O the Grass Was Warm!

Das Wusyn

Nothing

Short Animated film by Paul Hartman at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

The Clearing

Battling against the wilderness and his own ego, Bill struggles to impress Deb with below-par outdoor skills and shocking behaviour, until their last-ditch camping trip takes a sinister turn.

Wind, Talk to Me

Stefan reunites with his family to celebrate his grandmother's birthday for the first time after his mother's recent passing. This homecoming, driven by his urge to complete a film about his mother and an attempt to make amends by rescuing a stray dog, will ignite an introspective journey for Stefan. Inspired by the director's real-life experiences and starring his actual family members in a mission to complete a lake house and a film, this is an intimate cinematic exploration of the timeless mother-son relationship.

The Melancholy Fantastic

Suffering from her mother's recent suicide, a delusional young girl falls for an alluring Goth, against the objections of a life-size talking muslin doll. The Melancholy Fantastic is a psychological thriller set during the holidays.

Christmas Under the Kotatsu

Winter in Japan means kotatsu and mandarin oranges. Tarafu Otani used these two things to represent the birthday of Christ.

Abstract feat. Alkama

Astract stop-motion short film using "lightning doodles" by Tochka.

Les enfants perdus 1. La petite fille

Till Mia

early summer, dust in the wind

Experimental animatinon by Kohei Saito

I follow rivers

Went to a river and gathered leaves and flowers. Experimental animation by Saito Kohei.

Adelina

Adelina, going for the first time to a museum, discovers her artistic side.

Balance

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.

Moon Heart

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until one day she finds something very similar to her - an ant. M decides to share her world haunted by nostalgic memories and a dark presence, until the day a "mechanical angel" arrives to help her...

About the Fisherman and the Fish

A Russian stop-motion adaptation of The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish.

Tempo Rubato

What would you do if only after the death of your husband, or your father, or your best friend, you found out that he had loved another man? “Tempo Rubato” is a story about two grieving processes—Ravi’s, who lost his first love to police violence, and Dora and Edu’s, who lost their husband and father, respectively. Tiago, Ravi’s childhood friend, visits his family after the funeral and brings with him two boxes full of videos that Ravi recorded throughout his youth, including a farewell video-letter to his family, in which he confesses the secret he kept his entire life.