Student Competition 6

1. I REMEMBER, I FEEL, I SEE, I AM SEEN 04:36 2024
   

   Directed:	Collective Work
   Production:	Incubatorul de Animație (The Animation Incubator), Kar Balan, Alexandra Grama

   
   

   An animated journey about memories, sensory experiences, and the ways we connect with each other in a world rich with emotion and sensation. Inspired by meditative sensory exercises, this piece explores how we remember, feel, see, and are seen within our surroundings, with particular attention paid to the soundscape, which heightens the experience.

2. La La Land 08:18 Serbia 2026
   

   Directed:	Kristijan Jočić
   Screenplay:	Kristijan Jočić
   Production:	Anastasija Kostadinov, Kristijan Jočić
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   On a seemingly perfect industrial farm, every chicken lives according to the same routine—consuming the same food, obeying the same commands, and believing they are safe. Marked with an identification chip and confined to a tiny cage, Lina has never questioned the world around her until a mysterious white dove appears beyond the walls, awakening a longing for something she cannot yet understand. Guided by instinct rather than certainty, she begins to uncover the horrifying machinery hidden behind the illusion of order. Blending dystopian allegory with striking visual storytelling, La La Land explores the cost of conformity, the manipulation of truth, and the enduring power of individual courage. But if every generation is conditioned to obey before it is even born, can freedom ever truly survive?

3. Inside the locker / В шкафу 05:00 Russian Federation 2026
   

   Directed:	Алёна Карпова
   Dialogue Language:	Russian

   
   

   Little girl Masha has never been in kindergarten before, and her first day there turns up to be very scary for her. The locker becomes her safe space where noone can reach her. Until a curious boy Pasha comes to help her.

4. LES DÉSERTEURS 05:21 2025
   

   Directed:

   Émilie CHARTIER, Ia KUHN DE CHIZELLE, Matias MOULIN MENDOZA, Juliette PEYRAUD, Titouan PIMONT

   
   

   Dawn of a battle. An army prepares for war. At the very beginning, the flag bearer we follow gets shot down. Unknown soldiers then take the relay from him, until they themselves disappear. Meanwhile, an opaque smoke overtakes the battlefield. A last soldier, bruised and battered, emerges from the veil of violence and spares the life of another one. He walks away and becomes a deserter.

5. THE CITY OF SILENCE 07:43 2025
   

   Directed:

   Marie Cornemillot, Manon Finet, Alexia Garde, Maïlys Girouard, Manon Laporte, Salomé Pereira, Milo-Clément Philipp, Margaux Plassard, Emma Stassi & Flavie Vericel.

   
   

   In a world where breaking the silence will get you killed, Ethan will discover the healing power of music.

6. My Grandmother is a Skydiver / Моя Бабуся Парашутистка 15:00 2025
   

   Directed:	Polina Piddubna
   Screenplay:	Polina Piddubna
   Production:	Polina Piddubna
   Dialogue Language:	Tatar, Ukrainian

   
   

   Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother's safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to restore and rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.

7. MAMITA 06:45 Argentina 2025
   

   Directed:	Chiara Boiani
   Screenplay:	Chiara Boiani
   Production:	Chiara Boiani
   Dialogue Language:	Spanish

   
   

   Vanesa (26) is about to have her baby in a somber hospital, where she and her roommates are victims of obstetric violence. In her loneliness, Vanesa gives birth to her baby but starts to fear that it will be taken from her.

8. The Panic Inside 08:33 Switzerland 2026
   

   Directed:	Matthias Strasser
   Production:	Sabina Stöckler
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   How does a chronic people-pleaser, who struggles to say no to his friends' constant requests, finally learn to set boundaries, confidently say no, and reclaim his personal freedom?

9. SCREAM! IT'S GROWING! / HURLE ! ÇA POUSSE ! 03:28 2026
   

   Directed:	Anna MURIE
   Screenplay:	Anna MURIE
   Production:	Anna MURIE
   Dialogue Language:	French

   
   

   Corentin, a slender and reserved young man, comes across a video of a muscular, charismatic man encouraging him to go to the gym. Intrigued, he decides to check it out, but discovers a place with a strange atmosphere, where the members have a strikingly unusual appearance.

10. String Theory / Teoría De Cuerdas 05:23 Colombia 2026
    

    Directed:	Diego Hernán Gómez Gutiérrez
    Screenplay:	Diego Hernán Gómez Gutiérrez, Laura Paola Martínez Castro, Sebastián Avellaneda Mondragón, John Edisson Borda Castiblanco, Andrés Fernando Castro Moreno
    Production:	Diego Hernán Gómez Gutiérrez, Laura Paola Martínez Castro, Sebastián Avellaneda Mondragón, John Edisson Borda Castiblanco, Andrés Fernando Castro Moreno, Tatiana Sofía Lozano Brochero, Juanita Samper Calderón
    Dialogue Language:	Spanish

    
    

    In a world where every object is made out of a single string, a scientist's experiment will cause this line to spiral out of control and begin unraveling everything in its path. Although the chaos starts as a series of minor inconveniences, the destruction will gradually escalate to catastrophic levels.

11. A Princess' Guide to Fairytale Love 06:29 2025
    

    Directed:	Violette AVOUAC, Ramya HEGDE, Tshegofatso Tracy PITSENG, Kelvin SHANI, Polina SARATOVA, Ashil SHAJI
    Production:	Cécile Blondel
    Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

    
    

    Princess Lucette hires a dragon to stage her own kidnapping —only to discover that forging fairytales is trickier than it seems.

12. Chère fin, 07:49 2025
    

    Directed:	Khéma COUSIN, Lien FRANCKEL, Laora LE BOURSICOT, Alissende MASSON, Joséphine MOUNIER, Clément SADEN
    Production:	Cécile Blondel

    
    

    An old postman goes through his last tour of deliveries in the archipelago that he worked in his whole life, gliding on water with his old bike. He finds himself confronted to the reality of his coming retirement.

13. Cassubia/Kaszëbë / Kaszubia/Kaszëbë 04:39 Poland 2025
    

    Directed:	Zuzanna Pobłocka-Bulczak
    Screenplay:	Zuzanna Pobłocka-Bulczak
    Dialogue Language:	Polish

    
    

    Impressionistic vision of Kashubia, a region in present-day Poland that has been home to native Pomeranians for centuries. a personal journey deep into the Pomeranian forests; a gaze upon the Kashubian lakes, the sea, and the dunes. 'Cassubia/Kaszëbë' is a path to discovering one's ethnic identity and a sensitivity that has lain dormant at the bottom of the sea for many years between local memories and mythology.

14. Cycle of Life 07:00 Israel 2025
    

    Dialogue Language:

    English

    
    

    Jeff is walking through a grove and rapping with his friend Horse, when suddenly he steps on a rotten apple. Horse is delighted by the chance, but in a moment of frustration Jeff kicks the apple away. In return, Horse turns Jeff into an apple seed, and Jeff is forced to learn about the Cycle of Life while going through the different stages of an apple tree- until he’ll turn into an apple that’ll make up for the lost one.