Shortkicks Gala 2025

The gala evening of the award winners and the vote for the best short film of the year! These works are in competition:

by Jan Bujnowski | PL | 14 min | 2024 | OmeU | live-action film | with Marcin Bujnowski, Filip Bojarski, Henryk Ceballos, Ignacy Ceballos and others.

After the fall of communism in 1989, color televisions are no longer a luxury item in Poland. The screens in many Polish households are beginning to look more and more like the reality outside the window. But is reality really colorful?

by Bleunuit | BE | 11 min | 2024 | OmeU | Documentary | German Premiere | with André Cédric, Kone Inza, Kouamé Michael and others.

Two friends find themselves on the soccer pitch of their shared childhood in the face of an impending farewell. While one is about to leave, the other sinks into the nostalgia of days gone by. Sol Béni captures this sensitive moment in which a friendship is doomed to end.

by Nils Vanderwaeren | BE | 15 min | 2022 | OmeU | live-action film | German premiere | with Elias Vandenbroucke, Sieber Marly, Zakaria Ridouani, Lore Daelmans, Mathijs Deheegher, Anneleen Laeremans and others.

“Grinta” is a short feature film that shows the world through the eyes of Kenneth. He struggles with multiple sclerosis and yet keeps his illness a secret from those around him. During a soccer match, he reaches a decisive turning point.

by Anna Huix | ES | 21 min | 2023 | OmeU | Documentary | with Karishma Inayat and others.

“Girls Move Mountains” is a short documentary about young girls who use football as a catalyst for equality and independence in the remote Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan.

by Bruno Christofoletti Barrenha | DE | 9 min | 2024 | OmeU | Documentary | Berlin Premiere

The paradoxical emotional world of the “hinchas” (soccer fans) on the day of the death of Argentinian icon Diego Armando Maradona in November 2020. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, millions of people around the world gathered to pay their last respects and mourn him – almost as if in a collective catharsis over the loss of such an emblematic figure.

by Mahtab Pishghadam | IR | 10 min | 2024 | OmeU | live-action film | German premiere | with Aynaz Aghasi and others.

Mahtab unexpectedly has to face her inner reality.