spaces between motion and stillness.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud contrasts the tranquility of nature with the hectic pace of the big city. A metaphorical journey into nature, love and poetry.

DYNAMICS (Frozen Movements) is an experimental, dreamy and surreal stop-motion film, created using everyday materials. The film offers a visual reflection on transformations that emerge through the intuitive blending of dissimilar elements. The result is a non-narrative art film where fantasy, form and texture merge into a sensory experience. This short animation invites viewers to surrender to a world where logic gives way to atmosphere and intuition. The hypnotic soundscape enhances the avant-garde character of the film and leaves plenty of room for personal interpretation.

“Zoya” is a story about the collision of dreams with reality, the unspoken rules of social hierarchy and the quiet rebellions that define who we are. Set within the ageing confines of Awasthi Masala Pvt. Ltd., Zoya, the unassuming office butler harbors a quiet yet reckless infatuation with Aniket Chaudhary – the charismatic new boss and son-in-law of the Awasthi family, poised to ascend as the company’s next CEO. Aniket’s arrival into the sluggish workplace jolts Zoya out of her immediate reality and into her vivid fantasies. Aniket’s simple order of a black coffee without sugar is as though a cautionary sign from cupid – a warning against her forbidden desire. Yet, in a moment of subtle defiance, she adds a hint of sweetness to his cup. Each sip he takes fuels Zoya’s imagination of a world in which they are drawn closer in a precarious dance of desire and silent rebellion. However, her dream shatters when Tara, Aniket’s elegant fiancé, enters whose seamless integration into Aniket's life and the company serves as a painful contrast to Zoya’s unrequited longing, underscoring the rigidity of social hierarchies and the futility of her desires. In a rare late-night encounter, Zoya sees the man behind the title—a kindred spirit burdened by expectations and struggling against the confines of inherited privilege. As Aniket’s farewell day approaches, Zoya is left to confront her own illusions and make a final choice: will finally surrender to the unyielding forces of societal expectations that have defined their fleeting connection or will she say her goodbyes as an equal?

"Naguala” delves deep into the rich Mexican traditions of nagualismo, loosely translated as shapeshifting, offering a captivating and immersive experience. This three-channel video and two-channel sound project explores the mystical realm of the naguala, where the boundaries between, animals, plants, earth, cosmos, reality and the supernatural dissolve and are reconfigured. The Naguala guide invites you to consider yourself beyond the human form, forever transforming, continually being woven into the fabric of life and death, the macro and the micro. The naguala asks, "Who are you outside of your skin?"

Iris, a wheelchair-bound young woman, is recruited into testing a cutting-edge device that hijacks the mind and induces vivid dreams. As she assesses a prototype that is as dangerous as it is revolutionary, Iris struggles to accept her physical reality.

After a tiring return home,Meiya,a factory worker drifts in Hangzhou,embarks on a pursuit into dance.Her heart is divided between living in lucidity and perishing in shadows.In the midst of fantasy and stark reality she dances.

Spektrum’s latest adventure documentary series takes you into the world of mountain climbing. ‘Pure’ Hungarian mountain climbing expeditions – the ones that do not rely on oxygen tanks and high mountain porters, so called ’alpine’ expeditions – become the focus of the story through the lives of six Hungarian mountain climbers. Their biographies are adventurous, entertaining, sometimes fateful and often tragic. Three of them are no longer with us, they are held by their beloved mountain.