International Competition Animated Film 1

Exploding tomatoes, bullet-riddled walls, snails looking for houses. A return to a childhood during the Bosnian War where beautiful memories lie next to traumatic ones.

A father disappears, literally flying away. What to do when a parent suffers from mental illness? A tender father-daughter reconciliation in poetic images.

Children who are stillborn or die too young – not an uncommon fate. But society hardly ever talks about it. This film gives parents a space to grieve and break the silence.

Petra spends her twilight years with her four-legged friend in the wilderness. She has perfected the art of living alone, but then her dog finds a handsome, frozen man in the snow.

Starlings circle in flocks above the retirement home. What does the end of life feel like? A man grows the first feathers and senses that he is gradually drifting from this world.