Competition New Talents II
Maya VriensFrance, 2025 | 05:50 min | 2DAt Hotel les pieds dans l'eau, Rosa, an exhausted cleaning lady, dreams of escaping for a moment.
Ali HalawiGermany, Lebanon, 2026 | 12:43 min | 2DFatima grows up on the Tyre peninsula in southern Lebanon. When she is ten, the first Israeli bombs change her life and her home forever.
Livia MayNetherlands, 2025 | 06:47 min | 2DYoung Freya loves her dad, even though he doesn't always give the same amount of love back. She learns that it’s not always easy to get recognition from your parents. We follow her journey and while growing up she develops a passion for climbing. However, her father doesn’t approve of it. His strong opinion weighs heavy on her and she carries his words with her, until it has taken over her life. She learns to overcome his negativity by realising those words are just something her dad said and it does not say anything about her worth. By accepting herself for who she is, she learns how to break free from her father’s opinion.
Munan YinChina, 2025 | 01:12 min | 2D, 3D, Cut-out“Ablaze” is a 2D experimental animation that explores the sensory experience of light through a fusion of various visual media.
Polina PiddubnaGermany, 2025 | 10:00 min | 2DAlfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother's safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to restore and rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.
Brina FekonjaSlovenia, 2026 | 08:01 min | Stop Motion, PixilationA story of lichens, inertia, and fusion.
Zechen LiChina, United States, 2025 | 04:25 min | 2D“Listen To The Force” follows Ting and Yun, a young couple living together in their urban apartment. Through a series of everyday moments: preparing juice, cleaning dishes, sharing silence, their story gradually unfolds with the “Push Hands”-practice, where each gesture becomes loaded with meaning. As they circle each other in their small, cozy space, the boundaries between martial arts and daily life dissolve. A simple hand push becomes a test of balance. Without dialogue, their bodies tell the story of contemporary intimacy: the constant recalibration between personal space and shared life, the delicate art of being together while remaining individuals.
Nikoletta VeressHungary, 2026 | 11:29 min | 2DMr. Rabbit is unable to decide what to become when he grows up. Overwhelmed by the number of choices, he instead escapes into his imagination and creates tiny replicas of himself. Watching these copies he explores a new world full of possibilities. He enjoys this situation until one fatal mistake: through his own fault, he loses one of his opportunities. This loss overcomes his senses.
Tommaso ZerbiPortugal, 2026 | 04:36 min | 3DA snail is crushed by a car, a dog defecates while a tourist jumps from the tallest skyscraper in the world. A series of slices of everyday life spirals into chaos, culminating in the destruction of daily monotony.
Jean CourtoisFrance, 2025 | 03:56 min | Stop Motion, PaintJacqueline writes a letter to her deceased brother.
Lola Tima Anna Vergara FrankeColombia, Germany, 2026 | 11:29 min | 2D, CharcoalA lone wanderer climbs a snowy mountain, haunted by the ghosts of their past. Set in a surreal space between life and death this charcoal mixed media film follows the journey of a relationship between a father and a daughter.
