ANDARAS FRONTIERE – Official Selection

Andaras Traveling Film Festival 2026

All finalists of the 8th edition

June 30 – July 5, 2026

The Andaras Traveling Film Festival opens its eighth edition, confirming its itinerant journey along the Costa delle Miniere, between Fluminimaggiore, Buggerru and Iglesias.

The guiding theme of this edition is Frontiers, understood as spaces of passage and transformation. Geographical, cultural, social and intimate frontiers, where travel becomes experience, choice, and a shift in perspective. Real or symbolic places where cinema engages with the idea of crossing boundaries and the possibility of looking at the world from non-central, open and moving points of view.

The films selected for this edition move across these boundaries, question them, inhabit them. They tell stories of transition, of identities in transformation, of distances that shrink or are redefined.

Below are the sections of the official selection.

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Narrative Shorts

A section open to the plurality of cinematic storytelling.

Narrative Shorts brings together fictional works that move freely between genres, languages, and narrative forms, allowing for personal visions and diverse approaches to storytelling. Films that construct worlds, relationships, and conflicts, offering a glimpse into the present through narrative, between reality and imagination.

Anngeerdardardor - Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken (Denmark, 20’)

Aventure FM - Martin C. Pariseau (Canada, 19’)

Conex - Dina Rezaei (Iran, USA, 15’)

Dog and Wolf - Terézia Halamová (Czechia, 20’)

Quinn - Gianluca Mangiasciutti, Stefano Usberghi (Italy, 20’)

Docu Shorts

Reality as a territory to be crossed.

Docu Shorts welcomes works that engage with the world through a documentary lens, exploring contexts, stories, and people with care and awareness. A cinema that observes and connects, capable of conveying complexity without simplification.

Katharsis - Davide Cossalter (Italy, 11’)

Sixty-seven Milliseconds - Fleuryfontaine (France, 15’)

The semi-serious tale of a carrier pigeon - Alessandro Capitani (Italy, 10’)

We were the scenery - Christopher Radcliff (Canada, USA, 15’)

Andaras Noas (New Paths)

Stories that are born when something changes.

Andaras Noas is dedicated to short movies that narrate passages, departures, returns, and transformations, whether real or internal. These journeys mark a before and after, opening up new paths and new possibilities.

Almost certainly false - Cansu Baydar (Türkiye, 20’)

America - Javier Arias-stella (Perù, 15’)

Easter Day - Mykola Zasieiev (Ukraine, 17’)

Norheimsund - Ana Alpizar (Cuba, USA, 12’)

Remains - Fabio Bobbio (Italy, 20’)

Gazes from the World

Perspectives that cross places and cultures.

This section features films that explore territories, communities, and identities through a situated and informed perspective. A cinema that navigates differences, listening and building connections between distant experiences and contexts.

The garden of delights - Simone Spampinato (Italy, 17’)

Land of Cold - Hervé Demers (Canada, 17’)

Tripalium - Chayin Rujiratana (Thailand, 15’)

Wall of death Gypsy - Didier Canaux (France, 18’)

Strange Worlds

Forms that question language.

Strange Worlds welcomes experimental works or works characterized by strong, non-linear imagery that push the boundaries of narrative conventions. Films that open up spaces for research and expressive freedom, exploring new possibilities for cinema.

As if to nothing - Jia Hao Pek, Jia Jun Ang (Singapore, 20’)

Joy Jelly - Danilo Merafina (Italy, 20’)

Murmur - Irene Dionisio (Italy, 6’)

On weary wings go by - Anu-Laura Tuttelberg (Estonia, Lithuania, 10’)

Sammi, who can detach his body parts - Rein Maychaelson (Indonesia, 19’)

Animation

Animation as a universal language.

This section brings together works that use a variety of techniques and styles to create distinct visual worlds. From traditional storytelling to experimental approaches, animation serves as a tool for broadening our horizons and imagining new forms.

Brown morning - Carlo Vogele (France, Luxembourg, 9’)

Lethe - Liang-Hsin Huang (France, Taiwan, 7’)

Like friend, like deer - Malek Eghbali (Iran, 13’)

Kaminhu - Marie Vieillevie (France, 15’)

Retirement plan - John Kelly (UK, 7’)

Sardinian Gazes

A space dedicated to the perspectives that originate in or pass through Sardinia.

Films that explore the region, its communities, and their transformations, conveying its complexity, memory, and imagination through intimate and contemporary perspectives. This section reflects the festival's profound connection to the region, offering a diverse and ever-evolving portrait of Sardinia.

Walk with me - Michele Piras, Valerio Atzori (Italy, 16’)

Domus de Janas - Maria Vittoria Daquino (Italy, 8’)

I do not forget - Antonello Murgia (Italy, 13’)

Empathy rehearsals - Jacopo Cullin (Italy, 20’)

Sbentiare - Tiziana Troja (Italy, 5’)

The last one - Simone Sarais (Italy, 5’)

 The last ingredient - Lorenzo Cioglia (Italy, 7’)

First Routes – New Generations

Films that speak to new generations with a direct and authentic voice, raising questions, stimulating dialogue, and accompanying their first steps on a journey of growth and awareness.

Stories that don't address young people as recipients, but as an active space for opportunity, listening, and transformation .

Flowers wear no shoes - Matteo Vicentini Orgnani (Italy, 12’)

Grandma Nai who played favorites - Chheangkea (Cambodia, France, USA, 19’)

I hear it still - Constance Bonnot (France, 16’)

King Ben - Raphael Toledano (France, 16’)

Mambo kids - Emanuele Tresca (Italy, 20’)

My hot-air balloon - Mesaite Battista (Italy, 7’)

The enemy - Andrej Chinappi (Italy, 17’)

Empathy Rehearsals - Jacopo Cullin (Italy, 20’)

Tiny Tom - Léo Riehl (France, 10’)

Off Course

A freestyle section, without constraints of genre, form or duration.

Movies that deviate from the established path, following their own expressive needs and an autonomous direction. Works that defy categories and find their most authentic form in deviating from the norm .

After me, the flood - Max Shoham (Canada, 5’)

A friend of Dorothy - Lee Knight (UK, 20’)

Hippopotami - JJ Lin (China, Hong Kong, 13’)

Misfit - Tristan Zerbib (France, 13’)

My mother is a cow - Moara Passoni (Brazil, 15’)

A Sisyphean task - Gus Flind-Henry, George Malcher (UK, 15’)

Sound of the Somme - Michael Vermaercke (Belgium, 13’)