Sundruð, Fan Sissoko, BE/FR/IS 2026
International Competition 2026
International Competition 02
Appointments & Tickets
Wed 2.9. • 14:15
Cinema Trafo 1
Thu 3.9. • 18:30
Cinema Trafo 1Fri 4.9. • 20:45
Cinema Trafo 2
Sat 5.9. • 12:15
Cinema Trafo 1
18+
69'
Artist present
Selection Team
- Ivana Kvesić (CH)
- Frederic Siegel (CH)
- Anaïs Voirol (CH)
- Greg de Cuir Jr ()
Jury
- Jakob Eisenbach (DE)
- Maryam Essa Al-Khulaifi (QA)
- Joanna Quinn (GB)
Films
Ivar, Markus Tangre, NO 2025
Ivar
Bothered by her husband Ivar’s intolerable new scent, Anne lies awake at night with a nagging question: should she leave him?Direction Markus Tangre Duration 4' Language Norwegian Country Norway Year 2025
Animation
Steph Hope, Markus Tangre, David Bjørnstad, Daniel Arntzen
Screenplay
Signe Dammann Anker
Music
Benjamin Nerheim
Sound design
Benjamin Nerheim
Production
Rebekka Rognøy, Henrik Zwart
Distributor
Studio Wasia
Decay, Juan Camilo González, CO 2025
Decay
Gunpowder is used to celebrate and to kill in Colombia. A director is burdened by a violent act that touches his family and his art.Direction Juan Camilo González Duration 7' Country Colombia Year 2025
Animation
Diego Cortés, Carla Melo, Andrea Muñoz, Julian Arias, Julian Camilo García
Sound design
Carolina Lucio
Production
Bibiana Rojas
Distributor
Juan Camilo González
Famous Mouse and Joan of Arc, Igor Simić, RS 2026
Famous Mouse and Joan of Arc
Mickey Mouse has a religious vision in which Joan of Arc sends him on a mission to save our souls.Direction Igor Simić Duration 5' Language English Country Serbia Year 2026
Animation
Miloslav Ilić
Screenplay
Igor Simić
Sound design
Shane Berry
Production
Igor Simić
Distributor
Kinopravda Institute
Tar, Fariba Farzanfar, IR 2026
Tar
“Tar” is an experimental animation made with real hair. In Persian, “tar” means both a strand of hair and a traditional string instrument. As an enraged centipede invades a girl’s inner world, destroying instruments, the fragile sound of the tar opens a path to transformation. Direction Fariba Farzanfar, Kaveh Sistani Duration 5' Language English Country Iran Year 2026
Animation
Fariba Farzanfar
Screenplay
Fariba Farzanfar
Music
Maryam Chalesh
Sound design
Hossein Ghoorchian
Production
Fariba Farzanfar, Kaveh Sistani, Amirreza Kavianmehr
Distributor
Fariba Farzanfar
Sundruð, Fan Sissoko, BE/FR/IS 2026
Sundruð
Neema, a young immigrant in Iceland, takes socially awkward trips to a local swimming pool. The more she tries to fit in, the more isolated she feels, until she finds a common bond with an older woman struggling with loneliness and grief.Direction Fan Sissoko Duration 12' Language English, French, Icelandic Country Belgium, France, Iceland Year 2026
Animation
Fanny Sissoko, Raphaëlle Prud’homme
Screenplay
Fan Sissoko
Music
Hafdís Bjarnadóttir
Sound design
Ingrid Simon
Production
Heather Millard, Stéphanie Launay, Julien Melebeck
Distributor
Sudu Connexion
If the Turtles Could Fly, Hayat Laban, PS 2025
If the Turtles Could Fly
Twenty years after a picture unsettled her childhood, a Palestinian filmmaker returns to where it all began, stepping into a blurred space where imagination and reality meet in her search for safety.Direction Hayat Laban Duration 14' Language Arabic Country Palestinian Territories Year 2025
Animation
Hayat Laban
Music
Hayat Laban
Sound design
Hayat Laban
Distributor
Hayat Laban
Foreign Bodies, Lysander Wong, UK 2025
Foreign Bodies
A simple itch compounds into an outbreak that tears asunder a body in transformation. Certain forms will always find their way to the surface.Direction Lysander Wong Duration 4' Country United Kingdom Year 2025
Animation
Lysander Wong
Music
Jonathan Goldsmith
Sound design
Frankie Hewett
Production
Lysander Wong
Distributor
Lysander Wong
HAG, Anna Ginsburg, UK 2025
HAG
After breaking up with her obnoxious boyfriend, what should be a moment of liberation instead transforms ourheroine into a hag with snakes for hair. Battling societal pressures, she searches for love and meaning in a hellscape of waning fertility and the rotten stench of patriarchy.Direction Anna Ginsburg Duration 17' Language English Country United Kingdom Year 2025
Animation
Anna Ginsburg
Screenplay
Anna Ginsburg, Miranda Latimer
Music
George Grinling
Sound design
Jake Fielding
Production
Becky Perryman
Distributor
Passion Pictures