Screening of the awarded films

Resilience (dir. Tomáš Elšík, Czechia, 2025, 80 min)

Pavel and Klara live on the frontlines of a world unraveling. As climate change accelerates, forests vanish, springs run dry, and species disappear. The environment’s fading diversity casts a heavy shadow over their lives—but they refuse to stand by. Pavel has dedicated his life to protecting the fragile ecosystems of spring meadows. With a scythe in hand, he carefully tends the land, preserving rare plant species that might otherwise be lost forever. Klara, unable to reconcile with humanity’s destructive footprint, takes a more urgent path. Alongside her loyal dogs, Viky and Irbis, she roams the landscape, tracking and dismantling deadly bait traps set to harm wildlife. Through their intertwined journeys, Resilience paints a visually striking portrait of human connection to nature. The documentary asks a pressing question: can we reawaken our dormant senses and relearn how to see the world as an interconnected whole?

What If We Run Out of Stones? (dir. Nora Štrbová, Czechia, 2025, 7 min)

At first glance, what could be more inanimate – and therefore anti-cinematic – than the mineral kingdom? Nora Štrbová challenges this declaration, turning it on its head and making stones into a highly kinetic subject. In this humorous essay film shot in 35 mm, stones are finally given a voice as they observe us, judge us and, above all… put up with us.