Kronicitet / Chronicity
Aleta Rajič (KAN)
Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2024, 3'25"
A seemingly naive turn of events leads to a disastrous one. Flight of wings leading all the way to WW1.
Joko
Izabela Plucińska (Animoon/Clay Traces/Las Sztuki/Maur Film)
Poland, Czechia, Germany, 2024, 15’45"
Joko is a young man supporting his entire family on a dead-end factory job. One day on his way to work, someone jumps on his back, and orders him to transport them around the city. At first, he rebels against this humiliation, but relents under peer pressure and the promise of money. This new work slowly dominates him, mentally and literally, and physically overcomes him.
Vlny / Waves
Michael Carrington (Automat Svět/Michael Carrington)
Czechia, 2023, 8'
Created using sand animation, the film explores the theme of waves in various forms – in nature and in life. A collage of dramatic situations, fragments of human existence and the movement of waves in the sea, in the grass, in the branches.
Vegan Mayo
Luca Tóth (Boddah)
Hungary, 2024, 4'35"
She is all that: A super empath, a justice warrior and your favourite confidence queen… but then again maybe just a sausage.
On Hold
Delia Hess (Papierboot/SFR)
Switzerland, 2024, 7’10"
A young woman is stuck in the hold queue of a telephone hotline. A surreal episodic short film about the absurdities of urban life and the frustration of a paralysing standstill.
Freeride in C
Edmunds Jansons (Atom Art)
Latvia, 2024, 10'10"
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.
Il burattino e la balena
Roberto Catani (Miyu Productions/Withstand Film)
France, Italy, 2024, 8'05"
The story of a puppet who does not become a child.
Subotopic
Nikki Schuster (independent)
Austria, Germany, 2023, 7'
In Subotopic, the viewer's gaze dives below the water's surface downwards into ever deeper layers of the underwater world. In morphed single-frame switching, bizarre pictorial plants and insect creatures are passing by, until one penetrates the surface of light again.
Samochód, który wrócił z morza / The Car That Came Back from the Sea
Jadwiga Kowalska (Fuzzy Yesterdays)
Switzerland, 2023, 10’47"
Full of exuberance and frivolousness, six friends drive to the Polish Baltic coast and back in a small, dented car. During their trip, their car and their country fall apart. Nevertheless, life goes on. Their journey is interfused with memories and snapshots from the past.