short films, 140 min, eng subtitles, 16+
27 by Flóra Anna Buda (Hungary, France, 2023, 11’)
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Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?
Cannes FF (La Cinef - official selection)
Crab / Krab by Piotr Chmielewski (Poland, 2022, 8')
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The film portrays the perspective of a crab, giving us a glimpse of the world through its eyes. Animals constantly share our surroundings, but have you ever wondered how they would perceive significant moments in history?
12th Stoptrik IFF (Special Mention)
35th Premiers Plans FF (Audience Award, L’Extra Court Award)
63. Zlín FF (Golden Slipper for Best Short Animation for Children)
Dog Apartment / Koerkorter by Priit Tender (Estonia, 2022, 14')
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Ills of fortune have deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolhoz. Here he’s having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
IFF Etiuda& Anima FF Krakow Poland 2022(Grand Prix)
MONSTRA Lisbon Animation Festival Portugal 2023 (Grand Prix)
Tampere FF Finland 2023 (Best animation)
EFTA 20223 (Best animation)
Eeva by Morten Tšinakov & Lucija Mrzljak (Estonia, Croatia, 2023, 16’)
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It’s pouring down with rain at the funeral. There’s a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.
Annecy IFF 2023 (Alexeïeff – Parker Award)
Berlin IFF 2023
PÖFF Shorts 2022
Electra by Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic, 2023, 27')
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Electra rethinks her 10th birthday, mixing memories with dreams. Isolated in her fantasy world full of busty dolls, plastic men’s body parts and dentist tools, she builds up her relationships with her body and sexuality. Diving deeper into her childhood memories, Electra goes through the most painful memories to let her suppressed feelings emerge.
Cannes FF 2023 (La Cinef - official selection)
Annecy IFF 2023
Toronto IFF 2023 (Short Cuts award for Best Film)
Even Stone Flows / Aj kameň tečie by Michaela Čopíková & Veronika Obertová (Slovakia, Portugal, 2023, 3')
A short visual poem about the fluidity of being.
Fest ANCA International Animation Festival 2022
Animateka 19. International Animated FF 2022
13th Kamera Akcja - Łódź, POLAND 2023
Misaligned / Koniunkcja by Marta Magnuska (Poland, 2022, 8')
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The woman and the man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, and several flies are circling a lamp. Gradually we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and observed elements as the rhythm of their universes accelerates. The microcosms shown interact rhythmically and belong to some cosmic order.
75th Locarno FF 2022
Riga International Film Festiva 2022
DOK Leipzig 2022 (Golden Dove - Best Short Animated Film)
ANIFILM 2023 - International Festival of Animated Films
Planets And Robots by Julius Zubavičius, Antanas Skučas (Lithuania, UK, 2023, 6')
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The film is generated by AI for humans. Don’t worry humans are creative and better than AI. You are the ones who will always have the upper hand, because you have the ability to imagine, to feel, to love. Thank you for existing.
Lithuanian National Silver Crane Awards 2023
18th Athens Animfest (3rd Prize in the Experimental category)
ANIFILM 2023
Remember How I Used To Ride A White Horse / Sjeti se kako sam jahala bijelog konja by Ivana Bošnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda (Croatia, 2022, 10')
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A waitress goes about her daily routine serving coffee whilst having thoughts of escaping her reality. A customer is constantly recording and listening to the surrounding sounds of the café and is wholly fixated on this task. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation, but do either realise that they are themselves examples of this condition?
ASIFA Croatia Award for the best Croatian professional film in 2022
Vienna Shorts 2023 (Best Film in Animation Avangarde competition)
Animafest Zagreb 2023
Suruaika by Vlad Ilicevici & Radu C. Pop (Romania, 2022, 9’)
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Kipu is a luxury chauffeur in a dark city, where the streets are full of cars and black cats. After he accidentally runs over the entire family of a little cat called Suruaika, Kipu adopts her and does all he can to keep her safe. As Kipu’s love for Suruaika grows, so does her body, and the streets become more and more crowded with black cats, new victims for countless little tragedies.
Animest AIFF (Audience Award)
Trame Indipendenti IFF (Best Animation, Audience Award for Animation)
Dracula IFF (Special Jury Mention)
Her Dress For The Final / Haljina za finale by Martina Meštrović (Croatia, 2023, 9’)
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One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
Animafest Zagreb 2023 (Special mention)
Annecy IAF 2023
The Garden Of Heart / A szív kertje by Olivér Hegyi (Hungary, Slovakia, 2022, 11')
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Dániel Juhász, a young aspiring painter with low self-esteem, is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests.
Animafest Zagreb 2023 (Jury's Special Award)
Kecskemét AFF 2023 (Best Animated Short Film, Special Mention from the Hungarian Film Critics)
Friss Hus International Short FF 2023 (Special Mention)
Trace / Cледа by Asparuh Petrov (Bulgaria, 2022, 7')
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А young writer dedicates his nights to hunting entangled phrases with his pen. The moment he is confronted with the pregnancy of his wife, his world collapses. Lingering fears and painful memories overwhelm him, and he needs to trace the missing piece.
CINELEBU Lebu IFF 2023 (Best International Animation)
Sofia IFF 2023 (Best Bulgarian Short Film)
The National Festival of Bulgarian Cinema – SBFD Awards Vasil Gendov 2023 (Jury Award for Animated Film)