A Night at the Rest Area

Country: JAPAN Year: 2024 Duration: 12 mins.

Synopsis: At a midnight highway rest area, the weary travelers each quietly relax their minds. A brief moment spent with complete strangers is lonely yet somehow comforting.

Credits:

Direction: Saki Muramoto

Writers: Saki Muramoto

Production: Saki Muramoto

Animation: Saki Muramoto

Music: Saya Kikuchi

Sound: Saya Kikuchi

Distribution: Saki Muramoto

Age Classification: M/12

Next?

Country: FRANCE , BELGIUM Year: 2024 Duration: 9 mins.

Synopsis: Half-animal, half-human creatures meet at a speed-dating dance event where they explore their differences and difficulties communicating. When a lovestruck man-cum-anteater falls for a woman-cum-shrew, he gets caught up in this courtship ballet.

Credits:

Direction: Christel Guibert

Writers: Christel Guibert

Production: Jérémy Mourlam (Folimage)

Animation: Benjamin Berrebi, Christel Guibert, June Ortu, Sylvie Léonard Victorino

Music: Olivier Kikteff

Sound: Aline Gavroy

Distribution: Jérémy Mourlam (Folimage)

Age Classification: M/12

The Hunt

Country: PORTUGAL , JAPAN Year: 2024 Duration: 8 mins.

Synopsis: A group of soldiers, lost in the woods, must face the traumas of their past and the terrifying forces stalking them.

Credits:

Direction: Diogo Costa

Writers: Diogo Costa

Production: Bruno Caetano, Susana António, COLA, Carlota Pou, Bruno Simões, Studio Kimchi

Animation: David Mourato, Rita Novais, Pedro Oliveira, Sofia Santos, Tiago Coimbra, Manuel Belo, Susana Barata, Selene Melgar, Karolina Tomaszewska, Diana Sánchez, Lucas Tarin, Jokin de los Toyos, Juan José Espinós

Music: Alex Gregson

Sound: Alex Gregson

Distribution: Olharapo Filmes

Age Classification: M/12

The Primeval Father. Episode “The Flat Earth”

Country: RUSSIA Year: 2024 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: The Primeval Son makes the brilliant discovery that the Earth is round. The father is sure that the Earth is flat and will do anything to convince his unlucky son of this.

Credits:

Direction: Vladimir Sakhnovsky

Writers: Vladimir Sakhnovsky

Production: Fireball LLC

Animation: Daria Baranova Veronica Belnitskaya Vasiliy Koretsky Evdokia Kremenetskaya Maria Maksimova Anna Mikhaleva Polina Nevozhay Alexandra Pavlova Olga Petukhova Maria Sidorenko Sofia Tashevskaya Ksenia Tokareva

Music: Artem Fadeev

Sound: Artem Fadeev

Distribution: School-studio "SHAR"

Age Classification: M/12

Three Birds

Country: SLOVENIA , CROATIA Year: 2024 Duration: 8 mins.

Synopsis: A wise birdwoman sends three birds to guide a girl into the dark unknown landscapes of her inner world.

Credits:

Direction: Zarja Menart

Writers: Zarja Menart

Production: Tina Smrekar (Finta Film), Drasko Ivezic (Adriatic Animation)

Animation: Zarja Menart, Matej Lavrencic, Anka Kocevar

Music: Zvezdana Novakovic

Sound: Julij Zornik

Distribution: Vanja Andrijevic (Bonobostudio)

Age Classification: M/12

Sequential

Country: PORTUGAL , FRANCE Year: 2025 Duration: 12 mins.

Synopsis: In a fantastic sequence of events, a young man confronts not only his personal fears but also the adversities of life. A story of growth and the search for a path of inspiration.

Credits:

Direction: Bruno Caetano

Writers: Bruno Caetano, Manuel Ruas Moreira

Production: COLA animation

Animation: Niccolò Gioia, Rosana van der Meer

Music: Filipe Raposo

Sound: Carlos Abreu

Distribution: /

Age Classification: M/12

Silent Panorama

Country: BELGIUM Year: 2024 Duration: 5 mins.

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. Based on memories of a walk in the Belgian Ardennes, this film was drawn and animated alone on a single sheet of paper as a performance.

Credits:

Direction: Nicolas Piret

Writers: Nicolas Piret

Production: Zorobabel

Animation: Nicolas Piret

Music: /

Sound: /

Distribution: Manifest

Age Classification: M/12

Hairy Legs

Country: CANADA Year: 2024 Duration: 17 mins.

Synopsis: ‘Hairy Legs’, an animated short film, documents a 13-year-old girl’s small yet life-changing act of rebellion on the road to womanhood and feminism — the decision to not shave her legs. With charm, warmth and humour, ‘Hairy Legs’ captures the universality of girls exploring gender, curiosity and freedom as they evolve from spending exuberant, carefree days on their bicycles to facing and defying stereotypes.

Credits:

Direction: Andrea Dorfman

Writers: Andrea Dorfman

Production: Liz Cowie, Rohan Fernando (National Film Board of Canada)

Animation: Andrea Dorfman

Music: Daniel Ledwell

Sound: Sacha Ratcliffe

Distribution: National Film Board of Canada

Age Classification: M/12