AFO 61 official selection is ready!

25. 3. 2026

The competition sections are the heart of the festival program every year. The programming team has selected 52 films and 10 immersive projects from Czech and international productions of the past two years to compose this year’s official competition selection. Take a look now at what you can look forward to from April 28 to May 3 at the 61st AFO!

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

  • Afterlives (Afterlives, dir. Kevin B. Lee, Germany, Belgium, France, 2025)
  • André Is an Idiot (André Is an Idiot, dir. Tony Benna, USA, 2025)
  • Expedition to the South Pole – Is Antarctica Melting? (Expedition zum Südpol – Schmilzt das ewige Eis?, dir. Tatjana Mischke, Ines Reinisch, Germany, 2025)
  • Humboldt USA (Humboldt USA, dir. G. Anthony Svatek, USA, 2026)
  • Ideas of Order (Ideas of Order, dir. Erin Espelie, USA, 2026)
  • Just Our Heart (Just Our Heart, dir. Maartje Nevejan, Netherlands, 2026)
  • Life in Fluo (La Vie en fluo, dir. Rachel Guénon, Samuel Guiton, France, 2025)
  • Looking for Simone (Le Deuxième Sexe: Sur les traces de Simone de Beauvoir, dir. Nathalie Masduraud, Valérie Urréa, France, 2024)
  • Menopause Mystery (Mysteriet om Menopausen, dir. Louise Unmack Kjeldsen, Denmark, Norway, Germany 2026)
  • Nuisance Bear (Nuisance Bear, dir. Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman, USA, 2026)
  • Out of Plain Sight (Out of Plain Sight, dir. Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia, USA, 2024)
  • Phenomena (Phenomena, dir. Josef Gatti, Australia, 2026)
  • Shells: Shaped by Nature (Shells: Shaped by Nature, dir. Henk Ekermans, Austria, 2025)
  • Snow Leopard Sisters (Snow Leopard Sisters, dir. Ben Ayers, Sonam Choekyi Lama, Andrew Lynch, United Kingdom, 2025)
  • Super Nature (Super Nature, dir. Ed Sayers, United Kingdom, 2025)
  • The Documentary Journey of Madame Anita Conti (Voyage de documentation de Madame Anita Conti, dir. Louise Hémon, France, 2024)
  • Time and Water (Time and Water, dir. Sara Dosa, USA, Iceland, 2026)
  • Underland (Underland, dir. Rob Petit, USA, United Kingdom, 2025)
  • When Animals Grieve (Meme Les Animaux Pleurent, dir. Jacques Mitsch, France, 2025)
  • Yrupe (Yrupẽ, dir. Candela Sotos, Spain, 2025)
Time and water

Time and Water, Sara Dosa, 2026

phenomena

Phenomena, Josef Gatti, 2026

CZECH & SLOVAK COMPETITION

  • 1+1+1 (1+1+1, dir. Ondřej Vavrečka, Czechia, Slovakia, 2025)
  • AMOOSED: a moose odyssey (AMOOSED: losí odysea, dir. Hana Nováková, Czechia, Slovakia, 2025)
  • Death of Death (Smrti smrt, dir. Dāvis Sīmanis, Czechia, Latvia, 2025)
  • Flying into the Landscapes of the Past (Lety do krajin minulosti, dir. Josef Císařovský, Czechia, 2025)
  • Into the Carpathian Wild: Summer (Život v Karpatoch: Leto, dir. Erik Baláž, Slovakia, 2025)
  • Resilience (Při zemi, dir. Tomáš Elšík, Czechia, 2025)
  • Smoke (Smoke, dir. Robin Kvapil, Czechia, 2025)
  • Stone Age Voyagers (Mořeplavci pravěku, dir. Tomáš Kratochvíl, Czechia, 2025)
  • The Cost of Convenience (Cena za snadnost, dir. Vojtěch Klinger, Czechia, 2026)
  • Troublemaking Women (Potížistky, dir. Bibiana Beňová, Kateřina Kořínková, Czechia, 2025)
  • Visitor Jindřich Polák (Návštěvník Jindřich Polák, dir. Jakub Skalický, Czechia, 2025)
Život v Karpatech: Léto

Into the Carpathian Wild: Summer, Erik Baláž, 2025

phenomena

Resilience, Tomáš Elšík, 2025

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

  • 9,192,631,770 Hz (9,192,631,770 Hz, dir. Todd Chandler, USA, 2025)
  • Beyond Words (Beyond Words, dir. Kim Brand, Netherlands, 2024)
  • Bioshorts – Moldavite (Biošortky – Vltavín, dir. Daniela Hýbnerová, Czechia, 2025)
  • Bioshorts – Seen, unseen (Biošortky – Vidím, nevidím, dir. Daniela Hýbnerová, Czechia, 2025)
  • Bloody Mess (Bloody Mess, dir. Megan Wennberg, Canada, 2024)
  • Don’t Give Them Room to Grow (De l’entretien des sols, dir. Karine Bille, France, 2025)
  • EX-tract (EX-tract, dir. Marcel Barelli, Switzerland, 2025)
  • Frog Safari (Varžu safari, dir. Agnese Laizāne, Latvia, 2025)
  • Grimm’s Nightmare (Grimm’s Nightmare, dir. Andrea Erja, Sophie Lösch, Germany, 2024)
  • Life Invisible (Life Invisible, dir. Bettina Perut, Ivan Osnovikoff, United Kingdom, 2024)
  • Orchids: Darwin’s Conundrum (Orchids: Darwin’s Conundrum, dir. Thomas Cassar, United Kingdom, 2025)
  • ouarda ouarda: yet another floral film (ouarda ouarda: yet another floral film, dir. Samy Benammar, Canada, 2025)
  • Polio (Polio, dir. Klára Kubenková, Czechia, 2025)
  • Reindalen (Reindalen, dir. Morgan Heim, Norway, 2025)
  • Sincerely, Victor Pike (Sincerely, Victor Pike, dir. Gregor Petrikovič, United Kingdom, 2024)
  • The Day the Sun Stopped Shining (De dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen, dir. Maria Stuut, Frederik Stuut, Belgium, 2025)
  • The Last Observers (The Last Observers, dir. Maja K Mikkelsen, Sweden, USA, 2024)
  • Their Eyes (Their Eyes, dir. Nicolas Gourault, France, 2025)
  • The Wonder Within (Het wonder daaronder, dir. Nina Jeanne Landau, Belgium, 2025)
  • To Know a Place (To Know a Place, dir. Brendan Young, USA, 2024)
  • Translocations (Translocations, dir. Nick Jordan, United Kingdom, 2025)
Raindalen

Reindalen, Morgan Heim, 2025

Biošortky

Bioshorts – Seen, unseen, Daniela Hýbnerová, 2025

IMMERSIVE MEDIA COMPETITION

  • Anamnesis (Anamnesis, dir. Petr Salaba, Czechia, 2024)
  • Ashes to Ashes (Av jord är du kommen, dir. Marika Hedemyr, Sweden, 2025)
  • Blue Archives (Blue Archives, dir. Aram Kebabdjian, Stéphane Perraud, France, 2024)
  • Little Eve: Stories of Planet Earth (Zvídavá Eva: Příběhy planety Země, dir. Klára Jůzová, Czechia, 2025)
  • MAMLAS-1 (MAMLAS-1, Šimon Janoušek, Jakub Vránek, Alžběta Volhejnová, Alexandra Verzier, Czechia, 2025)
  • Out of Nowhere (Out of Nowhere, dir. Kris Hofmann, Austria, Germany, 2025)
  • Reality Looks Back (Reality Looks Back, dir. Anne Jeppesen, Omid Zarei, Denmark, USA, 2024)
  • Starry Animals: Mountain, Sea and River Constellations in Colombian Skies (Animales Celestes: Constelaciones de montaña, río y mar en los cielos de Antioquia, dir. Catalina Del Mar Rendón, Wendy Giraldo, Santiago Arango, Colombia, 2024)
  • Steps of Progress (Kroky pokroku, dir. Jan Kalvoda, Michal Mocňák, Czechia, 2025)
  • Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History (Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History, dir. Kayla Briët, USA, 2025)
Blue Archives

Blue Archives, Aram Kebabdjian, 2024 

Biošortky

Starry Animals: Mountain, Sea and River Constellations in Colombian Skies; Catalina Del Mar Rendón, Wendy Giraldo, Santiago Arango; 2024