Dreams

by Mirta Filipović

I’m Not There is a debut project of Zagreb-based designer and animator Mirta Filipović. Only a few months after her first encounter with 3D animation, she embarked on a mad attempt of making an animation video for the Zagreb-based band Paul The Walrus.I’m Not There is a result of a year and a half of sleepless nights, existential ponderings and questioning why would anyone ever try and make an animated video with only three months’ experience in animation. This animation is a story about power, who has it, who doesn’t and how those who seem to have it nevertheless account to someone greater than them. Hands, eyes and mouth are used as symbols of power and submission. Hands hold power and can shape the world as they please, while eyes and mouth are sensual organs that can only observe and receive impulses.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Daria Melnikova

The girl lives in an apartment with a creepy monster who constantly violates her personal boundaries and pesters her with her care. Even in the bathroom, the main character finds no escape from the monster. The girl’s patience ends, and she decides to run away from home.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Michelle Brand

As the night comes, the journey begins. Running rushing, racing. Unbound from time and swept away by the night’s surreal cascade of lights, we leave day-life behind.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Jean-François Lévesques

Confronted with doubt and feelings of emptiness, drunk with unhappiness and seeking to drown his sorrow, Barnabé experiences a curious metaphysical visitation; lightning strikes the spire of his church and a mysterious bird appears, forcing him to reconsider his life

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Jasna Čagalj

It’s an animal with memories. It doesn’t have a tail, it has protruding eyes and strong extremities. Its skin is slimy. I try to catch it but it’s impossible. It always gets away with ease. Secure in its ability to escape, it did not expect to be kicked. The force of the blow robs it of all grace, it no longer exudes strength. It resembles a piece of fabric being blown in the wind. It has teeth, big enough to be noticed. They are all still accounted for. It’s a frog. It is accompanied by four beings. They do not have a tail, but they do have arms and are not humans. They love to eat at the table. While they eat, they do not talk. They are not frogs but they could easily be mistaken for one of them.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Iku Ogawa

One day a letter takes a blood-sausage to his friend, liver-sausage. So, he went…

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Marko Tadić

In 1450 a fully loaded ship departed from Tsalal harbour and continued westward in search of an island believed to be somewhere far off the coast, but to no avail. Two other ships sailing out the following year in search of the same island came to a similar destiny.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Gaia Alari

The night is the place where characters move, and images rhythmically dissolve from faces to the night stars, in a smooth transition between images and words.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Noémie Marsily, Carl Roosens

He is a magician. She is a firefighter. Isolating themselves from the chaos of a world in turmoil, the two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they go about their daily business. Their challenge is to keep their heads, here up above it all, while everything is falling apart down below. But when reality calls – when fires need quenching and people need entertaining – how can they best make themselves useful in a world gone off the rails?

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Robert Seidel

Exploring the lag between recording analogue drawings and projecting them onto a queer performer to create dense feedback loops to use AI to mediate these transformative re-presentations.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Music Videos

“Missing Link” is the latest feature from Laika Studios, which makes some of today’s biggest stop motion animated movies. Their latest stars Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis, and Zoe Saldana. Director Chris Butler talked to us about all the work that went into bringing this movie to life. It involved years of work and over 100 handcrafted sets.

• Documentary
• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

by Bianca Scali

Mathieu is weighed down by many questions which put him in a heavy state. But as he gives in to his sadness, the rain becomes tears and his tears become rain. He becomes one with his sadness. It’s his time to dance, and the tears accompany him.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Pavao Štalter

A pale black-white photographv of a city square from last century. Accompanied by the music from a hurdy-gurdy, we are focusing a house. In the moment everything turns to be alive: inhabitants of the house and passers by.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Tamás Börönte

We’re following a debauched band heading to a bar. There is a dog on the road eating pizza, and they just drive over him without stopping. They don’t know yet that the dog will come back to take revenge.

• Music Videos
• Horror
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Veronika Obertová, Michaela Čopíková

Short animated concept film for HONDA. Shown at the Tokyo Motor show 2019.

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Sci-Fi

by Jenny Jokela

Homecoming Queen celebrates the legend of Califia, goddess of Califronia.

• Music Videos
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Kinga Rofusz

Home is more than a place where we live. It is also a feeling of trust, being within your family. This feeling is transferred from generation to generation. This film follows a little boy losing his home through mourning and relocation.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Mélanie Robert-Tourneur

In the heart of a dark forest, two silhouettes meet, attract and repel each other in an explosive bridal parade. “Hold Me Tight” is a bittersweet romance

• Drama
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Nata Metlukh

A trailer for the 2d edition of the Hiroshima Animation Season Festival.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Rafał Blecharz, Katarzyna Klas, Rafal Blecharz

A short story about a long road. Two siblings try to find their grandfather’s house. During their hitchhike, they meet various people, but their real companion is a plant in a pot. What will happen when they reach their destination?

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Coming-of-Age