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This surreal and dreamlike film is set at a housing estate much like those in the Czech Republic. We see the film’s protagonist at one of the many balconies in a moment when she has to say farewell to the seemingly boring place. The housing estate suddenly changes into an intimate setting with a unique charm.

A tragicomic episode from the life of a man who lives under the impression that he’s an Eskimo. Our hero goes ice fishing without realising that he happens to be in a supermarket. The author used precisely animated puppets and turned the essentially sad story into a slapstick comedy.

Characters as if taken from the edges of papers from boring meetings (or lectures) participate in a rough wrestling match in which Mr. Businessman faces multiple opponents. Does he have a shot at winning? And when did childhood turn into a series of lift rides and meetings with seemingly perfect people?

A combination of organic natural motifs and mechanical systems brought to us in a single complex fantasy world by a student of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME). When a natural source of life energy runs dry, the situation needs to be resolved quickly. Technology needs to step in to renew the automatic and harmonic cycle of things.

Migraine is a common but often ignored and underestimated illness that has effects on a person’s life that most people usually can’t understand. Timm Völkner presents it in the form of a love letter that is – by means of a symbolic artistic interpretation – addressed to this most loyal of friends of many of us.

On the planet Gunja Doron-x, the punishment for killing the mother of a child that won’t stop crying can only be one thing. Nonnonanni travels to Earth. Will she succeed as a mother? This sci-fi film with horror sequences is a critical view of the demands that (not only) Korean society places on mothers.

People of the Nicobar Islands believe that a carved wooden figure called kareau can drive away evil spirits causing an illness. This custom served as an inspiration for a student of the Royal College of Art in London whose aunt attributed an exact measurement to her illness. The result is a gentle animated film in a documentary style.

The visitors of Anifilm had a chance to see Petre Tomadze’s colourfully expressive artistic style last year. This year, the Georgian director returns with a tragicomic story from an apartment building witnessed by a man spending his evening sitting on a balcony, listening to a gramophone and observing his surroundings.

Polar Barry is a polar bear and a popular youtuber from the North Pole. What do his followers think about global warming? How should polar bears prepare for it? In the form of a YouTube video, the director of this film explores pressing current issues and uses the answers of real people.

The French director’s graduate film follows an expat in a country where no one understands her and she doesn’t understand the language or local customs. Will she have to deal with queue tickets and vitally important signs on the toilets all by herself? This humorous film will tell you how to survive in Dutchgaria.