Next Step
Tamás Patrovits (Reanimation Studio)
Hungary, 2025, 5’03”
The film consisting of countless original risograph prints, is an under-the-camera, straight-ahead animation improvised to the rhythm of the scores of the Hungarian percussion group, Amadinda. This animation, as a consistent conceptual work, avoids any sorts of post-digital manipulation.
Fačuk
Maida Srabović (Tetrabot, URGH!, Octopics)
Croatia, Slovenia, 2025, 12’47”
In a God-fearing village lying between two rivers, giving birth to a "fačuk" — an illegitimate child — is a mortal sin. Everyone in the village recoils from the young pregnant woman who is about to give birth at any moment. In this narrow-minded and harsh rural environment, fear grows inside her.
Amarelo Banana
Alexandre Sousa (AIM Creative Studios, CUB Animation)
Portugal, Hungary, 2025, 12’42”
After another night of insomnia, a man comes across a strange community living in his building and discovers the elaborate illusion they have created.
The Prologue
Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat (neodvisna/independent)
Austria, 2025, 11’
The Prologue begins, as its name suggests, with heaven, and thus the almost biblical beginning of all beginnings. However, it is a man in work clothes who emerges from the cuboid floating through the air, and not a divine being.
Luna Rossa
Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn (Eesti Joonisfilm, Miyu Productions)
Estonia, France, 2024, 32’38”
He observes. She plays. Forgotten love lingers. The Moon is just a pale witness to it all. Still pale.