Official Selection 2025
Animation 2
From Prague’s chaotic streets to a sweltering motel at the end of the world, the remarkable shorts in Animation 2 crackle with offbeat humour, strange metamorphoses, and daring inner journeys. Experience a visionary mix of cosmic cravings, cursed dates, balding brothers and bottled-up longing - all told through the limitless shape-shifting power of animation.
Sunday 21st September, 12.30pm
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BEAUTIFUL MEN
Dir: Nicolas Keppens
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
S THE WOLF
Dir: Sameh Alaa
A middle-aged man reflects back on his tumultuous adolescent phase while sitting in his childhood bedroom. Through intricate and deeply personal musings somehow all tied to his hair, we accumulate meaning into the larger journey of his life.
LARVAL
Dir: Alice Bloomfield
A lonely girl fantasises about possessing the looks of her celebrity idol and winning the heart of her unrequited love. In a surreal, dreamlike turn of events, featuring a moth-like spirit, she discovers that perhaps she should have been more careful what she wished for.
SOLEIL GRIS
Dir: Camille Monnier
Under a scorching sun, two bickering teenagers swelter at a seedy motel while a voice on the radio warns of the world’s end. As the heat intensifies, the ecological apocalypse suddenly arrives.
SISOWATH QUAY
Dir: Stephanie Lansaque & François Leroy
Nakry and Sothear meet on Phnom Penh's Sisowath Quay for their first date. At nightfall, the romance turns into a nightmare when the young girl transforms into a strange creature.
CRAB DIANE
Dir: Ryan McCown
A young woman, tired of working at a seaside diner, reaches out to cosmic forces.
HURIKÁN
Dir: Jan Saska
Hurikán rushes out to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.
Official Selection 2025
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