"This year's competition will feature 30 of the most interesting Polish and international productions by students and independent filmmakers, which have conquered Sundance, Venice, SXSW Texas, as well as the local festivals Millennium Docs Against Gravity and "Młodzi i Film" in Koszalin. In fact, one of them even has a chance of making it onto the Oscar shortlist," the organizers write about this year's competition selection.

The following will be screened in competition:
 
BAR CROQUETTE FREESTYLE dir. Maria Dakszewicz
HELLO, HEADQUARTERS dir. Zuzanna Zofia Heller
THE CROOKED HEADS dir. Jakub Krzyszpin
HOW TO: LAUGH WHEN U GET HURT dir. Jan Cisiecki, Bartosz Stankiewicz
SLAP!!, dir. Mikołaj Piszczan

The competition also includes films by our graduates!

Additionally, in the Authors Spotlight Extra section (available on the festival's VOD platform – Think Film), you'll see other short films which didn't make it into the competition but were interesting and intriguing enough for the organizers to choose to show them.

Here are our titles:

DIRT dir. Marcin Kluczykowski
MOTHERLAND dir. Gor Arushanyan
DREAM UP TH TITLE dir. Klaudia Fortuniak

On the Think Film platform, viewers can also see the full spectrum of short films. In the SHORTS: BEST OF FILM SCHOOLS – Student films from the Lodz Film School section, we will present a short block of films from recent years, screened and awarded worldwide.

Here they are;

A HANDFUL OF DUST dir. Izabela Zubrycka
ENDS AND BEGINNINGS dir. Klaudia Fortuniak
DANCING IN THE CORNER dir. Jan Bujnowski
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE FOREST dir. Szymon Ruczyński

We invite you to the 16th Kamera Akcja Festival, which also takes place at the Lodz Film School.

Complete list of films in Authors Spotlight Competition: kameraakcja.com.pl/edycja-2025/miedzynarodowy-konkurs-authors-spotlight

See you at the cinema this autumn!