by Stéphanie Clément

Like every summer, Louise is entrusted to her grandparents for a few days of vacation in the countryside. Between the green grass in the garden, swimming in the lake, fishing with grandpa, everything seems as sweet as grandma’s strawberry pies. But this year, it will snow in the middle of summer and a monster will die.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Chloe Farr

A shortcut on Thelma & Louise by Chloe Farr.

• Drama

by Borge Ring, Hans Perk

The story of two sisters who spent their entire lives together looking back at their cherished memories.

• Family
• Drama

by Nicole Van Goethem

Belgian animated short film written and directed by Nicole Van Goethem about three lady statues holding on to the remains of an ancient building.

• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Michaela Režová

Based on first-person interviews and archival materials, this animated documentary brings back the glory days of Czechoslovak hockey — but also the dark moments from the year 1950. Chase follows not only the players’ personal fates, but also the transformations in society, politics, and culture taking place in the background.

• Documentary

by Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski

A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.

• Romance
• Fantasy
• Drama

by Atsushi Wada

A huge pig is lying down in front of a house man's family lives in.Each of them notices the other exist.but each of them doesn't understand how the other understands.The mother doesn't understand the father either.

• Drama
• Family

by Leo Černic

Pentola is a small middle-aged man who leaves his wife Titti for Batman.

• Comedy

by Candy Guard

A woman’s life is ruined because someone tells her she has a little bogie on her nose. An allegory about homelessness showing that a small thing can have a domino effect and lead someone to feel outside of the norm, the bag representing anything that makes a person seem different and unacceptable to society.

• Drama
• Comedy

by Conor Finnegan

A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.

• Drama

by Júlia Lantos

A young girl sees the world around her as brittle, depraved and ugly. She lives in a cold war where the weapon is not the gun or the bomb, but the alienation, aimlessness, selfishness, depreciation of the people.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Tal Kantor

A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.

• Drama

by William Burger, Siméon Jacob, Odelia Lainé & others

On his last exhibition night, an artist’s surreal garden becomes a space for contemplating legacy, as shifting visual styles reveal his inner world before departure.

• Romance
• Drama
• Fantasy

by Steve Cox

Shaun’s seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings for the Flock inadvertently leads to Timmy going missing. Can Shaun get Timmy back before he becomes someone else’s present?

• Comedy
• Family

by Konstantin Bronzit

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.

• Drama

by Božena Možíšová

Little Dorothy becomes fascinated by a large old clock whose ticking seems almost alive.

• Pre-school

by Béla Klingl

In our short animated film we show you an alien civilizations’s very first visitation to planet Earth. The (fictional) visitation took place 54 years ago, when – to the misfortune of humanity – the participants of the actual alien encounter were not members of the human race.

• Comedy
• Sci-Fi

by Boris Dolenc

The first Slovenian animated Western Wanted combines the traditional Slovenian countryside with the Wild West.

by Thomas Szabo

In this episode, a rambunctious gang of ants forms a chaotic army, marching across the garden with a single-minded goal: to claim territory and resources. Their determined advance soon encounters rival insects, natural obstacles, and hilarious miscalculations that turn their mission into a series of comedic skirmishes.

• Pre-school
• Comedy

by Anja Resman

Clearing his late father’s apartment, a young man is forced to relive the traumatic memories of growing up and losing his soul.

by Julian Gallese

A series of videos commissioned by Days Off.

• Experimental
• Music video

by BT21

The “Would You” official music video features BT21 characters — KOYA, RJ, SHOOKY, MANG, CHIMMY, TATA, COOKY and others

• Music video

by Milan Šebesta

Christmas Eve is a wonderful holiday. But you have to prepare for it properly. It’s worth buying some cake. Unless you sat on it.

• Comedy
• Family

by Maruta Manabo

「お洒落がしたいわ feat. zensen & mARUTA mANABU- Official Music Video by Anshelly

• Music video

by Cheng-Hsu Chung

The visualizer for Do The Dial Tone enhances the music by narrating an adventurous tale of an alien exploring Earth at midnight. Drawing inspiration from Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation video, our character embarks on a nocturnal journey through the city streets, culminating in a solo party held in an underground ruin. This visual story captures the essence of the track, blending the surreal with the rhythmic energy of an all-night adventure.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Dimitri Stankowicz

Music Video directed by Dimitri Stankowicz for Rone’s Bye Bye Macadam.

• Music video

by Jamie Hewlett

Feat. D.R.A.M.

• Music video

by Mélanie Tourneur

Paris-based director Mélanie Tourneur’s eerie hand-drawn animation accompanies Victoria+Jean’s sultry track Until it Breaks.

by Jamie Hewlett

The music video for Saturnz Barz (Spirit House) opens with the animated band entering a dark, eerie haunted house.

• Music video

by Danny Madden

The official music video for ‘In Any Tongue’.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Music Videos

by Gianluca Maruotti

A short film.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Ollie Jones

A high octane sci-fi splatterfest by Ollie Jones for the Aussie band Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – in beautifully crafted Claymation.

• Music Videos
• Sci-Fi
• Action
• Experimental
• Comedy

by Hari Jeung

Oh no, BTS overslept and now they’re running late to the VMAs! Find out if they make it to the main stage in time to perform in this animated tribute to their 2020 VMA performance of “Dynamite!”

• Music video

by Takashi Murakami

Listen to “you should see me in a crown” from the debut album “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?”, out now.

• Music video

by Raman Djafari

Five friends, growing up in Berlin Spandau, experience the surreality of adolesence, with all its magic, emotion and adventure.

• Music Videos
• Experimental
• Fantasy

by Cartuna, Peter Larson Schmidt

Watch Ariana Grande take her talent from the gym to the VMAs mainstage, as her Personal Trainer Nicki Minaj coaches her to Pop Stardom, all set to their 2016 VMAs performance of “Side to Side!”

• Music video

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in our interview with the production designer, Rona Liu.

• Making of

by Gints Zilbalodis

Director, co-writer, co-producer, co-composer, editor, and cinematographer Gints Zilbalodis explains the guiding philosophy behind FLOW, his profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses and a treasure for the heart.

• Adventure
• Family
• Making of

Interview with Andrej Goričar at Animateka 2011.

• Making of

by Miloš Tomić

Free animation game with broken plastic pieces, broken glass, crystal decorations, feathers, old photos and gummy candy… as an attempt to summarize Mihovil Logar’s rich life dedicated to music.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Mariusz Wilczyński

CEE Animation Experience @AnimatekaPRO, 2.12.2020, online edition. KILL IT AND LEAVE THIS TOWN, Mariusz Wilczyński (Bombonierka/Extreme Emotions/Iam – Adam Mickiewicz Institute/EC1 Lodz – City of Culture/Letko/Di Factory/Gigant Films/Polish Film Institute), Poland, 2020, 88′. Speaker – Mariusz Wilczyński (PL). Host – Petra Meterc (SI).

• Drama
• Experimental
• Making of

Interview with Marie Vieillevie at Animateka Festival.

• Making of

by Britt Raes

CEE Animation Experience webinar dedicated to Keep Festive, a new international initiative committed to creating safer, more inclusive environments at animation industry events. Guest speakers Aneta Ozorek and Anastasiya Verlinska, representing member festivals behind the initiative, will present its core values, practical tools, and real-world protocols developed to prevent sexual harassment and unsafe situations. From establishing a Code of Conduct to training staff and managing sensitive cases, this session will explore ways organizers and festival professionals can foster respectful and supportive industry events.

• Documentary
• Making of

Joanna Quinn, whose acclaimed body of work includes the Oscar-nominated shorts Famous Fred, The Wife of Bath and her most recent film Affairs of the Art, speaks with Ben Mitchell of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine in an exclusive talk as part of the Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival. Having achieved major success at the very beginning of her career with her multi-award-winning debut film Girls Night Out, Joanna has since become an inspirational figurehead to many in the animation world through the work of her studio Beryl Productions. In this talk Joanna will offer unique insight into the highs and lows of industry success and how she has navigated the emotional pitfalls that come with it, from grappling with feelings of failure against high expectations, balancing personal projects and professional commissions, to dealing with imposter syndrome, burnout, staying motivated when life gets in the way and the challenges the younger generation face in the current social media climate and the pressures to succeed that come with it.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Martin Smatana

In this webinar, award-winning stop-motion director Martin Smatana (The Kite, Berlinale 2019) will take you on a deep dive into the creative applications of artificial intelligence in animation. Known for his hands-on work with textile and paper, Martin will explore how AI can complement traditional artistry. He’ll showcase various tools such as Dall-E, and Runway, offering practical insights into how these technologies can aid in generating ideas, optimizing workflows, automating tasks, and enhancing creative processes. Whether you’re designing storyboards, generating visuals, or working on sound design, this session will give you concrete strategies to integrate AI into your animation projects, helping you streamline repetitive tasks while maintaining your unique artistic voice.

• Documentary
• Making of

It is believed that art can touch upon things that are invisible or unspoken, engage a wide range of people in dialogue by analysing different experiences. One of such perspectives is represented by the artists with Down Syndrome, such as the Atelier Normalno community members. For some of them, video became a tool of emancipation. They use the aesthetics of advertising, television and cinema to create moving images art that is a sharp reaction to everyday topics. During the discussion, artist and co-curator of the Atelier Normalno Stanislav Turina and cinema historian and director Stanislav Menzelevskyi will reflect on how artists with disabilities convey modernity, what characters and issues they choose to convey their feelings, how inclusion can be present in culture and the role that video as an artistic instrument plays in it.

• Making of

The Poliektova sisters will speak about transforming the initial idea of a story into a film, about the process of initial artwork, visuals and storyboarding. What are the important questions in the story and how can we create the main character?

• Making of

Making of video the stop motion movie The Family Portrait directed by Lea Vidakovic.

• Making of

Producer, percussionist, and composer Samuli Kosminen shows us some of the rather unusual instruments used on the Moominvalley score – featuring dried chilies, design chairs, and jawbones of sheep, among other things.

• Documentary
• Making of

Interview with Elio’s directors, Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian as well as producer Mary Alice Drumm.

• Making of
• Family
• Adventure
• Sci-Fi

by Fiona Dalwood

Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from dealing with grief and loss. Five real people share their true stories of losing something precious and what it has taught them about living.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Making of

Caroline Leaf at Animateka 2012.

• Documentary
• Making of

The topic of this lecture is to provoke the audience into being more sensitive to their everyday surroundings and to take note of precious material for their work (in any form) in small, rarely noticed phenomena, situations, objects, and movements. Ideas are not far from us. We often just need to change the angle from which we are looking at apparently mundane things. In addition, I will suggest a few games that could become ways of turning the slow and sometimes overwhelming process of animation (frame by frame by frame after one more frame…) into something more playful, even adventurous.

• Making of

by Kirsten Lepore

Behind the scenes on Move Mountain.

• Experimental
• Making of

Go behind-the-scenes of Turning Red in our interview with the director, Domee Shi, and producer, Lindsey Collins.

• Making of

The full review (note – spoilers will be discussed) and break down all of the details from Turning Red. We discuss the story, the characters, the music and, of course, dive into the many Easter Eggs we’ve spotted. Join us to chat along and share your thoughts with us! We’ll have some special guests as always (joining us this time are Drew Taylor, along with our regular pals Gio, and Paulina).

• Comedy
• Coming-of-Age
• Family
• Making of

Craig Kausen, grandson of the legendary animation filmmaker, Chuck Jones, spoke in a special guest speaker event for NYFA students and faculty. Kausen discussed the work and career of Chuck Jones, whose name is synonymous with characters from Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Merrie Melodies. Event was moderated by Paul Laverack.

• Making of

by Daniel Beňovič

Daniel Beňovič is a 3D Animator & Technical Artist based in Slovakia, with background in motion graphics and animation, having created ads for major brands and television. His experience in animation has transitioned into the gaming industry, where he now focuses on enhancing rigging and animation at Nine Rocks Games. Utilizing skills in Autodesk Maya and scripting, Daniel contributes to the game Way of the Hunter.

• Making of

Interview with directors Ivana Bosnjak & Thomas Johnson.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Iris Hobson-Mazur

Music video

• Experimental
• Abstract
• Music Videos
• Making of

The lecture covers animation in the context of new media and how it changes under the influence of other types of contemporary art, such as games, performance, installation. What kind of new animation tools emerged? How to use bugs and mistakes in search of innovation? How to use AI in contemporary animation?

• Documentary
• Making of
• Experimental

Masterclass by Vibeke Sørensen. Vibeke Sørensen is an artist and professor working in digital multimedia, animation, interactive architectural installation, physical computing, and networked visual music. Her creative work includes Illuminations (2013), a large scale illuminated folding screen, an interactive visual-music installation incorporating plant biofeedback, ubiquitous computing, and electro-acoustic music that she composed. Vishwaroop (2014) is a 4K generative dome animation with music by sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri, and Mood of the Planet (2015) is a kinetic light-sound sculpture incorporating global, real-time big data, Twitter, and music composed by Sørensen. Her work, Mayur (2015), with music by Kartik Seshadri, is a 4K animation inspired by Asian textiles, symbols, and cosmologies. She has produced wearable technologies incorporating biofeedback, abstract animation and music including Digital Amulet: Smart Necklace (2017), and her most recent installation Starlight (2021) is in collaboration with NTU physicists Prof Lock Yue Chew and Dr. Andri Pradana, as well as CSH Vienna / SFI Complexity Scientist Prof John Stephen Lansing. Starlight is an interactive installation that visualizes Quantum Entanglement using actual data from the Cosmic Bell Experiment. Her current research and creative work engages bio and eco-art/design, and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University it includes explorations of musical and calendrical polyrhythms from Bali to Kauai, and on the emergence of Jungian archetypes from dream networks.

• Making of

Katariina Lillqvist is well known of her puppet animations. Her latest short animation Last Matador (2021) has just been released and will be seen in Animatricks 2021! In this masterclass Katariina will present her career, talk about puppet animation and about her study and work experience in Czech Republic.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Brynne McGregor

Seven people living with aphasia through hand-drawn rotoscope and digital animation.

• Documentary
• Experimental
• Making of

Priit talks on the creation of his film HOTEL E (1992). How he got the idea, the structure of the film, filling the basic structure with events, solutions for style of animation and visual design as well as describe the work process. The master class is moderated by Ukrainian animation director Mykyta Lyskov.

• Documentary
• Making of
• Non-narrative

In this talk, Blas Payri addressed different aspects of the relationship between the moving image and music, treating both the experimental results of the perception and cognition of music / image as well as their creation processes.

• Making of

by Mariusz Wilczyński

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.

by Áron Gauder

he vulgar, adults-only satire peppered with social critiques and references to prevailing politics, made in the same outspoken, provocative tone as South Park and Beavis and Butt-Head, is a humorous and authentic report card of the backward, post-millennium political and social apparatus of Eastern Europe as seen from the point of view of straight-talking children, that is, from the grassroots.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Crimi

by Áron Gauder

Set in the present day, Native American protesters confront the crew of an oil pipeline project, just down the hill from the land of their ancestors. The grandfather evokes the ancient tale of their Creation myth, reminding all of us that the challenges facing humanity are universal, and that we need to find our place in the great circle of creatures.

• Drama
• Adventure
• Fantasy

by DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman

When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son, and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.

by Dalibor Barić, Tomislav Babić

A secret Foundation is financing the work of a parapsychological phenomena and mental film research institute. Correspondence between the Foundation and the institute runs through a chosen reporter. In order to be informed objectively and confidentially, the Foundation uses agents with induced synthetic identity. This process temporarily curbs the agents’ true personality. Reporter Isidor Dukas arrives to the institute. Facing one of the test subjects, something which was supposed to be routine control turns into an infinite labyrinth…

• Drama
• Experimental
• Sci-Fi
• Non-narrative

by Andrew Stanton

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek robot named EVE.

• Adventure
• Sci-Fi
• Family

by Hayao Miyazaki

While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a deadly curse. To find the cure that will save his life, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest Spirit’s realm where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolves. It’s not long before Ashitaka is caught in the middle of a battle between iron-ore prospecting humans and the forest dwellers. He must summon the spirit-powers and all his courage to stop man and nature from destroying each other.

• Drama
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Action

by Ivo Hejcman

Bob & Bobek, rabbits from the hat of the magician Pokustón, on a journey around the world. Where does their flying hat take them? Be surprised. What is certain, however, is that it will be an adventurous journey.

• Comedy
• Family
• Adventure

by Filip Gašparović Melis

When a paper dragon escapes from his little friends, cow Moo, bear Bee and rabbit Doo have no idea that in searching for it they’ll discover a secret garden. What lies behind the closed doors?

• Comedy
• Adventure
• Family

by Candy Guard

Hand-drawn Animation

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age

by Božena Možíšová

The series follows a young girl named Dorotka and her loyal parrot, Koko, as they experience various cheerful, imaginative, and sometimes adventurous stories. In the episode “Dorotka a hvězda” (1977), the pair encounters a star.

• Comedy

by Vlasta Pospísilová

Why spend money on a gym when you can create it in your basement. But also remember about the right diet.

• Comedy

by Thomas Szabo

A curious little caterpillar dreams of exploring beyond its familiar garden home to see the vast, mysterious ocean. Leaving the safety of the leaves, it embarks on a tiny yet epic adventure through the miniature world of insects. Along the way, the caterpillar encounters quirky bugs, unexpected obstacles, and the unpredictable beauty of nature.

• Pre-school
• Comedy

by Candy Guard

An animated sit-com about Dolly Pond, a woman trying to escape her dreary life. In the first episode Dolly falls madly in love with ginger-haired Sid Boatman but fantasies about ginger-haired babies give way to fears of a lifetime of drudgery.

• Comedy

by Richard Goleszowski, Christopher Sadler

Shaun is a sheep who doesn’t follow the flock – in fact, he leads them into all sorts of scrapes and scraps, turning peace in the valley into mayhem in the meadow. Shaun and his pals run rings around their poor sheepdog Bitzer, as he tries to stop the Farmer finding out what’s going on behind his back. Every day brings a new adventure for Shaun!

• Comedy
• Family

by Hiroshi Saito

Moominfamily has already started hibernating when they are woken up by a busy Hemulen, who tells them they can’t possibly go on sleeping when Christmas is coming!

by Candy Guard

Dolly Pond’s relationships are like no other…

• Drama
• Comedy

by Candy Guard

Two women go to a party with high hopes for a bit of excitement, maybe they might meet someone, but end up hanging around the food.

• Drama
• Comedy

by Candy Guard

A particularly acidic orange juice finds Dolly dreadlocked and stilt-walking naked – a trip to remember, if only she could!

• Comedy