The awards to be presented are as follows:

• Award for Best Film
• People’s Choice Award

The Award for Best Film is accompanied by an Є1000 reward.

LIST OF FILMS IN THE INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION COMPETITION

Percebes, Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves – 12′ (Portugal)
With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle. From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.

The Last Visit, Keawalee Warutkomain – 15′ (Estonia)
My 5-year journey from bereavement to the last goodbye, through an exploration of ‘existence’ and ‘life’, from different perspectives and stages of mind.

Poppy Flowers, Evridiki Papaiakovou – 4′ (Estonia)
Remembering is a fluid affair. A daughter tries to reconcile with her mother through memories of their shared rituals, exposing the intricate aspects of their relationship. As the daughter matures, she begins to contemplate conventional notions of divinity. The blank frames of the 35mm strip regain their function as memorabilia in the process of engraving her past onto its surface.

Jus d’orange, του Alexandre Athané – 14′ (France, Poland)
Toni grows oranges. He loves them, they are his treasure. Until one day, strange cargo ships dock in the valley. Cargos loaded with… GREEN oranges!

Open Wings, Taxiarchias Deligiannis, Vasilis Tsiouvaras – (Greece)
A little refugee finch bravely saves the life of the wounded wild pigeon leader and also manages to win his respect.

Voiceless, Samuel Patthey – 15′ (Switzerland)
Dan is a young man who spends a lot of time in his flat. His routine is always accompanied by electronic music pumping through his headphones. But when he steps outside, he feels disconnected from the world around him and only finds solace in nightclubs. Techno music and drugs transport him to a world where he can be himself, where he feels free. One day, he catches the eye of a baby which will change his perception of the world around him.

Zarko, You Will Spoil the Child!, Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic – 14′ (Croatia, France)
The film recounts the memories of a childhood in Split in the 1980s. These are stories retold after Sunday lunch when everyone is in a good mood, stories filled with emotions we can easily relate to. But above all, the film is a moving tribute to the love of a grandpa and grandma who did their best to keep their granddaughter smiling.

Prikosymphono, Dolan Bailey, Leonardo Dal Fabro, Alejandra Diaz, Elena Gazi – 5′ (Greece)
Placed in Lefkada, an island in the Ionian Sea, a little girl finds a paper from 1955, that contains a list of objects that belonged to her great aunt and proceeds to ask her grandfather about it. He explains to her that this is the list of her dowry, an old Greek tradition, in which the bride’s possessions were concede to the groom as a formal marriage agreement. Moved by this finding, he starts recalling memories of his childhood, witnessing his older sister Armenia, having an arranged marriage and leaving behind her family and the island for a better future.

The Eastern Rain, Milly Yencken – 9′ (Estonia)
If the rain were to fall indoors, but never out doors …where do we begin to look for shelter?

Swifts, της Ada Napiorkowski – 5′ (Estonia)
Like each year, the swifts are coming back to their homes in the sleeping districts. This time they don’t find any humans. The space is filled with spirits.

Almost Forgotten, Dimitri Mihajlovic, Miguel Lima – 9′ (Portugal)
A woman wanders through the impermanence of her childhood memories, trying to rebuild the story of the house where her grandfather lived.

Cold Soup, της Marta Monteiro – 10′ (Portugal)
A woman victim of domestic violence looks back at the years when she was married, recalling how difficult it was to stay afloat.

It shouldn’t rain tomorrow, της Maria Trigo Teixeira – 12′ (Portugal)
Feeling that her mother may no longer be able to live on her own, a woman moves back to her childhood home.
As she tries to adapt to the new situation, her mother continues to drift away.