Poetic

by Simon Bogojević Narath

The Arcadian atmosphere of a hazy underworld hosts unusual characters: an Illusionist, a Civil Entity, a Wooden Puppet and a silent, but dangerous Swordsmen. Their mysterious experiences are an allegory of the relationship between the now extinct tradition of European combat swordsmanship and the doctrine of pragmatic political action. Is the end of the allegory also a beginning of an instructive misunderstanding? The film is inspired by the motifs from the books Flower of Battle (1410) by Fiore dei Liberi and A Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (1864) by Maurice Joly.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Iva ĆIRIĆ

A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and struggls every day to survive.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Keshav Abrol, Lucas Londoño-Clayton, Pavel Loparev & others

Every morning, a bearded man must complete a strange and difficult ritual to prepare himself for the day ahead.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Lucia Malerba, Niccolò Manzolini

In an ordinary building, life goes on like in a beehive. Suddenly the geometry is broken by a leap into the void.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Sophie Lécuyer

Being a poetic experience, the film unfolds a plant fresco at the edge of intimacy and fantasy, where the eye, like the one spread by the butterfly, wanders from specimen to specimen. In the garden of a dream, the living metamorphoses and beings unveil.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Goran Radošević

On the cruise that he was supposed to take his annual break from life, Jadran experienced a tragic shipwreck during which he lost consciousness. Wake up in the middle of the ocean, all alone.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Hend Esmat, Lamiaa Diab

What if the roles of kids and adults were switched? The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of the relationship of grown-ups and children.

• Comedy
• Family
• Experimental

by Marko Belić

A story about an encounter between two individuals in an imaginary world – the Puppeteer and the Creature. The Puppeteer bides his time on his planet, longing for company. When a guest finally arrives, the Puppeteer expresses his happiness in many ways.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Natalia Mirzoyan

The mother issues her decree: before you get back in the water, you have to take a break and sit quietly for five minutes. For the little girl, these five minutes are an ocean of boredom that stretches on forever and ever. She starts to watch the other bathers and how they spend their five minutes.

• Drama
• Non-narrative

by Raman Djafari

The music video for the song “Snow” by the Berlin based techno group FJAAK tells the story of a character following an inner calling. He meets his companion and she takes him on a spiritual journey of partnership, love, pain, destruction, growth and rebirth. Through this journey we experience a fragmented narrative shaped by surreal sceneries and anthropomorphic transformations.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Anita Bruvere

Fish Boy lives in darkness, his guilt about the past slowly consuming him. His girlfriend Laura is a light of hope in his dark world. But despite his efforts, his past continues to chase him, eventually putting them both in danger.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by David Lynch

This biblical-like story of human civilization needs to be judged as a theatrical and symbolic (even sometimes static) account of what can haunt our communal harmony.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Joško Marušić

A metaphor of how the normal order of things sometimes goes awry, one night the fish take over.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

The festival’s creative director Hämid Shajarian interviews the participants of the National Competition category of Animatricks 2021: Tove Johnson – Jumalolento by Juho Maurinen (2019), Left Behind by Minna Eriksson (2020), Rinse and Shine by Iiris Korjus ja Katariina Haukka (2021), The Things I Saw: Monday by David Graham (2020), Bad to the boner by Robert Lönnqvist (2021), Tiedänkö mitä etsin by Ylva-Lii Wahlström (2019)

• Documentary
• Making of

by Alessandra Boatto, Gloria Cianci, Sofia Zanonato

The Earth has succumbed to pollution, everything is submerged under a sea of dust. A woman survives with the help of an improvised raft and the food that she recovers from the city. She will finally land on an island.

• Drama
• Experimental

by Niko Mlynarčík

Don’t you hate it when your figure drawing model keeps shuffling?

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Daniel Šuljić

Oil on glass, short animated film about changes in life, 2000.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Izu Troin

A young corporate executive is kidnapped from his apartment. He wakes up in the middle of a forest only to be stalked by a mysterious hunter.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Anselm Pyta

Far from here lies a giant field of rape.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Felix Colgrave

Official music video for ((SOURCE)) by Fever The Ghost.

• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative