Ionian ContemporaryAnimation Festival ICONA November 13th - 16th, 2025
Professional Competition 4
Friday 14/11/2025 19:00 - 21:00, Saturday 15/11/2025 07:00 - 09:00
Total Duration: 1:53:00
- Love in Times of whatever right now is called / Amor en los Tiempos de como sea que se llame el presente 18:13 Colombia 2025
Directed: Valentina Qaszulxkef Screenplay: Valentina Qaszulxkef Production: Juan Pablo Soto Dialogue Language: No Dialogue, Spanish In a classical art museum where the paintings come to life at night, a frustrated Black painter who works as a janitor must decide whether she will intervene when a new acquisition portrays the rape of a female slave.
- Wild - Animated Pilot 03:52 United States 2024
An exhaustion ridden mouse dreams of life with a flare of freedom and magic, but can Chi work hard enough to live the life they want?
- Memoria Colectiva 20:00 2025
Directed: Cristina Colmenares, Manuel-Antonio Monteagudo Screenplay: Carolina Wiegering Production: Cristina Colmenares, Manuel-Antonio Monteagudo, Etienne Jaxel-Truer, Andrés Cotrina Dialogue Language: Spanish In 1983, during the darkest days of Peru’s Armed Conflict with the Shining Path, masked soldiers entered Adelina’s home and took her husband away. She would never see him again. After facing silence and contempt from the Police and Army, Adelina joins forces with the many other women who have lost their husbands and children to soldiers who were supposed to protect them. Together, they will unite to demand justice.
- The Sycamore 03:36 2025
Directed: Jared D. Wess Screenplay: Jared D. Weiss Dialogue Language: English Two weary travellers seek out shade and sustenance from an idle tree. Based on the fable, "The Travellers and the Plane Tree" by Aesop.
- Finnish and paranoid dream / Sueño finlandés y paranoico 07:00 Argentina 2024
Directed: Jimena Aguilar Screenplay: Jimena Aguilar Production: Jimena Aguilar, Mantrixa Dialogue Language: Spanish How to talk about the future when it seems there is no future? The world exploded and it only remains a voice formulating hypotheses about a future that will be or that already is. What is all this? A prologue to the future? The future itself? A Finnish and paranoid dream? It seems that the future has already arrived and many of our fantasies about the different futuristic imaginaries already inhabit this world along with our humanity. As an example of this: artificial intelligence, a tool that we used to make this short film and that intersects organically with its concept. AI tools used: Stable Diffusion, Kaiber, Pika Labs.
- The Mammal / La Mammifère 03:15 2025
Directed: Louison Chambon Screenplay: Louison Chambon, Amandine Chevigny Production: William Henne Dialogue Language: French I am the mammal woman I am the being of flesh I am the being of blood I am the young mother Newly baptized by the cries of child At the end of my nightly howls the stars lined my eyelids while from the cave beneath my moon light bursted
- Uncle Babysitter 3 / 叔叔不行鳥3 06:40 Hong Kong 2025
Directed: tungwood Screenplay: tungwood Production: tungwood Dialogue Language: English, Yue Chinese (Cantonese) Uncle is stuck helping his nephew with homework, only to be flushed into a life-or-death toilet disaster!
- Iris 15:00 Portugal 2024
Directed: João Monteiro Screenplay: Luís Vintém Production: Praça Filmes, Ana Carina Estróia Dialogue Language: Portuguese A man begins to suffer from a strange eye disease that threatens the foundations of his life. He decides to resort to a surgery but the failure of it drags him into frustration and despair. In the moment of greatest alienation, when it seems that strangeness has enveloped everything around him, he discovers that perhaps the foundations of his world are deeper than he thought, that perhaps there is beauty and poetry in the way the world reveals itself before his eyes.
- Two Ships / TWO SHIPS 06:00 2025
Directed: McKinley Benson Screenplay: McKinley Benson, Mackenzie Benson Production: Bruno Caetano, Mackenzie Benson Dialogue Language: No Dialogue While working opposite schedules, a couple attempts to maintain their connection through fleeting encounters.
- Bright / BRIGHT 06:00 2025
Directed: Caterina de Marchis Oñate, Ana Tirado Sáez-Bravo Screenplay: Caterina de Marchis Oñate, Ana Tirado Sáez-Bravo, Paloma de Lorenzo Coca Production: Carmen María López Ramírez, Irene Fuster Santos Dialogue Language: Spanish Consumed by desire, a candle blurs the boundaries between love and obsession by risking everything to possess the one she can never truly have, unaware that her own light could lead her into darkness.
- TOP 10 THINGS TO SEE 14:15 Estonia 2025
Directed: Mihkel Reha Screenplay: Mihkel Reha Production: Kalev Tamm Dialogue Language: No Dialogue Something large and dark arrives in the seaside old town. A summer storm? No, it’s a gigantic cruise ship filled with curious tourists. So much to see — so little time! The magnificent Old Town with ten world-famous attractions. How many of them can you recognize? The group is led by a local guide. Tighten your sandal straps — narrow cobblestone streets await.
- Awakening 05:27 2025
Directed: Ivan Arkhipov Screenplay: Ivan Arkhipov Dialogue Language: No Dialogue At the beginning of a lifepath a man is overwhelmed with passions and carnal desires. He then becomes tired and calms down. Consiousness and creativity are awake. It is captivating. The humanity had been asleep for a very long time. Now is the moment of life awakening and sensing ourselves as a part of something bigger, part of a whole. In this outcry uprises a power for new self-manifestation in our natural way.
- Steeping 03:15 United Kingdom 2025
Directed: Eilidh Nicoll Production: Abigail Addison Strangers ponder our attitudes towards death and dying - reflecting on how a conversation over tea and coffee at a ‘Death Cafe’ might make broaching the subject a little less terrifying.
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