Competition International Animation I
International Animation I
Competition
26.09.2025
, 22:00 – 23:30 hrs
| City Kino Wedding
Juho MaurinenFinland, 2026 | 04:30 min | 2DRichard goes on a cycling trip filled with freedom, fantasy and love.
Cheyenne Canaud-WallaysFrance, 2024 | 15:00 min | 2DSylvie and Karim have given it a lot of thought. At every breakfast and on every walk from the loo to the bathroom. They're ready to put the money they earned from scrubbing toilets and cleaning up the Bellevue Hotel into Sylvie's latest aspiration: acquiring a domestic football player.
Jelena OrozCroatia, 2024 | 06:22 min | 2D, Stop-MotionIn this film, cars have legs. Maybe that is why they feel free to use the pavement as they please. There is no room, but could we perhaps be a little more considerate?
Pilar Garcia-FernandezsesmaSpain, United States, 2026 | 14:35 min | 2DIn 1980s Spain, two sisters confront their complicated feelings about motherhood when the eldest gives birth to her first child.
Ane Inés Landeta, Lorea LyonsSpain, 2024 | 09:07 min | Stop-Motion, Pixilation, LegetrickLorea's reference points are her mother and her grandmother. Through these two generations she observes the bond that women have experienced around motherhood. Now it is up to her to decide whether or not to become a mother herself and to look for answers to pending questions.
Aline HöchliSwitzerland, 2025 | 09:41 min | Zeichnung auf PapierEager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.
Leo CernicItaly, Slovenia, 2026 | 14:10 min | 2DOn an intergalactic cruise for singles, lonely souls chase a kiss, a caress, or just a glimpse of love among the stars.
Nata MetlukhJapan, Ukraine, United States, 2025 | 10:45 min | 2DA data engineer rushes through life, believing multitasking saves time – but it only creates chaos. Despite his strict control over time, nothing gets done: his home is a mess, work overflows, and breakfast is always burnt. He discovers joy in life only when time breaks apart.
Alexandra Ramires, Laura GonçalvesPortugal, 2024 | 11:30 min | 2DWith the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle, from their hatching to the dish. On this journey, we experience different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.
Nicolas FongBelgium, 2025 | 06:30 min | 2DJoin us on the luggage rack of my bike for a sensory roller-coaster through a land full of cuddles.
Stephanie Lansaque, François LeroyFrance, 2025 | 15:31 min | 2DPhnom Penh. Nakry and Sothear meet on the Sisowath quay for their first date. At nightfall, the romance turns into a nightmare when the young girl transforms into a strange creature…
Osi WaldIsrael, 2025 | 04:22 min | 2DThis four-minute film is a collection of animated diary entries created between 2022 and 2025—a time marked by protest against the government and horrors of an ongoing war. Through looping sketches of domestic family situations and abstract dream imagery I create fragile bubbles of sanity in a world gone mad. Put together these fragments give a very personal glimpse at what lies under the simple answer “I am fine".
Winston HackingCanada, 2025 | 01:22 min | TonA feverish stasis collapses into infinite distraction, spinning on the axis of an algorithm. Each pulse, an uncertain tone, breathes electricity into a half-alive world. Time stretches like soft polymer; metamorphoses creep forward frame by frame, suspiciously slow, as if the film were watching me back.
Olivia Griselda, Sarah CheokSingapore, 2023 | 10:48 min | 2DAfter receiving a vibrator by mistake, a middle-aged, stressed-out woman gets hooked on solo pleasure sessions, but as her addiction sets in, she begins losing touch with her reality.
Petra BalekićCroatia, 2025 | 07:00 min | 2DIn this experimental animated film, a woman explores the layers of her own body and inner world. Through a symbolic depiction of separation and reconnection with herself, the film examines the dynamics of roughness and tenderness in self-perception. An intimate journey that delves into the complexity of self-acceptance and inner harmony.
Noah ErniSwitzerland, 2025 | 16:05 min | 2D, Live Action, Pixilation, LegetrickAt the 1999 International Vegetarian Congress in Widnau, a small village in eastern Switzerland, a mysterious case of food poisoning occurs. When the animators Marion and Noah come across the story, they decide to make a animated documentary about the case. But what can be found out about the truth more then twenty years later?
