BEST ANIMATION FILM / ON WAR, VIOLENCE AND TRAUMA

  • Premise
  • Feferle
  • History of Humanity, Summarized (for Kids)
  • Fishbowl World
  • Root Note 
  • When It Comes (it will have your eyes)
  • Father’s Letters
  • 74
  • Holy Heaveness
Screening:
Palace of Culture Pernik, Hall 1
  • Root Note

    Guy Larsen United Kingdom, Animation, English, 00:06:57

    Four starving plants scavenge to exist on the edge of an arid slate mine. Then they discover something that gives them purpose and allows them to thrive - jazz music. Root Note is a story of finding your passion in a conforming world.

  • When it comes (it will have your eyes)

    Izibene Oñederra Spain, Drama, Inequalities, Dystopia, Environmental, No Dialogue, 00:12:46

    A small community has entered a state of collapse due to an environmental crisis and is adapting as best it can to the new reality. The privileged residents live a hedonistic life based on carpe diem, while the others struggle to survive without any other alternative. What is yet to come? If there is nothing left, can anything save us?

  • Feferle

    Alica Khaet Germany, Fiction, German, 00:14:48

    Feferle, confronted with her father's loss, wanders through her memories in the cluttered apartment, pondering whether she can approach her family's history through the material remains and raw facts.

  • Father's Letters

    Alexey Evstigneev France, Animation, Russian, 00:12:10

    In 1934, Professor Vangengheim is condemned to the Gulag on the Solovki. As he pretends to be on a grand voyage of exploration, he crafts imaginative tales in letters to his daughter Eleonora, shielding her from the truth of his sentencing as a "traitor to the motherland”.

  • Premise

    Ambra Garlaschelli Roberto Grasso Italy, Drama, Italian, 00:05:54

    Premise explores every encounter as a confrontation, tracing humanity’s evolution through conflict and desire. It reflects on a primal urge for beauty—doomed to destroy what it seeks, only to begin again, ever more insatiable.