OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 2026
A PINT OF BITTER
SYNOPSIS
You are trying to enjoy a quiet pint in the pub but a patron and his son seemingly have a problem with your demeanour.
DIRECTED BY: Conor Kehelly
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Ireland
RUNTIME: 8:58
ACID CITY
SYNOPSIS
Acid City is a documentary about a fictional city in the middle of a great acidic ocean. The film follows a film crew over the course of one day, as they interview and document what life is like in the isolated city. Acid City is composed of real interviews conducted across NYC, ranging from regular people on the street, to water scientists and emergency responders, as well as invented characters. The film is an exploration of the city's resilient and self-sufficient nature, as well as its relationship to water and extreme heat through both a practical and spiritual lens.
DIRECTED BY: Jack Wedge + Will Freudenheim
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: USA
RUNTIME: 12:30
ADGWA-ATA
SYNOPSIS
Abducted into a jungle tribe’s brutal initiation, three adolescent girls enter a divine dimension—where taming their soul animals, giant snakes become the only path to adulthood .
DIRECTED BY: Zsuzsanna Kreif
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Hungary
RUNTIME: 14:30
AMARELO BANANA
SYNOPSIS
After another night of insomnia, a man comes across a strange community living in his building and discovers the elaborate illusion they have created.
DIRECTED BY: Alexandre Sousa
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Hungary, Portugal
RUNTIME: 12:00
BALL FACE
SYNOPSIS
Life throws curveballs, how you react decides if you make it through... An elementary school girl terrified of sports who survives a chaotic ball game. By the end of the game, she’s completely transformed.
DIRECTED BY: Laurence Thérien
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Canada, United Kingdom
RUNTIME: 4:35
BEACON - OVER IN NO TIME
A mutated plant causes a chain reaction in space.
DIRECTED BY: Ted Wiggin
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: United Stats
RUNTIME: 1:52
Daughters of the Late Colonel
SYNOPSIS
After the death of their ill-tempered and controlling father, two middle-aged sisters find themselves at a loss. An unexpected visitor sparks the courage in them to begin their lives anew. ‘Daughters of the Late Colonel’ is a merry, rude, and lyrical, animated adaptation of the modernist short story of the same name, written by Katherine Mansfield in 1920.
DIRECTED BY: Elizabeth Hobbs
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Germany
RUNTIME: 9:23
DECAY
SYNOPSIS
I am grateful to the Chinese for the invention of gunpowder — it feels as if they made it for me. Its discovery happened by accident, originally conceived as a way to ward off evil spirits. This film begins in China, then moves to an event in Cartagena, and ends centuries later in Bogotá.
DIRECTED BY: Juan Camilo González
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Colombia
RUNTIME: 7:08
Dog Alone
SYNOPSIS
A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.
DIRECTED BY: Marta Reis Andrade
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Portugal
RUNTIME: 13:02
Ensmoothening
SYNOPSIS
Visualize an Earth of such tranquility and peace in nature that it must be the true marvel of all the ages. A land for forever, smoothened and sterilized. That's the Dream! Yes! A smooth plastic-coated marble world!
DIRECTED BY: Kevin Eskew
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: USA
RUNTIME: 11:37
FIVE ORPHANS
SYNOPSIS
Five orphans walk along a ditch in a society where protests against the government are on the rise.
DIRECTED BY: Sarina Nihei
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: France
RUNTIME: 110:58
GOING UNDER
SYNOPSIS
A film about coping mechanisms when things fall apart.
After leaving university, where you once dreamed of becoming a musicologist, you now drift through the anonymous offices of a concert company, mourning the life that slowly slipped beneath the surface. In a world stripped of eye contact — where people have no eyes and no one truly sees one another — you move through blank spaces, routine gestures and heavy silences, pursued by an incessant inner monologue that offers no relief. Sparse and suspended like held breath underwater, the film unfolds somewhere between numbness and drowning.
DIRECTED BY: Badminton Plus
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Canada
RUNTIME: 20:00
HERMIT FALLS
SYNOPSIS
A reflective hike is filled with memory and monument.
DIRECTED BY: Pablo K Lorenzana
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: United States
RUNTIME: 4:58
I’M NOT YOUR MONSTER
SYNOPSIS
I'm Not Your Monster is a hand-drawn animation composed of fragments rotoscoped from various films. It began with replacing Frankenstein's monster with a person I know. The idea of fear creating violence inspired the project, coupled with ideas about the self, its construct and its relation to the body.
DIRECTED BY: Karen Yasinsky
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: United States
RUNTIME: 4:33
IVAR
SYNOPSIS
Noticing her husband Ivar's new scent, Anne lies awake at night with a nagging question: should she leave him?
DIRECTED BY: Markus Tangre
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Norway
RUNTIME: 4:23
Juana Molina - Uninhuman
SYNOPSIS
Music video for Juana Molina. Hand painted with acrylics on acetate film
A song inspired by the story of the Monkey King from the Chinese classic Journey to the West. A powerful monkey, born from a magical stone, is trapped beneath a mountain by Buddha himself after becoming too powerful and causing chaos in heaven
DIRECTED BY: Dante Zaballa
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Argentina
RUNTIME: 4:55
MELK
SYNOPSIS
After Charel kills his mother’s favorite fish, he runs away from home. When he returns, determined to make amends, all hell breaks loose.
DIRECTED BY: Filip Anthonissen
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Belgium
RUNTIME: 14:24
OHOIOrOI Syndrome
SYNOPSIS
Sally is in the digital world.
Sally watches, listens and learns.
Sally generates through the digital language.
Sally wonders, is Sally OHOIOrOI?
Maybe Sally is a part of OHOIOrOI.
But this film was made with 0% OHOIOrOI.
DIRECTED BY: Taewan Kim
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: South Korea, United Kingdom
RUNTIME: 2:56
PENGUIN
SYNOPSIS
Returning from Antarctica, a man brings his partner a rare gift. The gift causes a shift in their relationship, which is difficult to cope with. Has the man changed, or is it the woman who suddenly sees him differently?
DIRECTED BY: Kaspar Jancis
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Estonia
RUNTIME: 14:55
PLEASE
SYNOPSIS
PLEASE is a dark comedy about humankind's desire to love and be loved, an animated short centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. In a world that preaches self-control, the film explores the vulnerable sides of ourselves we try to hide.
DIRECTED BY: Anna Mantzaris
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Czechia, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden
RUNTIME: 9:00
PRAYING MANTIS
SYNOPSIS
A praying mantis mutant seduces and preys on men out of desperation to save her child. A failed mission led to revelations of her past and dark secrets as the story unfolds.
DIRECTED BY: Joe Hsieh
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Taiwan
RUNTIME: 18:09
THE END
SYNOPSIS
A darkly humorous tale of death and existence set in a large, international airport.
DIRECTED BY: Niki Lindroth Von Bahr
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Denmark, France, Sweden
RUNTIME: 17:13
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
SYNOPSIS
By the magic of a wish, Dorian Gray retains his grace and youth forever. Only his painted portrait will age. Shielded by an apparent innocence, he commits his crimes with impunity… ultimately leading to his downfall.
DIRECTED BY: Georges Schwizgebel
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Switzerland
RUNTIME: 6:40
THE RIDE PART 2
SYNOPSIS
Four people are sleeping in the middle of a living room after a wild night out. One of the characters wakes up and is taken by surprise when he sees himself on television. He remember the passed night, somewhere between hallucination and memories of a wild fairground party.
DIRECTED BY: Edern van Hille
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: France
RUNTIME: 3:35
THE WOLF HAS COME
SYNOPSIS
The wolf has come. Nobody knows any longer what to do.
DIRECTED BY: Brian Christopher Hawkins
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Norway, United States
RUNTIME: 1:49
UNE FUGUE
SYNOPSIS
Sister remembers that Brother had dark eyes, hair like her own, shoulders as fragile as a bird's wings, and that he knew the way to the river by heart. Sister has forgotten noting about Brother.
DIRECTED BY: Agnès Patron
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: France
RUNTIME: 15:00
Visit into irradiated land
SYNOPSIS
Sophie guides visitors through the exclusion zone around the Golfech nuclear plant in southern France. Years after the disaster, she outfits tourists in protective suits and leads gyropod tours across irradiated land where decontamination teams still work.
DIRECTED BY: Anne-Sophie Girault
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: France
RUNTIME: 18;51
WHEN THE SEA WAS CALM
SYNOPSIS
During the final summer before war devastates Sokhumi, a 13-year-old boy discovers a love he has never known before. Years later, he returns to the ruined city, confronting memories of innocence shattered by conflict.
DIRECTED BY: Mamuka Tkeshelashvili
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Georgia
RUNTIME: 18:00
XYZ
SYNOPSIS
An obsessive exploration of the three geometric dimensions in hopes of reaching a fourth.
DIRECTED BY: Alexandre Alagôa
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Luxembourg, Portugal
RUNTIME: 11:40