ASIFA Student Award 2025
ASIFA-Student Award 25
Special Matinee Show
28.09.2025
, 11:30 – 13:00 hrs
| silent green Kulturquartier
Tanya BozhinovaBulgaria, 2022 | 08:26 min | 2DFighting words and feelings, a man embarks on an emotional journey to confess his love
Akshita Tyagi, Leyla Belarbi, Lia MacruzSpain, 2024 | 04:30 min | Stop-Motion, Puppenanimation"I Don't Know What to Do" is a film about a young girl named Lizzie who spends an afternoon playing with a lizard she found in her garden. An accident occurs, and the lizard is hurt. Filled with sadness, Lizzie gently buries the lizard and places a flower on its grave, highlighting her tenderness and the fleeting nature of life.
Eugen BilankovCroatia, 2024 | 04:59 min | 2DA movie about a breakup. The narrative develops through the author’s conversations with his long-time partner, and follows the contemplation of the end of a nine-year romantic relationship. The sound design of the film is constructed using documentary techniques, while the animation illustrates the psychological and emotional spaces of these 'breakup' conversations.
Ariel Victor ArthantoGermany, 2024 | 13:15 min | 2DSam, a deviant artist and proud flower-person, prepares for their final-act — a transformative declaration of their identity. Their mother, however, struggles to accept Sam's chosen path. Spending one last day before the performance in a flower spa, in between over-the-top treatment and relaxation, tensions rise between the two, until a heart-to-heart brings understanding.
Evridiki PapaiakovouEstonia, 2024 | 04:24 min | 2DRemembering is a fluid affair. A daughter tries to reconcile with her mother through memories of their shared rituals, exposing the intricate aspects of their relationship. As the daughter matures, she begins to contemplate conventional notions of divinity. The blank frames of the 35mm strip regain their function as memorabilia in the process of engraving her past onto its surface.
Samira HoseiniIran, 2024 | 05:16 min | 2DA young boy wants to immigrate to another country by a hot air balloon and he has to leave things behind.
Tianyun LyuUSA, 2024 | 13:00 min | 2DIn the Mongolian wilds, a hunter's heir, With his father, a bond so rare. Kindness within, 'midst nature's might, A tale of love, in the wild's wild fight.
Julia Langegger, Lisa Lamprecht, Elja StawinskiAustria, 2024 | 03:14 min | Stop-Motion, Puppenanimation"Golden Strings" is a stop motion shortfilm about a complex mother-daughter-relationship. The story follows a worried mother who controls her daughter like a puppet with strings in order to keep her safe. As the daughter grows older, she fights against her constraints in an effort to free herself, leading to unexpected consequences. By exploring the balance between care and abusive overprotection, the film delves into the topic of personal freedom. Our goal was to make the viewer think about control, self-determination and boundaries in their relationships.
Lenia FriedrichGermany, 2024 | 12:58 min | 2D, Rotoskopie, Dokumentaraufnahmen"Life is like that and not otherwise" is an escargotic exploration of the spaces lived and lost throughout the life of Mrs. Miko, who is quite old now, perhaps even a centenarian. Her storied, shell-like mind structures have become intertwined with those of Lenia Friedrich, who, within the proximity of their shared home, dreamly muses on her own moribund process of ageing. The animated sequences of this film rotate and trace through memory strata, uncovering some of the artefacts that can be found there, as well as the imprints and the fractures that are left behind when objects, memories, or names disappear.
Rina ITOJapan, 2024 | 07:56 min | 2DOne day, I suddenly found myself transformed into something strange. I try to peel off my skin again and again to return to my original form.
Liu RenmingChina, 2024 | 05:36 min | 2DOn a foggy morning, a simple conversation between two anglers turns into a collective panic. The film explores the psychology of the mob in ambiguous situations. Through the individual perspective of the group, it finally shows the theme of irrational judgment. The group distorts the events they see, and a phenomenon of mutual infection occurs, so that the distortion of the event becomes consistent, and everyone in the group shows the same state. Even when the group sees the facts, it is as if they don’t see them — they completely ignore them and merge the distorted illusion with the real events.
