A person is in the flow. They make a decision and keep flowing until all becomes one.

Helen Unt (1987) is an Estonian animator and filmmaker. She graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the Estonian Academy of Arts, where she also completed her MFA in Animation. Since then, she has taught the development and production of animated films to children, school teachers, and animation students. In 2016 her debut short animated film Out of Internal Worlds was finished at studio Eesti Joonisfilm. In The Flow of Being (2024), her most recent animated film, the story is told through changing techniques. Helen has recently developed an interest in woodworking and upcycling. She is currently looking for creative challenges in stop-motion, either modelling or animating. Filmography: Flow of Being (2024), Out of Internal Worlds (2016), Chicks on the Highway (2011, graduation film)

Franz and Milena – between them a distance, her husband and loads of letters – it is love that fills Kafka’s life with light and hope and at the same time illuminates the fears and darkness in him. Inspired by Franz Kafka’s Letters to Milena Jesenská, “Kafka. In Love” explores the multidimensional experience of falling in love.

Zane Oborenko is an animated film director and artist from Riga, Latvia. She has completed BA studies in Brera, Academy of Arts of Milan, Italy, and MA in animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Zane has developed unique author’s handwriting in sand animation. Her diploma film “IMG_00:01. JPG” received the Best Student Film award at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival in 2014...

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In a factory driven by endless ambition, a mysterious wooden idol grants every wish for success. A young worker devotes himself to it—until a hidden room reveals a different world and sparks a desire for change. What does it mean to work, and why do we work at all?

Angel Wu was born in 1998, graduated from Taipei National University of Arts in 2020. ​ With pencil, ink, watercolor, wood, sound, and sometimes zebrafish, she shapes the questions that come to her. Questions about bloodlines, empires, mental illness, time, love, light, Wall Street, eyesight, entropy, eternity, poverty, beauty, and the first 22 hours of zebrafish life… ​ She works as a calligrapher and filmmaker between Taipei and Münster. Her recent movies include drawn undrew draw (2020) and Force x.

In a world where, after each break-up, ex-partners must exchange a chosen body part, Wish You Were Ear explores the lasting impact of relationships. People not only lose a literal piece of themselves with each split, but also carry visible reminders of every past love. The protagonist, feeling fragmented and deformed, yearns for their original, whole form. Yet, when they unexpectedly see their former ear on someone else, it sparks a journey of self-acceptance, revealing that these parts are what truly shape their identity.

Mirjana Balogh is a Hungarian animation director and graphic designer, working across both fields. She recently graduated from MOME Anim, debuting her first animated short film, Wish You Were Ear.

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