49th Festival
Films in Competition

International Competition Short Films 1

Water Girl

Fille de L’Eau

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

Box

In a regulated system, different figures live isolated from each other in their boxes. They draw, cut, fold and stack the paper boxes on top of each other. As the stacks get higher and higher and collapse, the figures find each other and discover life together.

Direction: Aline Schoch
Production: Ursula Ulmi– Ulmi Film
Co-Production: Ramon Schoch – YK Animation Studio
Script: Aline Schoch
Music: Xenia Wiener, Janos Mijnssen
Sound: Noisy Neighbours, Loïc Kreyden, Thomas Gassmann

Switzerland . 0:08:00  . 2024 . 2D Computer

Society of Clothes

Les Gens Dans L’Armoire

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

Hurikán

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

Voiceless

Sans Voix

Dan is a young man who spends a lot of time in his flat. His routine is always accompanied by electronic music pumping through his headphones. But when he steps outside, he feels disconnected from the world around him and only finds solace in nightclubs. Techno music and drugs transport him to a world where he can be himself, where he feels free. One day, he catches the eye of a baby which will change his perception of the world around him.

Direction: Samuel Patthey
Production: Mark Olexa – Dok Mobile
Script: Samuel Patthey
Sound: Thomas Gassmann

Switzerland . 0:14:47  . 2024 . 2D Computer

Flower Show

Girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system.

Direction: Elli Vuorinen
Production: Böhle Studios – Kimmo Sillanmikko & Jani Lehto
Script: Elli Vuorinen
Music and Sound: Jani Lehto

Finland . 0:08:31  . 2024 . 2D Computer

International Competition Feature Films 1

A Story About Fire

Ran Bi Wa, a monkey that raised by human tribe, was heading towards the Holy Mountain to steal the fire for mankind. At the end of the journey, he went through Nirvana in fire and turned into a man.

Direction: Wenyu Li
Production: Bo Chen, Anyi Wang, Donghai Su
Script: Wenyu Li
Music: Wild Children
Sound: Huang Lei

China . 1:25:00 . 2025 . Drawing on paper

All Aboard Competition 1

Free the Chickens

A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the wilderness to experience a series of borderline situations and ethical dilemmas that lead to new insights, such as that nature is not a safe place for animals.

Direction: Matúš Vizár
Production: Jakub Viktorín, Tomáš Hrubý, Nutprodukce, 365 Production
Script: Matúš Vizár
Music and Sound: Adam Matej

Slovakia . 00:15:00 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Vsemir – the Border at the Miren Cemetery

In 1947, the cemetery of Miren was split by a new border between Italy and Yugoslavia, dividing the living and the dead. As life adjusted, people found ways to overcome the divide, showing that while borders are drawn on maps, human connection continues beyond them.

Direction: Lea Vucko, Damir Grbanovic
Production: Damir Grbanovic, Vladimir Perunicic, Octopics, Goriški muzej
Script: Rok Bavcar
Sound: Matej Doljak

Slovenia . 00:02:51 . 2025 . Drawing on paper, 2D and 3D computer

Psychonauts

Psihonauti

Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.

Direction: Niko Radas
Production: Filip Gašparović Melis – Croatian Association of Digital Artists
Script: Niko Radas
Sound: Luka Gamulin

Croatia . 00:08:00 . 2025 . Puppets

Petra and the Sun

Petra y el Sol

During a heavy snowmelt in the Andes, Petra, 71, discovers the perfectly preserved corpse of a mountaineer from the last century. Initially hesitant, she brings him to her wooden chalet, sparking an unexpected romantic story.

Direction: Malu Furche, Stefania Malacchini
Production: Malu Furche, Stefania Malacchini, Antonia Piña, Yeniffer Fasciani
Script: Malu Furche, Stefania Malacchini
Music: Lio Fumacarne
Sound: Sonamos Ltda.

Chile . 00:10:30 . 2025 . Puppets, animated objects

Burnout

“Burnout” is a stop-motion short that combines dark, cinematic visuals with unexpected moments of comedy. The film follows a character trapped in a furious cycle of work, as mounting stress begins to unravel him. Born from this inner turmoil, an uncontrollable force emerges, wreaking havoc in its wake. The film explores the suffocating effects of stress, inviting viewers to witness a surreal descent into chaos, where the boundaries between mind and physical reality blur.

Direction: Matthew Hendry, Tolli Myers
Production: Kirsten Jane Reed, Famouth University
Script: Matthew Hendry, Tolli Myers
Original Music: Peter Norris
Sound: Edward Lansley

United Kingdom . 00:05:35 . 2025 . Puppets, clay, animated objects, pixilation

The Bears' River

La Rivière des Ourses

In a desolate landscape, where nature seems more depleted than ever, a vast city awakens and, as it does every morning, springs into action to transform the scarce resources available into an industrial quantity of intoxicating drink, before diving into long night-time festivities. The whole city bustles, except for Mackenzie, a solitary and sensitive woman who, that morning, steps out of line as a hungry bear approaches the city.

Direction: Anaïs Mauzat
Production: Bastien Martin
Script: Anaïs Mauzat
Music: Pierre Jacques
Sound: Charles De Ville

Belgium . 00:13:45 . 2024 . 2D Computer

International Competition Short Films 2

Shadows

At a crowded airport, Ahlam, a 15-year-old mother, is running away from Baghdad, the only place she’s ever known. As she fights the shadows lurking around her, she reflects on her journey to reclaim her life.

Direction: Rand Beiruty
Production: Idris Lettifi, Moussa Lettifi, Jude Kawwa
Script: Rand Beiruty

Jordan . 0:12:00  . 2024 . 2D Computer

Larval

Living a lonely life of isolation, a girl dreams of luxury and beauty. She fantasises about possessing the looks of her celebrity idol and winning the heart of her unrequited love, an oblivious worker at her local takeaway. In a surreal, dreamlike turn of events, featuring a moth-like spirit, she discovers that perhaps she should have been more careful what she wished for.

Direction: Alice Bloomfield
Production: Alice Bloomfield
Script : Alice Bloomfield
Music and Sound: Nicholas Faris

United Kingdom . 0:12:10  . 2025 . Drawing on paper, 2D Computer

Sulaimani

One evening, Alia and Neena, two young Indian women, each come to dinner at “Sulaimani”, an Indian restaurant in Paris. The meal brings back sometimes buried emotions for them and “releases” certain memories which little by little reveal to us why they left their country.

Direction: Vinnie Ann Bose
Production: Girelle Production – Christophe Camoirano, Vanessa Buttin-Labarthe, Jean Bouthors
Co-Production: Les Astronautes
Scrip: Vinnie Ann Bose
Original Music: Matthieu Gérard-Tulane

France . 0:20:00  . 2025 . Puppets, paint

How a River is Born

Ayla wakes up in a mountainous landscape, surrounded only by vegetation and a river. Driven by curiosity and a desire to get to know the place, she goes on a journey of discovery and diving. As she discovers where she is, she also discovers herself.

Direction: Luma Flôres
Production: Flávia Santana, Alana Barros
Co-Production: Anomura Filmes, Mulungu Realizações Culturais
Script: Luma Flôres
Music and Sound: Andrea Martins

Brazil . 0:08:33 . 2025 . Cut-outs, 2D computer

The Pool or Death of a Goldfish

Basen Albo Śmierć Złotej Rybki

A story about a possessive relationship between a mother and her daughter. The main character, through unexpressed anger and rebellion against her mother, transforms into a titular goldfish. Unspoken words, gestures, and repressed childhood emotions manifest in harsh treatment of both herself and others. The film is framed by a compositional structure in which the main character finally allows herself to feel grief, thereby entering a process of self-acceptance and forgiveness.

Direction: Daria Kopiec
Production: Marmolada Films – Tomasz Łaptaszyński, Justyna Rucińska
Co-Production: EC1 Lodz – City of Film, Trufel, Daria Kopiec
Script: Aline Schoch
Music: Natalia Czekala
Sound: Agata Chodyra

Poland . 0:13:40 . 2025 . Clay

The Mud Under my Window

Sous Ma Fenêtre, la Boue

One of Emma’s mother is too busy, the other one is too far away: a presence she rejects, an absence she sublimates. Out of a trivial tension, an intimate and unsettling face-to-face confrontation suddenly arises.

Direction: Violette Delvoye
Production: La Cellule Productions, Ozù productions, Marion Barré, Jérémie Mazurek, Christophe Beaujean
Script: Violette Delvoye
Music: Charlotte Maison, David Baboulis

Belgium . 0:12:32  . 2024 . 2D Computer

International Competition Feature Films 2

Nimuendajú

The film tells the story of Curt Unckel, a social scientist who lived with indigenous peoples for 40 years. Curt was baptized in 1906 by the Guarani as Nimuendajú, and dedicated his life to studying and understanding different cultures. He witnessed the persecution and expulsion of indigenous peoples from their lands.      

Direction: Tania Anaya
Production: Bruno Hilário, Kleber Gesteira Matos, Luana Melgaço, Michelle Antunes, Tania Anaya, Tatiana Mitre, Gabriel Bonilla – Anaya Produções)
Script: Anna Flávia Dias Salles, Jane Malaquias, Leandro Saraiva, Tania Anaya
Musict: André Baptista
Sound: Lucas Coelho

Brazil, Peru . 01:24:00 . 2025 . 2D computer , rotoscope

All Aboard Competition 2

Flatastic

Pushed to their limit, the Manta Rays rise up against Man to take control of the Earth; it is the dawning of a new Flat era.

Direction: Alice Saey
Production: Miyu Productions, Keplerfilm, Spotted Bird – Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre baussaron, Peter Londhout, Koji Nelissen, Derk-Jan Warrink
Script: Léa Perret
Musict: Ruben Van Asselt
Sound: Bram Meindersma

France, Netherlands . 00:16:50 . 2024 . Drawing on paper, 2D and 3D computer

The Undying Pain of Existence

A nude model is posing with statuesque stillness for an elite drawing class – until an unfortunate mosquito bite challenges his self-control. Driven to madness by the itch, he’s caught between the ruthless demand for perfection and his most unhinged, animalistic impulses.

Direction: Oscar Jacobson
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg – Franz Rügamer, Nadiia Yunatska
Script: Oscar Jacobson
Musict: Clemens Gutjahr
Sound: Timo Kleinemehr

Germany . 00:05:20 . 2025 . Drawing on paper, 2D computer

Keijo on the Go

A humorous mockumentary set in 2007 Estonia for all the nostalgic viewers who were fans of reality tv shows at the time. The story follows an amateur reporter looking to find a cool story for his brand new TV show. His thirst for fame brings him face to face with an ancient Estonian mythological being, desperate for answers. It’s dangerous and stupid and even weird at times,  but you know what they say: the show must go on!

Direction: Alex Toodu, Katrina Oll
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
Script: Alex Toodu, Katrina Oll
Music: Quando Quando Quando, Ervin Lillepea, Viljandi Paadimees, Ants Eskola

Estonia . 00:05:40 . 2025 . Puppets

Off-Time

A data engineer rushes through life, believing multitasking saves time—but it only creates chaos. Despite his strict control over time, nothing gets done: his home is a mess, work overflows, and breakfast is always burnt. He discovers joy in life only when time breaks apart.

Direction: Nata Metlukh
Production: Nata Metlukh with the support of the Hiroshima Artist-In-Residence
Music and Sound: Maksym Andrukh

Estonia . 00:10:45 . 2025 . 2D Computer

The Path

Kaminhu

Joanna, a young European traveller, roams around the Cape Verde Islands along with her sketchbook. On her way she encounters Lito, a local fisherman who will spur her to delay her departure from the village of Esperança.

Direction: Marie Vieillevie
Production: Papy3D Productions – Richard Van Den Boom
Co-Production: Les Astronautes – Vanessa Buttin-Labarthe, jean Bouthors
Script: Marie Vieillevie
Original Music: TCHEKA
Sound: Pedro Góis, Nelson Carvalho, Marco Silva, Fernando Dallot, Atlantico Blue Studio

France . 00:15:00 . 2024 . 2D Computer

International Competition Short Films 3

Scars We Love

Les Belles Cicatrices

Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.

Direction: Raphaël Jouzeau
Production: Balade Sauvage Productions
Script: Raphaël Jouzeau, Pierre Le Gall
Music: Pierre Oberkampf

France . 0:15:04  . 2024 . 2D Computer

Hypersensitive

Hypersensible

“Hypersensitive” recounts the turbulent, surrealistic journey of a young woman struggling to understand her unique take on the world. Drawing on her own childhood memories as well as her fertile imagination, filmmaker Martine Frossard paints a compassionate portrait of a woman on a quest for healing in a society with little tolerance for difference.

Direction: Martine Frossard
Production: National Film Board of Canada – Marc Bertrand, Christine Noël
Script: Martine Frossard
Music and Sound: Daniel Scott

Canada. 0:06:144 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Dog Alone

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

Tonight I'll Dream About Water

Dzisiaj Przyśni Mi Się Woda

A young swimmer’s life changes drastically when she begins to suspect that what she loves most is actually her greatest threat. A dark tale of what lies beneath the surface.

Direction: Adrianna Matwiejczuk
Production: Yellow Tapir – Marcin Podolec
Co-Production: Eesti Joonisfilm – Kalev Tamm
Script: Adrianna Matwiejczuk
Sound: Michal Fojcik

Poland, Estonia . 0:14:00 . 2025 . Drawing on paper

Ovary-Acting

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at her sister’s baby shower.

Direction: Ida Melum
Production: Jante Films – Michelle Brøndum, Klipp Og Lim – Kjersti Greger, Apparat Filmproduktion AB – Johann Edström
Argument: Laura Jayne Tunbridge

Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom . 0:12:24  . 2025 . Puppets, animated objects, 2D computer, live action

Bus

Autokar

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

Belium, France . 0:17:27 . 2025 . 2D Computer

International Competition Feature Films 3

Norbert

Norbert is an incompetent spy in a grey, bureaucratic and sad nation. Its rulers dream of conquering their colourful neighbour; a small, cheerful country where everything works backwards, in total and absurd chaos, something that makes its inhabitants terribly happy. Despite his total uselessness, Norbert will become a key player in disrupting his own government’s plans. Accompanied by his bizarre companions, he will share adventures, fun and dangers in an attempt to save Colorlandia and, above all, in a search for his own happiness.

Direction: José Corral Llorente
Production: Nacho La Casa, Pedro Hernàndez Santos, Álvaro Urtizberea
Script: José Corral Llorente
Original Music: Micaela Carballo
Sound: Christina Mills Steel

Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru . 1:15:00 . 2024 . 3D Computer

International Competition Student Films 1

Holy Heavêness

Vazne Moghadas

The unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones… There are wounds in life that eat away at you like leprosy…
The weight of the death of loved ones sometimes becomes so overwhelming that to get rid of this weight another birth is inevitable.

Direction: Farnoosh Abedi, Negah Khezre Fardyardad, Mohammad Ghaffari – Negtive Art Studio
Production: Mohammad Reza Oviesi, DEFC
Script: Negah Khezre Fardyardad
Music and Sound: Soroush Abedi

Iran . 0:10:00 . 2025 . Puppets, 2D computer

Me and You and Smoke

A fire ignites, and a boy’s fantasies about a girl dissolve into a haunting reality he can’t escape.

Direction: Rachel Shiloach
Production: Michal Wasilewski – National Film and Television School
Script: Rachel Shiloach
Music: Diogo Chaves
Sound: Sarah-Louise Davila

United Kingdom . 0:07:30 . 2025 . Paint

Winter in March

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

Swallow’s Tonada

Tonada de L'Hirondelle

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

Judy1964

In 1960s suburbia, young Judy is captivated by a new toy gun commercial, but when she stumbles upon her parents’ real firearm, the line between playful fantasy and real danger blurs.

Direction: Marie-Hélène Van Thuyne
Production: Emma Daelman – Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound, Brussels
Script: Marie-Hélène Van Thuyne
Sound: Theo Meewis

Belgium . 0:05:10 . 2025 . Puppets, animated objects

Fountain

Chawk

A middle-aged man who is a projectionist of a small-town cinema meets his teenage love after many years. The faces of all the residents of the city are deformed and only crying will make their faces return to their normal form.

Direction: Hazhir As’adi
Production: Hazhir As’adi, Sina Aubi, Afsaneh Ghorbani – Soore Art University
Script: Hazhir As’adi
Sound: Ramin Abousedgh

Iran . 0:13:05 . 2025 . 2D Computer

A Sparrow's Song

Inspired by a true story. A  widowed air raid warden in the midst of World War II struggles to overcome grief and rediscover joy in her life—until she finds a dying sparrow she hopes to save.

Direction: Tobias Eckerlin
Production: Tobias Eckerlin – Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Script: Tobias Eckerlin
Music: Dominique Girod
Sound: Marc Uhlherr

Germany . 0:09:10 . 2025 . 3D Computer

All Aboard Competition 3

As if the Earth Had Swallowed them Up

Como si la Tierra las Hubiera Tragado

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.

Direction: Natalia León
Production: XBO Films
Script: Natalia León (baseado em based on Agua de Lourdes: ser Mujer en México” de by Karen Villeda
Music: Diego Ayala Raffalli
Sound: Laurent Chassaigne

France . 0:13:31 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Caries

Karies

Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.

Direction: Aline Höchli
Production: Aline Höchli, Stefan Holaus
Script: Aline Höchli
Music and Sound: Samuel Schranz

France . 0:09:41 . 2025 . Drawing on paper

Birds of Paradise

Rajskie Ptaki

Bird droppings. To most, a nuisance. But for a remarkable flock of flightless birds, they are the foundation of life itself. There is a delicate harmony in their hidden world – until one day when a mysterious object washes up on shore. What begins as curiosity sparks a profound shift, leading the flock into a new era of cultural and technological change. Once happy with simplicity, the birds now face the price of progress.

Direction: Tomek Ducki
Production: Ewelina Gordziejuk, Hélène Mitjavile
Script: Tomek Ducki
Music and Sound: Jean-Marc Petsas

Poland . 0:08:30 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Dollhouse Elephant

In a world that demands community participation, individual desires inevitably collide. A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.

Direction: Jenny Jokela
Production: Jani Lehto, Böhle Stusdios
Script: Jenny Jokela, Ylva Perera
Music: Sebastian Hilli
Sound: Jani Lehto

Finland . 0:11:14 . 2025 . Drawing on Paper, 2D computer

Joko

Joko is a young man, supporting his entire family from his tanker job. On the second anniversary of his employment, Joko and his fellow workers are surprised by a meeting with unspecified foreign delegates who order…him to carry himself on his back. At first, Joko rebels against this humiliating practice, but he relents under peer pressure and the desire to earn a good salary. The delegates begin to increasingly dominate the boy. Red blisters appear on Joko’s back, and one of the wearers can’t get away from his back. Every subsequent delegate who touches Joko sticks to him.

Direction: Izabela Plucińska
Production: Grzegorz Wacławek, Piotr Szczepanowicz – Animoon
Co-Production: Paulina Ratajczak – Las Sztuki, Izabela Plucinska – Clay Traces, Martin Vandas- Maur Film
Script: Izabela Plucińska, Justyna Celeda

Czech Republic, Germany, Poland . 0:15:45 . 2024 . Clay

International Competition Short Films 4

Ira

In the depths of a volcano, Ira, consumed by seething rage, triggers a spectacular eruption. In this boiling world, she meets a giantess who helps her release her inner power. Now a giant herself, Ira leads the volcano’s inhabitants in a liberating dance, transforming their world into an endless sea of lava.

Direction: Rozenn Busson
Production: Cellofan Productions – Margot Renard, Charline Pierret
Scrip: Martine Frossard
Music: Camille Riey

France . 0:07:25 . 2024 . Paint on Glass

The Devil Light

Luz Diabla

Martín, a young urban raver, becomes entangled in a strange accident on the road while heading to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas. Finding refuge in a mysterious countryside tavern and taken in by two strangers, Martín’s paranoia begins to take hold of him. As the hours pass, his perception starts to distort, unleashing unsettling visions that will lead him to confront the supernatural forces lurking in the night.

Direction: Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza
Production: Gervasio Canda – Ojo Raro, Patricio Plaza, Paula Boffo
Music: Emmanuel Gabotto, David Tokar, Antu La Banca

Argentina, Canada . 0:11:10 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Lost Touch

Amelia is the sole survivor on a damaged spaceship. Caught in the gravitational pull of a planet, she struggles with grief and isolation. When a mysterious presence appears, she is torn between the past and the future.

Direction: Justine Klaiber
Production: Asako Film – Anja Kofmel, Frances McStea
Script: Justine Klaiber
Music: Mirjam Skal
Sound: Thomas Gassmann, Noah Lüthi

Switzerland . 00:12:23 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Lucus

At the height of the Roman Empire, a young girl lives within the walls of Lucus Augusti (Lugo). She suffers visions of the destruction of her home and decides she must prevent it.

Direction: David Fidalgo
Production: Gonzalo E. Veloso, Elena Mansinho, TestaFerro, Malaherba Producións
Script: David Fidalgo, Elena Mansinho
Music: Sofía Oriana
Sound: Javier Pato, David Machado

Portugal . 0:02:57 . 2023 . 2D Computer

Sequencial

In a fantastical sequence of events, a young man confronts not only his personal fears, but also the adversities of life. A story of learning and finding a path of inspiration.

Direction: Bruno Caetano
Production: Bruno Caetano
Co-Production and Executive Production: Marcin Podolec, Michael Proença Riccardo Antonino, Susana Miguel António, Michal Benkes
Script: Bruno Caetano, Manuel Ruas Moreira
Music: Filipe Raposo
Sound: Carlos Abreu

France, Italy, Poland, Portugal . 0:12:05 . 2025 . Puppets, 2D computer

Tv or the Disturbance on Forest Hill Road

Tv oder Die Ruhestörung an Der Waldbergstrasse

Six-year-old Diego exceeds his screen time and ends up with square eyes. This triggers a series of mysterious phenomena, seeping through various screens in the apartment building. When police officers Kim and Mike arrive to investigate a noise complaint, they find themselves in a chaotic mix of realities and must face off against fictional threats come to life.

Direction: Frederic Siegel
Production: Marumaru GmbH, Marwan Abdalla Eissa
Co-Production: YK Animation Studio GmbH – Fela Belloto, SFR Scheweizer Radio & Fernsehen – Gabriela Bloch Steinmann
Script: Frederic Siegel
Music and Sound: Jakob Eisenbach

Switzerland. 0:14:09 . 2025. 2D Computer

International Competition Feature Films 4

Memory Hotel

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   

International Competition Student Films 2

Void Spaces

Therapy session opens memories from five different places and times. Traumatic experiences come back in expressive and suggestive images. Slowly, chaos becomes calmer and changes into peace.

Direction: Marta Koch
Production: Piotr Szczepanowicz, Grzegorz Wacławek – Polish National Film School in Lodz
Script: Marta Koch
Music: Teoniki Rozynek
Sound: Michal Fojcik MPSE

Poland . 0:13:40 . 2024 . Drawing on paper

Death's Peak

After digging up his dead brother, David journeys up a mountain in pursuit of their childhood dream. After facing his grief, will they finally both be at peace?

Direction: Willy Fair
Production: Louis Jousselme – National Film and Television School
Script: Tracey Murray
Music: Charlie Seaborn
Sound: Nicholas Smyth

United Kingdom . 0:09:00 . 2025 . Puppets

The Last Gammon

Dave is on a mission to find the last gammon in London for his bird’s brekkie, and nothing — not even the impending apocalypse — can stop him.

Direction: Elmaz Ekrem Littlewood
Production: Luiza Amelio de Carvalho – National Film and Television School
Script: Angus Blair
Music: Carrie Penn
Sound: Will Henley

United Kingdom . 0:09:12 . 2025 . Photos, 2D and 3D computer, other

Where Memories Live

Donde Viven los Recuerdos

A cardboard house is built as refuge for the remains of a family’s home video archives. Memories of maternal guidance, tenderness, and reunion are brought to life by following a child’s early years.

Direction: Florencia de la Maza, Matías Yunge
Production: Florencia de la Maza, Matías Yunge – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


Script: Florencia de la Maza, Matías Yunge
Music: Javiera Ibarra

Chile . 0:07:22 . 2025 . Photos, cut-outs, animated objects

Anima Natura

A landscape disappears, the wind begins to transform what seems immovable, sometimes like a breath of life, sometimes like a disaster, a notebook that collects landscapes eagerly seeks how to keep a record of it.

Direction: Andrea Gudiño
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
Sound: Antonio Castillo

Estonia . 0:05:58 . 2024 . Animated objects, live action

A Tale For Mohsen

داستانی برای محسن

Mohsen is a teenage boy who lives an ordinary life. However, by listening to his friends, telling stories about their exciting lives, he decides to dedicate his life to create memories that he can share with his friends. With the outbreak of war in the country, he embarks on a journey to go to the battlefield and make his own story of life.

Direction: Mojtaba Taraki
Production: Mojtaba Taraki – Iran University of Art
Script: Hossein Zangene
Music: Reza Fanid
Sound: Omid Nikbin

Iran . 0:10:46 . 2024 . 2D and 3D Computer

Between the Gaps

Entre les Jours

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
Sound: Jean-Baptiste Cornier, Hervé Guyader

França . 0:04:07 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Wolfie

Vlček

A perfectionist illustrator has to face her own mistakes when she accidentally makes an ink blot and creates Wolfie, a little wolf with an inky nose.

Direction: Philippe Kastner
Production: Tomáš Šimon – FAMU – Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Script: Philippe Kastner
Music: Philippe Kastner
Sound: Dávid Procházka

Czech Republic . 0:13:12 . 2025 . 2D Computer

International Competition Short Films 5

Because Today is Saturday

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

Dog Ear

Eleven-year-old Berci spends an afternoon alone with his dog, struggling with the emotions left behind after witnessing his parents’ violent fight the day before. As his suppressed feelings surface, he releases his anger and aggression in tense and emotional interactions with his dog. These raw expressions eventually help Berci find relief and discover the quiet, transformative strength of forgiveness.

Direction: Péter Vácz
Production: Gábor Osváth – Boddah FilmFabiq
Script: Péter Vácz, Rita Domonyi
Music: Dávid Konsiczky
Sound: Péter Benjámin Lukács

Hungary . 0:20:00 . 2025 . 2D Computer

S the Wolf

A man recounts his capillary peregrinations through his adolescence – from the barber’s trauma to his first love to the loss of his hair and eventually his father. Through this, we see a construction of a masculinity.

Direction: Sameh Alaa
Production: Avantika Singh Desbouvries
Script: Sameh Alaa
Sound: Moataz AlQammari

France . 0:10:24 . 2024 . 2D Computer

The Girl Who Cried Pearls

La Jeune Flle qui Pleurait des Perles

A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.

Direction: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
Production: Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand, Christine Noël – National Film Board of Canada
Script: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski, Isabelle Mandalian
Music: Patrick Watson

Canada . 0:17:28 . 2025 . Puppets

Retirement Plan

At apathy with his life, Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) dreams of the beauty and joy he will find in retirement.

Direction: John Kelly
Production: Julie Murnaghan, Andrew Freedman – Antidote
Script: John Kelly, Tara Lawall
Music: John Carroll Kirby
Sound: Jon Clarke

Ireland. 0:07:17 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Two Black Boys in Paradise

A movingly tender animation, based on Dean Atta’s eponymous poem, sees two boys (Edan, 19 and Dula, 18) on a journey of self-acceptance and love – for each other and themselves. “The whole project is an ode to belonging. And how complicated, difficult and messy that journey is. It’s an ode to love. Which is and will always be the greatest anything that life has to offer.” — Jordan Stephens, narrator

Direction: Baz Sells
Production: Ben Jackson – ONE6th Animation Studio
Script: Baz Sells baseado no poema de based on the poem by Dean Atta
Music: Jasper Dent , Adam Grigg
Sound: Jasper Dent , Adam Grigg, Alex Bird

United Kingdom . 0:08:54  . 2025 . Puppets, 3D computer

International Competition Feature Films 5

Pelikan Blue

Kék Pelikán

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

Hungary . 1:18:15 . 2023 . 2D Computer

International Competition Student Films 3

My Grandmother is a Skydiver

Моя Бабуся Парашутистка

Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother’s safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to restore and rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.

Direction: Polina Piddubna
Production: Polina Piddubna – Fillmuniversitaet Babelsberg ‘Konrad Wolf’
Script: Polina Piddubna
Music: Ilja Gussarov
Sound: Danylo Okulov

Germany . 0:12:56 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Tethered

After a chance encounter with a girl, a boy’s longing to be with her is threatened by a mysterious pull from the Moon.

Direction: Alessandro Cino Zolfaneli
Production: Paola Dominique Delfuego – National Film and Television School
Script: Alessandro Cino Zolfaneli, Angus Blair
Music: Edoardo Vella
Sound:Joseph Field Eccles

United Kingdom . 0:09:48 . 2025 . Puppets

All Hail the Duck King

When Bill struggles with artist’s block, a childishly drawn duck called Quack emerges out. The more Bill ignores Quack, the more distracting the duck becomes. In order for Bill to overcome his artist block, he must first embrace Quack.

Direction: Tommy Howlett
Production: Siyi Mi – National Film and Television School
Script: Sarah Louise Madden
Music: Sam Rothera
Sound: Thomas J. R. Moss

United Kingdom . 0:06:02 . 2025 . Drawing on paper, 2D computer

Pear Garden

Baghe Golabi

Six years old Lily visits her grandmother after grandma had a mastectomy and doesn’t have breasts anymore. At night, Lily finds out that the shadow of grandma has the breasts, Lily follows her and tries to get the breasts back for her grandma.

Direction: Shadab Shayegan
Production: Shadab Shayegan – Filmakademie Baden Württemberg/Animationsinstitut
Script: Shadab Shayegan, Sepideh Sarihi
Music: Periklis Liakakis
Sound: Rachel Oker, Jonathan Rösch

Germany, Iran . 0:07:04 . 2024 . 2D Computer

The Joy of Being

Gleden Ved at Vore

Balder , one-year-old, has his first encounter with the world. With his curious, carefree gaze, everyday moments become a poetic journey of discovery, where each sound, shadow and touch is filled with wonder. But behind the curiosity lie moments when the world becomes too big, too close, and too overwhelming all at once.

Direction: Emma Bruun Ruus
Production: Emma Lind – The National Danish Film School
Music: Andreas K. Westmark
Sound: Mathias Schmidt

Denamark . 0:09:45 . 2025 . Paint

Urban Duo

隆昌公寓

In the bustling noise of Shanghai, Longchang Apartment, a century-old building, seems like a haven from time. A father experiences a peaceful slow life here, where neighbors live in harmony. His son, on the other hand, is caught up in the fast pace of the city day after day. Their lives, are parallel yet starkly different…

Direction: Hongyu Yue
Produção: College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University
Script: Hongyu Yue
Music: Zexin Nie
Sound: Yilin Zhu

China . 0:06:20 . 2024 . Clay, 3D computer

My Wonderful Life

早安健康

Grace Lee, an overworked mom in Singapore, collapses at work. She gets admitted into the hospital, where she finds newfound freedom as a patient.

Direction: Calleen Koh
Production: Tan Si En – CalArts
Script: Calleen Koh
Music: Diego Ayala Raffalli
Sound: Craig Smith

Singapore . 0:10:30 . 2024 . Puppets, photos, cut-outs, animated objects, 2D computer, other

Hunting

Qui Part à la Chasse

Today, Lea is going in search of a subject for a documentary film. When she believes she’s finally caught her prey, the roles end up being reversed. The hunter becomes the hunted.

Direction: Lea Favre
Production: Paolo Moretti – ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne
Script: Lea Favre
Music: Erik Bonerfält
Sound: Jérôme Vittoz

Switzerland . 0:10:50 . 2024 . Puppets

National Competition Young Portuguese Director Award > 18 years old

Remember Me

Malu and Clara are two children who in a sudden meeting create a genuine friendship full of creativity and energy – until it’s time to go home.

Direction: Bárbara Barreto, Caroline Soares, João Cadima
Production: Universidade Lusófona – Lusófona Filmes

Portugal . 0:04:35 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Interlude

At the conservatory, two teenagers are destined to play together, which blossoms into a peculiar relationship between music and feeling.

Direction: Bárbara Gonçalves Nogueira, Miguel Martins Matias
Production: Universidade do Algarve
Script: Bárbara Gonçalves Nogueira, Miguel Martins Matias

Portugal . 0:04:35 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Ephemeral Gods

Insects move secretly, like tiny gods performing rituals unseen by human eyes. Deuses Efémeros watches this secret world with care, in a contemplative animation.

Direction: Lia Gomes, Afonso Fraga, Sara Oliveira
Production: Escola das Artes – Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Sound: Bruno Torrão

Portugal . 0:01:22 . 2025 . 3D Computer

Water's Fault

Gisberta, an immigrant trans woman, receives the news that she is HIV positive, causing her to lose all her sources of income and become homeless and addicted. In the building where she finds shelter, she is approached by an extremely aggressive young group.

Direction: Ana Leonor Guia, Marta Quintanito Roberto, Ruben Pinto, Tiago Magalhães
Production: Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre
Sound: Ana Leonor Guia, Marta Quintanito Roberto, Ruben Pinto, Tiago Magalhães

Portugal . 0:04:59 . 2024 . 2D and 3D Computer

Outgrowing

Two siblings fleeing an abusive home, find themselves alone in search of a better life.

Direction: Catarina Santos, João Neves, Nicolas Freitas, Sara Silva
Production: Universidade Lusófona – Lusófona Filmes

Portugal . 0:05:22 . 2024 . 2D and 3D Computer

Paulinha

A music video about a woman named Paulinha.

Direction: Ana Marta Mendes
Production: Jorge Ribeiro – Os Filmes do Pinguim
Script: Raul Manarte
Music: Raul Manarte

Portugal . 0:02:39 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Blossom

Ryu, a ludic representation of the soul, goes on a journey of self-discovery while confronting all the elements she has been repressing in her own unconscious mind.

Direction: Mariana Pinheiro
Production: Escola das Artes – Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Script: Mariana Pinheiro

Portugal . 0:04:08 . 2024 . Drawing on paper, 2D Computer

Between Hairs

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

Thyestean

A loser’s journey towards succumbing against himself due to inherent immorality and lack of empathy.

Direction: Sara Oliveira
Production: ESMAD
Music and Sound: Sara Oliveira

Portugal . 0:05:34 . 2024 . Drawing on paper, cut-outs, 2D and 3D computer

Lab Rats

While driving through a small town, Ofélia Furão feels a tightness in her chest. She decides to go to the nearest clinic – Oásis. After being admitted, she is taken for ‘examinations’ and discovers a unique-looking office, where she meets another patient, Alice Rato. Doubts about this place, and its real intentions, settle in Ofélia. Brought together by chance, these patients, or more precisely, these ‘guinea pigs’, are looking for a way out of the den in which they find themselves.

Direction: Carolina Duarte Santos
Production: ESAD.CR
Script: Carolina Duarte Santos
Sound: Ema Graça Canelas

Portugal . 0:08:50 . 2025 . 2D and 3D Computer

Tsubu

Tsubu, the fennec fox, has to overcome his loss and face several riddles across the desert, to find his dawn.

Direction: Diogo Carlos, Adriana Silva
Production: Diogo Carlos, Adriana Silva
Script: Diogo Carlos, Adriana Silva
Music and Sound: Morgan Whitney

Portugal . 0:05:38 . 2024 . 2D Computer

The Bird from Inside

The film follows a woman and the bird which lives inside of her, and how their inability to co-live together leads to physical wounds to her body.

Direction: Laura Anahory
Production: Laura Anahory
Script: Laura Anahory, Ana Anahory, Guilherme Mateus

Portugal . 0:05:56 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Like Devil Like Daughter

The complicated relationship between the Devil and his Daughter leads her to deny the diabolical aspects she inherited from him, but is the Devil really that bad?

Direction: Jéssica Gonçalves Martins
Production: Universidade do Algarve
Script: Jéssica Gonçalves Martins

Portugal . 0:02:48 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Under the Igloo's Shadow

“On a vast glacier, where ice cubes live trapped in a cycle, one of them begins to question its existence and decides to rebel against the monster that controls them.”

Direction: Rodrigo Gonçalves Carapinha
Production: Rodrigo Gonçalves Carapinha
Script: Rodrigo Gonçalves Carapinha
Music: Rodrigo Gonçalves Carapinha, Hernâni Jorge Sofio Carapinha

Portugal . 0:04:22 . 2025 . 3D Computer

Praying Mantis

A lonely mantis ears a strange sound in the forest. What it encounters will change its life forever. Louva a Deus means in Portuguese mantis, the insect, but it can also mean ‘praise God’, because of their arms.

Direction: Ana Pinheiro
Production: Ana Pinheiro
Script: Ana Pinheiro
Music: Michael Ramir C.

Portugal . 0:01:36 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Night Shift

A young adult lives a monotonous life with their 24/7 job. In the course of one night shift his life changes completely.

Direction: Mafalda Figueiras, Patrícia Lopes, Vitor Sousa
Production: Mafalda Figueiras, Patrícia Lopes, Vitor Sousa
Script: Mafalda Figueiras, Patrícia Lopes, Vitor Sousa
Music: Afonso Nunes, Marco Barbosa

Portugal . 0:05:22 . 2024 . 2D Computer

National Competition Young Portuguese Director Award < 18 years old

Fragmented Finger Prints

This film is the result of work developed with children, around the mass displacement of human beings in search of peace. We follow a character who, faced with a conflict, fragments, beginning the search for his parts. He will encounter many obstacles throughout this search, in the hope of being able to reach his whole. Although the journey becomes a lonely process, the destination can prove to be supportive.

Direction: 4th grade students from primary schools in the municipality of Montemor, Colectivo Fotograma 24
Production: Colectivo Fotograma 24, Centro Juvenil de Montemor-o-Novo
Sound: 4th grade students from primary schools in the municipality of Montemor, Colectivo Fotograma 24

Portugal . 0:10:00 . 2024 . Animated objects

The Advise

Why don’t you join us at our anti-bullying group?

Direction: 7th Grade Students Escola Nogueira
Production: Quinta Imagem Associação, Casa Museu do Vilar

Portugal . 0:01:58 . 2025 . Clay, cut-outs

Little Me

Arie, a teenager, lives between two parents and a divorce. In an emergency, she has to rescue the virtue that remained in her childhood memories to finally find peace and forgiveness and the unconditional love of a child.

Direction: Ema Copek
Production: Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, Ema Copek
Script: Ema Copek

Portugal . 0:04:41 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Joana's Challenge

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

The Dream Cake

A simple mixing bowl becomes the stage for a magical recipe in a whimsical world where ingredients are feelings and memories. As playful hands animate eggs into pom-poms, colours swirl from mugs, and flowers rain hearts, a unique cake begins to take shape. Words of gratitude fall gently into the bowl, and with a final wave of a magic wand, a rainbow signals the cake’s completion. Slices are shared, and crumbs remain — a celebration of creativity, memory, and joy.

Direction: Coletivo de alunos da Escola Básica e Secundária de Pedrouços
Production: Fausta Pereira

Portugal . 0:02:49 . 2025 . Clay, paint, photos, cut-outs, animated objects, pixilation, 2D computer

Mission 1313

A video wandering “casually” on social media leads to a series of actions that bring very real and irreversible consequences. Not everything we see online is true, but the same cannot be said of its consequences.

Direction: Coletivo turma 5ºA da Escola Básica, 2 e 3 de Palmeira, Braga, sob orientação de Hélder Barbosa, Anima VAM
Production: Amarela Mecânica
Script: Coletivo turma 5ºA da Escola Básica, 2 e 3 de Palmeira, Braga, sob orientação de Hélder Barbosa, Anima VAM

Portugal . 0:04:19 . 2024 . Cut-outs

Francelho's Flight

In a corner of the island lives a blue francelho in the place where Zarco (the sailor) lived in peace and harmony. Calheta is our home. All together we form a pleasant space to live.

Direction: EBS Calheta TV / CAD
Production: EBS PE Calheta, CENA EDUCAmedia
Script: EBS Calheta TV / CAD
Music:Alcindo Silva, Joana Recharte

Portugal . 0:03:00 . 2025 . Puppets, animated objects

Equality Makes the Difference

A triangle tries to fit into a square world until a circle arrives and sets itself apart from all the straight lines.

Direction: Coletivo turma 7º2 da Escola Secundária Sá de Miranda, Braga, sob orientação de Leonor Henriques, Anima VAM
Production: Amarela Mecânica
Script: Coletivo turma 7º2 da Escola Secundária Sá de Miranda, Braga, sob orientação de Leonor Henriques, Anima VAM

Portugal . 0:02:40 . 2024 . Cut-outs

We are All Fish

From the archive images “O Naufrágio do Veronese” emerges an alternative story of the different fates of the people from inside the ship stranded north of Leixões.

Direction: Crianças da Casa da Criança da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Vila do Conde com orientação de Miguel Lima e Carolina Bonzinho
Production: Nuno Rodrigues – Curtas Metragens

Portugal . 0:03:00 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Tópê

The stories and memories that my family keeps of António Portugal, my deceased father.

Direction: Gil Mendonça
Production: Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, Gil Mendonça
Script: Gil Mendonça

Portugal . 0:04:50 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Our Art Peering into Infinity

Art is an act of freedom. In this movie, the children express their ideas, their views on the world we live in and reveal their artistic sensibility in a succession of moving pictures.

Direction: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto/ Anilupa´s workshop participants: Year 3º of Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música do Porto
Production: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto/ ANILUPA
Script: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto/ Anilupa´s workshop participants: 3rd Year of Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música do Porto

Portugal . 0:15:59 . 2024 . Drawing on paper, puppets, clay, paint, cut-outs

The Stylophone

A story about how art changes throughout the generations, where a grandpa and his granddaughter play different instruments and their styles come into clash.

Direction: Miguel Maria dos Santos Crispim
Production: Escola Artística Soares dos Reis
Script: Miguel Maria dos Santos Crispim

Portugal . 0:02:51 . 2025 . 2D and 3D Computer

National Competition António Gaio Award

Sequencial

In a fantastical sequence of events, a young man confronts not only his personal fears, but also the adversities of life. A story of learning and finding a path of inspiration.

Direction: Bruno Caetano
Production: Bruno Caetano
Script: Bruno Caetano, Manuel Ruas Moreira

France, Italy, Poland, Portugal . 0:12:05 . 2025 . Puppets, 2D computer

Dog Alone

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
Script: Marta Reis Andrade

Portugal . 0:13:02 . 2025 . 2D Computer

Saudade, perhaps

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

The Hunt

A group of soldiers, lost in the woods, must face the traumas of their past and the terrifying forces stalking them.

Direction: Diogo Costa
Production: Diogo Costa, Bruno Caetano, Bruno Simões, Carlota Pou, Peter Antoniew, Leonardo Verkoelen
Script: Diogo Costa

Portugal . 0:08:00 . 2024 . 3D Computer

SweetSpot

“Sweet Spot” is an experimental animated short film that uninhibitedly explores the dialog between the work and its authors, Jorge Ribeiro and Paulo Patrício, whose points of view and creative approaches, both in terms of cinematographic language and ways of being, are quite different. Through this duality, and starting from a shared but at the same time individual process, the directors seek to understand at what point the short film they are making together reaches its “sweet spot”. In other words, the ideal point at which the work is considered finished.

Direction: Jorge Ribeiro, Paulo Patrício
Production: Jorge Ribeiro
Sound: Rita Gradim

Portugal . 0:11:00 . 2024 . 2D and 3D computer, live action

Pietra

In daydreaming about unlikely relationships, the flower – as delicate as it is revolutionary – represents an act of love amidst the suffocation and embrace of a classic Portuguese neighborhood.

Direction: Cynthia Levitan
Production: Nuno Beato, Diogo Carvalho, Leticia Montalvá, Anna Szadkowska, Robert Banasiak, Vicente Mallols, Pablo Muñoz, Iván Madolell
Script: Cynthia Levitan

Portugal . 0:13:00 . 2024 . Animated objects

Wildflower

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

Because Today is Saturday

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, Claire Beffa, Sidonie Garnier, Carlota Pou, Bruno Simões
Script: Alice Eça Guimarães

Portugal . 0:12:24 . 2025 . 2D computer

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