Competition Pink Panda II: Teens
Pink Panda II: Teens
Competition
26.09.2025
, 10:30 – 12:00 hrs
| silent green Kulturquartier
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Re-run on 27.9. at 1:00 pm
Johanna Bouaouiche, Louis Creuzet, Marie Hareux, Wilson Hinh, Arthus Mariet, Masha MoranFrance, 2025 | 06:53 min | 2DAmidst fields of Arabica beans, Hurle, a young woman, dreams of a future beyond the coffee shop where she works to support her mother. Her life is disrupted when she goes in pursuit of an eccentric petty thief who will turn her daily life upside down.
Daphna Awadish GolanNetherlands, 2023 | 10:40 min | 2D, 3DA short animated documentary exploring the immigration experience in the Netherlands through the eyes of children as we see penguins learning how to swim with clothes on.
Eloi HenriodSwitzerland, 2025 | 09:12 min | 2DChoucroute is lonely and bored. A hungry duck flies past. Choucroute sees the duck as a remedy for his loneliness. The duck sees Choucroute as a meal.
Lea VučkoSlovenia, 2025 | 20:00 min | 2DIn a silent animated folktale rooted in Balkan mythology and told with the starkness of a feminist western, a young girl escapes the roles forced on her by disguising herself as a man. On her journey, she outwits devils, slays beasts, and earns the respect of kings—proving to the world that she has no fear. But her final test comes when she meets a shapeshifting dragon who sees what she’s tried to hide all along. The Girl Who Wasn’t Afraid of Bears is a story about courage, identity, and the quiet cost of becoming what the world expects.
Tserendorj Myagmarjav, Adriana Maria DuelloKorea, Republic of, Mongolia, 2025 | 07:20 min | 2DA young Mongolian boy embarks on a spiritual journey to prove his maturity by catching a sacred white reindeer, but instead discovers an ancestral connection that helps him reconcile with the loss of his father.
Julia SkalaGermany, 2024 | 09:13 min | 2DOn a school trip with her classmates, ten-year-old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids showering with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly shaped tadpole at a museum, Marlene identifies with it in weird, bonding way and decides to set it free.
Oscar JacobsonGermany, 2025 | 05:20 min | 2DA nude model is posing with statuesque stillness for an elite drawing class – until an unfortunate mosquito bite challenges his self-control. Driven to madness by the itch, he’s caught between the ruthless demand for perfection and his most unhinged, animalistic impulses.
Mirjam PlettinxBelgium, Netherlands, 2025 | 13:37 min | 2D, LegetrickAnt is traveling in the rear of a city bus. She is holding a small red Egg. When the bus stops, Ant gets out with her Egg and walks to work. In an office building, Ant serves coffee and tea to employees and, in the evening, she. works as a cleaner in a fastfood restaurant. The fragile Egg is always close to her. As the days pass, the Egg grows and grows, becoming heavier to carry. When Ant realizes that Egg needs more care and attention than she can possibly give, she has to make the most difficult decision of her life.
Veljko Popovic, Milivoj PopovicCroatia, France, 2024 | 13:37 min | 2DThe film recounts the memories of a childhood in Split in the 1980s. These are stories retold after Sunday lunch when everyone is in a good mood, stories filled with emotions we can easily relate to. But above all, the film is a moving tribute to the love of a grandpa and grandma who did their best to keep their granddaughter smiling.
José Manuel “Becho” Lo Bianco, Mariano Andrés BergaraArgentina, Mexico, 2025 | 08:28 min | Stop-MotionJim, a lonely man who lives stuck in a rut, remembers when he was a child and his gut was alive. Despite his parents and doctor's efforts, Jim decided to listen to his gut, which awakened enormous curiosity in him with a simple word: climb. After days of climbing everything, Jim discovered something that fascinated him… a mountain beyond the horizon.
Juliette RagotFrance, 2024 | 07:54 min | 2DIt's the summer holidays at the local swimming pool and it's hot. Louane, 14, is lying by the pool, enjoying a moment of peace and quiet, when she is approached by Aïssa. Sheltered from the world around them, the two friends share a tender moment.
Patrick VolveFrance, 2025 | 07:30 min | 2DThroughout “Il est une fois” (There Once Was...) we encounter Little Belgian Riding Hood, Bluebeard, a Wolf on a motorcycle, a duck that lays golden eggs, three little pigs, and many more characters whom we think we know already, but turn out to be different than expected. Seeing as these tales cross both centuries and borders, this series can become an opportunity for a colourful present-day voyage that visits Marseille, makes a stop at Montreal and ends up in Brazza. Fasten your seatbelts, we are ready for take-off!
Sofija ZivkovicGermany, 2024 | 12:22 min | 2DA blood cell has to go on a mission to see the brain and convince him to make their dehydrated body drink some water.
