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Official Selection 2025

Animation 1

Return, reshape, and let go. Profound voyages and altered states take centre stage in this set of extraordinarily imaginative and masterful animations. Taking us to techno clubs, coastal villages, and fantasy cruises, the films in Animation 1 invite us to lose - and sometimes find - ourselves in enchanting moments of connection, collapse, and reinvention.

Saturday 20th September, 2.30pm
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COMO SI LA TIERRA SE LAS HUBIERA TRAGADO (AS IF THE EARTH HAD SWALLOWED THEM UP)
Dir: Natalia León

Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past, reviving memories that are impossible to reconcile with.

KAMINHU
Dir: Marie Vieillevie

Joanna, a young European traveller, wanders Cape Verde, sketchbook in hand. In the village of Esperança, she meets Lito, a fisherman whose presence persuades her to linger a little longer.

SANS VOIX
Dir: Samuel Patthey

Dan is a young man who spends most of his time in his flat, always listening to electronic music. Outside, he feels disconnected and only finds solace in nightclubs, where techno music and drugs make him feel free. One day, a baby's gaze changes his world perception.

THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY
Dir: Sydney Agans

Alex and Christy's night off goes horribly wrong when Christy's baby brother goes missing. After a long night of searching, all hope is lost - until they hear a familiar sound.

PETER HAIR
Dir: Uncle Shortbread

Peter, a hair living on the head of a balding man named Tim, has decided to hand in his notice.

THE SUNSET SPECIAL 2
Dir: Nicolas Gebbe

Sold as the perfect holiday and exclusive family utopia, a luxury cruise unravels into a psychedelic dream world, where artificial facades dissolve, illusions break, and crude realities are unveiled.