September 12th, 5:30 P.M.
Duration 65’01’’
WISH
South Korea, 2022, 3’25’’, 2D animation
director Park Sunyoung
An old man walks through the past in a place filled with memories with his wife.
DODO
China, 2023, 12’36’’, 2D animation
director Yi Luo
Dodo‘s father is a big blue bird. One day he flies away from the window, and hasn‘t come back. From then on, Dodo stops growing up.
TAPIR MEMORIES
Colombia, 2023, 9’19’’, 2D animation
director Pedro Nel Cabrera Vanegas
A tapir mother reveals her tragic story in an embroidery. She suffers a violent attack, the loss of her home, and the disappearance of her son. Will she find him?
IT WILL PASS AWAY
China, 2023, 5’, hand-drawn animation
director Nan Yao
After the end of a relationship that went nowhere, a woman’s complex emotions seem to be amplified, and in the midst of insomnia she feels she can touch the many subtle voices…
OLIVER, THE GIANT
Hungary, 2022, 8’14’’, 2D animation
director Júlia Lantos
Oliver, the giant, lives on a little planet where the little humans become preoccupied with another matter of greatest importance: building a sun clock so they can connect with the universe. This fully disturbs Oliver’s life.
WHAT’S HAPPENING AROUND US
Czech Republic, 2023, 2’, 2D animation
director Krystsina Ramanava
The protagonist is so engrossed in her reading that she doesn’t notice how her room gradually starts to fill up with ants. Her inattention, however, does her a great deal of harm.
ATOMIC CHICKEN
France, 2023, 5’, 3D animation
directors Thibault Ermeneux, Lucie Lyfoung, Solène Polet, Capucine Prat, Morgane Siriex, Anna Uglova
A chicken coop set up at the foot of a nuclear power plant sees its daily life turned upside down by a series of comic, cartoon-style mutations.
TOUCHING DARKNESS
Czech Republic, 2024, 4’50’’, sand animation
director Jamaica Kindlová
Ten-year-old Vítek has special abilities – he can feel and hear what others cannot. This animated documentary, made using the technique of sand animation, opens a door to his world and shows us that the absence of one sense doesn’t have to be just an obstacle.
DEEP SLEEP
France, 2024, 4’, 2D animation
director Thelma Michalet
A 17-year-old woman finds love in a relationship. She discovers her sexuality through the eyes of a man.
IT’S JUST A WHOLE
Germany, 2023, 10’37’’, mixed media
director Bianca Scali
She knew this day would come and the choice she’d have to make. But as it finally comes, Maya cannot wrap her head around it. A mole – it’s so small, so insignificant, just a mark… How can it be so hard to part from it? Can Maya ever feel whole again when a bit of her is taken away?
September 13th, 5:30 P.M.
Duration 72′
PIOU PIOU
France, 2023, 2’17’’, 3D animation
directors Carimantran Caroline, Le Clerc Andréa, Crouzevialle Théo, Andre Max
A bird, a little bit curious, is coming through the window of an apartment. He doesn’t know this environment and is discovering new things: dishes, a pack of chips, a TV… and also a robot.
ON THE 8TH DAY
France, 2023, 8’12’’, 3D animation
directors Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois
It took 7 days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.
LA NOTTE
Italy, 2023, 6’30’’, 2D animation
directors Martina Generali, Simone Pratola, Francesca Sofia Rosso
During the carnival in Venice, Pulcinella tries in vain to slip into a VIP party. Amid the opulent setting, his dream of the rich and famous turns into a nightmare, revealing to him the value of his simple but authentic life. Based on the music of the same name by A. Vivaldi.
TO THE BRINK
United Kingdom, 2023, 4’, puppet animation
director Hugo Docking
A violent stop motion cabaret for the cynical and depraved. Guilt, alcoholic apathy and the inevitable, looming apocalypse threaten to push a young man “To the Brink”.
IN LOVING MEMORIES
United Kingdom, 2023, 7’42’’, hand-drawn animation
director John Eaton
A young boy tries to comfort his grieving mother.
WATER NYMPH
Czech Republic, 2024, 9’, 2D animation
director Lucie Vostárková
Inspired by Slavic mythology and folklore, the film tells the story of the soul of a young woman reborn as Rusalka, a water nymph. Rusalka´s inability to accept her own fate and the desire for the warmth of the human heart lead her to the world of the living, to which, unfortunately, she is unable to adapt.
DEAD AIR
Spain, 2023, 4’42’’, puppet animation
directors Ronja Ehlers, Inês Filipa Palma Martins, Melissa Fabienne Klein, Lucía Artiles De Urioste
‘Dead Air’ captures a fleeting moment of connection amidst a life of coexistence, revealing the beauty of the seemingly mundane. A stop-motion short about existential absurdity, loneliness and the banal that plays with framing in an unexpected way.
LOVE IS A COLOR!
Croatia, 2023, 8’, mixed technique
director Nikolina Žapčić
A man and a woman, as the two protagonists of the story, meet in that cold and colorless world and come together through sporadic encounters that very quickly turn into a lovely dance of color.
I KNOW YOU’RE AFRAID TOO
Poland, 2023, 12’51’’, hand-drawn animation
director Pola Lotta Włodarczyk
A customer asks a clerk at the Bureau of Weights and Measures to measure a bird she has brought along in a cage. After a while, it becomes apparent that they are talking about something completely different.
THE WASTELAND
Slovakia, 2023, 9’28’’, 2D animation
director Timotej Lukovič
A woman lives in a desert, living off a lone tree. Attracted by fallen rose petals, she embarks on an exhausting and futile search for the place they came from, losing hope that she will find anything more in her life than the raw sand.
September 14th, 5:30 P.M.
Duration 71’25’’
WEEDS
Czech Republic, 2024, 13’41’’, oil under camera
director Pola Kazak
A gardener rips out an unknown intruder: however, the thistle weed starts growing all over the garden and the gardener is losing patience. In a frenzy, she not only cuts down all the weeds around her, but also all her flowers.
LE PRIX DE LA GLOIRE
France, 2023, 6’, 3D animation
directors Mathis Bourneau, Robin Chateauvieux, Imane Domon Domon, Corentin Gâteau-Reuzé, Leiana Guillon, Inès Martin, Guillaume Minvielle, Rodolf Soldati
“Le Prix de la Gloire” stages a dogfight during WW1. Antoine, a French young pilot, encounters a German opponent during his daily patrol. He attacks him, convinced of winning.To beat his opponent, Antoine will have to understand what he really has to do, for glory.
KEEP OUT
Hong Kong, 2024, 8’, 2D animation
director Tan Lui Chan
Individuals live in tiny, isolated rooms away from the hazards of the outside world. They make a living through live video streaming, connecting with others in the virtual realm. Yet, on one fateful day, a chubby boy stumbles upon an unexpected secret.
I AM HERE
Netherlands, 2023, 5’16’’, 2D animation
director Cheyenne Goudswaard
The fear of oblivion can be overwhelming, but it can also be a driving force.I Am Here explores the need to imprint ourselves onto the world and build a legacy.
GARLIC SOUP
Bulgaria, 2024, 8’30’’, mixed media
director Kristian Zahariev
Vampire, thirsty for blood, flies around a small Balkan village in search of his next victim. He sneaks in a dark bedroom, after he sees a silhouette of a young beauty. It turns out the silhouette belongs to an old granny whose loving care turns out to be deadly for the vampire.
SOLONG MEMORIES
China, 2023, 5’, 2D animation
directors Ruihan Zhang, Wenzi Shan, Xingyi Chen
script Ruihan Zhang
A story about a raccoon, a music box and an old man – its owner.
MEMOIRS OF AN ALZHEIMER’S PATIENT
China, 2023, 7’39’’, hand-drawn animation
director Songwei Li
A poetic and pictorial attempt to reveal the memory and spiritual world of an Alzheimer’s patient. Images such as the “hourglass”, “trapped bee”, “phonograph” or “lover” are used to explore memories and time in life.
PEAR GARDEN
Germany, 2024, 7’, 2D animation
director Shadab Shayegan
Six-year-old Lily visits her grandmother, who has had a mastectomy and no longer has breasts. At night, Lily follows her grandmother’s shadow, trying to get back what was taken from her.
2% BABY
Ireland, 2023, 03’49’’, 2D animation
director Róisín Sinai Kelly
On a stormy night a little girl takes cover in an old fridge and finds herself in a once familiar home, but the rain is seeping in and the house is changing.
MEMORY RENTAL STORE
France, 2023, 7’, 2D animation
directors Kyungin Kim, Jaeyeon Kim, Shruti Lal, Surya Kalyan, Jiaxin Li
Kobu, an old turtle lady, runs a memory rental store on her fishing boat. When a young hedgehog boy sneaks into her store it leads to a series of unexpected events that forces Kobu to come to terms with her past.