International competition 1 (Only in Finland)

Director: Tomek Ducki
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 7 min
Year: 2020
Country: Poland

There is an unusual garden in a dark cave cultivated by a lonely man. One day, while he is pruning the plants he finds a little boy in a pot. The child’s nails are just as long as the offshoots of a plant.

Director: Marion Lacourt
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 12 min
Year: 2019
Country: France

At night, while family members engage in curious rituals before falling asleep, a child summons a wolf from the bottom of a box hidden under her bed. Sheep emerge from the child’s relatives and surround the house. Are they friends or foes?

Director: Izabela Plucinska
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 15 min
Year: 2019
Country: France, Poland, Germany

In a foreign city, one day an obese man tormented by loneliness sees his left foot turn into a woman: he recognizes Suzanne, his lost love…Portrait en pied de Suzanne is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Roland Topor published in 1978.

Director: Héloïse Ferlay
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 12 min
Year: 2020
Country: France

Left alone in the deepest of the summer, Malo and Zoe are trying their best to catch their mother’s elusive eye.

Director: Daria Kopiec
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 6 min
Year: 2020
Country: Poland

There’s nothing better than dinner with family. Though it reminds a looped script that repeats itself infinitely. Recited singingly for many long years.

Director: Daria Kopiec
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Switzerland

In a constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up.

Director: João Gonzalez
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 6 min
Year: 2019
Country: UK, Portugal

Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.

Director: Julie Caty
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 11 min
Country: France

Dany is a rich heir who cheats his existential emptiness through hectic consumption of Magic’Powder – a drug with psychedelic and annihilating effects. While experiencing withdrawal symptoms, he meets Karl Marx who asks him to destroy capitalism in order to save the humankind.

Director: Alexandra Májová
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Czech

Wash and Love

Director: Kata Gugic
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Croatia

A short opera inspired by Aesop’s fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.

Director: Yelyzaveta Pysmak
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 10 min
Year: 2020
Country: Poland

An amusing film about anorexia and butts.

Director: Joder von Rotz
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 8 min
Year: 2020
Country: Switzerland

Little Miss Fate lives in a world driven by fate. When the opportunity arises, she slips into the role of the world leader. Unintentionally she creates a monster, which greedily wants to suck up all the love of the world.