Anilogue 2026: Competition of Short Animated Films – Block A

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The Official Competition of Short Animated Films at Anilogue brings together an exciting selection of contemporary animation from around the world, all competing for the Best of Anilogue Award 2026.

On Weary Wings Go By | Linnud läinud
2024, Estonia, Lithuania, 10'
Director: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.

Balconada | Balconada
2025, Bulgaria, 9'
Director: Iva Tokmakchieva
A hot summer day brings several neighbours out on their balconies. As a welcome downpour wakes everyone from their torpor, one of them finds a way to reconnect them all to each other and to the present moment.

Cordoglio | Cordoglio
2025, Italy, 4'
Director: Luna Clara Ronco, Riccardo Incampo
In death, every being returns to the cycle of nature. The body dissolves, and in parallel, those who remain must learn to reshape their inner world. "Cordoglio" uses the image of a crow’s decomposition to reflect on the symmetry between physical decay and emotional renewal. An animated meditation on loss, transformation, and the quiet persistence of life through absence.

Ordinary Life | 普通の生活（Futsu no Seikatsu)
2025, France, Japan, 10'
Director: Yoriko Mizushiri
Ordinary life repeats itself every day. The succession of moments that we repeat over and over again is never the same, and everything changes and wavers. The moment we touch something, our consciousness can go to a place that does not exist anywhere in the past, nor in the future. In an uncertain and fluctuating world, only the feeling of the body touching something, which exists only in this present reality, can be recognized as “now”. That moment is lovely.

Winter in March | Зима в марте
2025, Armenia, Estonia, 17'
Director: Natalia Mirzoyan
Helpless in the face of a repressive state, a young couple leaves their home — an escape that turns into a surreal nightmare.

How | Kako
2025, Croatia, 9'
Director: Marko Meštrović
Through the opening between reality and subtle poetic forms, surreal scenes and thrilling paradoxes reveal endless loops of existence.

Dog Ear | Kutyafül
2025, Hungary, 20'
Director: Péter Vácz
Eleven-year-old Berci spends an afternoon alone with his dog, struggling with the emotions left behind after witnessing his parents' violent fight the day before. As his suppressed feelings surface, he releases his anger and aggression in tense and emotional interactions with his dog. These raw expressions eventually help Berci find relief and discover the quiet, transformative strength of forgiveness.

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