Professional films

by Bára Anna Stejskalová

A candid discussion between a director and a producer on the challenges and triumphs of creating a stop-motion musical. Featuring acclaimed director Bára Anna Stejskalová (Love Is Just a Death Away, 9 Million Colors) and Emmy Award-winning producer Jakub Košťál (Bionaut Animation, CZ), the session will dive into the intricacies of the genre, touching on topics like working with directors of photography, navigating budgets, overcoming production setbacks, and handling very tricky puppets. It’s an honest talk about the highs and lows of stop-motion filmmaking.

• Musical
• Fantasy
• Making of

by Daria Bedok, Daria Dedok

Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored in fear, confusion, numbness, and anxiety.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Sasha Svirsky

Nine short and unexpected stories that tell us how a person can be depicted. By mixing abstraction, collage and drawing animation, the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of the potential of animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Jérémy Clapin

A man whose physique forces him to look down tries to find love.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Ross Hogg

Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Sergei Ryabov

An inseparable girl and cat are on a long journey, playing checkers. The girl keeps winning, until the cat gets a lucky break.

• Comedy
• Family

by Victor Orozco Ramirez

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. An essay short film about my very own Internet, a parallel world where memory loss, errors, surveillance and addiction smear everything and everyone.

by Samuel Albaric, Ulysse Lefort, Martin Wiklund

How does one grow up between an absent Iraqi father and a pervasive Jewish mother? Tossed around by the great upheavals of the modern times, Tim tries as hard as he can to find his place in the world.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Coming-of-Age
• Tragicomedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Serge Elissalde

Thirty-three internships in thirty-three years and still no job! Kicked out of his place, Jean-Claude finds himself in the street with only five euros in his pocket. Will he know how to use them well?

by Joanna Kożuch, Boris Šima

39 Weeks, 6 Days is an artistic experiment, animated diary and personal documentary showing animated self-portraits of woman and man, married couple and co-authors during 40 weeks of the gravidity.

by Alex Morelli, Michele Bernardi

Bellaria FF is a documentary film festival of great traditions.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Moïa Jobin-Paré

A young woman and an urban landscape interact with each other. Developing images and intricacies by scratching and sewing them on again.

by Philip Scott Johnson

This animation was created in April 2007 using a program called Abrosoft Fantamorph. The cost at the time was 30 US dollars. My thought at the time was rather than creating simple humorous morphs, that were common at the time, why not instead create an artistic film that loops multiple animations together and tells the story of art over time.

• Non-narrative
• Experimental

by Various directors

The Global Animation Community unites in solidarity with Gaza to form AC4PAL. AC4Pal was created to support the work of Haneen Koraz, an animator based in Gaza who has been running animation workshops with displaced children and women across the region. The project “To Gaza with Love: A Global Anijam” brings together 329 short films from over 50 countries, created by animators, students, and studios in a collective act of solidarity with the people of Gaza.

• Drama
• Family

by Sander Joon

Butterflies, frogs, and flies celebrate love in all its colors in the trailer of 14th Anibar Animation Festival in Kosovo.

by Sarah Koppel

A new animated micro-short film by Sara Koppel. An explicit rush adventure into a gender fluid-persons zone of desires where lust & responsibility is constantly dividing & demanding needs.

Making of “Negative Space” de Ru Kuwahata et Max Porter.

• Making of

by Daniel Nocke

For twelve years she ignored sneers and mockery and stood up for her relationship. But that was probably a mistake.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy

by Richard Starzak

Stop-motion animated satire of modern man on the street and documentary interviews, responding to unseen questioners. The voices of the characters are supplied by everyday people speaking varied regional accents.

• Comedy

Q&A for the Cannes Award-winning animated film and Latvia’s selection for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards, Flow with Director/Co-Writer GintsZilbalodis (Moderated by Marshall Shaffer) at the Angelika Film Center & Cafe in New York City on 10/17/2024.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Making of