2024 | Japan, United States | 0:05:22

A man who was looking for the shortest thing in Tokyo uttered the word "da" at the last moment of his life. This work, produced as the first installment of the "Bungaku Bideo" collaboration project between contemporary Japanese literature and animation, is a recitation of "Totemo mijikai," an original work by Hideo Furukawa, by the author himself, and Koji Yamamura handled the animation.

2023 | China | 0:04:15

The work draws creative inspiration from dreams and multiple realities. The production of the ink and wash animation employs frame-by-frame hand-drawing techniques, taking two years and involving tens of thousands of sketches. It invites the audience to enter the intersection of dreams and reality, immersing themselves in the misty, sorrowful drizzle of old houses in the Jiangnan region. The approximately 5-minute ink and wash animation, ”When I Fell Asleep, the Dream Came,” portrays an endless loop of dreams that shackle oneself in a state of melancholy.

2023 | Canada | 0:15:00

Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home’s living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.

2024 | Switzerland | 0:02:00

A fly takes flight to meet a close friend.

2024 | United States | 0:03:58

To give a snake an orange.

2024 | Czech Republic | 0:13:07

Hurikán rushes out to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.

2023 | Germany, Hong Kong | 0:05:00

Inspired by early 20th-century avant-garde graphical sound experiments, ‘O/S’ explores digital approaches to the analogue technique of optical audio. In contrast to drawing on a celluloid film strip’s optical soundtrack, in ‘O/S’, the entire image is a soundtrack: Everything you see generates sound. What you hear is what you see. All tones in ‘O/S’ have been composed visually by designing specific visual shapes and movements. The challenge was to create a film that balances visual and sonic expression to create a synaesthetic experience for the viewer: A work that is created visually but also sounds interesting.

2023 | Poland | 0:26:26

It grows slowly as an icicle, but one day it drops and crashes. Anka loves cats. And Jesus. In a winter silence the lagoon freezes and the unspoken resurfaces like crack on ice. Mosaic portrait of a small fisherman’s village where human to human, human to animal, animal to animal interdepend on a delicate balance of warm tender care and cold emotional cruelty. An eerie story of loneliness and community narrated with magical realism.