Dollhouse Elephant
Jenny Jokela (Böhle Studios)
Finland, 2025, 11’14”
A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.
Blessed
Birute Sodeikaite (independent)
Canada, Lithuania, 2025, 7’40”
A tough, no-nonsense Buffalo has always seen himself as strong and fearless. But when his dream of fatherhood comes true, he’s suddenly awkward, overwhelmed, and under constant judgment. Can he become the father he’s always imagined, or will his fears hold him back?
Zwermen / Murmuration
Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger (Spotted Bird, Beast Animation, Murmur Animation)
Belgium, The Netherlands, 2025, 12’30”
Piet, an elderly man in a nursing home, finds himself limited in his actions when he suddenly begins to transform into a bird. Although he is still accepted within the group, he feels that it's time to join a new flock.
化 / Essence
Wan-Yu Hong (independent)
Taiwan, 2024, 5’40”
From emptiness, a gentle breeze stirs, gathering grasses and leaves to form a creature. As It catches sight of itself, the world echoes into being, stirred by the wind. Feeling others, it is felt in return, in a rhythm where all boundaries blur into a seamless dance of harmony.
The Right to Be Forgotten
Tue Sanggaard (Late Love Production)
Denmark, 2025, 10’55”
Deep underground, embedded in old muddy rock, the oracle is waiting. A big bright square tells the story of our present on repeat. Slowly it descends over small motionless people stuck in the middle of a world consuming itself. How do you want to be forgotten?
Join
Brennan Bova (independent)
Canada, 2025, 3’28”
A film about the joy of community and what you can achieve when you find your tribe. As performed by ducks.
Rakugaki / The Graffiti
yo Orikasa (Waseda University, The Yanai Initiative at UCLA)
Japan, USA, 2025, 12’33”
The moment the first gleam of sunlight trickled in gently stirring the folds of a shallow sleep—that was when the graffiti appeared…
Cão Sozinho / Dog Alone
Marta Reis Andrade (BAP - Animation Studios, Ikki Films)
Portugal, France, 2025, 13’02”
A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.