The poster for the Maia International Film Festival 2026 begins with a simple premise: every film starts with a choice and that choice starts with the camera. The composition takes that idea and builds a visual system around it: clear, deliberate, and intuitively puzzling prompting the viewer to participate in completing the idea.

The use of a soft yellow field paired with solid black forms reflects a modern approach to clarity, a colour relationship that is functional, confident, and distinctly of the 21st century. It draws from an era when design was engineered for purpose, but reimagines it with a contemporary sense of openness and imagination.

The floating shapes, reduced to essential geometry, act as both structure and rhythm. They suggest a world where technology and creativity coexist, where the mechanical and the conceptual share the same space.

At the centre, the two cameras mark the moment when choice becomes vision, when intention takes form and the act of seeing becomes the act of creating.