Ziki is a Congolese boy living in a village with his mother. One day, while the two are playing, Ziki discovers a mysterious tunnel winding beneath the kitchen floor. Curious, he decides to venture in, but as he walks, he slips and falls to the bottom of the tunnel. As he travels through it, he discovers a world built on exploitation and war in his homeland.
Fung, a girl who grew up in the old Hong Kong public housing, was having her last year in the primary school. The old estate was about to demolished and rebuilt, neighbors and friends were leaving gradually. Although Fung knew this would happen, she could not let go of the feeling of parting. One day, in this fading homeland, Fung made a special friend.
Elena Ziganshina’s documentary animation The Fisherman is a deeply personal story about the filmmaker’s grandfather, who suffers from dementia. While physically present at home, he is mentally on a fishing trip, and this imagined space becomes his last refuge.
An experienced therapist manages to visualize the inner demons of a painter; however, she finds herself caught between empathy and envy, leading her to question her own identity in the process.
“Little” longs to be scary, but with his tiny roar, none of the other skeletons will let him play. That is, until his unscareable human friend Lily decides to help.
A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not changed: all the streets are frozen, long-gone voices can be heard in the empty rooms and around the corner you can find yourself in a video game from your childhood.
Experienced astronaut Savva dreams of flying away forever to the most remote part of the galaxy, never to meet people again. However, as a result of a ship breakdown, he finds himself on a gloomy planet, where he meets a friendly alien, Gama.
The story describes a hunter who chased a snow roe deer, incurs the revenge of the Roe Beast, adding to the mystery of folklore. Created with hemp rope in stop-motion puppet animation, this project uses the lack of facial expressions in the puppets to create a spooky and terrifying atmosphere. The hand-drawn style at the beginning and end adds to the mystery of the legend, prompting contemplation on the delicate balance between humans and the environment, as well as our reverence for nature.