Competition Programme
A Cat Is Always Female
Director: Martina Meštrović, Tanja VujasinovićYear: 2019Length: 15:43Country: CroatiaProduction company: Kreativni Sindikat
Through a feminist lens, the filmmakers pay homage to their professor Marija Ujevic Galetovic – one of Croatia’s most i...
Arka
Director: Natko StipanicevYear: 2020Length: 14:40Country: CroatiaProduction company: Kreativni Sindikat
A grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas.
At The Edge
Director: Sylvie DenetYear: 2020Length: 5:10Country: France
Family photos, posed and vacation photos.Family on break.The moment before or after.What happened, or not.
Awkward
Director: Nata MetlukhYear: 2020Length: 3:45Country: United States
A day full of socially awkward moments.
Clothes On Rainy Day
Director: Shih Hung WuYear: 2020Length: 4:09Country: TaiwanProduction company: Weeler Studio
A father’s daily life of taking care of a baby.He took the baby out and always was nervous when facing the neighbor’s greeting. Sometimes father’s behav...
Comeback
Director: Vladimir LeschiovYear: 2021Length: 7:55Country: Latvia, LithuaniaProduction company: Lunohod
A long-lost childhood passion may one day come back.
Crab
Director: Shiva Sadegh AsadiYear: 2020Length: 10:50Country: IranProduction company: Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults (Kanoon)
A shy, withdrawn boy had his heart set on being in the school theater group,...
Deep Love
Director: Mykyta LyskovYear: 2019Length: 14:00Country: UkraineProduction company: TTM
Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine.
Don’t Know What
Director: Thomas RenoldnerYear: 2019Length: 8:15Country: Austria
Employing the method of single frame editing, primarily focused on sound, the realistic film image transforms into a surreal, structuralist and finally even abstract film. It creates...
Flowing Home
Director: Sandra DesmazièresYear: 2020Length: 15:00Country: France, CanadaProduction company: Les Films de l'Arlequin and NFB
Two sisters grow up in Vietnam and are separated by the war between North and South. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, ...
Four Stones
Director: Francesco RossoYear: 2021Length: 15:22Country: EstoniaProduction company: Eesti Joonisfilm
A monk goes through his present and past life, constantly bouncing between desire and denial. His life in the monastery and later in the city...
Happiness
Director: Andrey ZhidkovYear: 2020Length: 5:00Country: Russia
In a cold repulsive world of chaos a man is searching for his true happiness hoping that simple things can evolve into his bliss. But his attempts end up in an abyss of loneliness...
He Can’t Live Without Cosmos
Director: Konstantin BronzitYear: 2019Length: 16:00Country: Russia
This story is about a mother and her son. It is also about love and human destiny.
Horacio
Director: Caroline CherrierYear: 2020Length: 10:03Country: France
Guillaume kills Horacio “Because he was shouting too loud.” At his trial, the vacuity of the motive disconcerts. During his 10 years in prison, Guillaume gradually forgets thi...
Imbued Life
Director: Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas JohnsonYear: 2019Length: 12:20Country: CroatiaProduction company: Bonobostudio
Imbued Life is a film about a young woman's connection with the life force of nature. She uses her talent for taxidermy ...
It´s All The Salt´s Fault
Director: María Cristina PérezYear: 2020Length: 10:00Country: Colombia
The youngest daughter of a sloth family rebuilds her parents and three siblings's story. Behind the normality of a family, the wild spirit appears in everyday life details, t...
Letting Go
Director: Cécile BrunYear: 2019Length: 6:33Country: SwitzerlandProduction company: Virage Film
A dive into sunny childhood memories, when a girl is singing and cooking with her father. An intimate moment, so simple. But they’re swept along by...
Mom
Director: Kajika Aki FerrazziniYear: 2020Length: 9:10Country: France
Set in a dystopian world, a young girl runs for her life while cameras broadcast the action. A declaration of love to the memories shaping our dreams for the future.
Purpleboy
Director: Alexandre SiqueiraYear: 2019Length: 13:55Country: Portugal, France, BelgiumProduction company: Bando à Parte, Rainbox Productions, Ambiances… asbl, Luna Blue Film
Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents' garden. Nobody knows hi...
Push This Button if You Begin to Panic
Director: Gabriel BöhmerYear: 2020Length: 13:00Country: United KingdomProduction company: Rational Vagabund Films
Bartholomew Whisper went to the doctor today. There he met administrators keen on experimental surgery, and lonely MRI machines. ...
Serial Parallels
Director: Max HattlerYear: 2019Length: 9:00Country: Hong KongProduction company: Relentless Melt
This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique o...
The Chimney Swift
Director: Frédéric SchuldYear: 2020Length: 5:00Country: GermanyProduction company: Fabian&Fred
19th century in Europe: A child climbs up a chimney while a bird sails down into it to build a nest. An encounter with no way back.A chimney s...
The Fourth Wall
Director: Mahboobeh KalaeeYear: 2021Length: 9:50Country: Iran
Home and family, relationships, desires, wishes and everything are summarized in a kitchen. The stuttering boy is alone there, playing with his imagination.
Throat Notes
Director: Felix ColgraveYear: 2020Length: 8:30Country: Australia
A little story about the backyard creatures you might see in Tasmania, and the things they might be doing.
Washing Machine
Director: Alexandra MájováYear: 2020Length: 5:02Country: Czech Republic
Wash and love.
Student Competition Programme
Anemone Temple
Director: Justyna PazdanYear: 2020Length: 4:52Country: PolandProduction company: Łódź Film School
Deep-sea organisms living in such a specific environment have developed unusual forms and properties. By observing them, you have the impression th...
Any Instant Whatever
Director: Michelle BrandYear: 2019Length: 5:13Country: United KingdomProduction company: Royal College of Art
A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe.The f...
Film Found
Director: Claudia Munksgaard-PalmqvistYear: 2020Length: 3:30Country: DenmarkProduction company: Volda University College
Look at a mistake that is not human. Be present in the uncontrollable intervention of the material. Between control and...
Gravedad
Director: Matisse GonzalezYear: 2019Length: 10:30Country: GermanyProduction company: Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
Gravedad is a film about a tiny town where gravity changes constantly. Some days are light and some days are heavy. Everyone ...
Inside Me
Director: Maria Trigo TeixeiraYear: 2019Length: 5:14Country: GermanyProduction company: Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
A clear decision surrounded by mixed feelings. A young woman recounts her experience with abortion.
Marbles
Director: Natalia SpychalaYear: 2019Length: 5:30Country: PolandProduction company: Łódź Film School
The hypnotizing pendulum sets a particular mechanism in motion. A body, space and variety of objects form a rhythmic system of interdependence. Th...
Naked
Director: Kirill KhachaturovYear: 2019Length: 14:40Country: RussiaProduction company: Moscow School of New Cinema
Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, a guy gains superpowers that he does not want. He doesn't want...
Pao Pae
Director: Bruno QuastYear: 2019Length: 4:20Country: EstoniaProduction company: Estonian Academy of Arts
"What time takes away is open space".A poetry animation for memories that are constantly being reshaped and need to find rest.
SH_T Happens
Director: Micheala Mihályi, David ŠtumpfYear: 2019Length: 13:10Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, FranceProduction company: BFILM, FAMU, Bagan Film
The caretaker is exhausted by everything including his frustrated wife and one totally depressed d...
Tatata
Director: Yiyang SunYear: 2020Length: 4:28Country: ChinaProduction company: East China Normal University
Based on the research and records of the three conditions of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain, Chondropathy, Marfan syndrome, I made these...
The Piece of Tail in The Mouth of The Snake That Bites Its Own Tail
Director: Pablo BallarínYear: 2019Length: 11:50Country: Estonia, SpainProduction company: Estonian Academy of Arts
About a trip across the cosmos.
Three Jumps To Happiness
Director: Artur HanajYear: 2020Length: 13:00Country: PolandProduction company: Łódź Film School
A black comedy describing one evening of the lives of several animals. A couple of turtles, a bear and a monkey want to find their will to manage th...
To Be a Goat...
Director: Milda KargaudaitėYear: 2020Length: 4:01Country: United KingdomProduction company: University of Creative Arts Farnham
Three-generation conflict but with more horns. The daughter learns to stop copying her father’s goat-like attitude an...