Masters Competition 4.
01 Water Girl
Director(s)
Sandra Desmazieres
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: France, Netherlands, Portugal
Production: Caïmans Productions, Valk Productions, Animais
Length: 15' 00''
Category: Masters
Watch the trailerSynopsis
Mia has spent her whole life freediving, fishing and gliding through seaweed and rocks. Time has passed, tracing its lines on her body, and shaping the landscapes around her. Loved ones have vanished. Tonight, Mia remembers.
02 A Rose
Director(s)
Simone Massi
Film info
Year of production: 2026
Country of production: Italy
Production: Simone Massi
Length: 05' 00''
Category: Masters
Synopsis
A poem of love and struggle dedicated to the Palestinian people
03 This Is Your Captain Speaking
Director(s)
Digna Van Der Put & Nienke Deutz
Film info
Year of production: 2026
Country of production: Belgium, Netherlands
Production: seriousfilm
Length: 14' 15''
Category: Masters
Synopsis
If you could fly for one day, what would you do? A group of neighbours answers this question and we follow their flight. Along the way, we get to know the characters and it becomes clear this fantasy has a different meaning for everyone.
04 Daughters of the Late Colonel
Director(s)
Elizabeth Hobbs
Film info
Year of production: 2026
Country of production: United Kingdom
Production: Animate Projects
Length: 09' 23''
Category: Masters
Watch the trailerSynopsis
After the death of their ill-tempered and controlling father, two middle-aged sisters find themselves at a loss. An unexpected visitor sparks the courage in them to begin their lives anew.. ‘Daughters of the Late Colonel’ is a merry, rude, and lyrical, animated adaptation of the modernist short story of the same name, written by Katherine Mansfield in 1920.
05 Wild
Director(s)
MIlos Tomic
Film info
Year of production: 2026
Country of production: Serbia
Production: Set Sails
Length: 07' 40''
Category: Masters
Synopsis
*Wild* is a somewhat vague yet highly expressive story about an unusual friendship and growing up. A film in which form triumphs over content, and where the animator’s passion for “how” overwhelms the narrative “what.” So what?
06 The Spring Sea
Director(s)
Koji Yamamura
Film info
Year of production: 2025
Country of production: Japan
Production: Yamamura Animaiton, inc. / Tokyo University of the Arts
Length: 07' 45''
Category: Masters
Synopsis
A scene inspired by the Seto Inland Sea is depicted in the style of a sumi-e painting, set to a violin version of the koto piece "HARU NO UMI (The Spring Sea)" by Japanese koto player and composer Miyagi Michio in 1929.
07 The End
Director(s)
Niki Lindroth Von Bahr
Film info
Year of production: 2026
Country of production: Denmark, France, Sweden
Production: Les Valseurs, Malade AB
Length: 16' 00''
Category: Masters
Synopsis
A darkly humorus tale of death and existence set in a large, international airport.