Creative Documentary Centre-DISTORToΠia/How do you mirror reality
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The 16th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival celebrates the spirit of collaboration with the screening of BBB-Cross Border on Thursday, November 6th, the festival's first day.
The BBB-Cross Border Screening initiative, a simultaneous screening of films, will unite audiences from Timisoara (Romania), Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria), Tirana (Albania), Bitola & Struga (North Macedonia), Pescara (Italy), Prizren (Kosovo), Kalamata (Greece), Bagina Basta (Serbia) and Istanbul (Turkey), where the festival is held, with a unique cinematic experience that transcends borders and different time zones. The BBB-Cross Borders Screening concerns the festival's Competition Program entitled "Unexpected incidents' distortions". The theme of this year's event is "DISTORToΠia - How do you mirror reality?", delving into how we perceive, distort, and redefine reality.
The screening programme is a collection of stories that balance between the accidental and the fatal, between reality and illusion, offering multiple interpretations of this unexpected event.
It consists of the short films:
● "Actually Everyone" | Emre Cef Kamhi (Turkey, 2025, 17.55’) Black Comedy
● "Pakistani" | Christos Zeniou (Cyprus, 2024, 14.25’) Drama
● "Three Women named Svetlana" | Natalia Boorsma (Serbia, 2024, 14.39') Experimental
● "The Tie" | Çamran Azizoğlu (Turkey, 2024, 18.52’) Comedy
● "Mentor" | Tinkara Klipšteter (Slovenia, 2024,15’) Drama
● "The Journey of a Mattress" | Lina Pavlova (Bulgaria, 2025, 21.24’) Drama, Comedy