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: 76′
Karies / Caries
Aline Höchli (KOLOSS)Switzerland, 2025, 9'41''
Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.
Odtrganine / Tears
Paulina Ziolkowska (Letko, Wait A Second!)Germany, Poland, 2025, 9'00''
A film about the impossibility of making a decision. A world filled with possibilities and a lost woman who may not want to choose at all.
Marčevska zima / Winter in March
Natalia Mirzoyan (Rebel Frame, Artstep, Black Boat Pictures, White Boat Pictures, EKA Animation)Estonia, Armenia, France, Belgium, 2025, 16'22''
A young Russian couple, feeling helplessness and sadness over the war, decides to leave their home for good. Their journey to Georgia becomes a surrealist nightmare. Their greatest fear—being separated at the border—catches up with them from an unexpected angle.
TV ali motenje miru na Waldbergstrasse / TV or The Disturbance on Forest Hill Road
Frederic Siegel (marumaru GmbH, YK Animation Studio)Switzerland, 2025, 14'09''
A police patrol is involuntarily drawn into a vortex of fictional worlds, triggered by the intense TV consumption of a little boy.
The Weaver / The Weaver
Yiorgos Tsangaris (Revolutions in Small Rooms)Cyprus, 2025, 4'20''
Arachne, the masterful weaver, spun tales of the gods’ misdeeds. But for weaving the truth, she was met with divine wrath, cruel and unrelenting.
Me slišiš? / Can You Hear Me?
Anastazja Naumenko (Animoon)Poland, 2025, 15'01''
Nastia, who has lived abroad for years, starts to teach her mom how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. Can an intimacy regained via zoom be a turning point for the future relationship between two adults?
Floating / Floating
Jelena Milunovic (Set Sail Films, Adriatic Animation, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)Serbia, Croatia, Germany, 2025, 7'01''
The daughter gradually realizes her father is suffering from mental illness. Rejected by society, he lives alone in a dark apartment, drifting like a balloon. She tries to find a way back to him and help him return to the ground.