Suresh Eriyat:

Desi Oon

India, 2025. 7 minutes.

Through the story of Balu Mama and his revered flock, the film contrasts a rich heritage with the modern neglect of India’s native sheep and wool industry. In the face of this decline, it raises a poignant question—can the wisdom of the past inspire a future where shepherding and pastoral traditions are valued once again?

Lola Lefèvre:

Naive New Beaters & Star Feminine Band - Ye Kou Si Kuo
(Naive New Beaters & Star Feminine Band - Ye Kou Si Kuo)

France, 2024. 2 minutes.

After a wild party in their flat, three hungover friends get ready for the next one, while jamming to their favourite band.

Niko Radas:

Psychonauts
(Psihonauti)

Croatia, 2025. 8 minutes.

Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.

Tata Managadze:

Lights, Haze

Belgium, Finland, Georgia, Portugal, 2024. 8 minutes.

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights. Description: Lights, Haze is a poetic documentary that explores the ambivalence of memory through the real locations on the outskirts of Tbilisi. The film uses light as a central symbolic element to express the complexity of these reflections. Crafted with a blend of 2D frame-by-frame animation—both digital and analogue—the film weaves in a cyanotype sequence, where frames were printed using real light, adding an experimental and dreamlike quality to the narrative. The film emphasizes extreme subjectivity within the genre of animated documentary.

Anni Sairio, Joonatan Turkki:

Speeding, of Course
(Vauhtipyräys)

Finland, 2025. 4 minutes.

70-year-old Timo makes the most of his short ride to work. Speeding up on a bicycle ends up in a ditch, but the adrenaline rush leaves a feeling of pleasure. The short film Speeding, Of Course combines documentary interview material, wild sound design, and exhilarating cutout animation playing with shapes into a joyful story about the charm of speed. The story offers the viewer a reminder of the simple joys of everyday life and the importance of taking pleasure in the small moments amid the ordinary days. Timo’s bicycle joyride inspires playfulness throughout life.

Aline Höchli:

Caries
(Karies)

Switzerland, 2025. 10 minutes.

Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter.

Clémence Taveau:

Little Saints
(Jugement dernier)

France, 2024. 4 minutes.

On a school trip to Italy, three school friends share a bedroom in a convent.

Bingqing SHU, Maud LE BRAS, Jiaxin HUANG, Simin HE, Lina HAN, Loïck DU PLESSIS D’ARGENTRÉ, Sofiia CHUIKOVSKA:

The Shyness of Trees

, 2024. 9 minutes.

Hélène, 40 years old, comes to visit her aging mother in the French countryside. But her mother isn’t being her usual self. She seems to have formed a strange bond with the plants, insects, and the old oak tree at the end of her garden…

Lizzie Watts:

FRIED!

United Kingdom, 2025. 10 minutes.

As Dev drives home from a mysterious, ageing nuclear facility, he becomes stranded at an isolated emu farm run by old mystic lesbians. Suspicious of their intentions, Dev fears they will sacrifice him at the local stone circle.

Anastazja Naumenko:

Can you hear me?

Poland, 2025. 15 minutes.

Nastia, who has lived abroad for years, starts to teach her mom how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. Can an intimacy regained via zoom be a turning point for the future relationship between two adults?

Marta Reis Andrade:

Dog Alone
(Cão Sozinho)

France, Portugal, 2025. 13 minutes.

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.

Pierre-Luc Granjon:

The Night Boots
(Les Bottes de la Nuit)

Not Specified, 2024. 12 minutes.

While his parents are welcoming friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night and enters the undergrowth, wearing rubber boots. There, a strange beast, curious and solitary, will lead him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal creatures that live there, and so as not to be alone again, will try to delay the child’s departure as long as possible.

Veera Lamminpää:

Fish River Anthology
(Mereneläviä)

Finland, 2024. 10 minutes.

The supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song.

Elena Walf:

A Pain in the Butt
(Der Stachel im Po)

Croatia, Germany, 2025. 6 minutes.

The hedgehog is just about to go into hibernation when he notices that one of his spines is missing. It’s stuck in Lena’s dog’s bottom, of all places. Getting it back won’t be easy…

Jenny Jokela:

Dollhouse Elephant

Finland, 2025. 11 minutes.

In a world that demands community participation, individual desires inevitably collide. A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.

Eddy Wu:

IMMATURE

Taiwan, 2024. 6 minutes.

IMMATURE is an animated documentary that explores the fluidity and complexity of gender identity through the lens of body imagery. The film delves into the evolving experiences of a transgender gay man, capturing the nuances of his self-exploration. By highlighting the beauty in the ongoing process of becoming, challenging societal norms and conventional gender frameworks. The film reflects the vulnerability, resilience, and strength involved in embracing one’s true self. It offers a fresh perspective on how gender identity and body image are intertwined, inviting viewers to rethink the relationship between body, identity and self-perception.

Marta Reis Andrade:

Dog Alone
(Cão Sozinho)

France, Portugal, 2025. 13 minutes.

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.

Quirijn Dees:

Pubert Jimbob

Belgium, 2024. 16 minutes.

Pubert Jimbob, a young man, enters a strange reality after getting lured away from his home by an enigmatic figure, who throws him a lighter. Jimbob meets Nadine, a lump with a mouth, and helps her.

Veera Lamminpää:

Fish River Anthology
(Mereneläviä)

Finland, 2024. 10 minutes.

The supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song.

Sasha Svirsky:

Dull Spots of Greenish Colours

Germany, 2024. 11 minutes.

War for our attention has suddenly become an actual war. Information technologies appear not just as mere means for somebody’s ends but as something having their agency, as one of the acting forces rendering possible a horrific event, which is very hard to accept and almost impossible to comprehend. We have no control over it and are doomed to scroll through the newsfeed.

Juha Mäki-Jussila:

Suddenly, Last Summer
(Äkkiä viime kesänä)

Finland, 2013. 4 minutes.

Leena Lehti:

Taiga

Finland, 2021. 2 minutes.

Leena Pukki:

The Time of a Slime Mold
(Limakon aika)

Finland, 2021. 10 minutes.

Niina Suominen:

Good Stuff
(Hyvä Meininki)

Finland, 2011. 8 minutes.

BLU:

Muto

Italy, 2008. 7 minutes.

Joan C. Gratz:

Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase

USA, 1991. 7 minutes.

Suzan Pitt:

Asparagus

USA, 1979. 18 minutes.

Georges Schwizgebel:

Jeu

Switzerland, 2006. 4 minutes.

Theodore Ushev:

Tower Bawher

Canada, 2005. 4 minutes.

Norman McLaren:

Pas de Deux

Canada, 1968. 14 minutes.

Priit Pärn:

Breakfast on the Grass
(Eine murul)

Estonia, 1987. 24 minutes.

Basel Naser:

Land Day

Palestine, Almasna, 2024. 2 minutes.

In Palestine, In the month of March, In the year of the intifada, The land told us its bloody secrets”. A stark visualization of the shrinking and fragmentation of Palestinian land, capturing the enduring impact of Israeli policies.

Rami Abbas:

Hide and Seek

Palestine, Madrid, 2024. 7 minutes.

Animated short film that narrates the story of a child and his fish on their journey into the unknown, following the raid on the child’s town during the ongoing war ravaging his country. The short film captures the steps of this journey and its transformations, concluding as the child reaches one of the coasts.

Dana Durr:

Mariam

Palestine, 2020. 5 minutes.

A young woman climbs into a favorite olive tree, enjoying Palestinian traditions, to only to find her peace disrupted.

Jana Kattan:

Checkpoint

Director based in UK, 2021. 6 minutes.

Set in the occupied territory of modern-day Palestine known as the West Bank, Checkpoint follows 11 year old Leila, who wakes up before dawn every morning to try to get to school on time. Her obstacle is the military occupation of her environment- specifically, the notorious checkpoint she must cross everyday to get to her school. Despite Leila’s best efforts to prepare, she cannot control the seemingly endless queue, or the strong possibility she will be randomly denied access to the other side.

Amal Al Nakhala:

Limitless

Palestine, 2021. 5 minutes.

The harsh symbolism captures the complexities of truth in Gaza, where nothing is straightforward or easily defined.

Ahmad Saleh:

Ayny

Amman, Jordan, 2016. 11 minutes.

Two young boys run away from their mother’s protection and slackline on the danger of war to play music with the instrument they always dreamt to have.

Tariq Rimawi:

ZOO

Amman, Jordan, 2021. 8 minutes.

Wandering through the Worst Zoo in the World, a young boy SAMI is looking for his football. The loner finds more than that when he encounters the little tiger LAZIZ, who follows him on his quest to find a safe place to play. Against all odds, they become friends. But the remnants of war harbor danger.

Malte Stein:

DING (Thing)
(DING)

Germany, 2021. 4 minutes.

From the competition screening of TAFF 2022

Chintis Lundgren:

Life with Herman H. Rott

Estonia, Croatia, Germany, 2015. 11 minutes.

From the competition screening of TAFF 2016

Nikita Liskov:

Deep Love
(Kohannya)

Ukraine, 2019. 13 minutes.

From the competition screening of TAFF 2019

Nikita Diakur:

Fest

Germany, 2018. 3 minutes.

From the competition screening of TAFF 2018

Tomek Popakul:

Acid Rain

Poland, 2019. 26 minutes.

From the competition screening of TAFF 2019

Spela Cadez:

Nighthawk

Slovenia, Croatia, 2016. 9 minutes.

Lia Bertels:

Sweet Night
(Nuit Chérie)

Belgium, 2018. 14 minutes.

From the competition screening of TAFF 2019