Every season a young mole visits his blind grandfather, who lives deep underground in a comfortably decorated burrow. As the two grow older their relationship becomes more intense and important questions arise.

A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun. Young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.

David Doutel and Vasco Sá started co-directing animation films 12 years ago. Since then, they have presented 4 short films and are currently working on their first animated feature film. They are co-founders of BAP - Animation Studio, where they work as directors and producers.

A teenager filmbuff and a single woman in her forties meet each other. Then they meet again and start to realize that they might have more in common, than meets the eye, and form an unlikely connection.

Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary computer games. It works with tools of appropriation and rededication of game resources. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20 and at the MoMA in NYC and they recently received the award for the best Austrian short documentary (Diagonale’20, Graz).

Total Refusal currently are: Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf

Rosemary, a young fairy, leads a boring life at the fairytale castle. She’d rather be a witch so she can scream and get really messy. Her mother doesn’t like the sound of that, so Rosemary takes her stuff and sets off to the witch forest.

Cedric Igodt is a graduate from the Belgian Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound. In 2006 he joined the animation studio nWave Pictures. In 2011 he set up his own studio where he became a director of animated short films for theme parks, such as Meet the Dinos and Little Dolphin. Witchfairy is his first animated narrative short film to be presented on a film festival.

A natural history fantasy film, following the dramatic life cycle of the wild salmon in human form. Narrated by Marianne Faithfull.

Bafta nominated directing duo Karni and Saul, an Israeli British male female couple , Create mixed media films, commercials and music videos. Together they make "casual fantasy” films, a merging of beautiful photography and film with high-end animation and magical elements. In their art, Visual pleasure and emotional narrative are key. 
In 2010 Karni & Saul showcased their short film ”Turning”, for BBC, which was nominated for a BAFTA.
Their second short film “Flytopia” was commissioned by Film4 as part of the short-to-feature scheme, It has toured the festival's circuit and been screened worldwide. 
Karni and Saul's films have won awards at Annecy, British animation awards, and Clermont Ferrand festivals among many others. Karni and Saul have recently completed an epic two-year mixed media short film commission for Bfi called WILD SUMMON, a natural history fantasy.

A garden party is held in the park of the baroque castle: the landscape is idyllic, the company is cozy, the food is aristocratic, and everything is traditional and refined. At the same time, in the other part of the garden, cages rattle, ropes rustle, and foxes whine. From the initial idyll, the film slowly moves to another level of pleasure, and a cruel game of "fox throwing" begins, which becomes increasingly bloody and inhumane.

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In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.

Carla Melo Gampert (1993, Bogotá) is a visual artist who graduated from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and from the Film program at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. Her graduate thesis, the animated short film POR AHORA UN CUENTO, had its international premiere at the Annecy Festival before travelling to Dok Leipzig, FicValdivia, Curta Kinoforum and São Paulo, among others. In addition to her work as a director, she curates audiovisual exhibitions such as Animación Porosa (Cinemateca de Bogotá, 2022). In LA PERRA, her first professional animated short, she continues her exploration about body and femininity.