Event category: Panorama

Nikoletta Veress:

Each, All and Every

Hungary, 2025. 11 minutes.

Mr Rabbit is unable to decide what to become when he grows up. Overwhelmed by the number of choices, he instead escapes into his imagination and creates tiny replicas of himself. Watching these copies he explores a new world full of possibilities. He enjoys this situation until one fatal mistake: through his own fault, he loses one of his opportunities. This loss overcomes his senses. 

Nadiia Pliamko:

ab mala usque ab ovo

Estonia, 2025. 6 minutes.

A re-examination of the Expulsion from Paradise. Using MoCap to reconstruct unpleasant sensations, a Neurotic journeys through self-rejection to transform sub-personalities. A psychological self-portrait turning somatic trauma into a gift of unconditional love.

Šimon Mészáros:

Quantum Jump

Czechia, 2026. 10 minutes.

In a surreal journey of self-discovery, a man serving twins in a luxurious mansion confronts the unknown world hidden behind the conditioning. He outplays them and embarks on a symbolic odyssey through a magic orchard, the world around him decays into fading echoes of meaning—revealing renewal within the ruins of universal self.

Sacha Beeley:

Babyface

United Kingdom, 2026. 6 minutes.

Spoon finds a coupon

Maria Zilli:

Visiting the zoo

Italy, 2025. 4 minutes.

Visiting the zoo portrays a glimpse into the lives of three characters who move through the city like animals in a zoo, gradually reconnecting with their primordial instincts. Until they erupt in a final confrontation with real animals, breaking free from all social constraints.

Levi Stoops:

Klonter

Belgium, 2025. 14 minutes.

Frankie believes he is about to die with no one to say goodbye to. On his way to the stars, he accidentally turns into a planet and an explosion of life occurs on his body, including some creatures that look like him.

Léo Bournas Milazzo:

The Happy Pig Brand

United Kingdom, 2025. 4 minutes.

Four young piglets go on a workplace visit with their school, getting a sneak peak into their possible future at ‘The Happy Pig Brand’.

Joe Hsieh:

Praying Mantis

Taiwan, 2025. 18 minutes.

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.

Angèle Chiodo:

No Disco

France, 2025. 3 minutes.

Animals drink and dance to the rhythm of the beat. The party is scorching. The air is heavy. The club is humid. The atmosphere is clammy. The walls are oozing. The space fills with liquid. The wildlife is submerged.

Simone Caramazza:

C'era la Luna!

Italy, 2025. 3 minutes.

The video, presented as a degree thesis project, was born from the need to enhance the Pirandello Mines, a place rich in history, in Aragona, Agrigento, linked to sulfur and the figure of Luigi Pirandello, of which the family was the owner. The video is therefore born from the poetics of Pirandello’s works, combined with the suggestions of the place. There is no linear narrative but it presents itself as a dreamlike journey, also conducted following the music of Lero Lero, a band from Palermo that takes up the popular songs of Sicily.

Laura Spark:

Community Lives - OORYA

United Kingdom, 2025. 3 minutes.

A clay-mation video inspired by 80’s animated music videos and kids TV shows. Community Lives is a call to arms to build and expand our communities that love and fight and grow and resist together.

Sergii Bublyk:

Novyny (NEWS)

Ukraine, 2025. 3 minutes.

The video is a conversation with the viewer about the mutual influence between news and people: how news affects people, how people shape events, and how events in turn become news. The story unfolds across two worlds: the first (in color) is semi-realistic, while the second (in black and white) is abstract and metaphorical. These worlds complement each other, occasionally interact, and often flow seamlessly into one another.

Maxime Gillot, Régis Martin:

Tumultes

Belgium, 2026. 4 minutes.

When a gentle breeze turns into a storm, it may seem impossible to escape the gusts. The sudden flight of a paper airplane becomes a journey as it chooses its own path.

Winston W Hacking:

Duotone Handshake

Canada, 2026. 2 minutes.

An experimental short film investigating a new form of surface transformation through folding and collage. Concealed narratives begin to unfold through a relatively simple process. The film literally unpacks meaning where each crease reveals an image complexity that was hidden beneath the seemingly flat surface. Original score by electroacoustic and musique concrète composer Andrew Zukerman.

Philippa Rice:

We Are Always Here

-, 2026. 2 minutes.

Animation made using a technique where plasticine is used to print the impressions of toys and figurines. The song is from the perspective of the figurines, who exist around the house observing life. We are always here, you were not alone. The prints appear like ghosts sending a message from the past. 

Louison Chambon:

The Mammal
(La Mammifère)

Belgium, 2025. 3 minutes.

A music video for the band Amande (Amandine Chevigny & Robin Rees)

David Kellner:

Jay & Bee

Austria, 2025. 6 minutes.

Musicians Bobby Conn and Monica BouBou retreat to the astral plane, leaving their imaginary companions DUKS and L.A.R.R.Y. behind. Alone, the curious pair discovers a mysterious bottle and drifts back from the astral plane through crude TV dreams into Earth’s fast-food gravity.

Lucia Schmidt:

Drunk Lament

Germany, 2025. 2 minutes.

Drunk Lament is a stop motion music video made entirely from hand-colored and cut-out video frames. The kaleidoscopic journey of an intoxicated mind, it is built from repetitive movements, loops and circles – fragments of memory that become more scattered as the character can’t stop revisiting them.

Inari Sirola:

You Are An Idiot

United Kingdom, 2025. 3 minutes.

A cathartic anthem for the absolute mad times we are living in!

Léon Chamelot:

Zgurlodyseev
(Zgurlodysee)

France, 2025. 3 minutes.

Four scientists find themselves stranded on an alien planet. They try to escape, but the planet exerts a mysterious force on them. Drawn to it, they begin exploring this new world, leaving behind all hope of returning.

Yasuhiro Higuchi:

Seed of a Star

Japan, 2025. 2 minutes.

One day, a few words casually spoken by my daughter quietly planted a seed in me. Guided by the gentleness of their sound and the poetic afterglow they left behind, I began to imagine a silent forest where stars drift down and small creatures quietly dwell.

Capucine Gougelet:

Like 1,2,3

France, 2025. 3 minutes.

In a moonlit nocturnal garden, Loud discovers a free and sensual world, where an extravagant party leads her from dances to mysteries…

Hornschuch Dirk:

Why the blues?
(Wieso denn Blues)

Germany, 2025. 4 minutes.

Despite all, our existence is in constant change, and we don’t like that. We can only trudge through the landscape and let everything happen to us. Why the Blues?

Alina Popescu:

Other I

France, 2025. 3 minutes.

In a vast cathedral devoted to a strange, otherworldly deity, a young girl offers gifts that begin as harmless token of devotion but escalate into brutal sacrifices of her own body. This haunting allegory asks what happens when blind faith and the comforts we never question demand more of us than we have to give. 

Jenni Koljonen, Elina Mikkola, Juulia Niiranen, Anna Rohesalu:

Tickler

Finland, 2025. 3 minutes.

In a world where others find joy in being tickled, a creature aspires to discover his own spark of happiness.

Komiya Tamaki:

MAMIMIMUMEMO

Finland, 2025. 7 minutes.

A city invaded by an alien entity – taking the shape of an extraterrestrial plant matter. The protagonist Mimu’s new born sister – Memo has become one of their kind, assuming the shape of a seed.

Laura Konttinen:

At the Height of the Third Day

Finland, 2025. 13 minutes.

The old photograph is leaving peacefully in its photo album when suddenly a wave washes it away to a wondrous post-memory realm. Changing shape, the photograph travels to a mysterious island and meets the wise Great Mollusc, the Crocodile Twins guarding the gate of oblivion and finally the Bird of Death, who arrives with a message: it’s time to let go and face the starry sky.

David John Graham:

Seven Years in Twitter

Finland, 2026. 3 minutes.

Today, social media quietly consumes nearly seven years of our lives on average.

Seven Years in Twitter is a hand-drawn, flip book-style animation that journeys through the endless scroll, capturing the noise, absurdity, humour and hostility that fill our feeds. As posts flicker past, the film reflects on what happens when digital distraction slowly replaces real presence and asks what those seven years might otherwise have held.

Onni Mäkilä:

Good Night, Bunny
(Good Night, Bunny )

Finland, 2026. 9 minutes.

Bunny and Teddy are best friends. They live a joyful life, playing and having fun every day. One fateful night, Teddy wakes up to find Bunny gone missing and a mysterious portal that has ripped open the fabric of their reality. On the other side awaits a strange world that Teddy must traverse to rescue their friend and together return to their own happy world once again.

Heikki Saikkonen:

White room

Finland, 2026. 8 minutes.

A person is thrown in a white room straight from birth and has to stay there for the rest of their life.

Oona November Pennanen:

I should be there, but I’m here

Finland, 2026. 7 minutes.

The hurrying figures battle against time. Some make it, while others must accept the closed gates.

Hilla "Northflowo" Sivill:

Safe for Work

Finland, 2026. 9 minutes.

Upon entering her new workplace in the heart of a large supercomputer, the female protagonist discovers that her and the computer have much in common.

Katariina Haukka:

Woollen Sock

Finland, 2026. 4 minutes.

Woollen sock wakes to a loud noise. Curiosity takes over the sock, and it finds a loud band of pots and pans. The little woollen sock is so captivated by the music and decides to join the chaotic band, not knowing yet what it will play.

Tommi Uskola:

The bus homeless

Finland, 2026. 17 minutes.

A homeless man attempts to get in contact with his bus travel mentor by bus in order to activate his bus ticket. His new bus homeless friends help him at the beginning of his new life.

Jon Frickey:

Ploo

Germany, 2025. 15 minutes.

“If it keeps starting over, it must be forever”, says the white moth. But a gentle whisper breathes in each dawn, “one day, all days will be gone”. Ploo blends attributes of vector graphics and screen display technology with the human condition.

Marcell Mostoha:

Subharmonics

Denmark, Hungary, 2025. 5 minutes.

Blooming glimpses of the ever-changing. Repetitions form a circle. Keys can be found in the depths of the unconscious.

Willy Fair:

Death's Peak

United Kingdom, 2025. 9 minutes.

Desperate for connection, David digs up his brother’s corpse. With their trusty red wagon, they ascend a treacherous mountain in pursuit of their childhood dream.

Antonie Zavadilová:

The Autoharp Crushing on Hot Guys

Czechia, 2026. 8 minutes.

A conversation between friends about relationships and feelings is developed in an imaginative, colorful animation. Despite their different life experiences, which are also influenced by the fact that one of the girls has Down syndrome and the other doesn‘t, they both deal with similar issues. What if they had The Autoharp Crushing on Hot Guys.

Mike Ogston, Ryan Von Hagen:

Mind Game

Canada, 2026. 9 minutes.

Mind Game was created from over 3000 drawings made between the years 1967 and 1998. These drawings were not created with animation in mind, instead each piece was intended to capture movement within a still frame. In 2024, with the help of the Quickdraw Animation Society, the natural patterns and progressive movements in these drawings were put into sequence and animated.

Yoo Lee:

A Man Who Takes Pictures of Flowers

United States, 2025. 13 minutes.

Jung Myung Kim, a photographer who has dedicated over 40 years to capturing wildflowers in Korea, shares his story of pursuing his passion for capturing flowers. Kim finds meaning and happiness in reflecting on his body of work, and his desire to take more pictures keeps him going as he battles an illness.

Sakshi Jain:

So Many Different Things

United States, 2025. 3 minutes.

A gridded series of over 1500 improvised drawings in a tiny sketchbook, each smaller than a centimeter, compiled digitally into an animation.

Wing Yan Lilian Fu:

The Hole

United Kingdom, 2025. 8 minutes.

In an opulent estate park where laughter and leisure are quietly policed, a stern security guard devotes himself to enforcing silence and order. But as he witnesses the joy he forbids, cracks form in his resolve—until the urge to break free overwhelms him, unleashing a rebellion not just against the park’s rules, but against his own repression.

Anna Mantzaris:

Please

Czechia, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, 2026. 9 minutes.

PLEASE is a dark comedy about humankind’s desire to love and to be loved. An animated short centred around neediness, intimacy and romance. (In a world that preaches self-control, the film explores the sides we try to hide, such as feeling needy and pathetic.)