The Fourth Proxima Competition Presents 13 Films

The fourth edition of the Proxima Competition focused on progressive tendencies in filmmaking features twelve world premieres and one international premiere.

Among other things, you can look forward to an intellectually stimulating journey through space and time (The Anatomy of the Horses), a trip to Istanbul for a hair transplant (Before / After), a look at the life of millennials (Renovation), and an intense 222-minute autobiography about a Syrian refugee camp in Berlin (TrepaNation). 

A year after the premiere of her documentary debut Lapilli, Paula Ďurinová returns to Proxima with Action Item, an activist dissection of burnout set in the German capital. The Czech Republic is represented by a gentle study of adolescents dreaming of another world, The Other Side of Summer, the second feature film by Vojtěch Strakatý, whose debut After Party was shown last year in Venice.​

Proxima Competition

La anatomía de los caballos / The Anatomy of the Horses / Anatomie koní
Director: Daniel Vidal Toche
Spain, Peru, Colombia, France, 2025, 106 min, World premiere

Avant / Après / Before / After / Před a po
Director: Manoël Dupont
Belgium, 2025, 80 min, World premiere

Ayspes asatc qamin / Thus Spoke the Wind / Tak pravil vítr
Director: Maria Rigel
Armenia, 2025, 92 min, World premiere

Balur Nogorite / Sand City / Písečné město
Director: Mahde Hasan
Bangladesh, 2024, 99 min, World premiere

Forenses / Forensics / Mapy zmizelých
Director: Federico Atehortúa Arteaga
Colombia, 2024, 91 min, International premiere

Futuro Futuro / Future Future / Budoucí budoucnost
Director: Davi Pretto
​Brazil, 2025, 86 min, World premiere

Kako je ovde tako zeleno? / How Come It's All Green Out Here? / Co všechna ta zeleň?
Director: Nikola Ležaić
Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, 2025, 114 min, World premiere

Na druhé straně léta / The Other Side of Summer / Na druhé straně léta
Director: Vojtěch Strakatý
Czech Republic, Croatia, 2025, 85 min, World premiere

Neplatené voľno / Action Item / Neplacené volno
Director: Paula Ďurinová
Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Germany, 2025, 69 min, World premiere

Regen fiel auf nichts Neues / Rain Fell On the Nothing New / Nic nového pod deštěm
Director: Steffen Goldkamp
Germany, 2025, 85 min, World premiere

Renovacija / Renovation / Renovace
Director: Gabrielė Urbonaitė
Lithuania, Latvia, Belgium, 2025, 90 min, World premiere

TrepaNation / TrepaNation / TrepaNation
Director: Ammar al-Beik
Syria, Germany, France, 2025, 222 min, World premiere

Vgainoun mesa ap ti Margo / They Come Out of Margo / Vzešli skrze Margo
Director: Alexandros Voulgaris
Greece, 2025, 91 min, World premiere

More information about the films in the Proxima Competition is available here.