The short is deliberately minimal and surreal, focusing on an unusual encounter between a lost man and an enigmatic creature. Its atmosphere relies heavily on visual storytelling rather than dialogue.
- Experimental
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Student films
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The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.
- Drama
- Family
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A huge pig is lying down in front of a house man's family lives in.Each of them notices the other exist.but each of them doesn't understand how the other understands.The mother doesn't understand the father either.
- Drama
- Family
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An old man dreams about the Bukhansan Mountain perpetually covered with snow, while a young woman sees the mountain grows taller after an earthquake. Slowly, the worlds of fantasy and reality collide, exposing an invisible universe.
- Drama
- Fantasy
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The exploration of masculinity begins with the Minotaur, a mythical creature the artist Picasso used to portray himself in his etching print series. The Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female. Finally, the lines blur, and the boundaries of sexes disappear.
- Experimental
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Centers on the creation of the world in seven days, and how in one day, that balance can be lost.
- Drama
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Animated short film created by 5th-year students at the French animation school Piktura, that plunges the viewer into a highly kinetic, colorful party.
- Fantasy
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A crush gone moldy.
- Coming-of-Age
- Romance
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Guys working on a construction site have a problem – their shovel got stuck in the sand. A student from the Plzeň Studio of Animation, known to Anifilm audiences from previous festival editions, has once again chosen a provocative topic and form. Can the guys solve their problem by lunchtime? And if not, will something happen?
- Comedy
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Innerviews is a very captivating film illustrating edited fragments of interviews with celebrities such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen and David Lynch. The author uses a technique inspired by screen printing to reflect the omnipresent tensions between the visible layers of the image and invisible layers of human perception.
- Documentary
- Experimental
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Graduation movie from Tomas Bata University in Zlin.
- Drama
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"Carrotica" is a stop motion film about loneliness, desire, family, and growing pains. Made by hand over 4 years across ten miniature sets, shot frame by frame, carrots and all.
- Romance
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An animated depiction of the half-waking state before we fall asleep. Various people describe how they see the state between waking and sleeping, while the visual show hypnagogic hallucinations – i.e., the vision that accompany the process of falling asleep.
- Documentary
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Based on first-person interviews and archival materials, this animated documentary brings back the glory days of Czechoslovak hockey — but also the dark moments from the year 1950. Chase follows not only the players’ personal fates, but also the transformations in society, politics, and culture taking place in the background.
- Documentary
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This animation has been produces in memory of one the most famous Czech scientists, Prof. Ing. RTDr. Otto Wichterle, DrSc. In this story you can see in the funny way how he developed one of his patents, the contact lenses.
- Documentary
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Comic interpretation of a meditative pilgrimage of a monk, a mosquito and a hen.
- Fantasy
- Non-narrative
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Steve is the star attraction of a zoo where he, a human, is on full display for a crowd of animal visitors to marvel at. Longing for more in life, Steve dreams of finding a companion. Suddenly one day, he gets his first opportunity to escape his cage. Will he find his dream companion that he’s so desperately been longing for?
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Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people’s lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the doorbell. It’s a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she’s the next life on Mr Grimm’s list.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Experimental
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Treachery! Lou’s mum sold his beloved roller skates at the garage sale. A series of strange and revealing encounters begin when he inevitably goes looking for them in the buzzing crowd.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
- Fantasy
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An animated take on woman’s place in contemporary world. Inspired by reality and the media.
- Drama
- Experimental