Competition for the Audience Award

A film about being stuck in the cycle of domestic violence. With troubling animations that keep erasing what was, but don’t make it invisible.

A young woman re-reads the letters her father wrote her from prison fifteen years ago. The relationship between father and daughter as a fragmentary animation.

Seno’s botanical essay takes us from photos from the American colonial period on the Philippines – of humans and nature – to the connection between photography and colonialism.

Prison inmates breeding carp reflect on freedom and missed Christmas dinners. Artful black and white film with anonymous protagonists in a dreary landscape.

The filmmaker’s son was killed in an accident. He was working on a flip book that his father finishes. The proximity of happiness and loss in the most succinct form.

Toxic gas leaks into the North Sea from a munitions dump. Undeterred, the fishing industry’s assembly lines keep running. A sobering swan song for the sea as we knew it.

A poetic portrait sketch in analogue film aesthetics: Living by and in the water shapes the daily life of a woman who has lovingly converted a freighter into a houseboat.

Madrid today, seen from the point of view of a 1901 sociological study: criminal, tattooed, queer life everywhere. A humorous and playful praise of disobedience.

Marcel Barelli went stalking, observing and listening closely. Briskly animated and wittily narrated, he tells of zoological caprices in matters of gender and sexuality.

A philosophical journey from the Amazon to the Ardennes. The former inaccessible, the other neatly ordered, both forests invite us to ask ourselves questions about the origin of existence.