LINEAR ENDJOY
The phosphor layer of a cathode ray tube visualises the final vanishing of an electron beam – its last “happy” moment. This minimalist short film explores the traces of electronic imaging and perception. It operates between physical materiality, temporality, and subjective experience, without narrative guidance.
Germany 2026 / 1:00 / Director: Nicolaas Schmidt
ASSHOLE
This minimalist short film set in Paris explores the tension between self-mockery, pride, and emotional exposure. Both ironic and vulnerable, it turns a blunt statement into a quiet reflection on identity, shame, and the need to be seen.
France 2025 / 2:02 / Director: Chloé Spatzierer
THE THREE AGES OF AN ANCHORMAN
George Marinescu was the principal news anchor of Romania’s national television for twenty years under the communist dictatorship. In 1989, just hours after broadcasting the regime’s threats against the demonstrators, he became a spokesperson for the revolutionary group that occupied the television station. He later went on to pursue a career as a journalist in the democratic era.
Austria 2026 / 3:00 / Director: Gabriel Tempea
SPLIT ENDS
The tale of Alice, a woman who fantasises about the life her hair would lead without her. Based on an old wives tale that says our hair continues to grow even after we pass.
United Kingdom 2025 / 3:17 / Director: Grace Cassidy, Laura Hafes
LOST PICTURES
Unbidden and inexplicable, they appear in my image galleries: photographs I do not remember taking. As they multiply, I begin to investigate their origins and discover another reality. The images gather around the sound of a chance piece of music by Oliver Heise from 2007.
Germany 2025 / 2:01 / Director: Sabine Willmann
A HINT OF DAILY TERRORS
When a man visits a café for coffee and cake, his positive energy is soon challenged by a series of bad surprises lurking in everyday situations.
Austria 2026 / 2:04 / Director: Astrid Rothaug
OUT OF ORDER
The male gaze is diverted for a moment.
Finland 2025 / 2:27 / Director: Antti Tuomikoski
MISOPHONIA
Misophonia is a risograph animated project designed to unsettle an audience through combined sounds and visuals. This project is inspired by an aural disorder, and intends to distress the audience with a soundscape composed of these trigger noises and accompanying visuals through risograph animation.
Malta 2025 / 2:50 / Director: Michelle Gruppetta
BISOU SAUVAGE
As world tragedies pile up, a bored couple is looking for their next distraction.
Canada 2026 / 2:50 / Director: Bahij Jaroudi
MON AUTRE MAMAN
A woman travels from Paris to Galicia in search of the person who took care of her when she was a child.
Spain 2025 / 2:38 / Director: Fon Cortizo
THE BALCONY’S VIEW
Waking up, cigarettes on the balcony. Two figures smoking together. Conversations about nothing, while, in the distance, the world is falling apart. What do they see?
Germany 2025 / 2:55 / Director: Stella Hood
JOLLYPOP
After a cheerful soda commercial ends, its smiling customer is left alone with an audience that keeps waiting.
France 2025 / 2:41 / Director: Lisa Spanevello
PEEPLE
In 2004 Korea, a trivial kindergarten mishap is rebranded as a ‘Collective Urination Incident’. As experts diagnose pee-addiction, the ‘Peeple Act’ brands wet pants as terrorism.
South Korea, United Kingdom 2026 / 2:35 / Director: Maisy Yeji Choi
FACE CARD
Christmas at the Giga Party register. It’s time to pay but there seems to be a problem. Not with the Machine, right?
France 2026 / 2:20 / Director: Chloé Luizard
IMMERHIN (AT LEAST)
There’s a TV series about a comet that will destroy the Earth in seven days. But at least you have a whole week.
Germany 2025 / 2:31 / Director: Olaf Held, Jens Rosemann
IN-PULSE
What if you could live out your worst impulses in a parallel world without them affecting your life?
United Kingdom 2025 / 2:50 / Director: Riccardo Tito Pescini
HUM
A playful, sound-driven stop motion short about the creative process: from the first spark, through flow, to the perfect idea and what follows, accompanied by an unusual choir.
Hungary 2026 / 2:53 / Director: Milán Kopasz
DEKONSTRUKCIJA (DECONSTRUCTION)
Through three different figures, the animation explores the author’s interpretation of a natural cycle in the human experience: the search and loss of meaning, personal dissatisfaction, and the discovery of inner peace.
Slovenia 2025 / 3:00 / Director: Neda Ivanović
SEND NUDES
At the end of the 16th century, two young lovers are in a long distance relationship. They send each other love letters with a carrier pigeon, writing – well, what young hormone driven lovers write each other. But since her parents are at home and don’t allow them to meet, they can’t fulfill their fantasies together … for now.
Germany 2026 / 2:41 / Director: David Sick
LA NOTEBOOK RONRONEANDO EN MI REGAZO Y YO SOLA COMO UN GATO (THE LAPTOP IS PURRING ON MY LAP AND I AM LONELY LIKE A CAT)
The piece explores the loneliness and estrangement of a life mediated by screens: corrupted files, accumulated dust, and broken digital memories accompany a solitary, almost ghostly desire. The fusion of flesh and CGI becomes a metaphor for the blurred boundary between reality and virtuality, exposing the emotional vulnerability that pulses beneath technology‑mediated pleasure.
Netherlands, Argentina 2026 / 3:00 / Director: Ariela Bergman
3:00
In a voice message, a non-binary person talks about the healing process after a mastectomy. A drawn room becomes a playful setting in which memories, role models, and friends are present through small details.
Germany 2026 / 3:00 / Director: Joey Arand
TENK OM VI HADDE MØTTES SOM HUNDER (IMAGINE WE MET AS DOGS)
Would it work between us if we were dogs?
Norway 2026 / 3:20 / Director: Lasse Holdhus
MONDAY
It’s Monday. A man wakes up. A journalist wants to hear the truth.
Finland 2026 / 2:20 / Director: Erkka Nissinen
THE SHEEP
A miracle is witnessed by only a flock of sheep, or maybe a mundane event was dismissed by everyone, but the flock of sheep. This short shows you how the flock’s behaviour and faith changes over a six day period.
Denmark 2026 / 3:00 / Director: Andreas Møller Mortensen
TÖST
Since 24th of June 2024, my life has never been the same.
Croatia 2026 / 2:31 / Director: Nela Gluhak
ULVEN HAR KOMMET (THE WOLF HAS COME)
A short animated film about the tense relationship between humans and wolves after their return to the Netherlands, 170 years after disappearing from the country.
Norway 2026 / 1:49 / Director: Brian Christopher Hawkins
W KAŁUŻY (IN A PUDDLE)
At a dilapidated bus stop, a girl falls into a puddle and meets the love of her life there.
Poland, Czech Republic 2026 / 3:30 / Director: Hubert Górski
UNE NUIT DEBOUT (AWAKENING NIGHT)
Caught between annoyance and surrender, our protagonist finally caves, plunging into her sleepless night like one wanders into a forest. It’s a forced odyssey she really could have done without.
Canada 2025 / 2:39 / Director: Julie-Ann Déry
TROIS MOTS (THREE WORDS)
A confession propels Todd into a surreal and unexpected journey.
Canada 2026 / 2:18 / Director: Franie-Éléonore Bernier
WEED WORLD
After stumbling upon a Marijuana shop in the desert, two young children wonder why anybody would bother smoking it. A group of friendly characters attempt to educate them but events take a dark turn after their leader is challenged.
Germany 2026 / 3:00 / Director: Barney Fagan