September 11th, 7:00 P.M.
Duration 70’06’’
EXTREMELY SHORT
Japan, 2024, 5’18’’, hand-drawn animation
director Koji Yamamura
A man sets out in search of the shortest thing in Tokyo, which turns out to be a single syllable uttered by a dying man…
IT SHOULDN’T RAIN TOMORROW
Germany, 2024, 11’30’’, hand-drawn animation
director Maia Trigo Teixeira
Feeling that her mother may no longer be able to live on her own, a woman moves back to her childhood home. As she tries to adapt to the new situation, her mother continues to drift away.
DETOURS AHEAD
Canada, 2024, 7’45’’, 2D animation
director Esther Cheung
A road trip traces a transition of grief to acceptance through valleys, junctions, and detours.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Japan, 2023, 11’21’’, 2D animation
director Saki Muramoto
The twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac are celebrating and welcoming the Year of the Rabbit. They’re trying to take a photo together, but…
I HAVEN’T TOLD MY GARDEN YET
Netherlands, 2024, 3’46’’, pinscreen animation
director Diek Grobler
In this poetry-film, of a poem by Emily Dikinson, the poet ponders on her mortality. She has not told her garden of her imminent demise. She will not lightly share the news with anybody, anywhere, as if death is a unique occurence.
ANTHEOR
France, 2023, 21’, 2D animation
director Patrice Joseph Blane
A young woman decides to face her anxieties, returning to places occupied by the shadows of the past. Driven by tempestuous winds, she defies a wild sea, crosses sharp rocks like blades, to return to the origin.
SHADOW OF THE BUTTERFLIES
France, 2023, 9’, 3D animation
directors Sofia El Khyari
In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a nostalgic daydream as she observes butterflies.
September 12th, 7:00 P.M.
Duration 74’33’’
CONNECTED
Bulgaria, 2024, 12’, 2D animation
director Simeon Sokerov
In a dying city inhabited by technology-obsessed people, Ana struggles to find her place. Seeking answers in the past, she discovers that she is not alone.
FLATASTIC
France, 2024, 16’50’’, 2D animation
director Alice Saey
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.
MAGDA
Poland, 2022, 9’, 2D animation
director Adela Kaczmarek
Winter of 1939. Magda (15) an excellent skier, joins the Polish Resistance and helps by bringing fugitives and documents across the mountains into Slovakia. One day, at the risk of her life and pursued by Nazi soldiers and also experienced skiers, she must lead 23 pilots across the border.
FATHER’S LETTERS
France, 2024, 12’10’, cut out animation
directors Alexey Evstigneev
In 1934, Professor Vangengheim is condemned to the Gulag on the Solovki. As he pretends to be on a grand voyage of exploration, he crafts imaginative tales in letters to his daughter Eleonora, shielding her from the truth of his sentencing as a “traitor to the motherland”.
FROM OUR SIDE
Italy, 2022, 5’, rotoscope
directors Simone Massi
History flows, the darkness wets our clothes.
IN THE SHADOW OF CYPRESS
Islamic Republic of Iran, 2023 19’33’’, 2D animation
directors Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani
A former captain, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, lives with his daughter in a humble house located by the sea. One morning, their lives change forever when an unforeseen event occurs. Whether this event proves to be a newfound source of hope or an additional burden remains to be seen.
September 13th, 7:00 P.M.
Duration 72’20’’
THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF MR. SPAK
Switzerland, 2024, 8’, 2D animation
director Severine Leibundgut
When two lovers meet, they disappear from view and enter a dimension known only to themselves.
LA VOIX DES SIRÈNES
Italy, 2023, 19’40’’, hand-drawn animation
director Gianluigi Toccafondo
In the heart of the seabed, between rocks and corals primitive seaweed ripples, cradled by the muffled sound of roaring currents. Up there, on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice. So soft and seductive that it’s unlike anything we’ve heard before.
CANARD
Switzerland, 2023, 9’06’’, puppet animation
director Elie Chapui
Vladimir and Olga raise ducks on a small isolated farm in the countryside. They hope for a child, but this expectation soon turns into a nightmare.
A NIGHT AT THE REST AREA
Spain, 2023, 4’42’’, 2D animation
director Saki Muramoto
At a midnight highway rest area, the weary travelers each quietly relax their minds. A brief moment spent with complete strangers is lonely yet somehow comforting.
BOX CUTTERS
France, 2023, 9’, mixed technique
director Naomi van Niekerk
A young woman recalls a day when she was attacked by three men on her way home, but daily life must resume its course.
LE SEXE DE MA MERE
France, 2023, 15’, mixed technique
director Francis Canitrot
Fifty-year-old Eli takes care of his disabled and domineering mother. At the same time, however, he is attracted to the beautiful neighbor.
September 14th, 7:00 P.M.
Duration 78’
MEDITATION ON DUSK
Hungary, 2023, 7’27’’, 2D animation
director Judit Erdely
Life consists of actions. The cat is a symbol of inactivity and tranquility. Does she dream of the man or does the man dream of her?
PRESSURE
Brazil, 2023, 2’21’’, mixed media
director Che Marcheti
A woman faces emotions that have been held back for a long time and are just a drop away from overflowing.
THREE BIRDS
Slovenia, 2024, 8’18’, cut-out
director Zarja Menart
A wise birdwoman sends three birds to guide a girl into the dark unknown landscapes of her inner world.
BEAUTIFUL MEN
Belgium, 2023, 18’35’’, puppet animation
director Nicolas Keppens
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
PLAIN OF YELLOW FLOWERS
Islamic Republic of Iran, 2023, 8’42’’, 2D animation
director Hossein Aghamohammadi
A girl is only eager for the birth of her sister. She imagines her in her dreams and is trying to make a gift for her…
TELSCHE
Portugal, 2024, 8’30’’, 2D animation
directors Sophie Colfer, Ala Nuhu
On the vast salt flats under dark clouds, a hole in the ground swallows the memory of a woman that Telsche longs to see again.
SOCIETY OF CLOTHES
France, 2024, 15’09’’, 2D animation
director Dahee Jeong
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.One day a girl, who has a body but no clothes, enters this strange world.
FLOWER SHOW
Finland, 2024, 8’31’’, 2D animation
director Elli Vuorinen
Girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system.