INT 6
INT is Minimalen's international competition for short films from across the globe, excluding the Nordic countries. 36 of the world's best new short films have been selected and will be presented across six programs.
The directors will be introduced immediately after the screening, giving the audience an opportunity to ask questions.
The awards ceremony takes place on Saturday evening.
Jury

SVEN SCHWARZ
The Managing Director of Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg since 2010, where he also curates special programmes. Board member of the international Short Film Conference and part of the Hamburg-based collective A Wall Is a Screen, which presents short films in public spaces worldwide.

ANNA LIAN
Screenwriter based in Trondheim, primarily working with long-form and short-form fiction. She teaches concept and script development at NTNU and has written short films that have won numerous awards both domestically and internationally. The short film Baby Blues had its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival.

KORNÉL SZILÁGYI
Avant-garde filmmaker working primarily with analogue techniques, best known for his long-standing collaboration with Nándor Hevesi under the names Igor & Ivan Buharov - shown at major international exhibitions and biennials. Szilágyi also directs sound works and documentaries, and is a member of the Berlinale Shorts Selection Committee.
Awards
Awards given by the Int jury

Best International Film
Other awards

The Raskin Spirit Festival Award
Audience Award
Programme
Programme

DAMMEN
Two young women are enjoying the wild surroundings of an isolated lake. It's a sunny day.
Two young women are enjoying the wild surroundings of an isolated lake. It's a sunny day.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER
Set among unused long takes from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939), the film breaks traditional narrative flow as a stand-in wanders the Lincoln Memorial. Lost between monumental pillars, he repeatedly freezes before Lincoln’s statue, trapped in a ritual without progression.
Set among unused long takes from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939), the film breaks traditional narrative flow as a stand-in wanders the Lincoln Memorial. Lost between monumental pillars, he repeatedly freezes before Lincoln’s statue, trapped in a ritual without progression.

BALLAD OF THE MOUNTAIN
An outcast girl must fight the bullies and overcome her fears to pursue her ambition to fly to the other side of the mountain.
An outcast girl must fight the bullies and overcome her fears to pursue her ambition to fly to the other side of the mountain.
tarun1_99@yahoo.com

NORHEIMSUND
A young woman's long-distance relationship with an older Norwegian man promises to pull both her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba. But her dreams are shaken when she realizes he hasn’t been quite honest with her.
A young woman's long-distance relationship with an older Norwegian man promises to pull both her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba. But her dreams are shaken when she realizes he hasn’t been quite honest with her.
flavio.armone@lightsonfilm.org

