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This thematically intense and artistically unusual film depicts the at first strong, but later very fragile friendship between two adolescent girls. A seemingly serene day during which the girls experiment with their bodies and emotions is disrupted by the presence of the brother of one of the girls. This film with an excellently animated atmosphere and a brilliant technical execution of the combination of 2D and 3D animation won the Audience Award at the Annecy Festival.

This original film by the master of contemporary Italian experimental animation uses brush strokes to reveal the inside of the painted character it transforms and deforms it. Using this unusual technique, Donato Sansone, present as the painter holding the brush, demonstrates a rapid evolution creating a triumphant being.

III is a vivid and technically precise film by a Polish author who studied in the studio of Jerzy Kucia and whose style was also influenced by a study stay with Priit Pärn. This film, which is the third part of her triptych, depicts a man and a woman meeting in a waiting room. The characters play a weird and increasingly wild game in which their faces turn into masks and shapes lose their integrity.

This puppet film is set in China in the 1990s. Its main protagonist remembers his childhood that was considerably complicated by his “annoying” younger sister. Or was it not like that? This socially critical film with a pointed plot is a sad reflection of the Chinese policy that tries to limit the reproduction of the Chinese people in a very unfortunate manner.

A captivating film by one of the most important authors of contemporary Italian animated film. This precisely drawn film with pastel style portrays a trip down memory lane for a man and his wife who retrace the most significant moments of their relationship. The film’s style resonates with the poetic atmosphere of this extraordinary journey to the origins of their memories.

Electrician’s Day is yet another absurd film made by Latvian filmmaker Vladimir Leschiov. As a result of an accident that happens while making a repair next to a psychiatric hospital, the electrician loses consciousness and finds himself behind the walls of the hospital where he not only witnesses, but even takes part in very strange spectacles portrayed in Leschiov’s distinctive style.

In Fest, Nikita Diakur, the 'inventor' of a brand new real-time animation technique and the author of the revolutionary film Ugly, tests his unique method. This time, the result is a short film, an adrenalin game taking place during a street festival. Aesthetically, Diakur follows up on his previous film, but technically, he searches for new possibilities of his method.

This film is a black and white, slightly provocative and partially abstractly illustrated confession of a young anorectic girl. Its author convincingly explores the mind of her heroine confined in a small space. For the main protagonist, food is a choice, not a necessity. Home is a safe place for her illness and the experience of eating a boiled egg is comparable to sexual pleasure.

A twelve-year-old boy named Jonathan lives with his mother, who is always busy, his adolescent sister and a number of virtual men. They appear in drawers, closets and in the cupboard. They all share the same face and engage in a friendly dialogue with the boy. This sensitive but also ironically lightly made film boasting plenty of visual ideas depicts the emotions of a boy growing up in an incomplete family.