shnit TBILISI 2026: Worldwide Competition - International Short Films - Night 4

WORLDWIDE COMPETITION sits at the centre of shnit TBILISI 2026, bringing together short films from Cambodia, Egypt, Ghana, Argentina, Russia, the United States, Australia, and Belgium.

The program moves between fiction, documentary, satire, social realism, online culture, historical drama, and dystopian image-making. A Western spy discovers that the local security guard refuses to remain a background character. An online sales performance begins to reveal a private reality its audience cannot see. A young Ghanaian miner looks back on a childhood spent underground. Two women cross the cold streets of Buenos Aires while one learns how to survive.

Elsewhere, a tiger and a goat form an unlikely friendship, a stranger becomes social-media content without his consent, modern life is placed behind glass, and a young bagpiper enters one of the defining battles of the First World War.

WORLDWIDE COMPETITION offers the clearest expression of shnit’s global program: films rooted in specific countries and experiences, placed together without flattening what makes each one different.

Eight films. Eight countries. 1h24m25s.