Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus

by Dalibor Barić, Tomislav Babić

A secret Foundation is financing the work of a parapsychological phenomena and mental film research institute. Correspondence between the Foundation and the institute runs through a chosen reporter. In order to be informed objectively and confidentially, the Foundation uses agents with induced synthetic identity. This process temporarily curbs the agents’ true personality. Reporter Isidor Dukas arrives to the institute. Facing one of the test subjects, something which was supposed to be routine control turns into an infinite labyrinth…

• Drama
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi
• Non-narrative

by Áron Gauder

Set in the present day, Native American protesters confront the crew of an oil pipeline project, just down the hill from the land of their ancestors. The grandfather evokes the ancient tale of their Creation myth, reminding all of us that the challenges facing humanity are universal, and that we need to find our place in the great circle of creatures.

• Drama
• Adventure
• Fantasy

by Alberto Vázquez

For ages, teddy bears have been locked in a war against their sworn enemy, the unicorns, with the promise that victory will usher in a new era. A beautifully animated journey from the humiliations of teddy bear bootcamp to the psychedelic horrors of the Magic Forest.

by Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó

2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen isgradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.

• Drama
• Sci-Fi

by Pierre Földes

A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

by Satomi Maiya, Yutaro Kubo

Little Shiva has nowhere to go until she’s taken in by a mysterious being who calls himself “Teacher.” The curse of the Outsiders will spread by the slightest touch, yet the two grow closer every day as they search for the people they once knew.

by Ari Folman

In her diary, Anne Frank addressed her imaginary friend Kitty. In his new animated film Where Is Anne Frank, Israeli director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War.

by Mamoru Hosoda

Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters “U”, a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.

by Dash Shaw

CRYPTOZOO follows cryptozookeepers through a hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature. They begin to wonder if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.

by Kōji Yamamura

Here, everything is The North. This is an account of the people I met in The North. However, my fragmented memory doesn’t capture the essence at all.

by Jonas Poher Rasmussen

This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.

by Michaela Pavlátová

When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join.