International Features & Mid-length Competition

An Accident + Green Lake

Two stories about strange encounters, unexpected events and people finding themselves in situations they could never have anticipated. From the Austrian countryside to a phosphate factory in China – two films filled with darkness, humor and surprises.

An Accident

Angelika Spangel Austria 2026 30 min Live action

A series of surprising accidents shake up a small village. Why did the man on the bench die? Why is nobody helping at a car accident? Why is the farmer´s son feeling responsible for the dead pigs? Everything is connected through guilt and shame, raising the question of where fiction ends and real harm begins.

Green Lake

Linwei Zhu China 2025 46 min Live action

A noir tale of love, revenge, and self-redemption. In a decaying phosphate fertilizer factory in Yunnan, Hu Xin, a boiler worker haunted by the childhood drowning of a playmate, meets Li Yue—a girl who eerily resembles the one he lost. Drawn to her against his will and caught between emotional desire and a fog of mistaken identity, Hu Xin gradually uncovers a dark secret: the recent disappearance in the factory seems to point directly to Li Yue…