Students are the future of animation. They are also the most innovative, daring filmmakers, not afraid to experiment with techniques and topics. The strand explores the creative diversity of European animation students.
Length: 72′
Kontakt / Contact
Anna Belova (FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague)Czech Republic, 2026, 14'20''
A reflection on the ability to express and accept love, Contact follows a young girl who seeks strength within herself after receiving news of her beloved grandmother’s death. Living abroad and feeling
trapped in isolation, she recalls her childhood.
Srečen dan / The Day of Happiness
Janka Bácsi, Hanna Mária Skultéty (Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design)Hungary, 2026, 3'03''
A God awakens. Two lovers meet next to unknown shores. They have one wish, which is to make their love eternal. The world is close to its end.
Calyx / Calyx
Liese Minjauw (LUCA School of Arts Campus Sint-Lukas Brussels)Belgium, 2026, 7'56''
A nature spirit travels through a dry and polluted world, trying to find a safe place to plant the flower it is carrying.
Čas za valček / Waltz Time
Fernanda Resende Serradourada (Estonian Academy of Arts)Estonia, 2026, 7'23''
The many stages of a love relationship are depicted through different couples in a restaurant. Some are in love, others are not, and some are just at the beginning.
(NE)IZOLIRANI / (NON)ISOLATED
Ana-Isabela Marinescu (UNATC Bucharest)Romania, 2026, 2'12''
Three people reflect on their emotions and discover a shared experience. Through three seemingly different yet dual feelings, the film explores the complexity of human emotions and the blurred boundaries between opposites, all connected by a contemporary perspective on loneliness.
Gauze / Gauze
Noran Fikri ALEZABI, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, Xiaonan Zhou (Gobelins Paris)France, 2026, 7'45''
14-year-old Zain, a Palestinian swimming champion, faces war and man-made famine. He becomes the sole caregiver to his little brother. When aid drops into the sea, desperate for food, Zain is forced to swim—not for passion, but for survival.
Kamni pripovedujejo zgodbe / Stones Tell Stories
Marina Arrufat (Escola Massana)Spain, 2026, 1'30''
An animated short film that reflects on stones as living archives of collective and material memory. Drawn with liquid graphite, the film follows the pace of a meandering walk through the countryside that
highlights the interconnection between all the beings that inhabit it.
Fieldbook of Common Birds / Fieldbook of Common Birds
Barbora Fialová, Klára Feltlová (Tomas Bata University in Zlín)Czech Republic, 2026, 7'30''
Returning to an old cabin after their father’s death, two brothers face their grief through a shared love of bird watching.
Drained / Drained
Teodora Mihăilă, Sara Inoa, Mikaëla Daoust (BAU · College of Arts & Design Barcelona)Spain, 2026, 4'53''
After a fish-woman receives a voicemail from her husband saying he’ll be late, a sudden water outage leaves her skin drying and cracking. As desperation and alienation surface, the water’s return sparks an emotional collapse, driving her to flood the bathroom in a frantic attempt to reclaim herself.
Otroci vetra / Children of Wind
Tina Furlan (University of Nova Gorica School of Arts)Slovenia, 2026, 4'04''
Our experience of the world is just as relative as space and time that passes by with a will of its own. Playful childhood memories are intertwined with the world of adulthood.
Zadnji poletni tabor / The Last Summer Camp
Petra Mikolášová (UMPRUM - Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague)Czech Republic, 2026, 7'05''
Two best friends have spent every summer at the same summer camp. Now it’s their last one, and they both know nothing will ever be the same again. As part of their camp duties, they are ordered to destroy an anthill. A heated argument stops the job and thousands of ants swarm in, ready for revenge.
Bridkost / Woefulness
Luna Clara Ronco, Riccardo Incampo (Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino)Italy, 2026, 3'40''
In death, every being returns to the cycle of nature. The body dissolves, and in parallel, those who remain must learn to reshape their inner world. Cordoglio uses the image of a crow’s decomposition
to reflect on the symmetry between physical decay and emotional renewal. An animated meditation on loss, transformation, and the quiet persistence of life through absence.
Intermission / Intermission
Milo Bonnard (National Film and Television School)United Kingdom, 2026, 9'48''
A young man goes to a classical concert with the hope of being moved, only to feel more detached than ever before.