New Talents Competition #2 2026 - ENFF - EN subs met nagesprek • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

Angelika Cygal, Eliza Godlewska, Alan Ruczyński, Radek Ševčík

New Talents Competition #2 2026

Discover young and emerging filmmakers from during the seventh edition of the ENFF New Talents Competition!

The New Talents Competition is back for its seventh edition! Young and emerging filmmakers from our region submitted their graduating, debut or second films to compete for the New Talents Award. This year, for the very first time, a jury will choose the winner rather than the audience. An industry meeting for NTC guests will also take place, creating a space for filmmakers to connect and exchange ideas with industry professionals from the Netherlands. 

We are proud to present yet another incredible selection of films, filled with curiosity and concern towards our world. With both risk and responsibility, they attempt to portray their slivers of reality on the big screen for us to experience. These artists question their surroundings and the traditions that shaped them; through their cameras, they try to bridge generations, both past and future, leaning towards intimacy and understanding.

A record number of submissions was received this year, making the selection process particularly difficult once again. Seven films were selected from Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Serbia and Slovakia.

In Dying of the Young Deer (Angelika Cygal, Poland), we follow the protagonist as she carries a quilt filled with goose feathers from one village to the next, from one life to the next. Feelings of hope, joy and fear are beautifully interwoven in this formally innovative film. An unusual visitor makes seventy-year-old Irena look at her neighbour, and eventually at herself, differently in the tender Living Among the Stars (Eliza Godlewska, Alan Ruczyński, Poland). "Where can we find anchors in a world full of uncertainty?" is the ever-so-complicated question that runs through Problems With the Entire World (Radek Ševčík, Slovakia), in which a young climate-activist couple tries to navigate a new pregnancy together as our dark future looms over them.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the producer Olek Złotorawski, and editor and DOP Petr Chromčák.

Eastern Neighbours Film Festival

The Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (ENFF) has been bringing audiences closer to the vibrant cinema of Eastern Europe since 2006. Each year at Filmhuis Den Haag, ENFF presents recent and powerful features, documentaries, shorts, and animations, often as Dutch premieres. The festival also offers panels, debates, and conversations with filmmakers and industry professionals.

Join us for the 18th edition from November 4 to November 8, 2026, and discover exceptional films with English subtitles. For the full festival programme, click here.

Regisseur Angelika Cygal, Eliza Godlewska, Alan Ruczyński, Radek Ševčík
Cast Various
Land Polen, Slowakije
Taal Pools, Slowaaks
Ondertiteling Engels
Speelduur 67 min

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