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The first film in the festival to be subtitled and fully generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI)!

The Artificial Conjuring Circle

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“The Artificial Conjuring Circle” is an AI-generated short film that explores the perspective of machines, crafting speculative visions from the Novacene—an era marked by collaboration between humans and non-humans for the preservation of life on Earth. As the film unfolds, we bear witness to the process of human reprogramming, immersed in an artificial scenario where very little of organic life remains, and even the subtitles deliberately challenge the human eye.

S()fia Braga / 0:05:14 / Austria / Animation, Experimental / 2023

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Warmth in a Puddle

In a dimly lit room where only the sound is the reverberation of ventilation fan, a young man is delivered a fish. The distorted face of the fish somehow seems to resemble the young man himself.

The limp fish suddenly flops up and flies out the window as if floating in water. The young man stares at the fish disappearing into a puddle on the street, and is suddenly drawn into a strange, dark, cavern-like place.
This otherworld, in solitude and dark, somehow resembles the mental state of the young man.

A short film that expresses, through a hallucinatory animation style, the "difficulty of living" in the outside world created by the director.

Sorao Sakimura / 0:10:08 / Japan / Animation / 2024

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A Stand Still Journey

Kleber, a photographer, sees his world turned upside down when Lucy walks into his studio in 1929. He offers to take her portrait every day for the rest of her life until she dies, to create a unique work of art. A film capturing the passage of time.

Izù Troin / 0:23:20 / France / Animation / 2024

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Tomatoes

A talent show featuring cute tomatoes! The film features unique tomatoes such as ballerina and magician tomatoes! But for the tomatoes that fail to pass the judging, a sad fate awaits. Can the main character, Dancer Tomato, really pass the test?

Kei Kanamori / 0:04:40 / Japan / Animation / 2023

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Minus Plus Multiply

The story explores self-discovery and healing, using containers as a metaphor for safe spaces. It constructs a poetic narrative through 2D animation and stop motion, reflecting sensibility and identity fragmentation with pottery and clay.

Chu-Chieh Lee / 0:04:10 / United Kingdom / Animation / 2023

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The Lovers

A man and a woman are having a candlelit dinner at a restaurant. All of a sudden the man's appearance begins to change. The Lovers is a stop motion relationship horror and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.

Carolina Sandvik / 0:13:00 / Sweden / Animation / 2023

mature Mature Content:
These films may include sexual and/or violent content.

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Mira

Ready to quit her dreams of becoming a celebrated accordionist after busking day after day for an isolating swamp metropolis that isn’t listening, young Mira finally gets a taste of recognition one evening when she meets Lore; a charismatic and successful performer who takes an interest in Mira’s talents.

Eva Louise Hall / 0:11:29 / United States / Animation, Horror / 2023

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A Crab In The Pool

In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world.

Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel / 0:11:11 / Canada / Animation / 2023

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