Main competition

2025 m. program

About the competition

Since 2022, the feature film competition organized by the European Film Festival Scanorama presents works that reflect important and vivid processes in contemporary European cinema. These are bold films with original stylistics - their directors' creative biographies are just beginning, but are distinguished by a clear authorial voice.

The competition program aims to:

  • To foster European cinema, its artistic value and national characteristics;

  • To promote collaboration between European filmmakers;

  • Spread European values.

The festival's program organizers select up to 10 feature films each year. The directors and creative teams of the selected films are given the opportunity to participate in the festival and present their works to Lithuanian audiences.

The best film in the program is awarded a cash prize of 7,000 EUR, awarded by the Vilnius City Municipality.

Regulations of the European Feature Film Competition (EN)

Main Competition Winner | 2025 SCANORAMA

During the grand closing ceremony of the European Film Festival "Scanorama" in Vilnius, the winner of the main competition was announced, which was the film "Kyuka - Until Summer Ends" by Greek director Kostis Charamountanis.

The film "Kyuka - Until Summer Ends", which won the main competition, was distinguished by its moving artistic power, poetic cinematic language and subtle insight, conveying the moment when not only a season, but also a certain stage of life ends. The film opened the wounds of the past of Babis and Anna, who met on the island of Poros, and the time-breaking montage turned the summer family vacation into a nostalgic, experimental film work. The Vilnius City Municipality established a cash prize of 7,000 for the winner of the competition. 

2025 Main Film Competition Program:

  • „Mažosios meilės“, rež. Celia Rico Clavellino, 2024, 90 min., Ispanija, Prancūzija

  • „Kyuka – kol nesibaigė vasara“, rež. Kostis Charamountanis, 2024, 105 min., Graikija, Šiaurės Makedonija

  • „Nemigos dienos“, rež. Alexandra Simpson, 2024, 93 min. , JAV, Šveicarija

  • „Kalbėk man, vėjau“, rež. Stefan Djordjevic, 2025, 100 min., Serbija

  • „Kaip tapti normaliu arba Keistas kitas pasaulis“, rež. Florian Pochlatko, 2025, 102 min., Austrija

  • „Apie herojų“, rež. Piotr Winiewicz, 2024, 85 min., Danija, JAV

  • „Tabasco“, rež. Andrius Žemaitis, 2025, 140 min., Lietuva

  • „Specialioji operacija“, Oleksiy Radynski, 2025, 65 min., Ukraina, Lietuva

  • „Vasara Paryžiuje“, rež. Valentine Cadic, 2025, 77 min., Prancūzija

  • „Tvirtovė“, rež. John Skoog, 2025, 85 min., Švedija, Danija, Nyderlandai, Lenkija, Suomija

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Jury of the International Feature Film Competition 2025

Piotr Dumała

Piotr Dumała

Animation and feature film director, set designer and screenwriter, professor at the Lodz Film School in Poland, as well as a visiting lecturer at Konstfack College of Arts in Ekshö (Sweden) and Harvard University in Cambridge (USA). Illustrator, comic book and poster designer, poet and writer. He has received more than 100 prizes for his work.
Domenico La Porta

Domenico La Porta

Screenwriter, journalist, editor-in-chief of the news portal Cineuropa.org and screenwriter for films, television series and video games, Domenico has combined his interdisciplinary storytelling experience to create a series of screenwriting tools available on the website www.storytricks.cards.
Jenni Domingo

Jenni Domingo

Advisor for the Finnish Film Foundation's international feature film distribution and cultural export, Finland's representative in the "The Five Nordics" festival group - an umbrella organization founded in 1978 that unites national initiatives dedicated to the dissemination of Nordic cinema.
Nanako Tsukidate

Nanako Tsukidate

Japanese film critic, independent programmer and film history researcher based in Paris. She is also a consultant for the Venice Film Festival Giornate degli Autori and Berlin Critics' Week, and a member of the short film selection at the Riga International Film Festival.
Oksana Karpovič

Oksana Karpovič

A Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaker born and currently living in Kyiv. Her documentary "Intercepted Connection" has been screened and appreciated at many film festivals around the world, and won the main prize at Scanorama in 2025.
Ada Solomon

Ada Solomon

Romanian film producer and founder of HiFilm and microFILM. She has worked in film for over 30 years and has contributed to the creation of almost 100 films. She is the Vice-President of the Board of the European Film Academy, a member of the Board of the European Producers Club and a founding member of the Board of the Romanian Producers Alliance. In 2023, The Hollywood Reporter magazine included her in the list of the 40 most influential women in the film industry.