International Competition of Animated Short Films

After a violent storm Captain Hu is stranded with his ship in the Alps. A helpful farmer finds new uses for the deep-sea equipment. However, Captain Hu draws the line at that.

Mox-ie n. slang – The ability to face difficulty with spirit and courage. A depressed pyromaniac bear finds life without his mother a struggle. In the wake of her death we watch as the bear falls apart and turns to increasingly extreme measures to cope.

Our body remembers much more than we would expect and imagine, our body remembers also the sorrow and pain of the predecessors. Our body sustains the stories of our parents and grandparents as well as their ancestors. But, how far back is it possible to go in your bodily memory?

This animated film sweeps us into another world through music and movement, breaking down the boundaries between desire and reality. Two strangers sit next to each other on an airplane. After take-off, the plane goes through some turbulence – and, influenced by the unknown, the man’s spirit plunges into a different world. Here, his
desires take control.

A moth is caught in a spiders’ web. Struggling for an escape, the moths panic movements only result in less chance of survival. What follows is the type of causality everyone’s expecting. The spider appears and claims its prey. It's the point of view that creates an intense relationship between the hunter and its victim. There is much more to explore.

A little dog tells us how he puts an end to his loneliness thanks to his… tail.

Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.

A man in chains finds a loophole in the system.

A man marches to work, lugging around a ball and chain. Set to a classical march, he parades through a nonsensical world where each person is shackled to his own vices.

The bodies represented in Metachaos, even though they are characterized by an apparently anthropomorphous appearance, in reality they are without identity and conscience. They exist confined in a spaceless and timeless state, a hostile and decadent hyperuranium where a fortress dominates the landscape in defense of a supercelestial, harmonic but fragile parallel dimension.

Four travellers come to rest in a bountiful land where food is plentiful. They have the opportunity to live comfortably but rather than sustain the land they are overcome by an insatiable desire for more. This inherent human floor leads to the eventual destruction of their newfound home and forces the travellers to move on in search of new pastures.

It’s the start of the hunting season. The animals of the forest board a small bus and flee to safety. When hunters stop the bus in the middle of the night, its passengers reveal their true natures in fear for their lives.

„Good, Beauty and Truth” is a story about modern world where interest in good, beauty and truth is loses with cheap sensation, drama of explosions, shooting and other “more interesting” things. It’s a story of a man who carries an idealized vision of the world, standing for his ideals and trying to transfer it to others. A Good Man suffers defeat in his naïve fight for good. However, in the end, the a glimmer of hope arise… 

What would you do if a stranger disrupted your daily routine? The choice is whether to accept this person as a friend, or reject him as an outsider.

A simple story about two people from different environments who live next to each other but never communicate directly is inspired by the city of San Francisco and its inhabitants, dust and glitter. Magda, a young, naive girl, is astonished by the glitter of the city and Trevor, an older homeless man who has spent many years on the street and must fight to defend his territory now.

Frustrated being the only straight flamingo in a gay flock the hero falls in love with a lady stork that flies by. Unable to convince her of his serious intentions he isolates himself and goes through an identity crisis. An intensive encounter inspires him to do a bold move.

1/2 is a short film about one question: How do you get up again if you have lost everything that is worth living for?

A touching story in which fantasy and reality merge to make dreams come true. How determining can reality be, and how can fantasy unleash an unexpected freedom? Can a fragile world of lights and shadows show us more than a silhouette drawn against the sunlight?

A sinful accountant is something like a white crow. Most accountants are fathers of families or older bachelors, they are serious people. It's no surprise that accountant Pištora fits this description and that his only love was enjoy the countryside, which accountants are allowed to do. His life is dramatically changed when he finds a beautiful fairy in the trunk of his car.

A ‘behind-the-scene’ look at an Animator/Filmmaker as he struggles with his character.

A mother of three is trying her best to make ends met. One day the tennis player Rafael Nadal appears. They eat ice-cream and play tennis together and finds themselves in a deserted forest. An absurd but serious story is told about their summer, as wonderful as unlikely.

When my Grandpa turned 100 years old he came to live with us. He used to sit at the place where we could once see the sea, only that Grandpa was a whale. He set there all day long, drinking his tea and hiding the sea.

A story about what can happen after midnight in an old sauna when the devil, matchbox, cleverness and greed get together.

Dream is the meeting point of the world of body and mind; it is intangible for us and hard to examine thoroughly. It happens inside but, at the same time, outside of us and, therefore, gives rise to anxiety. Dream takes us to the world where rules are variable and when we wake up we enter the world, which we can sometimes fully control, while occasionally “something” controls us and makes a decision for us. 

A child discovers life inside a dead bird and starts to play with it.

If you believe in The Rabbit, it means that you will believe anything. If you don’t believe in The Rabbit, it means that you won’t believe in anything.

Once we called the noble, profound and mysterious existence The Great. We have moved with the time, our thought and consciousness have changed. And yet, what makes us still calling it The Great?

When an ordinary man who thanks to the power of friendship is born again looses the person that he cares about the most the effects cannot be foreseen.

The hero falls into a loop of memories and longs for moments spent together with a friend and a glass of good wine.

One totally ordinary warm summer night the residents of a totally ordinary apartment house happen to gather in the yard. A citizen of questionable motives takes advantage of the situation and the ending of course is quite expectable.

Wooden knocks are echoing in a frozen landscape when a lonesome man is searching for a tongueling of his own.

Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.