Professional Competition 1

1. TED_ED The tale of the Monkey King and the Buddha 05:58 2025
   

   Directed:	Mohammad Babakoohi, Yijia Cao
   Screenplay:	Ji Hao
   Production:	Gerta XHELO
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   Follow Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, as he attempts to outwit the Buddha and escape from his clever traps and imprisonment. -- After wreaking havoc across the heavens and being captured in a white-hot prison cell, the Monkey King freed himself once more and was itching for a fight. Desperate, the Jade Emperor called on the supreme power in all the heavens: the Buddha himself. But even in the face of this almighty opponent, Sun Wukong was not cowed. Ji Hao follows the Monkey King's quest to outwit the Buddha.

2. Lessons with Looloo: Shelter 04:27 United Kingdom 2025
   

   Directed:	Dave McKenna, Steve Roberts
   Screenplay:	Dave McKenna, Steve Roberts
   Production:	Dave McKenna
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   An educational film teaching Looloo and her prehistoric human friends how to build a shelter

3. Ace 05:47 Portugal 2024
   

   Directed:	Bruno Simões
   Screenplay:	Titus Herman
   Production:	Carlota Pou

   
   

   When a fire starts at Joe's building, endangering everyone's lives, his guide dog Ace risks his own life in order to save the day.

4. The Hunt 08:00 2024
   

   Directed:	Diogo Costa
   Screenplay:	Diogo Costa
   Production:	Diogo Costa, Bruno Caetano, Bruno Simões, Carlota Pou, Peter Antoniew, Leonardo Verkoelen

   
   

   A group of soldiers, lost in the woods, must face the traumas of their past and the terrifying forces stalking them.

5. Dance of Creation 03:13 2025
   

   Directed:	Natalia Ryss
   Screenplay:	Natalia Ryss
   Production:	Natalia Ryss
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   The world comes into being in a joyful dance.

6. The Guardians of Caninana / Os Guardiões da Cobra Grande 09:57 Brazil 2025
   

   Directed:	Yago de Almeida
   Screenplay:	Pricilla Maria
   Production:	ADriana Pinto, Joice Ribeiro
   Dialogue Language:	Portuguese

   
   

   Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a gigantic creature has been sleeping for a thousand years. Its ancestral rest is protected by the Guardians. However, a single mistake could put everything at risk. "The Guardians of Caninana" is a short-animated movie inspired by Amazonian traditions and culture, gathering adventure, magic, and legacy.

7. Patient comes first / Első a beteg! 03:00 Hungary 2024
   

   Directed:	Zoltán Zsolt Porpáczy
   Screenplay:	Zoltán Zsolt Porpáczy
   Production:	Gertrud Andrási
   Dialogue Language:	Hungarian

   
   

   Emergency room. Three cabbage-form doctors are trying to revive an old goat on an operating table. The goat’s charming daughter is waiting behind the door, watching the scene through the door’s window and crying. When the goat returns, he immediately devours one of the cabbage doctors. Above them a big picture is hanging on the wall. It depicts a shady wolf professor with a hand gesture remembering the doctors to the Hippocratic Oath. They have to make a choice between their duty and their own survival.

8. The Paper Ghost / Il Fantasma di carta 06:11 Italy 2024
   

   Directed:	Fulvio Davide Ricca
   Production:	Turtle Studio Animation
   Dialogue Language:	Italian

   
   

   Edgar Allan Poe is devastated by the loss of his beloved Annabelle. During a sleepless night, the girl's ghost visits him. Desperate at not being able to reach her, he turns his study upside down, injuring his hand, he discovers that he has a particular power that will allow him to write his stories without great effort and that will make him achieve, despite himself, his long-awaited desire.

9. The fire maned / O guará de fogo 17:09 Brazil 2024
   

   Directed:	João Paulo Ferreira da Silva
   Screenplay:	João Paulo Ferreira da Silva
   Production:	João Paulo Ferreira da Silva
   Dialogue Language:	Portuguese

   
   

   An indigenous woman gets lost in the forest and has a maned wolf as her guide. Is this the legendary fire manatee? Contact: jpanimationpro@gmail.com

10. Natah 09:34 Egypt 2024
    

    Directed:	Islam Ahmad
    Production:	Mohanad Hassan

    
    

    A man running from his destiny leaving his love and facing death

11. Freedom 08:56 2025
    

    Directed:	Arjan Brentjes
    Screenplay:	Arjan Brentjes
    Production:	Arjan Brentjes, Richard Vlak
    Dialogue Language:	English

    
    

    Under fascist rule, what is worth saving? And how far will you go to save it? Two astronauts try to rescue forbidden art treasures from a totalitarian regime by smuggling them on their mission to Jupiter. During their long space journey they then encounter some mutual disagreements.

12. Korbat 08:18 2024
    

    Directed:	Niloofar Naderi Tehrani
    Screenplay:	Niloofar Naderi Tehrani, Niloofar Abdollah Zadeh
    Production:	Niloofar Naderi Tehrani
    Dialogue Language:	Persian

    
    

    Korbat is the story of a man who has been unable to cope with the loss of his wife. He avoids facing his grief until an accident forces him to confront it in order to save his daughter's life.

13. KYIV CAKE 22:10 2025
    

    Directed:	Mykyta Lyskov
    Screenplay:	Mykyta Lyskov
    Production:	Kalev Tamm
    Dialogue Language:	English

    
    

    The events of the movie unfold in modern Ukraine. A child is born into a poor family, the parents do everything possible to survive, but just when the crisis reaches its peak, a new danger flares up.

14. Bioshorts – Regeneration Tricks / Biošortky – Regenerační tríčky 03:23 2024
    

    Directed:	Daniela Hýbnerová
    Screenplay:	Daniela Hýbnerová
    Production:	Thuy Linh Mai
    Dialogue Language:	Czech

    
    

    A short animated documentary gives a glimpse into the lives of animals with fascinating cell regeneration abilities that make some nearly immortal. Biologist Jaroslav Petr introduces creatures with unique regenerative skills – the spiny mouse, the fire-bellied boatman and the sea slug Elysia marginata – a stellar trio that will amaze many a scientist.