Every story
begins with a
single photon.
The world's first sculptural cinema amphitheatre. One hundred cars reborn as art. Four days. Five competitions. One light.
The audience does not sit before the art. The audience sits within it.
One hundred decommissioned cars, roofs removed, hand-painted by artists into open-top artworks · arranged before a monumental screen under the September sky of Klina, Kosovo. Four days. Three nights of competition. One awards gala.
000OF 100 CARS · 100 ARTWORKS
One hundred cars, rescued from silence, reborn as painted works of art · arranged under the open Balkan sky, before one monumental screen.
CARS · 100 ARTWORKS
DAYS OF CINEMA
OFFICIAL COMPETITIONS
GUESTS PER NIGHT
Five Categories.
One Festival.
All formats. All stories. Judged as cinema.
- (01)FEATURE FILMThe long form. The grand narrative.Fiction, 60 minutes and over
- (02)SHORT FILMThe discipline of the essential.Fiction, up to 30 minutes
- (03)DOCUMENTARYCinema as witness.Non-fiction, any length
- (04)ANIMATIONThe drawn imagination.Any technique, any length
- (05)AI FILMThe first category of its kind in Kosovo. The future of the moving image.Works substantially created with generative tools, judged as cinema
Every story is threaded through light.
Five categories. One amphitheatre of light. Send your film to the first edition.
Submissions close 31 AUGUST 2026
Entry is free.
Your seat is not unclaimed · claim it.
Cinema belongs to everyone. Every viewer leaves a mark · a numbered photon with your name on it. Register in seconds and the site issues your personal Foton ticket · designed in light, carrying your name · ready to download and present at the gate.
THE SEATS ARE FILLING WITH LIGHT · NOT MANY REMAIN · CLAIM YOURS
Some people carry light in their veins.
Join the crew that builds the world's first sculptural cinema · from the first car to the last frame. A festival is carried by hands. Join the founding team of volunteers · trained in event production, standing where world cinema meets your hometown.
Light lands here. Klina, Kosovo · September 2026.
Make this concept possible.
The most important seat in the house is yours.
Built from light.
Foton is built from light · and light needs a source. Put your name on the festival the world has never seen: on its banners, its screens, and on one of the hundred works of art itself.
One hundred painted cars. One monumental screen. Two to three thousand people a night, four nights, under the open September sky. Choose what you illuminate · the venue lights up as you decide.