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One morning an eclectic mix of people face the everyday battle – such as work, school and dish-washing. As the day progresses, their relationships are tested and ultimately their capacity to cope. This film is probably the first Icelandic participation in Anifilm’s international competition. It is full of more or less absurd scenes linked by rough Nordic humour.

A parable on the demise of a civilisation that evolved into such perfection that its destruction is inevitable even though the passengers on a luxurious ship tirelessly try to convince themselves otherwise. What happens when people ignore all warning signs? This unusual CGI animated European film is nothing like classic American 3D films.

The directorial debut of Colombian graphic artist David Carrizales is a Spanish co-production that will captivate the viewers with strange black and white spectacles. The author uses humour and irony to explore a single thought: it is said that every person is different and unique, but with regards to the sound our bodies make, we are actually all identical.

This impressive, even depressing family drama was surprisingly made by a literature graduate who learned how to animate at workshops. In his film, a girl tries to convince her little brother that unlike her, he doesn’t belong to the family as he comes from a nearby swamp. Consumed by sibling rivalry, the girl doesn’t realise what will happen when – despite his initial resistance – her brother starts accepting the role forced upon him by her.

This Japanese and South Korean co-production is an ambitious film balancing between cinema, abstraction and graphic art. It is a colourful film with lively animation based on Henri Bergson’s book Creative Evolution and the modern art history, which inspired Robert Delaunay’s abstract art works.

Swedish filmmaker Niki Lindroth von Bahr specialising in puppet animation presents six peculiar scenes depicting our modern age. Precisely and smoothly animated mostly animal puppets act out scenes that we should remember as they are – in a way – lullabies preceding an inevitable catastrophe.

Artistically refined film Carrousel is a Belgian-Czech co-production. A woman lives her routine in a small, very well organised system, a small microcosm. The arrival of newcomers disrupts that routine, she feels attacked, withdraws into herself and becomes aggressive to defend her way of life, to the point of hurting others.

Another humorous and original film by the Estonian director living in Croatia. Her latest film depicts an unusual situation: a muscular wolf, father of a family, loses his well-paid engineering job and decides to make money in porn. But it is not easy to find his bearings in this new world and to keep a secret from his wife. But the wife has her own secrets…