Shorts Program: Futures, Blossoming

Denkst du auch, was ich denk, Couseng (Couseng)
Lotta Becker, Germany, 2025, 16min, German with English subtitles 

Gadje 
Georges Vanev, Bulgaria, 2025, 24min, Bulgarian with English subtitles

All the Love in My Body
Carmen Baltzar, Finland, Greece, 2026, 14min, Greek, Romani, English, Norwegian with English subtitles 

Vtedy na Morave (Once Upon A Time In Moravia)
Rastislav Kupšo, Czechia, Slovakia, 2025, 28min, Slovak with English subtitles  

Followed by a talk with the filmmakers moderated by Heidi Frankl

This program of shorts moves through the interior lives of Romani youth — their language, their memories and how they're told, the fragments of love and passion embedded in the rhythms of everyday life. Taken together, these four films go beyond the mainstream images of Romani subjects as spectacle or sorrow and offer alternative visions. This is a section about the present tense, and about the future that’s quietly and insistently blossoming.

Heidi Frankl is a project manager at the European Film Academy, where since 2012 she has helped drive initiatives like the Young Audience Award and the production of the European Film Awards.