Films

by Franko Dujmić

How happy would you be to live the end of the world? And also to be celebrating your birthday that very day, or paying a visit to your mother, or maybe going on a date with your crush? This is what A Forest Fairy Tale actually is – a tale of luck. The luck of a few animals depicted through short sketches portraying the last day of the world. And, naturally, a blazing asteroid rushing toward the Earth is the best reason for deep contemplations and self-analyses of one’s own life. If all this sounds depressing, fear not! After all, no one cries in this film (except maybe the author).

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Comedy
• Drama

by Marcin Podolec

A portrait of a father, whose adult children live their own lives far away from him. Director follows his every daily routine at the swimming pool, at work, at home and – first of all – he explores his emotions.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Experimental

by Jan Balej

What happens when a shot fired from a circus cannon goes astray

by Michaela Mihalyi, Michaela Mihályi

A very short stop-motion film about a menstrual tampon preparing for a date.

• Comedy
• Romance
• Experimental

by Martina Meštrović, Tanja Vujasinović

Through a feminist lens, the authors are paying tribute to their teacher, one of the most important Croatian sculptors, Marija Ujević Galetović. In a combination of images and animation, Marija’s revitalised female sculptures convey their author’s life story and views.

• Documentary
• Experimental
• Making of

by Diego Porral

A day in the park” we are introduced to a monologue by a grandfather who explains to his grandkid how things used to be, or maybe; how they are now.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy

by Helen Woolston

A bored cow tries to find some means of self-expression. Some visiting clowns offer a tempting glimpse of chaos.

by Jack O’Shea

Two burglars discover a mysterious treasure in the pocket of a woman’s fuchsia coat. Anybody who wears the coat is given access to an infinite source of wealth. The only drawback is that they are not allowed to show the coat to anybody else. This is why the more cunning of the two crooks forces his assistant to wear the coat in disguise, so that he can spend the riches.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by AJ Dubler, Carmela Murphy

After a mysterious girl shows up at Gray’s doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.

• Drama

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 Aleksandar Savic, Arthur Dupuy, Barbara Derail & others

A group of animals decide to avenge the death of one of their own one beautiful summer night.

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

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 Camille SALLAN

A family is about to spend the afternoon on the beach to watch the fireworks of August 15th. But everything gets complicated when Bruno goes to grab the beach chair that his wife Sandrine has forgotten in the car: holidays don’t erase your little daily problems.

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 Lucija Oroz

Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

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