The short films:

A Serious Thought

  • Year: 2026
  • Country: Estonia
  • Director: Jonas Taul
  • Duration: 16min

A little boy can’t sleep. His head is full of thoughts: cute, scary, bitter, or sweet thoughts. Or very serious thoughts about the Earth, which is just a marble in the endless expanse of space. He goes for a little walk in the garden, where the animals help him with his worries.

Into the forest

  • Year: 2026
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Director: Antonin Niclass
  • Duration: 9min

In an empty film studio, a little monkey wakes up. On a computer screen, a luminous jungle appears, seemingly close by but out of reach. Until the little fellow meets two friends. Together, they set to work and build a jungle thanks to the magic of animated film and imagination

SHORTS FROM THE BOX - Wild Things

  • Year: 2025
  • Country: Hungary
  • Director: Géza M. Tóth
  • Duration: 8min

Do you really believe that humans can conquer nature? Forget it! Nature always does as it pleases. Even a ‘little matchstickman’ has to learn that the hard way. Can you guess what the little figure comes across along the way? An exercise in ‘out-of-the-(match)box’ thinking.

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe!

  • Year: 2025
  • Country: Slovakia
  • Director: Andrea Szelesová
  • Duration: 11min

High up in the clouds, the young children of Greek goddesses, gods, and monsters come together to play. Among them is Yios, a little boy with a shining sun on his head. The other kids devise a mean prank which leads to Yios falling from the clouds, all the way down to Earth.

Backstreet Birds

  • Year: 2025
  • Country: Lithuania
  • Director: Gertrūda Nemčauskaitė
  • Duration: 7min

One evening, everyone in the neighbourhood is sitting quietly in front of the television. Penguin is enjoying watching on his own, undisturbed. But his new neighbour, Pigeon, loves a good party. When the two birds start bickering, it can only lead to one thing: a catastrophe!

Extra info

Thanks to film, we can step inside people’s minds. There, we wander between the sombre thoughts of a child weighed down by worry and dazzling fantasies that turn lives upside down. These films navigate between life’s big questions and a wildly unbridled imagination.