Masters Competition 1
01 Dog Alone
Director(s)
Marta REIS ANDRADE
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: France, Portugal
Production: BAP - Animation Studios, IKKI FILMS
Length: 13' 02''
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After the death of its owner and companions, a dog is left alone in its house. He howls day and night disturbing all the neighborhood. In the house next door, a man's age distanced him from everyone around. His grand-daughter, Marta, returns from London, where she felt the most lonely.
02 Balconada
Director(s)
Iva TOKMAKCHIEVA
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Bulgaria
Production: Compote Collective, Girelle Production
Length: 08' 06''
Synopsis
A hot summer day brings several neighbours out on their balconies. During a sudden rainstorm, one of them gets a burst of inspiration, which encourages the rest to live in the moment.
03 Birds of Paradise
Director(s)
Tomek DUCKI
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Poland
Production: EGOFILM, Melocoton Films
Length: 08' 30''
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Bird droppings. To most, a nuisance. But for a remarkable flock of flightless birds, they are the foundation of life itself. There is a delicate harmony in their hidden world – until one day when a mysterious object washes up on shore. What begins as curiosity sparks a profound shift, leading the flock into a new era of cultural and technological change. Once happy with simplicity, the birds now face the price of progress.
04 Psychonauts
Director(s)
Niko RADAS
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Croatia
Production: Croatian Association of Digital Artists, Zagreb Film, Vrapče Clinic of Psychiatry, University of Zagreb
Length: 08' 00''
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Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.
05 Time
Director(s)
Robert LÖBEL
Max MÖRTL
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Germany
Production: Klimpa
Length: 05' 42''
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From the seemingly endless drift of an hourglass to the frantic pulse of a multitasking worker, the film paints a surreal mosaic of how time is perceived, stretched, fractured, and consumed.
06 Chronicity
Director(s)
Aleta RAJIC
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Production: KAN
Length: 03' 17''
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A swooping fly starts a line of events that leads us all the way to World War I.
07 On Weary Wings Go By
Director(s)
Anu-Laura TUTTELBERG
Film info
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: Estonia, Lithuania
Production: Fork Film, ART SHOT, Moon Birds Studios
Length: 10' 37''
Synopsis
A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The Sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.
08 La Vie avec un idiot
Director(s)
Theodor USHEV
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: France
Production: Miyu Productions
Length: 17' 58''
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Accused by the authorities of not working hard enough, Vladimir is forced to live with an idiot as punishment. He chooses him from an asylum and his name is Vova. This idiot can only pronounce one syllable: ooh.