Sweetie Pie
Claudia Röthlin, Yves Gutjahr (Tiny Giant Animation)
Switzerland, 2018, 2'15"
Sweetie Pie is the first dog ever competing for Olympic gold in ski jumping. Can he withstand the pressure?
Orpheus
Priit Tender (Eesti Joonisfilm)
Estonia, 2019, 12'45"
Orpheus can enchant everyone with his music, including animals and plants. His song can even rescue his beloved Eurydice from the underworld. But there is one condition – until Orpheus reaches the land of the living, he must not turn around to see if his love is truly following him.
Story
Jolanta Bańkowska (Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association/Letko)
Poland, 2019, 4'45"
In the age of omnipresent technology, where the virtual sinks into reality, a young girl observes the world via a social media platform.
The Flood is Coming
Gabriel Böhmer (Rational Vagabund)
Switzerland, UK, 2018, 9'03"
A forest hermit tries to prepare for a flood, but he becomes distracted by his noisy neighbour – who happens to be the hermit's left eye. What follows is a meditation on worry, and the potential consequences of obsession. The Flood is Coming explores the growing anxiety about the state of nature, and our place in it.
Dež / Deszcz / Rain
Piotr Milczarek (Fumi Studio)
Poland, 2019, 5'
Rain is a simple animated film on collective consciousness. It talks about how no accountability for our actions pushes us to thoughtlessly follow the crowd, which may lead to a tragedy. The film also depicts the struggle of an individual with collective hypnosis and its consequences for both the individual and the crowd.
Mačka je uvijek ženska / A Cat Is Always Female
Martina Meštrović, Tanja Vujasinović (Kreativni sindikat)
Croatia, 2019, 15'43"
Through a feminist lens, the filmmakers pay homage to their professor Marija Ujevic Galetovic – one of Croatia’s most important sculptors. Marija's life story and views are told through a combination of video footage and animation of her feminine sculptures.
Motivi / Themes
Danijel Žeželj (Zagreb Film)
Croatia, 2019, 6'30"
An animated journey through a series of art themes accompanied by encyclopaedic definitions. The seemingly educational presentation of Western figurative painting is actually a visual and aural sequence of fleeing war and trying to enter Europe. A journey through the humanist tradition of European painting clashes with the real tragedy of current-day emigration.
Toomas teispool metsikute huntide orgu / Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves
Chintis Lundgren (Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonstuudio/Adriatic Animation/Miyu Productions)
Estonia, Croatia, France, 2019, 18'
After losing a well-paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie, it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.