Wander to Wonder, Nina Gantz, Belgium 2023, 13’50’’
Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator of the series has died, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
Mr. Professor!, Dominika Tkaczyk, Poland 2023, 15’01’’
In a world full of absurdity, and students in love with the perfect Mister Professor, his colleagues sentence the Professor to death. However, one of his infatuated students - Miss Haczyk, who is unable to speak - comes to help.
The Roe Deer / Le Chevreuil, Delphine Priet-Mahéo, France 2024, 9’22’’
Overwhelmed by her family life, a woman abandons her husband and children for an afternoon in pursuit of a roe deer.
Extremely Short, Koji Yamamura, Japan 2024, 5’18’’
A man sets out in search of the shortest thing in Tokyo, which turns out to be a single syllable uttered by a dying man. . . . The first installment in a series of animated shorts called "Bungaku Bideo" (Literature Videos), Koji Yamamura's Extremely Short translates into film a powerful story by Hideo Furukawa, read by the author himself.
Don't give them room to grow, Karine Bille, France 2024, 13’09’’
Fuite-les-eaux-en-terre is a town like any other. With inhabitants like any other. Here, too, there are apartment buildings and houses with gardens. Here, too, leaves have to be blown away in autumn. Here too, weeds grow spontaneously. Sometimes a little too much for some residents... How do you get rid of them?
Tako Tsubo, Fanny Sorgo, Eva Pedroza, Austria, Germany 2024, 6’04’’
Mr. Ham decides to have his heart removed in order to be relieved of his complicated feelings. The doctor assures him that this is no problem at all in this day and age. Thoughtfully inclined, however, Ham keeps his heart for a while after the removal, perhaps to understand it better after all. "Tako Tsubo"* is an animated, surrealistic reflection on how to deal with feelings in a meritocracy. Tako Tsubo, also known as stress cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome, is a rare, acute-onset and often severe dysfunction of the heart muscle, similar to that of a heart attack, and usually results from extraordinary emotional or physical stress.
The Forest is on Fire / Het Bos staat in Brand, Louise Rogiers, Belgium 2024, 5’16’’
“The Forest is on Fire” is a fairy tale about the near future.
