still from "Visiting the Zoo", dir. Maria Zilli
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Films Selected for the Competitions of the 15th Animocje Festival

2026. 02.10

We have completed the selection of films for the competitions of the 15th Animocje International Animated Film Festival - and it was an intense experience. Out of 3,178 submissions, our selection team has chosen 98 animations that will soon compete for the attention, emotions, and hearts of both the Jury and the audience.

This year’s competitions deliver an incredibly strong dose of animated cinema. Full of moving stories and memorable characters, these films can both entertain and provoke reflection - covering personal themes as well as more global ones. It promises to be a true encounter with animated giants.

The selected films will be shown in three competition categories: the Main Competition, the Films for Children and Young Adults Competition, and the Music Films Competition - which, as you probably know, is not limited to music videos but also includes films where music plays a key role.

For those who love plot twists, we have prepared two special Play-off screenings. Here, the audience holds the cards - the film that receives the most votes will join the Main Competition.

Join us and be part of this extraordinary animated adventure.
Below, we present the list of films selected for the competitions

Main Competition

  1. A Round of Applause For Death, dir. Stephen Irwin, United Kingdom 2024, 4’42’’
  2. Because Today is Saturday/ Porque hoje é Sábado, dir. Alice Eça Guimarães, Portugal 2025, 12’24’’
  3. Blessed, dir. Birute Sodeikaite, Canada 2025, 7’42’’
  4. Brown Morning/ Matin Brun, dir. Carlo Vogele, France, Luxembourg 2025, 9’02’’
  5. Can you hear me?/ Czy Ty mnie słyszysz?, dir. Anastazja Naumenko, Poland 2025, 15’
  6. Cold Home/ Zimny Dom, dir. Alicja Liss, Poland 2025, 8’22’’
  7. Free the Chickens, dir. Matúš Vizár, Slovakia 2024, 15’
  8. Hello, Headquarters/ Halo, Centrala, dir. Zuzanna Zofia Heller, Poland 2025, 4’55’’
  9. Hunting/ Qui part à la chasse, dir. Lea Favre, Switzerland 2025, 10’50’’
  10. Tears/ Rozdarcia, dir. Paulina Ziółkowska, Poland 2025, 8’48’’
  11. Tennis, Oranges, dir. Sean Pecknold, USA 2024, 10’53’’
  12. The Pool or Death of a Goldfish/ Basen albo śmierć złotej rybki, dir. Daria Kopiec, Poland 2025, 13’47’’
  13. TV or The Disturbance on Forest Hill Road/ TV oder Die Ruhestörung an der Waldbergstrasse, dir. Frederic Siegel, Switzerland 2025, 14’09’’
  14. To the woods/ Une Fugue, dir. Agnès Patron, France 2025, 15’05’’
  15. Wish You Were Ear, dir. Mirjana Balogh, Hungary 2025, 10’14’’
  16. Long Distance, dir. Iulia Voitova, France 2025, 8’16’’
  17. Butterfly Kiss, dir. Zohar Dvir, Germany 2024, 10’33’’
  18. Challenges of a solitary mind, dir. Astrid Rothaug, Austria 2025, 3’
  19. Dollhouse Elephant, dir. Jenny Jokela, Finland 2025, 11’14’’
  20. I died in Irpin, dir. Anastasiia Falileieva, Slovakia, Ukraine 2024, 11’29’’
  21. The Sycamore, dir. Jared D. Wess, USA 2025, 3’35’’
  22. Tonight I’ll Dream About Water/ ​​Dzisiaj przyśni mi się woda, dir. Adrianna Matwiejczuk, Poland 2025, 14’03’’
  23. Who Killed Narin G**** ?/ Qui a tué Narin G**** ?, dir. Ayce Kartal, France 2025, 4’42’’
  24. Nissa Scrim, dir. Marcel Tigchelaar, Netherlands 2025, 9’40’’
  25. Ploo, dir. Jon Frickey, Germany 2025, 15’08’’
  26. The Graffiti, dir. Ryo Orikasa, Japan 2025, 12’33’’

Music Films Competition

  1. Porosty - Dog, dir. Jacek Gabis, Poland 2024, 3’35’’
  2. SAKANAMON - Supponpon, dir. Hoji Tsuchiya, Saigo no Shudan, Japan 2024, 3’27’’
  3. Signal, dir. Emma Carré, Mathilde Parquet, Belgium, France 2025, 16’44’’
  4. Choolers Division - Capitaine T, dir. Monsieur Pimpant, Belgium 2025, 4’53’’
  5. Oberka - Wildbait, dir. Lee Oz, Eliška Oz, Czech Republic 2025, 3’05’’
  6. Ordinary Life/ 普通の生活（Futsu no Seikatsu), dir. Yoriko Mizushiri, France, Japan 2025, 9’48’’
  7. Yangbans - HBC, dir. Léon Moh-Cah, South Korea 2025, 3’40’’
  8. Psychonauts/ Psihonauti, dir. Niko Radas, Croatia 2025, 7’57’’
  9. The Sky Was Candy, dir. Anh Tú Nguyen, Germany 2025, 2’59’’
  10. Presto Agitato, until we all vanished, dir. Yeoleum Choi, USA 2025, 2’36’’
  11. Birdlife/ Vogelleben, dir. Lukas Wind, Estonia 2025, 2’44’’
  12. Ovary-Acting, dir. Ida Melum, United Kingdom 2025, 12’26’’
  13. Visiting the Zoo, dir. Maria Zilli, Italy 2025, 3’45’’

Films for Children and Young Adults Competition

3+

  1. Pucio and the Crocodile/ Pucio i krokod, dir. Marta Stróżycka, Poland 2025, 7’12’’
  2. First Flight, dir. Adrian Jaffé, Germany 2025, 3’18’’
  3. Once Upon a Time in Dragonville, dir. Marika Herz, France, Switzerland 2024, 9’15’’
  4. Penguin Benjamin/ O pingwinie Benjaminie, dir. Daria Solak, Magda Pilecka, Poland 2025, 3’10’’
  5. The Rumble-Bumble Rally/ Morgenfugl og Murmeldyr: Rydderacet, dir, Annette Saugestad Helland, Johan Kaos, Norway 2024, 8’40’’
  6. The Rabbits' House at Number 968/ 兔子巷968號, dir. Jai-Xin Wu, Taiwan 2025, 5’21’’
  7. Sketches on Ice/ Esquisses sur glace, dir. Marion Auvin, Belgium, France 2025, 4’05’’
  8. I don't know what to do, dir. Akshita Tyagi, Leyla Belarbi, Lia Macruz, Brazil, India, Italy, Spain 2024, 4’30’’

7+

  1. Beetles/ Żuczki, dir. Piotr Chmielewski, Poland 2025, 9’51’’
  2. The Magic Portal/ Le portail magique, dir. Collective 18 children, Belgium 2024, 10’45’’
  3. Writing Home/ O lýkožroutce, dir. Eva Matejovičová, Czech Republic 2024, 12’04’’
  4. How the Bear Composed a Song, dir. Kristína Bajaníková, Slovakia 2024, 6’57’’
  5. I found a box/ J’ai trouvé une boîte, dir. Éric Montchaud, France 2025, 9’
  6. The Weather's Hot Today/ Il fait chaud aujourd'hui, dir. Liv Ronzon, France 2025, 5’26’’
  7. Glowberry, dir. Jessica M. Fisher, USA 2025, 4’45’’
  8. Grandpa is sleeping, dir. Matei Branea, Romania 2025, 13’
  9. The Song of Storms, dir. Caroline Attia, France 2025, 26’20’’
  10. White Carousel, dir. Nadya Neo, Singapore 2025, 3’59’’
  11. City in the Fox, dir. Mikael Lindskov Jacobsen, Germany 2026, 8’53’’
  12. Apocalypsis, dir. Nicolas Sanabria, Emmanuel Alcalá, Andrés Llanezas, Argentina 2024, 4’12’’

12+

  1. Dog Ear, dir. Péter Vácz, Hungary 2025, 20’45’’
  2. Grandpa has a broken eye and mom is an adventure/ Morfar har et ødelagt øye og Mamma er en adventure, dir. Marita Mayer, Norway 2025, 8’13’’
  3. Out For Ice Cream/ Crème à glace, dir. Rachel Samson, Canada 2024, 9’11’’
  4. The 5-Second Rule, dir. Yura Boguslavsky, Armenia 2025, 1’32’’
  5. Dream, dir. Semiramis Mamata, Greece 2025, 4’44’’
  6. Holy Shit, dir. Taxiarchis Deligiannis, Vasilis Tsiouvaras, Greece 2025, 4’38’’
  7. I Am Not Here Anymore/ Już Mnie Nie Ma, dir. Nawojka Wierzbowska, Poland 2025, 14’59’’
  8. I Think I'm Going to Die, dir. Ning Xuan Tan, Singapore 2024, 5’10’’
  9. The Laser, dir. Wren Edwards, USA 2025, 3’45
  10. The Elephant Who Wasn't the Last/ Nie taki ostatni słoń, dir. Grzegorz Koncewicz, Poland 2025, 10’26’’

15+

  1. Dear Leo Sokolosky/ Drogi Leo Sokolosky, dir. Weronika Szyma, Poland 2024, 8’
  2. My Brother, My Brother, dir. Abdelrahman Dnewar, Saad Dnewar, Egypt 2025, 14’57’’
  3. On Saint Nicholas' Eve/ În Seara de Moș Nicolae, dir. Emy Mirel Ivasca, Romania 2025, 11’
  4. Ostrich, dir. Marie Kenov, Switzerland 2025, 8’33’’
  5. S The Wolf, dir. Sameh Alaa, France 2025, 10’30’’
  6. Dipolar Bipolar, dir. Quankai Li, Japan 2025, 8’50’’
  7. Autokar, dir. Sylwia Szkiłądź, Belgium, France 2025, 17’27’’
  8. Bugss, dir. Jacopo Degl'innocenti, USA 2025, 2’13’’
  9. Póg mo Pigeon, dir. Clíodhna Lyons, Ireland 2024, 6’45’’

Play-off

  1. Hurikán, dir. Jan Saska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia 2024, 13’07’’
  2. Kyiv Cake, dir. Mykyta Lyskov, Estonia, Ukraine 2025, 22’10’’
  3. ima wa ima, dir. Chun Yam Keung, Hong Kong, United Kingdom 2025, 4’41’’
  4. As If the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up/ Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado, dir. Natalia León, France 2025, 14’02’
  5. WHALE 52 - Suite For Man, Boy, And Whale, dir. Daniel Neiden, USA 2025, 11’17’’
  6. You Are Not Part of The Cake, dir. Ting-Jui Chen, Taiwan, USA 2025, 4’33’’
  7. There it is - the brain/ Oto mózg, dir. Natalia Modrzewska, Poland 2025, 5’38’’
  8. The Eating of an Orange, dir. May Kindred-Boothby, United Kingdom 2025, 7’29’’ 
  9. Thank You Dr. Farsi, dir. Samaneh Shojaei, Iran 2025, 8’09’’
  10. Siri Wonder, dir. Andreas Sven Granér, Sweden 2025, 13’35’’
  11. Potlems, dir. Alberto Allegri Rodríguez, Denmark 2025, 4’16’’
  12. Murmur, dir. Veronika Valentová, Czech Republic 2024, 6’26’’
  13. More Than Happy, dir. Wei Keong Tan, Singapore 2025, 6’58’’
  14. Lucus, dir. David Fidalgo, Spain 2025, 13’59’’
  15. Lined up, dir. Barbora Vanická, Czech Republic 2025, 3’14’’
  16. Letters From Little Jimmy, dir. David John Graham, Finland 2025, 3’48’’
  17. Jump Zoo, dir. Lyza Jarvis, Estonia 2025, 4’52’’
  18. Lapkričio Dvidešimtosios Orkestras - Dragas, dir. Robertas Nevecka, Lithuania 2025, 4’42’’
  19. Creaky Chompers/ Craque Ganache, dir. Étienne Bonnet, France 2024, 3’36’’
  20. Bar Croquette freestyle/ Bar Krokiet freestyle, dir. Maria Dakszewicz, Poland 2025, 5’14’’ – the film has been withdrawn by the director