Student Panorama is a non-competitive section at EnergaCAMERIMAGE featuring student fiction shorts that, although not included in the Competition, stand out for their visual and artistic quality and are a must-see at a festival devoted to the art of cinematography.
This year, the Panorama will present thirteen short films from around the world, arranged into three blocks. Following each one, the filmmakers will have an opportunity to discuss their work with industry professionals during RoundTable sessions. This forum for the exchange of views and ideas will undoubtedly be a valuable experience for participants, enabling them to meet fellow creators and discover their perspectives on cinema. After each block of films presented within the Film and Art School Etudes Panorama, filmmakers present at the Festival will be invited to take part in a discussion of up to 90 minutes.
List of films:
CALL SAMBA
ORIGINAL TITLE: Volej, Samba
DIRECTOR: Jana Švadlenková
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Nikolas Sand
SCHOOL: Akademie Michael Higher Vocational School
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Czech Republic, 2025
Under the influence of a mysterious synthetic drug, exotic dancer Vivienne slips into a distorted night where reality bends and nothing feels stable. As her senses blur, she drifts between memory, withdrawal and surreal visions, unable to tell what’s real and what’s imagined. Haunted by the unresolved tension with her girlfriend, Ava, Vivienne remains trapped in a destructive loop she cannot escape.
CLOSE TO SEPTEMBER
ORIGINAL TITLE: Casi Septiembre
DIRECTOR: Lucía García Romero
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Gemma de Miguel Morell
SCHOOL: Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC)
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Spain, 2025
The film follows Alejandra, a young girl who lives year-round with her family at a modest camping resort. The story explores her struggle with the fear of abandonment, especially as a new romance with a tourist from Madrid brings these insecurities to the surface.
THE DISSIDENT
ORIGINAL TITLE: Rohelise seljakotiga mees
DIRECTOR: Mathias Albrecht
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Villem Sooster
SCHOOL: Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM) of Tallinn University
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Estonia, 2024
One day, a man with a green backpack arrives at a railway station and begins reading a book aloud in the waiting room. This deeply unsettles the order-loving stationmaster, who seeks to have him removed by appealing to higher authorities.
LILY IN THE RAIN
ORIGINAL TITLE: Lily sous la pluie
DIRECTORS: Salomé Brocard, Léonard Faugières
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Félix Fradélizi, Tim Saillant
SCHOOL: École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière
COUNTRY AND YEAR: France, 2025
Lily is going through a rough time and decides to enroll on zany personal development classes. The wellbeing coach running them greets Lily with enthusiasm and offers three pieces of advice: try a niche breathing technique, write mantras and stick them all over her home, and masturbate. Lily tries to follow these absurd suggestions, hoping to put her sadness behind her.
PROBABLY… SEE YOU LATER!
ORIGINAL TITLE: No to pa!
DIRECTOR: Bartosz Gaczyński
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Bartosz Gaczyński
SCHOOL: Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Poland, 2025
A love affair needs to end quickly, but sometimes it’s just not that simple. Inspired by New Wave cinema, Probably… See you later! is a short black-and-white tale about the first glimpse of love that seems to arise as Małgosia and Staszek try to catch the last train home, just before autumn begins.
QUICKSAND
ORIGINAL TITLE: treibsand
DIRECTOR: Nevin Çubuk
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Paul Nägl
SCHOOL: ifs International Film School Cologne
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Germany, 2025
Marco, an 18-year-old footballer from the small village of Lindorf, is about to get the chance of a lifetime: a contract with a major club. But while the whole village celebrates his success, Marco’s fear of the unknown grows. Between Schützenfest celebrations and old friendships, he searches for a way out that will allow him to remain in the world he knows.
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
ORIGINAL TITLE: 가위바위보
DIRECTOR: Eunjung Kang
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Seunghyun Lee
SCHOOL: Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Sciences, Multimedia And Film (GSAIM), Chung-Ang University
COUNTRY AND YEAR: South Korea, 2025
Danbi, a star pupil in everything she does, loses her chance to play her chosen piano piece at a major competition. Determined to win it back, she sets out to master rock, paper, scissors.
ROOFTOP LEMPICKA
ORIGINAL TITLE: Lempicka Trên Mái Nhà
DIRECTOR: Hằng Lương Nguyễn
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Carlos Estrada
SCHOOL: Department of Radio-Television-Film (RTF), The University of Texas at Austin
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Vietnam, USA, 2024
While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness.
SÁRÚ
DIRECTOR: Elena Walsh O’Brien
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Adam McCormack
SCHOOL: National Film School (NFS) at IADT in Dublin
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Ireland, 2025
When a young girl moves into a secluded house on the edge of an ancient forest, she discovers a mysterious fairy ring hidden within it. Drawn by curiosity, she crosses a threshold never meant to be crossed – unleashing the preternatural as the forgotten rules of the old world claw their way back.
SONATA
ORIGINAL TITLE: Sonata a Quattro Mani
DIRECTOR: Tullio Edoardo Rocca
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Alessandro Massaroni, Carlo Salsilli
SCHOOL: Gian Maria Volonté School of Cinematic Art
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Italy, 2025
Ginevra and Giulio are siblings, but that’s all they have in common: even the piano no longer unites them. When Ginevra is forced to sacrifice everything to keep Giulio from destroying himself and ending up behind bars, she discovers within herself the same violent fire that burns in her brother.
STRANGERS
DIRECTOR: Eric Zhang
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Yue Ma
SCHOOL: NYU Tisch School of the Arts
COUNTRY AND YEAR: USA, 2025
A lonely teenage writer photographs strangers with his Polaroid camera, characterising those in each picture. When he re-encounters an eccentric girl whom he photographed earlier that day, his world is turned on its head.
SWEDEN
ORIGINAL TITLE: Schweden
DIRECTOR: Nik Azad
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Annemarie Chladek
SCHOOL: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
COUNTRY AND YEAR: Germany, 2025
A printer that won’t stop printing, civil servants perpetually celebrating birthdays, and a fisherman who never catches any fish. A man finds himself in an office and is confronted with all of this. Reluctantly, he must admit that Sweden was nothing special and that smoking is deadly.
THE THINGS WE KEEP
DIRECTOR: Joanna Fernandez
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Daeil Kim
SCHOOL: University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts
COUNTRY AND YEAR: USA, 2024
When Kate learns that her estranged mother can no longer care for herself, she reluctantly returns to clear the family house and arrange a move to a care home. The task is daunting: her mum has hoarded for as long as she can remember. As Kate unpicks the roots of her mother’s obsession and illness, she comes to realise that the hoarding was, in fact, an act of self-preservation.