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.
Length: 74′
Luna Rossa / Luna Rossa
Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn (Eesti Joonisfilm, Miyu Productions)Estonia, France, 2024, 32'38''
He observes. She plays. Forgotten love lingers. The Moon is just a pale witness to it all. Still pale.
Next Step / Next Step
Tamás Patrovits (Reanimation Studio)Hungary, 2025, 5'03''
The film consisting of countless original risograph prints, is an under-the-camera, straight-ahead animation improvised to the rhythm of the scores of the Hungarian percussion group, Amadinda. This animation, as a consistent conceptual work, avoids any sorts of post-digital manipulation.
Fačuk / Fačuk
Maida Srabović (Octopics, Tetrabot, URGH!)Croatia, Slovenia, 2025, 12'47''
In a God-fearing village lying between two rivers, giving birth to a "fačuk" — an illegitimate child — is a mortal sin. Everyone in the village recoils from the young pregnant woman who is about to give birth at any moment. In this narrow-minded and harsh rural environment, fear grows inside her.
Amarelo Banana / Amarelo Banana
Alexandre Sousa (AIM Creative Studios, CUB Animation)Portugal, Hungary, 2025, 12'42''
After another night of insomnia, a man comes across a strange community living in his building and discovers the elaborate illusion they have created.
The Prologue / The Prologue
Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat (neodvisni)Austria, 2025, 11'00''
The Prologue begins, as its name suggests, with heaven, and thus the almost biblical beginning of all beginnings. However, it is a man in work clothes who emerges from the cuboid floating through the air, and not a divine being.