Best Experimental Film

You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer, dir. Max Ferguson, Belgium, Hong Kong, 2023, 5’

You are the Truck and I am the Deer is an experimental short film that explores emotional pain. The film use poetic text to express the feelings of loss, helplessness and overwhelm during the process of accepting the hurt inflicted by others. These emotional wounds are translated visually into a physical and pulsing presence that represents a dark and unsettling image of femininity.

You are the Truck and I am the Deer speaks to a feeling. A feeling of roaming, gnawing hunger. The knife’s edge between decay and growth; the fertile potential for total destruction.

Experimental Film Special Mention

Clouds Become Sky, dir. Rob Terrestrial, UK, 2024, 9’

Clouds Become Sky explores the structures inhabiting nowhere.

The artist takes a selection of hand drawn images and places them in a world of their own making. Allowing them to encompass a space within a world where nothing exists.

Best Experimental Documentary

Skönärit, dir. Milja Viita, Finland, 2025, 63’

Seafearers is a collage film about seafarers based on archival footage shot around the globe by sailors themselves. The script is based on the logbooks, letters and telegrams the filmmaker obtained alongside the footage from a small Finnish port town called Rauma. Through the tragic true-life story of a young sailor, Jalmar Yrjänen, the film portrays the life of those working at sea at the mercy of the natural elements, while also touching upon themes of colonialism and globalization.

Experimental Documentary Special Mentions

Tracks, dir. Arne Körner, Germany, 2025, 29’

Tracks is a film of intense observation. In a world of light, movement, and nature, the film unfolds in each image—not as a story, but as a continuous flow of impressions that connect and develop in their intensity.

Light breaks, moves, reflects, sneaks through the density of landscapes and places. Tracks invites you to see and feel things with a new, more intense perspective.

It is a journey without a goal, a dive into moments that unfold from the constant interaction of light, life, and landscape.

Special Operation, dir. Oleksiy Radynski, Lithuania, Ukraine, 2025, 65’

When the Russian troops occupied Ukraine’s Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, their activities were documented by the CCTV cameras. Special Operation is based on that footage, recorded at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.