The festival’s main competition, featuring short animation films contending for the Grand Prix.
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Spain, 2024, 12’00’’, stop-motion animation
directors Marc Riba Roqué, Anna Solanas Santacana
script Marc Riba Roqué, Anna Solanas Santacana
In a convent in Spain during the dictatorship, nuns provide shelter to young girls in need.


Netherlands, 2024, 2’31’’, stop-motion animation
director Wiep Teeuwisse
script Wiep Teeuwisse
On a street corner in the city, a heap of dumped garbage surrounds two garbage containers. An old mattress begins to speak sadly: “They say I’m dirty…” Other pieces of garbage join in, sharing the reasons why they have been discarded. Their enthusiasm evolves into a spectacle of song and dance.


Armenia, Belgium, Estonia, France, 2025, 16’22’’, stop-motion animation
director Natalia Mirzoyan
script Natalia Mirzoyan, Daria Nikitina
Helpless in the face of a repressive state, a young couple leaves their home — an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare.


United Kingdom, 2024, 12’33’’, mixed media
director Mario Radev
script Mario Radev
[S] is an artwork that exposes the lifespan of infinity. The film delves into an immersive loop of organic forms, reflecting on the entangled nature of life and art.


Poland, 2023, 2’00’’, 2D animation
director Malgorzata Rybak
script Malgorzata Rybak
When you finally arrive at your favorite snorkeling spot but then suddenly everything is getting out of control. A very short story in three acts.


France, 2024, 12’29’’, 2D animation
director Pierre-Luc Granjon
script Pierre-Luc Granjon
While his parents are entertaining friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night into the undergrowth, rubber boots on his feet. There, a little creature, curious and solitary, takes him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal inhabitants that live there.


Canada, 2025, 17’28’’, stop-motion animation
directors Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
script Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski, Isabelle Mandalian
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.


China, 2025, 8’58’’, 2D animation
director Dmitry Geller
script Dmitry Geller
Parallel lines sometimes intersect.


Belgium, 2024, 13’45’’, 2D animation
director Anaïs Mauzat
script Anaïs Mauzat
The whole city, where nature seems more depleted than ever, bustles, except for Mackenzie, a solitary and sensitive woman who, that morning, steps out of line as a hungry bear approaches the city.


Israel, 2024, 9’59’’, stop-motion animation
directors Elkie Leonie Hershberg, Tom Kouris, Hani Dombe
script Elkie Leonie Hershberg
On a peaceful Sunday morning, a stubborn knock on the door threatens to change Richard's life (84) forever.


Austria, 2024, 10’50’’, 2D animation
director Thomas Renoldner
script Thomas Renoldner
A mill wheel turns, changing its shape and movement, splitting up, reassembling and spinning a narrative about technology, art, and the fascinating history of animated film. A tribute to the scientist Simon von Stampfer and his invention of the stroboscopic disk.


Belgium, 2024, 05’09’’, hand-drawn animation
director Nicolas Piret
scrip Nicolas Piret
In this animated miniature a drawing gradually comes to life before our eyes, telling a story not only of a wild boar on the run, but also of the ways in which people occupy the places that used to belong to nature.


North Macedonia, 2025, 16’28’’, stop-motion animation
director Krste Gospodinovski
script Krste Gospodinovski, Zharko Ivanov, Dimitar Dimoski
A former silent film star clings to his fading legacy by shielding his son from the arrival of sound, but when the boy uncovers a buried secret, their fragile bond cracks, forcing him to confront the world beyond the screen.


Hungary, 2024, 14’53’’, 2D animation
director Viktória Traub
script Viktória Traub, Polett Dus, Zsuzsanna Bak
Paula the centaur-girl finds love, but now she must finally confront herself, her desires, and the dilemmas of conformity and self-acceptance.


Canada, 2024, 2’29’’, mixed media
director Ehsan Gharib
script Ehsan Gharib
A caged bird, yearning to fly, finds release through the transcendent power of music and movement.


Netherlands, 2024, 2’35’’, 3D animation
directors Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw
script Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw
When every global citizen is required to have their CO2 emissions tracked, it makes little impact…that is, until they discover the consequences of reaching their designated QUOTA.


France, Japan, 2025, 9’48’’, 2D animation
director Yoriko Mizushiri
script Yoriko Mizushiri
Ordinary life repeats itself every day while the succession of moments that we repeat over and over again is never the same.


Japan, Ukraine, USA, 2025, 10’45’’, 2D animation
director Nata Metlukh
script Nata Metlukh
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.


Switzerland, 2024, 7’11’’, 2D animation
director Delia Hess
script Delia Hess
A young woman finds herself trapped in the endless queue of a telephone hotline — a surreal, episodic short film exploring the absurdities of urban life and the crushing weight of paralyzing stagnation


France, Italy, 2024, 8’11’’, hand-drawn animation
director Roberto Catani
script Roberto Catani
Story of a puppet who doesn't become a child.


Estonia, France, 2024, 32’00’’, 2D/3D animation
directors Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn
script Priit Pärn
He observes. She plays. Forgotten love lingers. The Moon is just a pale witness to it all. Still pale.


France, 2025, 8’30’’, cutout animation
director Iulia Voitova
script Iulia Voitova
An astronaut prepares for a flight into space, and a diver descends into the depths. The further apart they are, the closer they actually get.


Spain, 2023, 9’50’’, stop-motion animation
director Andrei Simkin
script Andrei Simkin
A captain wanders the sea in search of the place of his dreams, a beautiful orange lighthouse. One day the light of the lighthouse bursts into the gloom of his cabin. The sailor will have to decide whether to move on or remain anchored to the life he has always lived.
United Kingdom, 2023, 4’25’’, mixed media
director Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill
script Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill
Parker & Hill's latest collaboration, High Street Repeat, is an experimental, archive-delving collage film. It uses a range of animation techniques to explore the story of migration and enterprise, told through the changing face of Britain’s high street.


Latvia, 2024, 10’12’’, 2D animation
director Edmunds Jansons
script Edmunds Jansons
The white tranquility of mountains is disturbed by colorful winter sports enthusiasts who enjoy downhill skiing. The short film is an audiovisual experience, an abstract dance of freedom that reflects the joy and fragility of being.


France, 2024, 15’49’’, mixed media
directors Jeanne Paturle, Cécile Rousset, Jeanne Drouet
script Jeanne Paturle, Jeanne Drouet, Emmanuelle Santelli
The film follows a sociologist's investigation into sexuality in couples. She meets heterosexual women aged between 25 and 45. The interviews deal with experiences, desire and love, as well as norms in male/female relationships but also paths to emancipation.


France, 2024, 9’23’’, 2D animation
director Éloïc Gimenez Yoon
script Éloïc Gimenez Yoon, Sophie Roze
Jeanne and Louis, a couple in their seventies, discover the unexpected effect of a footbath in the middle of the day on their balcony. Jeanne recalls a distant and comical memory of a dog biting her husband's left buttock.


United Kingdom, 2023, 11’16’’, stop-motion animation
director Gustavo Arteaga
script Gustavo Arteaga
When love comes knocking Greta’s world is turned upside down.
As her passion grows, complications follow but change is coming in the shape of water.


Korea, 2025, 12’08’’, cutout animation
director Seun Yee
script Seun Yee
A bus passenger reclines their seat too far back. As a result, the journey of the passenger behind takes an unexpected path, eventually exploring interpersonal and societal space.


Canada, 2025, 11’18’’, 2D animation
director Alex Boya
script Alex Boya
A devoted sister flees with her brother, a benevolent, bread-turned zombie. A mob pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason dissolves, hunger reigns. Can love defy appetite?


India, 2024, 4’12’’, 3D animation
director Suresh Eriyat
script Suresh Eriyat
A delightful music evening in the deep woods turns into chaos when an overly enthusiastic fan accidentally wreaks havoc in a burst of excitement.


India, 2025, 7’03’’, stop-motion animation
director Suresh Eriyat
script Suresh Eriyat
Through the story of Balu Mama and his revered flock, the film contrasts a rich heritage with the modern neglect of India’s native sheep and wool industry. In the face of this decline, it raises a poignant question—can the wisdom of the past inspire a future where shepherding and pastoral traditions are valued once again?


Bulgaria, France, 2025, 8’18’’, 2D animation
director Iva Tokmakchieva
script Iva Tokmakchieva
A hot summer day brings several neighbours out on their balconies. During a sudden rainstorm, one of them gets a burst of inspiration, which encourages the rest to live in the moment.


USA , 2025, 5’42’’, hand-drawn animation
dirеctor Kate Renshaw-Lewis
script Kate Renshaw-Lewis
Busy Bodies is a hand-drawn animation that combines inkjet and screen printing. Inspired by Rube Goldberg machines, the film explores the undisclosed production journey of easily disposable objects. The images of the film cycle and deteriorate, visualizing the repetition, speed, and destructive nature of the factory method supply chain.