ASIFA Student Award 2025
ASIFA Student Awards 2025
Celebrating 65 Years of ASIFA with Young Animation
28.09.2025
, 11:30 – 13:00 hrs
| silent green Kulturquartier
Tanya BozhinovaBulgaria, 2022 | 08:26 min | 2D Digital ZeichentrickFighting 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 | 2D AnimationA 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 animation illustrates the psychological and emotional spaces of these 'breakup' conversations.
Ariel Victor ArthantoGermany, 2024 | 13:15 min | 2D DigitalSam, 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
Chenxi ZhangUSA, | 06:19 min | 2D-Animation, Kohle auf Transparentpapier, Papier Legetrick, Puppe, animierte ObjekteAlong the path on my head, I touched the unbreakable inner attachment between me and my mother, and the journey of female growth we were both unprepared to face.
Samira HoseiniIran, | 05:16 min | 2D ComputeranimationA young boy wants to immigrate to another country by a hot air balloon and he has to leave things behind
Tianyun LyuUSA, | 13:00 min | 2D AnimationIn 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, | 03:14 min | Stop-Motion, PuppenanimationGolden 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 Zeichentrick, Rotoskopie, DokumentaraufnahmenLife 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, | 07:56 min | 2D AnimationOne 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, | 05:36 min | 2D AnimationOn 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 individual perspective of the group, finally show the group of irrational judgment theme. The group will distort the events they see, and there will be a phenomenon of mutual infection, so that the distortion of the event presents a consistency, and everyone in the group will show the same state. Even if the group sees the facts, it is like not seeing them, completely ignoring them, but integrating the distorted illusion with the real events.
