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Cyprus
Curated by Animafest Cyprus
The Soup
by Nicos Synnos
A man owns two chickens. When one of them falls ill, he sacrices the healthy one to make a soup for the sick one.A small experimental allegory whose exposed cinematic apparatus shapes the plot, overturning assumptions about priorities and power and revealing the fragile line between love, life, and absurdity.
Original Title • La Soupe
Prodution Company • Toonachunks Animation Films, Cyprus Film Advisory Committee
Script • Nicos Synnos
Cyprus . 0:11:00 . 2016 . Colour . Hybrid technique: hand-drawn animation integrated with 3D digital scenography and photography . No dialogue
The Parrot Lady
by Michalis Kalopaidis
‘The parrot lady’ is inspired by a true story. The film works as an artistic interpretation of a woman’s life who chose to live on the streets with her parrots, afraid of dying alone in her home. ‘The Parrot Lady’ is a story about old age and loneliness. A story that creates empathy and raises awareness for the elder members of our society that live alone, who have no one to turn to and whose biggest fear is that of dying unnoticed.
Original Title • Η γυναίκα με τους παπαγάλους
Prodution • Zedem Media / Michalis Kalopaidis
Script • Georgia Nikolaou
Cyprus . 0:06:45 . 2020 . Colour . 2D animation . Dialogue
The Weaver
by Yiorgos Ysangaris
Arachne, the masterful weaver, spun tales of the gods’ misdeeds. But for weaving the truth, she was met with divine wrath, cruel and unrelenting.
Prodution • Independent
Script • Magdalena Zira
Cyprus . 0:04:20 . 2025 . Colour . 2D Digital
Little Human
by Christiana Ioannou
Stop motion collage mixes up with old and new film in order to tell the imaginary adventures of a very popular Cypriot weaving pattern called ‘little human’. This anthropomorphic design which looks like something between a knight and a spaceman embarks on a journey to find his real home out of the weaving fabric and eventually out of Cyprus.
Original Title • Το αθρωπούδι
Production • Christiana Ioannou
Script • Christiana Ioannou
Cyprus . 00:05:54 . 2024 . Colour . Stop Motion Paper Collage / Found Footage . Dialogue
To Your Hands
by Ana Mouyis
and making cheese shed new light on a decades old conflict.
To Your Hands is an experimental animated documentary that weaves
together the stories of Cypriots who continue these handmade
traditions, passed down for generations.
Producers • Neon Zoo / Elyse Kelly / Fox Schwach
Cyprus & USA . 0:11:11 . 2025 . Colour . Hand painted & Stop motion . Dialogue
Greece
Curated by Animasyros
The Mushroom Man
by Petros Niamonitakis
The film is about the life of a boy, childbirth, school, friendships, love, everyday life, and death. Everything seems to be predestined. Will he finally be able to discover his true self?
Screenplay • Petros Niamonitakis
Production Company • CORRECT PRODUCTIONS
Greece . 0:04:02 . 2024 . Rotoscoping . Black & White . Dialogues
The Synthetic Age
by Dimitris Armenakis
In a city where people consume cartoons, a dog reconciles with its old friends, and together, they try to escape from humans.
Original Title • Η Συνθετική Εποχή
Script • Dimitris Armenakis
Production Company • Frenel – Alexis Anastasiadis
Greece . 00:07:39 . 2025 . Digital Animation, 3D Animation . Colour . No dialogue
Dream
by Semiramis Mamata
Inspired by Paul Éluard’s poem Homme Utile, DREAM is a magical, visually rich escape from reality. When the weight of the world becomes unbearable, a human creature drifts into a surreal dreamscape where colours bloom and logic fades. What begins as an escape becomes a quiet exploration of freedom, rest, and the beauty found in simply being.
Production Company • Semiramis Mamata
Script • Semiramis Mamata
Greece, France, Germany . 0:04:44 . 2025 . 2D animation . Colour . No dialogue
Black Cities
by Christos Magganas
Black Cities takes a modern approach to the classic fairy tale The Three Little Pigs. Under the constant threat of power, the violence of society and the fear of strangers, the three pigs finally manage to react and ultimately overthrow the totalitarian regime. So now, they have the opportunity to build a New City.
Original Title • ΜΑΥΡΕΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΕΣ
Production • Viewmaster Films / Effie Scrobola
Script • Zeti Fitsiou
Greece . 0:16:00 . 2025 . 3D Animation . Black & White with selected at some points . Dialogue
The distance between the staircase and the sky
by Katerina Athanasopoulou
Ascending a staircase in the centre of Athens makes room for reflection on everyday life, as both otherworldly and mundane. On a planet lit by neon and on a beach powered by cicadas, we twirl into a void measured by walking – one step at a time.
Production Company • Katerina Athanasopoulou
Script • Katerina Athanasopoulou
Greece, United Kingdom . 0:07:00 . 2022 . 3D animation) . Colour . Dialogue
Poplars
by Alvo (Alexandros Vounatsos)
Lesvos, 1997. A father waits at the port as his two sons cross the gulf by boat. They arrive older than when they left. In an olive field, three poplars grow with them as time accelerates. The father falls, becoming the tree, a living memory. Years later, the sons return, embraced by its leaves.
Production Company • Laika productions
Script • Alvo (Alexandros Vounatsos)
Greece . 0:11:20 . 2025 . Mixed media (3d animation, water color painting, rotoscoping, 2d animation) . Colour . No dialogue
The life and work of Yanoulis Halepas
by Zina Papadopoulou
An animated mini-biopic featuring the life and work of the sculptor Yanoulis Halepas. Born on the island of Tinos in the mid-19th century, he met with massive acclaim at a young age, spent years in a psychiatric hospital, and was ar s cally reborn in the twilight of his life.
Original Title • Η ζωή και το έργο του Γιαννούλη Χαλεπά
Script • Zina Papadopoulou, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis
Production Company • Onassis Founda on
Greece . 0:06:32 . 2024 . Rotoscoping, 2D animation . Colour . Dialogues
Italy
Curated by IMAGINARIA
Confinement
by Nico Bonomolo
Sicily, during the Fascist era. A shadow puppet artist is confined to a lighthouse island for mocking Mussolini during his performance. A fortuitous event frees him from captivity through his art.
Original Title • Nico Bonomolo
Production Company • Lucky Red
Producers • Nico Bonomolo
Script • Nico Bonomolo
Italy . 0:11:00 . 2017 . Black & white . 2D Animation . No Dialogue
The Puppet and the Whale
by Roberto Catani
The story of a puppet who never becomes a child.
Original Title • Il Burattino e la Balena
Production Company • Miyu Productions, Withstand Film
Producers • Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Davide Ferazza, Alessandro Giorgio
Italy, France . 0:08:00 . 2025 . Colour . Traditional animation on paper . No Dialogue
The Voice of the Sirens
by Gianluigi Toccafondo
At the heart of the sea bed, between rocks and corals, primitive algae undulate, lulled by the muffled and roaring sound of the currents. Up there, on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice. So soft and seductive that it is unlike anything we have ever heard before.
Original Title • La Voce Delle Sirene
Production Company • Miyu Productions, 50N
Italy, France . 0:15:00 . 2024 . Colour . Drawing on paper, rotoscope . No dialogue
Tinnitus#3
by Michele Bernardi
TINNITUS#3 is an introspective journey into troubled thoughts. A sleep always interrupted in search of a breath of peace, a whisper to life that has the eyes of death in front of a mirror.
Producer • Michele Bernardi
Italy . 0:06:40 . 2025 . Colour . 2D digital . No dialogue
Playing God
by Mattero Burani
Fragile clay sculptures come to life in a bare workshop, yearning for something more than mere existence. When their sculptor abandons them, they must discover the power of belonging.
Production Company • Studio Croma Animation, Autour de Minuit
Italy, France . 0:09:00 . 2024 . Colour . Stop motion . No dialogue
Waiting For May
by Simone Massi
“The May, the blackbird: they hide at the time of singing.”
Original Title • L’attesa del Maggio
Production Company • Minimum Fax Media, Simone Massi
Italy . 0:08:00 . 2014 . Black & White . Drawing on paper . Dialogue
Portugal
Curated by CINANIMA
My Life In Your Hands
by Nuno Beato
A very well known Portuguese bullfighter arrives in Spain. El Matador will execute a long awaited “faena”. His son, Pedrito, accompanied him in this trip. He dreams to one day become just like his father. However, just before the bullfight starts, between the backstage hustle and bustle Pedrito meets the bull that will be fought by his father. This moment will forever change the fate of all three characters.
Original Title • Mi Vida En Tus Manos
Prodution Company • Sardinha em Lata, Lda
Prodution • Xosé Zapata, Ignacio Benedeti, IB Cinema, Nuno Beato, Lampadacesa – Cinema de Animação, Eva Yébenes, José Miguel Ribeiro
Portugal, France . 0:08:30 . 2009 . Oil painting on glass . No Dialogue
Cold Soup
by Marta Monteiro
A woman victim of domestic violence looks back at the years when she was married, recalling how difficult it was to stay afloat.
Original Title • Sopa Fria
Prodution Company • Animais AVLP
Producers • Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim, Animais AVPL Claire Beffa, Sidonie Garnier, La Clairière Ouest
Portugal . 00:09:50 . 2023 . Colour . 2D animation . Dialogue
Cândido
by Zepe (José Pedro Cavalheiro)
Cândido never loved her. Manipulation is his favourite game.
Original Title • Cândido
Production Company • Insectos – Cinema e Multimédia, Lâmpada Acesa – Cinema de Animação, Zepe
Portugal . 0:11:20 . 2007 . Colour . Drawing on paper . Dialogues
The Outlaws
by Abi Feijó
Inside a car, on a night trip along Portuguese roads, sometime in the 50´s, there is a discussion about the identity of a group of men, captured and killed in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, some decades ago. Three perspectives are confronted in a speech that reveals the surface and the ideological sensibilities of the Portuguese fascism. As if the story could be invented or forgotten…
Original Title • Os Salteadores
Prodution Company • Filmógrafo – Estúdio de Cinema de Animação do Porto, Lda, Jorge Neves
Portugal . 0:14:00 . 1993 . Black and White . Graphite on paper . Dialogue
The Pink Jacket
by Mónica Santos
A political musical film about a Pink Jacket that always has something up his sleeve. In the comfort of his home, Casaco Rosa uses couture and torture to stitch up the opponents of the system.
Original • O Casaco Rosa
Prodution Company • Animais AVPL, Um Segundo Filmes, Vivement Lundi!
Producers • Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim, Humberto Rocha, Fabrice Dugast, Jean-François Le Corre
Portugal, France . 0:08:20 . 2022 . Colour . Pixilation . Dialogues
Spain
Curated by Prime the Animation!
Felina
by María Lorenzo
Felina, a woman who can morph into a panther, falls in love with a pianist and tries to keep her true nature a secret.
Producers • Enrique Millán
Script • María Lorenzo
Music • Armando Bernabeu Lorenzo
Spain . 0:12:00 . 2024 . Black & White . 2D Animation . No Dialogue
Amor de Mono
by Samuel Fernandi Martínez
Humans, since you don’t know how to solve your own problems, the subnormal monetes have come to deal out justice and elegance with our sexy and tropical style. You are taking too long to buy a canoe, you will need one!!!
Original Title • Amor de Mono
Prodution Company • Trimono
Producers • Trimono
Script • Paulo Mosca
Music • Banjo Music
Sound Design • Banjo Music /Alberto Carlassare / Fran Paredes, Marc Solá
Spain . 0:04:46 . 2015 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
Las aventuras de Mr Coo
by Nacho Rodríguez
The story follows Mr. Coo, a peculiar character trapped in a fragmented and absurd world. After being mysteriously torn apart, he must recover the missing pieces of his body while navigating a strange universe filled with chaotic monsters, bizarre machines, and unexpected situations.
Producers • Nacho Rodríguez
Script • Nacho Rodríguez
Spain . 0:08:17 . 2007 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
Loop
by Pablo Polledri
In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.
Prodution Company • Maniac PlanetUniKo
Script • Pablo Polledri
Spain . 0:08:00 . 2021 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
Zepo
by Cesar Diaz Melendez
Time ago, a winter morning, a little girl went out looking for firewood, she went away from home and came across a blood trail… she followed it.
Prodution Company • Cesarlinga Animations
Script • Cesar Diaz Melendez
Spain . 0:03:08 . 2014 . Colour . Stop-motion films with sand . No dialogue
