Travel across Europe with this hand-picked selection of animated short films, all competing for the Best International Animated Short award. Expect a playful, bold mix of styles and techniques — from sharp comedies to thought-provoking hybrid documentaries that explore questions of identity and belonging. Diverse, surprising, and full of personality, this line-up promises something for everyone to enjoy!
As a child, Carlotta didn’t expect the people around her to have different faces. She didn't even recognize her own face. Years later, she learns that her brain has a rare, untreatable condition. In the end it was art, that offered her a way to finally recognize herself.
A young girl happens to catch the most medium-sized fish in the world and gains instant fame. But what happens when the fish gains weight?
A rat poet, whose hopeful poetry contrasts with the world in which he lives, gets confronted with the harshness of a societal bias towards mice.
Alex, a young woman bored with modern life, is lured by Bacchus into a colourful and mysterious world to explore her deepest desires.
A mousetrap snaps shut, a market place awakens. A group of men heatedly discuss how to kill the animal in the little box. One after another, they try to trump each other’s sadistic fantasies - and even a stranger’s suggestion to turn the creature loose, turns out to be a sick manipulation. But as the macabre game unfolds and spirals out of control, both victim and tormentors suffer the same fate.
We live in the same house, but in different apartments, jobs and situations, with different beliefs and visions; each one in our own compartment, fooling ourselves that the world is one, and that it exists. Sometimes, though, it seems an incomprehensible thread has almost been grasped, and I am on a verge of understanding.
Vitello doesn’t play with girls, and Kamma, his new neighbour, is definitely a girl who says she has a crazy hamster. Vitello really wants to see a crazy hamster, but when he visits her to do that, Kamma suddenly tells Vitello that he’s her boyfriend…
A suburban block party. Rave, barbecue and ice cream... then a stunt.
On August 6, 1945, there were two suns over Hiroshima. One was the dawn of a new day; the second was a nuclear bomb code-named "Little Boy".
In a universe where people are seeking connections with one another, a woman and a small child are brought together as mother and daughter. Inside the bubble of the mother’s protection, the child learns about love and trust, and ultimately how to form her own attachments.
"What would you be willing to do for them to love you?" Love Me, Fear Me is a dance story about the roles we play and the shapes we take; about the stages we choose, the audience we seek to impress and the price of acceptance.
Tonight, Anna and her dad have decided to walk home through the forest. Anna takes a torch and dad lights it up for her. The silent forest is as enchanting, as it is scary and the bright flame as protective as it is blinding.
MIMI has a pimple for the first time. She is afraid of being different from other girls and is uncomfortable around those who are different from herself. Because of this, she begins to mimic the other girls.
"Playing Cops and Robbers on the old playground. Why am I still doing this?" While playing with his friends, Daniel begins to realise that between catching and being caught, there is something more going on. He is confronted with situations he does not really know how to handle.
Lobo is a cheerful robot who lives with her best friend Banjo, a curious robot dog. Together, they help to plant trees and rescue animals in need. One day, they ran into a stranded whale on the beach. To save it, Lobo must overcome her fear of water, but it’s not easy when even a single drop is very dangerous.