Panorama is a strand that gives you the best insight into what regional animation cinema has to offer.
Length: 80′
Požiranje časa / Eating Time
Mari Kivi (OÜ Nukufilm)Estonia, 2025, 16'20''
After an explosion, an elderly woman finds herself in a shoemaker's workshop. She embarks on a journey through a labyrinth of floors, living simultaneously in the here and now and in the dusty past. On her journey to her childhood, she meets her past self and passes through rooms of her memory lane.
Ženska in njena življenja / A Woman and Her Lives
Rasa Joni (UPĖ Media)Lithuania, 2024, 7'54''
In this synthesis of poetry and animation, a woman’s soul travels through ever-new lives and physical forms. In the existential chaos, she pursues the highest goal in life - to find her soul twin.
TINNITUS#3 / TINNITUS#3
Michele Bernardi, Michele Bernardi (neodvisni)Italy, 2025, 6'40''
TINNITUS#3 is an introspective journey into troubled thoughts. A sleep always interrupted in search of a breath of peace, a whisper to life that has the eyes of death in front of a mirror.
Capriccio / Capriccio
Gábor Ulrich (Vertigo Média)Hungary, 2024, 5'05''
A tiny bird restores the pianist's final hope by revealing the music hidden in everyday moments.
My Closet / My Closet
Iuliia Kotsiuba (neodvisni)Ukraine, 2025, 3'39''
Under the influence of tragic circumstances, a young woman is forced separate with her husband. While doing ordinary things and maintaining contact with her lover, she tries to overcome her fear and despair. Will she be able to cope with her feelings if the connection is lost?
Nephilim / Nephilim
Vlad Ilicevici, Radu Pop, Bogdan Chișbac (Worksheep Studio)Romania, 2025, 11'01''
In a frozen wasteland, near the North Pole, Frederick the arctic explorer finds his salvation and his final companion in the last remaining member of a long-lost species: the giant Nephilim.
Dezen Dezen / Dezen Dezen
Goga Mason (neodvisni)Croatia, Italy, 2024, 5'05''
Colourfully patterned scarves have a long but now almost forgotten tradition in Southeast Europe. Playful animations depict the cultural change after the Yugoslavian war, but also the story of a small factory in Zagreb that brings this heritage back to life – and just like them, the film makes joyful use of an almost inexhaustible variety of patterns.
The Hunter / The Hunter
Costin Chioreanu (Safe Frame)Romania, 2025, 6'42''
While hunting an everchanging prey, deep into the vast forest of perception, a restless character becomes captive in a surreal time capsule loop of overthinking. When he finally unfreezes, he finds nothing but the closure of his lifetime, while he becomes an observed thought.
Pridi na dan / Come to Light
Marco Ceccolini (neodvisni)Italy, 2024, 5'00''
A silent film tells the story of a cow, marked with the number "432," wandering on a beach in desperate search of her missing calf. When the cow finds the calf dead, marked with the number "433," the film dies with it: the sheet on which the movie is projected falls onto the stage, enveloping the entire room in an even deeper silence.
Ziki / Ziki
Roberta Palmieri, Olga Sargenti (Echivisivi Produzione Cinematografica)Italy, 2025, 12'38''
There is a rich and shining universe beneath a house made of mud but, when Ziki, a Congolese boy living in a village with his mother, discovers it, he doesn’t know that will be the road to his damnation.