In Ten Minuets, 十分等待, Fu Xiaoyue, China 2024, 5’16’’
The little granddaughter lives with her grandmother. Grandma waits for her granddaughter at home after school every day. That day, grandma still cooked the meal, but she couldn't wait for her granddaughter to come back. Grandma's worries about her granddaughter turned into exaggerated imagination, filling every moment of waiting…
Dragfox, Lisa Ott, United Kingdom 2024, 8’10’’
Sam's search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ.
Touching Darkness, Jamaica Kindlová, Czech Republic 2024, 4’50
Ten-year-old Vítek has special abilities – he can feel and hear what others cannot. This animated documentary, made using the technique of sand animation, opens a door to his world and shows us that the absence of one sense doesn't have to be just an obstacle.
Polliwog / Kaulquappe, Julia Skala, Germany 2024, 9’13’’
On a forest home trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids to shower with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene is weirdly identifying with it and decides to set it free.
The Refusers, Wiep Teeuwisse, Netherlands 2024, 2’31’’
On a street corner in the city, a heap of dumped garbage surrounds two garbage containers. An old mattress begins to speak sadly: “They say I’m dirty…” Other pieces of garbage join in, sharing the reasons why they have been discarded. Then, a newspaper is picked up by the wind and seems to dance in the spotlight of a streetlamp. Inspired, the waste begins to see themselves positively. Their enthusiasm evolves into a spectacle of song and dance.
Cat, Fox and the wolf / Le Chat, le Renard et le loup, Aurore Muller Feuga, France 2024, 11’44’’
The Cat and the Fox starts a journey to find a stray wolf. The two friends follow his track which brings them to meet the people who collect his story. The two friends discover what is behing the words.
My name is Edgar and I have a cow / Jmenuju se Edgar a mam kravu, Filip Diviak, Czech Republic 2023, 7’47’’
Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse.
Yuck! / Beurk!, Loïc Espuche, France 2023, 13’10’’
Yuck! Couples kissing on the mouth are gross. And the worst is, you can’t miss them: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo laughs at them, just like all the kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won’t tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.
On the 8th Day / Au 8ème Jour, Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois, France 2023, 8’12’’
It took 7 days to create the world, it only took one to disrupt its balance.
