Competition Pink Panda III: Teens
Johanna Bouaouiche, Louis Creuzet, Marie Hareux, Wilson Hinh, Arthus Mariet, Masha MoranFrance, 2025 | 06:53 min | 2DAmidst fields of Arabica beans, Hurle, a young woman, dreams of a future beyond the coffee shop where she works to support her mother. Her life is disrupted when she goes in pursuit of an eccentric petty thief who will turn her daily life upside down.
Eloi HenriodSwitzerland, 2025 | 09:12 min | 2DChoucroute is lonely and bored. A hungry duck flies past. Choucroute sees the duck as a remedy for his loneliness. The duck sees Choucroute as a meal.
Lea VučkoSlovenia, 2025 | 20:00 min | 2DIn a silent animated folktale rooted in Balkan mythology and told with the starkness of a feminist western, a young girl escapes the roles forced on her by disguising herself as a man. On her journey, she outwits devils, slays beasts, and earns the respect of kings—proving to the world that she has no fear. But her final test comes when she meets a shapeshifting dragon who sees what she’s tried to hide all along. The Girl Who Wasn’t Afraid of Bears is a story about courage, identity, and the quiet cost of becoming what the world expects.
Mirjam PlettinxBelgium, Netherlands, 2025 | 13:37 min | 2D, Cut-outAnt is traveling in the rear of a city bus. She is holding a small red Egg. When the bus stops, Ant gets out with her Egg and walks to work. In an office building, Ant serves coffee and tea to employees and, in the evening, she. works as a cleaner in a fastfood restaurant. The fragile Egg is always close to her. As the days pass, the Egg grows and grows, becoming heavier to carry. When Ant realizes that Egg needs more care and attention than she can possibly give, she has to make the most difficult decision of her life.
José Manuel “Becho” Lo Bianco, Mariano Andrés BergaraArgentina, Mexico, 2025 | 08:28 min | Stop MotionJim, a lonely man who lives stuck in a rut, remembers when he was a child and his gut was alive. Despite his parents and doctor's efforts, Jim decided to listen to his gut, which awakened enormous curiosity in him with a simple word: climb. After days of climbing everything, Jim discovered something that fascinated him… a mountain beyond the horizon.
Patrick VolveFrance, 2025 | 07:30 min | 2DThroughout “Il est une fois” (There Once Was...) we encounter Little Belgian Riding Hood, Bluebeard, a Wolf on a motorcycle, a duck that lays golden eggs, three little pigs, and many more characters whom we think we know already, but turn out to be different than expected. Seeing as these tales cross both centuries and borders, this series can become an opportunity for a colourful present-day voyage that visits Marseille, makes a stop at Montreal and ends up in Brazza. Fasten your seatbelts, we are ready for take-off!
