Competition International Animation I
Juho MaurinenFinland, 2026 | 04:30 min | 2DRichard goes on a cycling trip filled with freedom, fantasy and love.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
