"Only yesterday, dragons were coming down to see what humans were doing in their valleys. Destroying everything in their path, we cursed them, in vain."

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“Bunnyhood” is a frenzied, 9-minute rollercoaster ride, described by “Directors Notes” as “pure nightmare fuel,” and akin to “watching the scribbled drawings etched onto an old school desk come to life”

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OCTOPOLIS is a civilization created by octopuses. The inhabitants live on donuts and sleep inside chikuwas (fishcake tubes). They perceive themselves as donut holes and feel a deep urge to fill that void and become suckers, the embodiment of wholeness.

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In 1950, Yeh Sheng-Chih was executed at Taipei as a Taiwanese underground member of the Communist Party of China. After the execution, his soul went on a journey to reflect on his lifetime, searching for an answer about his homeland and identity.

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"SHAPED" is an animation about modern life phenomena. The protagonist, Shanshan, enters a glass cup, experiencing various degrees of influence and uncontrollable changes. After a brief escape, he still chooses to return to this cycle.

Rhythmic gymnastics is considered to be one of the most beautiful female sports. What we see is that young, gorgeous girls in their glittering leotards move lightly on a big carpet, with a smile on their faces. Behind the mask of perfection, however, there is eternal self-dissatisfaction and endless internal struggles in the group. Through the eyes of a competitor, we follow the journey of the entire national team from a training session to the competition mat and observe how their intrigue ends up.

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All the collage materials are made from collected waste paper. Whenever it rains in summer, my rhinitis becomes very serious, and my bad mood keeps popping up like mushrooms after the rain. I hope this film can remind me not to forget to take rhinitis medication every night before going to bed, and I also hope this animation can raise people's attention to the global environment.

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I killed my mother. She called me a betrayer. Will I be able to escape the disease passed down the women in our family?

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"Hello, Headquarters," a voice from the phone calls out to Mirek. But Mirek already feels lost - he just wants to report the disappearance of his wife, the Great Orange. At every step, he crashes into the brutality of office bureaucracy, and to make matters worse, rain is pouring outside.

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By the seaside, a woman waits for a man.

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A girl called Elena finds after a long time the notebook of her maternal grandmother, Laura. She flips through it for the first time and through those pages she sees her grandmother's life again. Once she  reaches the end, Elena recalls a childhood episode in which Laura had revealed to her that if one has a great desire it must be confided to the paper of a notebook to make it come true. As a child she had believed that story and immediately had done so. Now 25 years old, Elena no longer remembers her past wish but now has a new one, to remember Laura.

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" Make Money" is a three-minute 2D short animation. The story revolves around a family of three living on a grassland. The playful young boy discovers accidentally that pulling up weeds causes them to transform into various objects. Unaware of his actions, he eventually pulls up all the grass on the entire plain. As a consequence, everything familiar from the past is gone, leaving a changed landscape and circumstances.

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No Man's Land is an exploration of a bizarre world, where curiosity, excitement, fear, helplessness, and evasion coexist. It is an experimental animation inspired by outsider art and assisted with generative AI techniques.

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During a hunting day in rural Spain, a father struggles to accept that his adult son is moving abroad, dealing with the feelings of being left alone.

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Canned presents a symbolic portrayal of anorexia through the story of Sam, a young teenager who seeks solace in a fishbowl as an escape from bullying.

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Surrounded by the roots of a withering tree, the soul of an old woman departs from her former body. Unsure of where to go next, she finds guidance in a mythological snake who patiently leads her towards the afterlife.

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After losing everything, a sentimental Maned Wolf wanders around Brazil in search of a new home.

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Candles are flickering. In the dark, endless dreamscape, where do I find myself?

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This animated short film is dedicated to the fascination with the art of watercolor. The beauty and overwhelming power of nature created on paper is depicted with awe, moving back and forth between abstraction and figuration.

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Fighting words and feelings, a man embarks on an emotional journey to confess his love.

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Two mice on a bookshelf engage in a passionate discussion on the purpose of books – one of them is an intellectual and is advocating for the spiritual and intellectual merits of literature, while the other, a glutton, sees books as nothing other than a tasty snack.

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The love between two light bulbs makes them shine bright together, until one of them leaves the other. The remaining bulb’s light almost goes out when a new spark is formed between it and an unexpected new character.

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Aging, she increasingly feels herself as an old-fashioned person. Her garden is lacking life except for her 'Bopoolagi(보푸라기)'. It
still sticks to her like a stubborn shape. Though it irks her she feels she can't hate it.

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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.

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This stop-motion film brings to life the emotional state of pessimism through rich visual storytelling. At its heart is a simple gardener—an ordinary man who’s never content. No matter how vibrant his flowers bloom, something always feels wrong. His hat never sits quite right, and in his world, the glass is always half empty. His quiet adversary is a single rose. It’s beautiful, thriving, nearly perfect—but he can’t see it that way. To him, there’s always a flaw: a thorn out of place. The story unfolds as a constant tension between two realities: the world as it is—alive and full of beauty—and the world as the gardener feels it - dim and never enough.

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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.

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On a forest home trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids to shower with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene is weirdly identifying with it and decides to set it free.

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The Kitchen God is a deity in traditional Chinese culture who governs food and the fortunes of the family. Tang Hua Sheng(the Candied peanut) is a dessert offered during the worship of the Kitchen God. In this short film, "I" explore the significance of this ritual for my family and me by imagining the real existence of the Kitchen God. From childhood curiosity to nostalgia after leaving home as an adult, "I" gradually realize that this traditional custom still holds deep meaning for our family in modern society

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In her room, Sasha, a little girl who only aspires to live a happy childhood, is playing with her cuddly toys to forget that her parents are about to separate. But the noise of their argument intrudes on her innocent games, forcing her to confront the consequences of these increasingly unsustainable adult conflicts. Gradually, the child becomes overwhelmed by her anxieties, giving free rein to her repressed emotions.

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In Awaiting the Lightning Bolt, Renato, an eccentric Renaissance inventor, dares the impossible: capturing a lightning bolt in a jar! Fuelled by ambition and defying the skepticism of his peers, he races against time in a thrilling journey, where each storm offers an extraordinary glimpse into the mysteries of nature and the power of love.

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A young woman dealing with her childhood trauma in the form of a folktale. She always runs away from a big black wolf until she remembers her grandmother's advice.

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A superficial couple spends an afternoon on a yacht until their daily lives are disrupted.

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The day the radiation disappears, Simon rushes to the heart of the zone, taking his colleague Agathe with him, in the hope of rediscovering a lost past.

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In a world of towering mountains, dutiful train conductor Peregrin navigates his train through dangerous terrain like a well-oiled clock. One day, the free-spirited musician Clara smuggles herself into his machine room. Soon, catastrophe strikes, and Clara and Peregrin have to overcome their differences to save the train from derailing.

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Mr. Everest is dead and trapped in the paperwork process before entering Heaven. After the long journey, he accepts that heaven is very different from what he expected.

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