FAFF 2025 Program

FAFF 2025 Screening

Factual Animation Film Festival (FAFF) is celebrating ten years this year!

27.09.2025

, 19:00 – 20:30 hrs

| silent green Kulturquartier

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  • GIGI

    GIGI

    Cynthia Calvi
    France, 2023 | 13:55 min | 2D
    From the tormented little mermaid to the fulfilled woman she is today, Gigi tells us about her gender transition with humor and sensitivity.

  • Romina

    Romina

    Bee Grandinetti, Paola Mendoza
    USA, 2024 | 05:36 min | 2D
    Romina tells the true story of a 14-year-old girl facing an unplanned pregnancy in a state in the USA where abortion is banned. Despite the legal barriers, a community rallies around her, ensuring she can access the abortion she desired.

  • Voicemail

    Voicemail

    Holly Rivers Aguirre
    UK, 2025 | 01:44 min | 2D
    In this animated documentary, I revisited the South West coast path and the local beach where I was sitting when I found out my father had died in 2023. Rotoscope drawings are paired with snippets of my father's voice, taken from voicemails that he left me a few years prior to his death.

  • Warp and Weft

    Warp and Weft

    Isolda Milenkovic
    UK, 2025 | 03:46 min | Stop Motion
    Warp and Weft is an animated documentary short about traditional textile crafts.

  • Desi Oon

    Desi Oon

    Suresh ERIYAT
    India, 2025 | 07:03 min | Stop Motion
    A love letter to the act of hand-making, traditional craft practices, and the people who love them. Stemming from the fear of these artforms slipping away in a society that no longer values the human labour behind them.

  • Inside, The Valley Sings

    Inside, The Valley Sings

    Nathan Fagan
    Ireland, 2024 | 01:27 min | 2D
    Secluded in 6x9 cells year after year with little or no human contact, three individuals in prisons across the United States experience the tedium, loneliness and psychological despair of long-term solitary confinement. Over time, they begin to construct elaborate fantasy worlds to escape their daily reality.

  • Percebes

    Percebes

    Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
    Portugal, 2024 | 11:30 min | 2D
    With 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.

  • D4 or E4?

    D4 or E4?

    Umang(mango) Mankodiya
    UK, | 02:45 min | 2D
    Experience the artistry of chess in ‘D4 or E4?’, an experimental short documentary that blurs the lines between game and art. Watch as the chessboard transforms into a canvas of abstract shapes and lines, reflecting the players’ inner turmoil and triumphs.

  • Us Four

    Us Four

    Alex Peake
    UK, 2024 | 05:00 min | 2D
    A docu-fiction about childhood memories and leaving home. Alex talks to her younger sisters about their past and realises the reality of them all growing up.

  • The C Word

    The C Word

    Serafima Serafimova
    UK, 2024 | 02:44 min | 2D
    When COVID-19 struck in 2020, Alyssa – an Australian healthcare professional living in the UK with her partner – wanted to do everything she could to help. What happened next changed her outlook on life forever.

  • Jet Lag

    Jet Lag

    Kacey Morrow, Dustin Morrow
    USA, 2024 | 05:35 min | 2D
    Using frame-by-frame rotoscope animation and the stylized aesthetic of classical airline safety brochures, the short film “Jet Lag” adapts Christopher Schaberg’s acclaimed nonfiction book "Airportness: The Nature of Flight" for the screen.

  • The Sacred Society

    The Sacred Society

    Benny Zelkowicz
    USA, 2024 | 12:30 min | Sand animation
    In the end, our bodies are as fragile and ephemeral as paintings made of sand. Who will care for them when our time is over?

  • Speeding, of Course

    Speeding, of Course

    Anni Sairio, Joonatan Turkki
    Finland, 2025 | 04:00 min | Cut-Out Animation
    70-year-old Timo makes the most of his short ride to work. Speeding up on a bicycle ends up into a ditch, but the adrenaline rush leaves a feeling of pleasure.