No campo da Competição Experimental, marcam presença no Curtas 6 filmes portugueses, realizados por Sandro Aguilar, Lúcia Prancha, Pedro Maia, Margarida Albino, Kate Saragaço-Gomes e Helena Gouveia Monteiro. Regressam a Vila do Conde: Rosa Barba, Christoph Girardet, Matthias Mueller, Morgan Quaintance e Peter Tscherkassky, todos eles vencedores de prémios em edições passadas do festival.

COMPETIÇÃO EXPERIMENTAL
Baki Tadu É, Kate Saragaço-Gomes, Calum MacBeath Morgan, Índia/Dinamarca/Portugal, 2021, DOC, 13'
Berlin Feuer, Pedro Maia, Portugal/Alemanha, 2021, EXP, 6'
Black Beauty, Grace Ndiritu, Reino Unido/Bélgica/Espanha, 2021, FIC, 30'
Citadel, John Smith, Reino Unido, 2020, EXP, 16'
Depth Wish, Margarida Albino, Portugal, 2021, EXP, 12'
Dissolution Prologue (Extended Version), Siegfried Fruhauf, Áustria, 2020, EXP, 6'
Earthearthearth, Daïchi Saïto, Canadá, 2021, EXP, 30'
Emtza'i Meuchar (Belated Measures), Nir Evron, Israel, 2020, DOC, 35'
Flowers Blooming In Our Throats, Eva Giolo, Bélgica/Itália, 2020, EXP, 9'
Glimpses From A Visit To Orkney In Summer 1995, Ute Aurand, Reino Unido/Alemanha, 2020, EXP, 5'
Inside The Outset, Evoking A Space Of Passage, Rosa Barba, Chipre/Alemanha/Itália, 2021, DOC, 31'
Misty Picture, Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, Alemanha, 2021, EXP, 17'
Of This Beguiling Membrane, Charlotte Pryce, EUA, 2020, EXP, 5'
Purkyně's Dusk, Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Irlanda/França, 2021, EXP, 9'
Sunrise, Lúcia Prancha, Portugal, 2021, EXP, 18'
Surviving You, Always, Morgan Quaintance, Reino Unido, 2020, DOC, 18'
The Detection Of Faint Companions, Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, 2021, EXP, 9'
Train Again, Peter Tscherkassky, Áustria, 2021, EXP, 20'
When Light Is Displaced, Zaina Bseiso, Palestina/EUA, 2021, DOC, 7'
Who Is Afraid Of Ideology ? Part III Micro Resistencias, Marwa Arsanios, Alemanha, 2020, DOC, 31'