The international competition will feature 25 films focusing on humanity and its conceptual and literal fragility, turbulent existential crises, and cracks in time, space and ourselves; the festival opens with an exhibition by Italian visual artist Rosa Barba.

21st 25 FPS Festival will take place from September 23 to 27, 2025 at Kinoteka cinema in Zagreb, with a grand opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art. After Zagreb, the festival continues at Art-kino cinema in Rijeka (September 30, October 1 and 3), and at Multimedia Cultural Centre Split (October 30).

The first Budva Video Art Festival's theme is contemporary nomadism and a glimpse into a new reality. Films chosen for selection have in common a certain sense of wandering, artistic pilgrimage. Works showcased at the first edition are in search of a certain cinematic language and common ground in times of crises. An attempt to observe and describe the rapidly changing context we are placed in as artists and spectators.

Featuring:

Curated by Matt Feldman and Syd Farrington, In Our Sleep brings together the work of 8 artists for a screening of films presented on 16mm. The films offer a unique approach to 16mm filmmaking in their consideration of landscape, domestic space and media as a means of addressing notions of ‘Place’. Through reflections on light, magic, death and dreams, each film considers the importance of what remains unseen and beyond the surface of image.

Programme:

Twelve experimental filmmakers are walking through shifting landscapes of power, resistance, and transformation. The films are balancing on the fragile line between control and liberation, drawn through experimental visual narratives that dissolve linear time and twist perspectives. Across diverse cultures and contexts, the works try to break through the walls of identity, memory.