We present the 26 films (15 fictions, 5 documentaries, 6 animations) that will compete in the International Short Film Competition of the 16th Baku International Film Festival this year:

Fiction

1. Agata - Director: Benedetta Fiore -  Country: Italy

2. Today is not always - Director: Carmen Vidal - Country: Spain

3. The Alter Echo - Director: Santanu Biswas - Country: India

4. Nightfaces - Director: Martin Winter, Stefan Langthaler -  Country: Austria

5. Baadarane - Director: Samah El Kadi - Country: Lebanon

6. What Men Do For Love - Director: Sai Karan Talwar – Country: United Kingdom

7. Gharghalan - Director: Hamid Kermani - Country: Iran

8. The Last Sunday in May - Director:  Alejandro Bordier Country: Luxembourg

9. I left - Director: Irine Javakhidze - Country: Georgia

10. Ms. Naciye - Director: Murat Çetinkaya - Country: Turkey

11. Do Whatever - Director: Farid Aziz - Country: Russian

12. Spine - Director: Kristina Panova - Country: Russian

13. The Spectacle  - Director: Balint Kenyeres - Country: Hungary, France

14. Last snows - Director: Sarah Henochsberg - Country: France

15. To Be - Director: Puya Mofid - Country: Iran  

Documentary

1. The Village of Ballet Dancers – Director: Fatih Diren-  Country: Turkey  

2. Inga - Director: Krzysztof Kopczynski - Country: Poland

3. Workers Wings - Director: Ilir Hasanaj - Country: Kosova

4. The Long Distance - Director: Alina Baitokova -  Country: Kyrgyzstan

5. When the land runs away – Director: Frederico Lobo - Country: Portugal

Animation

1. The Boulder Theory - Director: Quinn Tisdale - Country: United States

2. Profitable place -  Director: Alex Maximov - Country: Belarus

3. In Pigeon's Blood - Director: Chaya Moshayev, Hod Adler - Country: Israel, Uzbekistan 

4. Nargiz - Director: Masud Panahi -  Country: Azerbaijan

5. The boy who erased kisses - Director: Radostina Neykova, Fernando Galrito - Country: Bulgaria, Portugal

6. P - Director: Stelios Koupetoris - Country: Greece