The best new animated films from Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.
Lenght: 73′
Ti si moja luč / You Are My Light
Hana Stehlíková (Frame Films, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Film and TV School)Czech Republic, 2024, 8'55''
A woman gives birth, but the supposedly happiest time of her life is soon engulfed by dark postpartum depression. Mind-numbing routine, stifling isolation and eternal fatigue turn her into a shadow of her former self. How to find a way out? And how to better understand a postpartum sufferer?
Pasje uho / Dog Ear
Péter Vácz (Boddah)Hungary, 2025, 20'44''
After witnessing his parents' violent fight, eleven-year-old Berci struggles with his anger and emotions, finding a way to release them through his interactions with his dog.
VSEMIR – Meja na mirenskem pokopališču / VSEMIR – The Border at the Miren Cemetery
Lea Vučko, Damir Grbanović (Octopics)Slovenia, 2025, 2'51''
In 1947, the cemetery of Miren was split by a new border between Italy and Yugoslavia that divided the living and the dead, bringing the eternal peace into a state of unrest. As life adjusted, people found ways to overcome the divide, showing that while borders are drawn on maps, human connection continues beyond them.
10 največjih znamenitosti / Top 10 Things to See
Mihkel Reha (Eesti Joonisfilm)Estonia, 2025, 14'15''
Something large and dark arrives in the old seaside town. A summer storm? No, it’s a gigantic cruise ship filled with curious tourists. So much to see — so little time! The magnificent Old Town with ten world-famous attractions. How many of them can you recognize? The group is led by a local guide.
World at Stake / World at Stake
Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein (Bmkös & Orf 3 Pixel, Bytes + Film Stipend)Austria, 2025, 17'25''
Shot in sports video games, the film World at Stake turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains.
How / How
Marko Meštrović (Kreativni sindikat)Croatia, 2025, 8'47''
Through the opening between reality and subtle poetic forms, surreal scenes and thrilling paradoxes reveal endless loops of existence.