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′
Randaghi / Randaghi
Emanuele Motti, Enrico Motti (Wehateyoutv)Italy, 2025, 14'24''
In a summer afternoon, two boys meet by chance on the edge of a broken reality. Their shared experience will lead both to find their own pathon a new existential level.
Subharmonics / Subharmonics
Marcell Mostoha (neodvisni)Hungary, Denmark, 2026, 4'59''
Blooming glimpses of the ever-changing. Repetitions form a circle. Keys can be found in the depths of the unconscious.
Divji / Wild
Miloš Tomić (Luma Film, Set Sail films)Serbia, Croatia, 2026, 7'40''
An unusual and strong friendship between a girl and three wild creatures.
Težnja / Strive
Krešimir Pernek (Ustanova Zagreb film)Croatia, 2026, 19'15''
In a society living in boxcar apartments, creatures with glowing eyes go on a journey to free themselves from their personal demons. Along the way they will be constantly tested by those demons trying to derail them from their path.
Nihče ni nikoli gledal slonov kot ti / No One Ever Looked at Elephants as You Do
Sandra Jovanovska (Staragara, Univerza v Novi Gorici Akademija umetnosti, Art Proekt Lab)Slovenia, 2026, 9'57''
A lyrical animated poem exploring motherhood as a primal transformation. Through a baby's eyes, a mother rediscovers the world as her body becomes an ecosystem where biology and magic intertwine. A celebration of the profound bond between mother and child.
Ko je bilo morje še mirno / When the Sea Was Calm
Mamuka Tkeshelashvili (20 Steps Animation)Georgia, 2026, 17'03''
During the final summer before war devastates Sokhumi, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers a love he has never known before. Decades later, he returns to the ruined city, where memory, childhood,
and loss begin to merge.