World festival of first animations
October
15-18
2025
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Young Directors Competition 2

01 Mother's Child

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Director(s)

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Naomi NOIR

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: Netherlands

Production: Naomi Noir Productions, Valk Productions

Length: 09' 06''

Category: First film

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Synopsis

Mary can't catch a break. Fusing motherhood with being a full-time carer for her disabled son has her up to her ears in red tape, barely keeping afloat. A surreal situation is looming.

02 Wish You Were Ear

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Director(s)

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Mirjana BALOGH

Film info

Year of production: 2025

Country of production: Hungary

Production: MOME - Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Length: 10' 14''

Category: Graduation film

Synopsis

In a world where, after each breakup, ex-partners must exchange a chosen body part, people not only lose a literal piece of themselves with each split, but also carry visible reminders of every past love.

03 Adhesion

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Director(s)

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Rafael CUCULIĆ

Film info

Year of production: 2025

Country of production: Croatia

Production: Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb

Length: 03' 39''

Category: Student film

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Synopsis

A man and a woman accept each other in spite of their insecurities.

04 Floating

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Director(s)

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Jelena MILUNOVIĆ

Film info

Year of production: 2025

Country of production: Serbia

Production: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Length: 07' 01''

Category: Graduation film

Synopsis

A daughter gradually realizes that her father is struggling with mental illness. He lives isolated in a dark apartment, drifting like a balloon. She tries to find a way to reconnect and bring him back to solid ground.

05 Cottage Cheese

Director(s)

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Liina LUOMAJOKI

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Lena METZGER

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Janina MÜLLER

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Alice KUNZ

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: Switzerland

Production: HSLU Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art

Length: 05' 16''

Category: Graduation film

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Synopsis

When Mika sits down on the toilet, she is shocked to discover that there is something slimy in her underpants. In search of answers, she then embarks on a bizarre journey into her own vagina.

06 Double or Nothing

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Director(s)

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TOKAY

Film info

Year of production: 2025

Country of production: Switzerland

Production: HSLU Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art

Length: 09' 40''

Category: Graduation film

Synopsis

Inspired by an anecdote from booming Tokyo in the 80s, the film tells the glamorous story of the real estate shark Akio Kashiwagi. Akio's great passion is illegal gambling in the underworld. An American is on his trail and tries to track down stolen money.

07 The 5-Second Rule

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Director(s)

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Yura BOGUSLAVSKY

Film info

Year of production: 2025

Country of production: Armenia

Production: Invisible Friends Studio

Length: 01' 32''

Category: Student film

Synopsis

The film plays with the well-known "5-Second rule" — a folk belief that food picked up from the floor within five seconds remains safe to eat. The authors ironize this self-deception, since germs don't recognize our made-up rules.

08 Silent Panorama

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Director(s)

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Nicolas PIRET

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: Belgium

Production: Zorobabel

Length: 05' 09''

Category: First film

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Synopsis

In this animated miniature a drawing gradually comes to life before our eyes, telling a story not only of a wild boar on the run, but also of the ways in which people occupy the places that used to belong to nature.

09 Stone of Destiny

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Director(s)

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Julie ČERNÁ

Film info

Year of production: 2025

Country of production: Czech Republic

Production: UMPRUM Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague

Length: 1h 10m

Category: Student film

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Synopsis

'Stone of Destiny' explores the beauty of finding your path, even when it’s fraught with uncertainty.

10 The Joke's Butt

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Director(s)

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Barney FAGAN

Film info

Year of production: 2025

Country of production: United Kingdom, Germany

Production: None

Length: 01' 31''

Category: First film

Synopsis

A young man feels lost in the modern, digital world before finding himself in a piece of clickbait.

11 Deluge

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Director(s)

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Meejin HONG

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: United States of America

Production: Meejin Hong

Length: 12' 05''

Category: First film

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Synopsis

“Deluge” is an ever-evolving landscape where the present inevitably coexists with the past. Memories are formed, reshaped, and obliterated, relentlessly competing for space. Control is surrendered, and mistakes and second chances are embraced. It is the slow stampede of a vulnerable mind.

12 All Hail the Duck King

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Director(s)

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Tommy HOWLETT

Film info

Year of production: 2025

Country of production: United Kingdom

Production: NFTS - National Film & Television School

Length: 06' 02''

Category: Graduation film

Synopsis

When Bill struggles with artist’s block, a childishly drawn duck called Quack emerges out. The more Bill ignores Quack, the more distracting the duck becomes. In order for Bill to overcome his artist block, he must first embrace Quack.