The programme brings together seven outstanding animated documentary shorts that share personal stories and use creative animated approaches to reveal real-life experiences of people from different parts of the world. Addressing troubled family backgrounds, exploring sexuality and relationships, dealing with pain, questions of identity and social norms—each film offers a candid, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous insight into the human experience. Here, animation is not just a form of expression; it is a way of making the unspeakable, intimate, and emotional visible.
Length: 72′
Maya's Song / Maya's Song
Franziska Schönenberger Jayakrishnan Subramanian (Family Business Film)Germany, 2025, 13'04''
Maya never feels alien in her family, yet questions about her 'white, German parents' and her complexion are getting under her skin. To process the pain, she writes a song for everyone to hear.
Da se kar kadi / Speeding, of Course
Anni Sairio, Joonatan Turkki (Side Stories)Finland, 2025, 4'00''
70-year-old Timo makes the most of his short ride to work. Speeding up on a bicycle ends up in a ditch, but the adrenaline rush leaves a feeling of pleasure.
Vegetarijanski kongres / The Vegetarian Congress
Noah Erni (SRF, Studio uuuh!)Switzerland, 2025, 16'03''
At the 1999 International Vegetarian Congress in Widnau, a small village in eastern Switzerland, a mysterious case of food poisoning occurs. When the animators Marion and Noah come across the story, they decide to make an animated documentary about the case.
Vozli usode / The Knots of Destiny
Déborah Chang (ISCID - Institut Supérieur Couleur Image)France, 2024, 7'12''
My name is Déborah Chang and I was born in the Paris region on 29 March 2000. At that time, China’s one-child policy was still in force. Through my mother's testimony, I start finding out more about this law.
Nisem prepričana / I'm Not Sure
Luisa Zürcher (neodvisni)Switzerland, 2025, 10'09''
Insight into the filmmaker's stay in hospital, where she repeatedly experiences absurd, funny moments between pain, homesickness and disgust of her own body. An emotional trip through the long underground corridors of the hospital with lots of small talk and tubes.
From Narva with Love / From Narva with Love
Paulina Belik (Estonian Academy of Arts)Estonia, 2025, 5'50''
An animated film based on true events, portraying the childhood of children from troubled families in the small border town of Narva.
Dekleta so za ljubljenje / Girls Are Made to Make Love
Jeanne Paturle, Cécile Rousset, Jeanne Drouet (Beppie Films)France, 2024, 15'50''
Girls Are Made to Make Love follows a sociologist’s investigation into sexuality in couples. She meets heterosexual women aged between 25 and 45. The interviews deal with experiences, desire and love, as well as norms in male / female relationships but also paths to emancipation.