26-Best Animation

Three old men. Two dreams. One bomb.

Tamara, a middle-aged immigrant woman, works as a metro cleaner. Her daily routine is interspersed by memories of her past life filled with dancing. One day, she breaks social norms by dancing in a subway car, shedding her invisibility and reclaiming her identity.

Noticing her husband Ivar's new scent, Anne lies awake at night with a nagging question: should she leave him?

A film based on poems by the Chinese poet Li Bai.

In an abstract and symbolic world where gravity is reversed, a unique bond forms between a grandfather and his grandson. As Saba, the grandfather guides the boy through this surreal reality, a violent storm strikes, tearing one of the ropes anchoring their home - and with it, their life together. After suffering a devastating loss of Saba, the boy embarks on an emotional journey in search of closure. Through a stylized and poetic visual language, the film explores life’s fundamental questions: the paths we take, separation from those we love, and the endless effort to find closure, reconcile loss, and move forward.

A nude model is posing with statuesque stillness for an elite drawing class – until an unfortunate mosquito bite challenges his self-control. Driven to madness by the itch, he’s caught between the ruthless demand for perfection and his most unhinged, animalistic impulses.

A clay sculpture comes to life in the darkness of a workshop, surrounded by strange creatures...

A tiny bird restores the pianist's final hope by revealing the music hidden in everyday moments.

A pedicurist in a small-town, Paula the centaur-girl longs to have human feet. When she meets Arnold the crocodile-man, it is love at first sight. Can Paula take the first steps in her search for identity? What will be the price of her attempts to fit in and deny her true self?

In a God-fearing village lying between two rivers, giving birth to a fachuk — an illegitimate child — is a mortal sin. Everyone in the village recoils from the young pregnant woman who is about to give birth at any moment. In this narrow-minded and harsh rural environment, fear grows inside her.

Anton observes. Alone. A phosphorescent glow flickers through the streets. Anton sees a bee dying, then another. No one sees a thing, not even Kata, over there on the roof. Kata and his gang are running, laughing, spray-painting. Anton watches them, especially her. He dreams of joining them.

Ten seconds can reshape a world forever. At the epicenter of Taiwan’s 1999 Jiji earthquake, lives split between those who ran, those who prayed, and those who never woke again. Rendered in monochromatic ink and oil textures, this animated documentary reconstructs the director’s own family records. When the earth finally stills, how do we piece back a fractured city through strokes of black and white? It is a silent meditation on fear, fragility, and the enduring warmth of memory.

A man discovers he is physically shrinking, forcing him and his wife to navigate life’s ups and downs with increasing creativity and adaptability as his stature diminishes.

In a lush garden, a dog digs deep, unearthing laughter, whispers, and ghostly children. Amid shifting visions, a child emerges—caught in a hypnotic journey through earth, memory, and imagination.

Dan has a gaping hole in his neck that won't heal. Why? He can't remember, nor talk about it. Back in the sinister arena of his childhood, he must find the part of himself he once left behind that prevents him, now an adult, from being whole.

Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.

A lifetime is not enough to find your path. An exploration of loneliness and pain on the road to self-awareness.

Adela was born in Spain in 1910. After years of washing clothes and living with strong ovary pain, Adela decided to emigrate to Cuba following her sister. Painful menstruation can be a heavy burden, but also be the driving force behind a life change.

When a mysterious empty can falls from the sky, a routine bus ride descends into a frantic 'Danse Macabre' of human desire.

The story of "Snake Soup" follows a soldier on his way to the battlefield, whose encounters along the way become the foundation for his blissful imagination. After a devastating explosion on the battlefield, his vivid recollections of the past intermingle and culminate in a delirious haze.

It's Saturday, and a woman struggles with the difficulty of reconciling her home life and her need to escape.

A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.

Through a series of animated art boards depicting a decaying Venice, the film unfolds like a set of postcards, capturing the mythical city's final moments of fragility. Blending archival footage with contemporary observations, and anchored by the story of the 1902 collapse of St Mark's Campanile, Venezia Diorama invites us to reflect on a city slowly eroding, yet suspended in time.

While dealing with a strange being that lives inside her, a woman seeks to reconcile with her sister over an incident from their adolescence.

A BOY (Black and White Drawing)is in love with A GIRL (Cardboard Cut Out Puppet), he is too shy and anxious, which makes him too incapable to express his feelings for her. THE GIRL tries to get closer to him, but after he doesn’t react to her approaches, she decides to stop trying. When she leaves, she drops a little cardboard spider, which THE BOY takes home. The Spider starts to absorb the BOY’s energy and feeds on his complex and insecurities, growing bigger and monstrous. The BOY’s reality starts to mix up with his dreams and nightmares, he gets obsessed with THE GIRL and starts waiting for the GIRL to come back, while the toxic spider continuous to spin its web over his overthinking head.

Lesvos, 1997, Gulf of Geras. A father waits at the port to pick up his two young children while smoking a cigarette. Across the shore, their mother helps them board the gazolina (boat). When the children arrive, they are older than when they started their journey. They formally greet their father and board the car, which will take them to a field of olive groves. There, three large poplars stand, symbolizing the three heroes. They immediately begin their work in the field. The trees and the children grow rapidly whenever the father smokes or becomes angry. Suddenly, the father realizes that time has passed unnaturally fast, noticing how much his children have grown. Confused by what is real and what is memory, he falls into a golden crater opened in the ground by the rapid growth of the trees, becoming one with the great poplar. Years later, the sons return to the field. They climb the big tree. A rustling shakes the branches, and the large leaves embrace the children.

On a late night in a run-down office, a group of workers find themselves stuck to the ceiling by their hats. Blindly carrying out their tasks, they are oblivious to the absurdity of their situation. When an old telephone rings, they begin to disappear one by one. A worker named Hatker dares to confront the reality, ultimately turning the Kafkaesque world upside down.

Struggling with alcohol addiction and mental illness, an artist reaches out to an old friend. "Superb" — Julian Waite "Brilliant" — John Robins "Magnificent" — Stephen Fry

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An old Beirut resident, checks the obituaries page and attends funerals daily. His “mourning” routine reveals a journey of grieving and accepting the loss of a loved one, a home, a city.

Everyone runs after happiness and relies on their luck, but is the one who symbolizes people's luck happy?

A woman, a man and an “ON-OFF” switch find themselves in a love triangle.