Location: Amphitheatre, Dom mladih (Ulica slobode 28)

Time: October 30, 2025, at 8 p.m.

A selection of award-winning films from this year’s 25 FPS Festival of Experimental Film and Video brings three works honored with the Grand Jury Prize – the visual and political meditation Momentum by Nada El-Omari, the witty and self-reflective Being John Smith by the legendary John Smith, and the apocalyptic vision Green Grey Black Brown by Yuyan Wang. The program also includes the dark introspection Blackmuck by Tin Žanić, winner in the Reflexes competition, and the absurdist drama Loynes by Dorian Jespers, voted Best Film by the audience.

BEST OF 25 FPS will be screened on Thursday, October 30, at 8 p.m. in the Amphitheatre of Dom mladih. Admission is free, and all films will be shown with Croatian subtitles.

Momentum, dir. Nada El-Omari (CA, 2025, 19’)

A film about the desire to see through another’s eyes — through the lens of past and present — questioning what it means to believe in the force of togetherness and in the enduring power of images to bear witness, even when the world chooses to move on.

Being John Smith, dir. John Smith (UK, 2024, 27’)

Winner of both the Grand Jury and Critics’ Awards, this film is a monument to magnificent ordinariness — exploring how having the most common name in the English-speaking world shapes not only the author’s “I,” but also the thousands of “we” with whom he shares a fragile and unstable world.

Green Grey Black Brown, dir. Yuyan Wang (FR/KR/CN, 2024, 11’)

A haunting piece of cinematic poetry that opens a portal into a posthuman future, immersed in a sticky soundtrack of stunning images from a toxic present.

Blackmuck, dir. Tin Žanić (HR, 2025, 12’)

A filmed nightmare of ruptures and spillovers of reality, told from an intimate perspective where there is neither ground nor salvation.

Loynes, dir. Dorian Jespers (BE/FR/MK/UK, 2025, 25’)

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in the 19th century, portraying the absurd trial of a dead body without name or past, in pursuit of impossible justice.

Total runtime: 94 minutes