A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.
Direction: Marta Reis Andrade
Production: David Doutel, Vasco Sá – bap Animation Studios
Co-Production: Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago, Ikki Films, Olivier Catherin
Script: Marta Reis Andrade
Music: Grilo
Sound: Bernardo Bento
Portugal, France . 0:13:02 . 2025 . 2D Computer
In the 1990s, 8-year-old Agata leaves Poland for Belgium. Her perspective transforms the migratory reality into an initiatory experience.
Direction: Sylwia Szkiłądź
Production: Ozù Productions (BE), Novanima (FR), Vivi Film (BE)
Script: Sylwia Szkiłądź
Belgium, France . 0:17:27 . 2025 . 2D Computer
Hurikán rushes to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he crushes on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.
Direction: Jan Saska
Production: Kamila Dohnalova, Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasova, Antoine Liétout, Ivan Zuber, Juraj Krasnohorsky, Mladen Dukic
Script: Jan Saska, Václav Hašek
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia . 0:13:07 . 2024 . 2D and 3D Computer
t’s Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and her need to escape.
Direction: Alice Eça Guimarães
Production: Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim – Animais AVPL
Coproduction: Carlota Pou, Bruno Simões – Studio Kimchi, Claire Beffa, Sidonie Garnier . La Clairière Ouest
Script: Alice Eça Guimarães
Music: Gisela Fullà Silvestre
Portugal, France, Spain . 0:12:24 . 2025 . 2D Computer
One morning, a shirt and a pair of pants come out of a closet. They come together to form a person, who eats breakfast, chooses a hat and puts it on. In this universe, people are composed of nothing but clothes. One of elegant and luxurious clothes, another of adult clothes, a third of children’s clothes, another one undresses someone to put on his clothes. They all go out into the street without bodies, heads and feet. People gather in the square and seem to get excited about something. Some try to wear hats, even though they have no heads, others shoes, even though they have no feet. One day a girl, who has a body but no clothes, enters this strange world.
Direction: Dahee Jeong
Production: Pierre Baussaron, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Christine Noël – Miyu Productions, Between the Pictures, National Film Board of Canada
Script: Dahee Jeong
Music: Luigi Allemano
Sound: Lee Jusuk
Canada, France, South Korea . 0:15:09 . 2024 . 2D Computer
Mia has spent her whole life freediving, fishing and gliding through seaweed and rocks. Time has passed, tracing its lines on her body, and shaping the landscapes around her. Loved ones have vanished. Tonight, Mia remembers.
Direction: Sandra Desmazières
Production: Jérôme Barthélemy, Daniel Sauvage, Olivier Catherin, Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura
Script: Sandra Desmazières
Music: Manuel Merlot, Cedryck Santens
France, Netherlands, Portugal . 0:15:00 . 2025 . 2D Computer
It’s Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and her need to escape.
Direction: Alice Eça Guimarães
Production: Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim – Animais AVPL
Co-Production: Carlota Pou, Bruno Simões – Studio Kimchi, Claire Beffa, Sidonie Garnier . La Clairière Ouest
Script: Alice Eça Guimarães
Music: Gisela Fullà Silvestre
Portugal, France, Spain . 0:12:24 . 2025 . 2D Computer
May 1945: Sophie (5) and her parents try to flee the Russian frontline. They stop at a hotel, where they encounter two Nazis. They fight – Sophie loses her parents and her memory. Soon Soviets occupy the hotel, find Sophie and make her a cook. Decades later, Sophie regains her memory, when she meets one of the Nazis again.
Direction: Heinrich Sabl
Production: Heinrich Sabl, Philippe Bober
Script: Heinrich Sabl
Music: Tom Mäwers, Erik Lautenschlaeger
Sound: Jochen Jezussek, Heinrich Bals
France, Germany . 1:40:00 . 2024 . Digital, stop motion, puppets
In 1990s Hungary, travel is finally possible but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world.
Direction: László Csáki
Production: Miklós Kázmér, Ádám Felszeghy
Co-Production: Réka Temple
Script: László Csáki
Music: Ambrus Tövisházi, Miklós Peiszner
Sound: Tamás Zányi
Clément receives a telephone call from Tessa. It’s been a long time since they last spoke. As nightfall approaches, he gets lost in the city.
Direction: Martin Bonnin
Production: La Poudrière
Script: Jean-Baptiste Cornier, Hervé Guyader
France . 0:04:07 . 2024 . 2D Computer
Helpless in the face of a repressive state, a young couple leaves their home — an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare.
Direction: Natalia Mirzoyan
Production: Kadriann Kibus, Armine Harutyunyan – Estonian Art Academy
Music: Natalia Mirzoyan, Daria Nikitina
Sound: Sander Põldsaar
Armenia, Belgium, Estonia, France . 0:16:22 . 2025 . 3D Puppets, cut-outs, pixilation
In the depths of a dark forest, Arianna starts to make out a tune.
Direction: Daniela Godel
Production: La Poudrière
Script: Govinda Sao
Music: Diego Ayala Raffalli
Sound: Jean-Baptiste Cornier, Loïc Burkhardt
France . 0:04:11 . 2025 . Cut-outs, 2D computer
A feeling of emptiness, a restless mind and two pieces of land. What is born from the void that unites them? “Wildflower” is a poetic essay about the undesirable, the lack of control and duality that seeks to explore the different possibilities of interaction between human beings and the uncontrollable side of nature.
Direction: Carina Pierro Corso
Production: Bruno Simões, Carlota Pou
Script: Carina Pierro Corso
Portugal . 0:05:00 . 2024 . Clay, animated objects, 2D computer
Joana enters a world where nothing is as it seems. In a seemingly dead-end game, the infinite universe of internet and online games challenges her to think about freedom and the risks present in this digital world of technology and information.
Direction: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto/ Anilupa´s workshop participants: Year 4ºA of EB of Antas
Production: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto/ Anilupa
Script: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto/ Anilupa´s workshop participants: Year 4ºA of EB of Antas
Portugal . 0:02:50 . 2024 . Puppets
Three women from different generations discuss their relationship with their body hair, the pressure they felt to shave throughout their lives or the lack of it. How each of them approaches the subject, defending the individuality of their bodies and their right to choose.
Direction: Feno Dias, Theo Quinhones, Lucas Serra
Production: Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal . 0:04:17 . 2025 . 2D Computer
A man, inside an old bathtub, thinks, wonders and travels through the memories of his childhood.
Direction: José-Manuel Xavier
Production: Rui Bastos Gonçalves
Music: Nanu Figueiredo
Portugal . 0:13:00 . 2024 . 2D Computer
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