Zigguart Filmfest 2026

Zigguart Filmfest 2026

Zigguart Filmfest returns for its second edition in 2026, bringing together a new international selection of 23 independent films from around the world.
This year’s official selection features feature films, documentaries, short films, animation, and experimental works, showcasing distinctive voices, creative perspectives, and stories that cross cultures and borders.

From emerging talents to established filmmakers, Zigguart Filmfest 2026 celebrates the diversity of contemporary independent cinema and creates a space where filmmakers and their stories can connect with new audiences worldwide.

The complete Official Selection is available to watch online on Zigguart TV from 20–31 October 2026 as part of the festival screening period.
Discover the films. Meet new voices. Experience independent cinema without borders.

Zigguart Filmfest 2026
20–31 October 2026 | Online Worldwide

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Zigguart Filmfest 2026
  • EDGE

    Locked in a Romanesque apse, separated by a huge glass pane and deprived of speech, two people meet without knowing how they got there. Where are the limits that prevent us from acting in unjust situations? Are they physical or are they within us?

  • Human Farm

    A man works as a caretaker at a human breeding farm. One day, however, the farm is suddenly ordered to shut down due to poor financial performance. Tasked with dispersing the pre-shipment humans who remain at the facility, he desperately struggles to send them on their way. But as he races to com...

  • DISTURBIA

    Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.

  • MANNA

    In 2000, in a forgotten fishing village on the Dominican coast, Terrero divides his days between the sea and a tourist resort, struggling to support his family in a place where work offers no way forward. When the chance to leave finally appears, he is forced to choose between the life he knows a...

  • IN HALF

    Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self...

  • The Shepherd

    A theater group for people with disabilities is currently rehearsing in preparation for their evaluation day. Two hours before the review, they realize that the actor playing the shepherd character hasn't shown up.

  • POTLEMS

    In a town of ever-smiling porcelain children, Ginger is created with a fatal flaw: a frown is accidentally painted on his face. Upon realizing this, his creator stops his song in horror: Ginger must be corrected.

  • Janete

    Cíntia, 35 years old, works from home and lives alone, except for the company of Janete, her robot vacuum. Upon returning to in-person work, she confronts the exhaustion and possibilities of her new routine, now filled with social interactions.

  • Detuning Tipping Points

    Music and nature rely on diversity, harmony, and balance. When pushed too far, they begin to unravel.
    In this performance film, a children’s string quartet becomes a living metaphor for ecosystems under strain. As unseen forces tighten their strings, the tension builds, echoing the fragile tippin...

  • My Ride Over a Tesla

    A 98-year-old WWII veteran, painter, and performance artist drives a tank over a Tesla—in an action organised by Led By Donkeys—and then paints the experience.

  • Ellri

    Thordben is an old hunter who is without the motivation to live but must face a snowstorm. The screams of a woman from the depths of the forest are the only thing that makes him react and move on.

  • Opa Pappou

    Opa-Pappou is a tender coming-of-age story that explores how children navigate loss, legacy, and the quiet power of unspoken love.

  • Sh

    In this era of collective anxiety, in this silent era of self-identity crisis arises, I often feel that I am suspended above the world, everything is tasteless at the same time, but also want to do whatever I want.If we are isolated from reality, what would we do, whether it is to vent our desire...

  • BLANK

    Marcos and Antonio are trapped in a room where the days seem to repeat endlessly. Through a window, Marcos sees a mysterious man whose fleeting presence becomes an obsession, pushing him to search for answers. While Antonio resigns himself to routine and confinement, Marcos begins to question his...

  • Dolls Don't Die

    Madhab inherited the sacred art of breathing life into the inanimate from his father, weaving movement, laughter, and tears into his puppetry. unhesitatingly, he lapped it up and made it central to his existence. Now, in the twilight of his years, his once-vibrant skills dim alongside his fading ...

  • e A R T h w o r k s

    This film looks at vital natural aspects of life on earth – Light, Land and Water, through the prism of artistic creativity. It features the work of three contemporary artists: Filippo Sciascia, Nii Obodai, and Nakajima Hiroyuki, each born on a different continent.

  • Beneath the Fury

    Antonio Vaca is a 60-year-old retired Bolivian bullfighter who has decided to return to his old trade to find his missing daughter. For him, the concept of justice has lost all meaning: he has run out of patience and money searching for his daughter through legal means in vain.

  • INGA

    Inga lives in Warsaw on Daedalus Street, named after the mythological architect who escaped from the labyrinth using beeswax wings. She moved to Poland with her blind parents, along with five cats and a dog, after Russia invaded Ukraine on her fifth birthday.
    Inga enjoys blowing out candles on b...

  • The Unknown Story

    The documentary La Història Desconeguda, a production that pays tribute to 100 years of rugby history in Catalonia, combines archive images, animations and interviews with an innovative and close approach. The documentary portrays the most emblematic moments of rugby in Catalonia, from its beginn...

  • Transvestite Love

    Aurora is a teenager going through her gender transition while building her identity. As she navigates her hopes for the future and her fears, her relationship with her mother plays a central role. The Ballroom Movement emerges as a space of emotional and political support, where she finds a sens...

  • In the Footsteps of Alexander Nevsky

    Led by two Sign-Language guides, a documentary journey across Russia, Italy, and Mongolia retraces the life of Alexander Nevsky through rare medieval artifacts, Vatican letters, and the hidden connections between East Asia and the Mediterranean world.

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  • Two Cecilias

    A village in the São Paulo neighborhood of Santa Cecília becomes the center of a conflict between a real estate developer and a pair of activists fighting against property speculation, just as a series of mysterious disappearances of women begins to unfold in the area. One man appears to be conne...

  • Peaple In A Circle

    Set in a village within Suwon Hwaseong Fortress, People in a Circle is a black comedy that portrays the inner deficiencies of five characters and the collapse of their relationships. Inspired by the structure of traditional Korean mask dance drama, the film reimagines the symbolism of the circle ...