Young Directors Competition 1
01 Can you hear me?
Director(s)
Anastazja NAUMENKO
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Poland
Production: Animoon
Length: 15' 01''
Category: First film
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Nastia, who has lived abroad for many years, begins to teach her mother how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. The complicated navigation of social media reflects a no less difficult path to communicate. While learning, the heroines learn a lot about each other, but will the intimacy regained by Zoom be defining for the further relationship between the two adult women?
02 My Good Boy
Director(s)
Sara PRIORELLI
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Hungary
Production: MOME - Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Length: 05' 56''
Category: Graduation film
Synopsis
A day in a life of a woman who is busy taking care of her obese dog. Her lovely show of affection towards the animal is interrupted by the arrival of her partner, who, in need of the attention of the woman, affects the cosy atmospere of the house.
03 Neither One nor Two
Director(s)
Lucia CATALINI
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Production: ISIA Urbino - Higher Institute for Artistic Industries
Length: 05' 57''
Category: Graduation film
Synopsis
After a long time, a girl called Elena finds the notebook of her grandmother, Laura. She flips through it for the first time and through those pages she sees her grandmother’s life again.
04 Murmuration
Director(s)
Janneke SWINKELS
Tim FRIJSINGER
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Belgium, Netherlands
Production: Spotted Bird, Beast Animation, Murmur Animation
Length: 12' 30''
Category: First film
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In a quiet nursing home, an elderly man grows feathers, loses his voice, and quietly prepares for flight.
05 Hello, Headquarters
Director(s)
Zuzanna HELLER
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Poland
Production: Łódź Film School
Length: 04' 56''
Category: Student film
Synopsis
"Hello, Headquarters" a voice from the phone calls out to Mirek. Already feeling lost, Mirek only wants to report his wife, the Great Orange, missing.
06 ˌaɪs ˈkriːm, aɪ skriːm
Director(s)
Nataliia DOMINI
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Estonia
Production: EKA - Estonian Academy of Arts
Length: 10' 10''
Category: Graduation film
Synopsis
Avoiding responsibilities, men run to the ice cream van. Meanwhile women scream. But the daily routine pattern breaks because the Old Lady dies. Fortunately the Priest finds a fish. … happy end.
07 《JINCHENG Driving School》
Director(s)
Binghao JIAO
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: China
Production: China Academy of Art
Length: 09' 15''
Category: Graduation film
Synopsis
At Jincheng Driving School, five characters with vastly different personalities — a near-retirement coach, a thrill-seeking grandmother, a shy social worker, and two ambitious twin brothers — navigate roadside mishaps and tense lessons, until an unexpected emotional bond emerges
08 Chair Cemetery
Director(s)
Alicia LÉVY
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: France
Production: Lycée René Descartes
Length: 03' 35''
Category: Graduation film
Synopsis
Confusion settles in the house, how to make it a home again?
09 Ř
Director(s)
Abigél DÉRCZY
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Czech Republic
Production: UMPRUM Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
Length: 03' 34''
Category: Student film
Synopsis
Abigél came to the Czech Republic from Hungary with a super important goal: to learn how to pronounce the most difficult letter in the world ... rrrzs,rrr, rzsr rhz ... Ř! Walking the streets of Prague, she asks locals to confess the truth about their mysterious letter, because even "Ř" hides some serious drama behind his Czech pride.Walking the streets of Prague, she asks locals to confess the truth about their mysterious letter, because even Ř hides some serious drama behind his Czech pride.
10 The Eating of an Orange
Director(s)
May KINDRED-BOOTHBY
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: United Kingdom
Production: Royal College of Art
Length: 07' 29''
Category: Student film
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A surreal and sensuous animated short film about convention, transformation and fluidity.
11 The Undying Pain of Existence
Director(s)
Oscar JACOBSON
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Germany
Production: Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
Length: 05' 20''
Category: Student film
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A nude model is posing with statuesque stillness for an elite drawing class — until an unfortunate mosquito bite challenges his self-control. Driven to madness by the itch, he’s caught between the ruthless demand for perfection and his most unhinged, animalistic impulses.