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A Long Goodbye

Victor Maes, Kate Voet
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands / 2025 / Animated fiction / 30′

In this animated, interactive VR experience, we walk in Ida’s shoes, a 72-year-old pianist living with dementia. A Long Goodbye is a poetic experience about the long goodbye of two lovers who shared a life together.

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Impulse: Playing with Reality

May Abdalla, Barry Gene Murphy
United Kingdom, France / 2024 / Animated documentary / 40′

Leanne turns her world into a game to escape boredom. Omar’s chaotic mind focuses on masterminding risky heists. Errol creates a madcap persona to get respect. And Tara is on the brink – of giving up. Highlighting the inner life of people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Impulse brings together gameplay and first-hand accounts. The experience focuses on the thrill of acting without thinking and the power of uncovering your own patterns.

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Out of Nowhere

Kris Hofmann
Austria, Germany / 2025 / Animated fiction / 10′

Our weather is getting angrier. Everywhere. Out of Nowhere gently explores how preserving alluvial forests, marshes and wetlands can help us face the challenges of an ever angrier, unpredictable climate. Told through the eyes of Anna, a lifelong resident of Hallein in Austria, the experience flows from a personal memory of the devastating floods that hit Europe in 2021 to reveal how reconnecting with nature may be key to protecting ourselves going forward.

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If You See a Cat

Atsushi Wada
Japan / 2025 / Animated fiction / 37′

The boy’s only friend is a hallucination of his beloved cat. Concerned for his mental health, his mother admits him to a psychiatric hospital. After three months of medication-based treatment, the hallucinations fade, and he is discharged – but he has lost his emotional anchor and appears even more lifeless than before.

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The Dollhouse

Charlotte Bruneau, Dominic Desjardins
Luxembourg, Canada / 2025 / Animated fiction / 25′

The Dollhouse is an unfolding paper world where 9-year-old Juniper untangles feelings of guilt around how her family treated Magnolia, a woman who came from far to work as a cleaner in their house. Will you help her ask for forgiveness?

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La Fille qui explose VR (The Exploding Girl VR)

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
France, Greece / 2025 / Animated fiction / 20′

For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day, sometimes multiple times, with a record of seven. She’s now at 192 explosions. Through a visceral VR spectacle, the cinematic duo Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel portray her unstoppable anger as a haunting reflection of a world on edge.

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The Island of Shells

Hao-Yuan Chang, Chia-Wen Ko, Shiue-Ying Wei
Taiwan, Denmark, France / 2025 / Animated documentary / 30′

In a shadow play and puppet show inspired by the great tradition of Taiwanese theater, we’re invited to accompany the hero of this documentary narrative as he plunges us into the period of the White Terror.

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Fallax

Owen Hindleyl
Iceland, United Kingdom / 2025 / Animated fiction / 23′

An escaped convict flees into the Icelandic highlands, and is pulled into a mysterious world where time and nature move differently.

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Less than 5Gr of Saffron

Négar Motevalymeidanshah
France / 2025 / Animated fiction / 7′

Golnaz, a 23-year-old immigrant Iranian girl, tries to cope with her new life in Germany. She finds a pack of Saffron that reminds her of home. Golnaz cooks some rice to add saffron, a heartwarming dish from her past. But she didn’t expect that this moment would bring her back into the most traumatic events of her life. Three years ago she survived a tragic drowning that took away her family.

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Korstmos

Tibor de Jong
Netherlands / 2025 / Experimental animation / 23′

Confined to the walls of his apartment, a man living in complete solitude experiences the world through routine, silence, and anticipation. As he obsessively prepares for the sound of the doorbell, he awaits the arrival of his grocery delivery, one of his few remaining connections to the outside world. Korstmos serves as both a technical and philosophical exploration of the boundaries that define life, set within the inherently boundaryless medium of virtual reality.

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Penggantian (Replacements)

Jonathan Hagard
Japan, Germany, Indonesia / 2020 / Animated documentary / 12′

Penggantian depicts a Javanese family living in a fictional neighborhood in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia.
 Inspired by people and places that truly exist, they are witnesses of this congested metropolis’s urban, environmental, political, and cultural transformations from about 1980 to 2020. A praise of the satisfaction of impermanent things, it tells about the dented yet peaceful transition of an old traditional village to an uprooted megapolis through three generations.

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