Tour FAN Young European Talents
Cyprus
Curated by Animafest Cyprus
Reflected Lines
by Sebastian Konstantinou
This animation follows an individual with mental health complications
through parts of their daily routine. Following them is a shadowy figure
that slowly approaches. By ignoring it, the problem becomes worse.
Only by facing their own self and accepting their mental struggles, can
they begin to heal.
Production • Sebastian Konstantinou
Script • Sebastian Konstantinou
Cyprus . 0:03:06 . 2025 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
The Snow Queen
by Eliza Geo Lantsia, Elise Buiret, Alicya Huynh
Gerda, a young girl, looks for her brother through the cold icy
mountains. Adapted from the Snow queen tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Original Title • La Reine des Neiges
Production • ECV Paris
Script • Adaptaion of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale
Cyprus, France . 0:01:46 . 2024 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
Feeling Broken
by Dafni Arvaniti
This animated work came from a project collaboration for a music album release of the composer Odysseas Vlamis under the theme of sampling. In the particular song the visuals portray feelings that body horror redefines and soothes, coming from our deepest fears, pain and eerines of experiencing through the body, that cannot be contained.
Prodution • belovedfilthypigeon
Script • Dafni Arvaniti
Cyprus . 0:02:25 . 2023 . Colour . Digital drawing mixed with photographic materials . No dialogue
What’s Left Behind
by Charalambia Englezou
The animation “What’s Left Behind” explores the absence of human existence in personal spaces. A building filled with memories. Rooms that once housed lives are now silent. The walls, the hallways, the closed doors, none of it matters without human presence. What is left behind when everyone is gone?
Production • Charalambia Englezou
Script • Charalambia Englezou
Cyprus . 0:02:02 . 2025 . Colour . 2D Animation . Dialogue
Violence and Fire
by Angelos Charalambous
Raging femininities collaborate with demons from hel to take revenge from the church after all the suffering they caused them over the centuries. The roles are now reversed and the time has come to let a new world rise from the ashes of patriarchy.
Original Title • Βία τζαι φωθκιά
Production • Angelos Charalambous
Script • Angelos Charalambous
Cyprus . 0:01:42 . 2024 . Colour . Stop-motion collage animation . No dialogue
I am not always where my body is
by Loukis Menelaou
Experience the Palmscape Hotel, a sun-drenched Cypriot paradise that fractures as night falls. In this haunting allegory of the 1974 displacement, architecture becomes memory. As walls shift to reveal a violent history of colonization and war, one visitor’s journey challenges us to deconstruct the past
Production • Loukis Menelaou
Script • Loukis Menelaou
Cyprus . 0:06:12 . 2023 . Colour . Unreal Engine Real-Time Rendering . Dialogue
Greece
Curated by Animasyros
Phobia
by Anastasia Papageorgiou
In a nightmarish realm, fear and shadows twist the self beyond words. A woman dives into her subconscious, where her fear manifests as a living entity, confronting and merging with her.
Original Title • Φοβία
Production • Anastasia Papageorgiou
Greece . 0:02:35 . 2025 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
13m2
by Antonis Dimitropoulos
Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 quarantine in the vibrant neighborhood of Exarchia, Athens, the film delves into the lives of emotionally isolated residents in a single apartment building. The film poignantly captures the struggle between the desire for change and the comfort of the familiar.
Production • Mostserious
Greece . 0:05:30 . 2024 . Colour . 3D Animation . No dialogue
PRIKOSYMPHONO
by Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Leonardo Dal Fabbro, Alejandra Diaz
In Lefkada, a little girl finds a paper from 1955, listing the objects that belonged to her great aunt. Her grandfather explains that this was her dowry, the bride’s possessions conceded to the groom as a formal marriage agreement. He starts recalling memories of his childhood, witnessing his older sister Armenia leaving behind her family and the island for a better future.
Original Title • ΠΡΙΚΟΣΎΜΦΩΝΟ
Production • Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Leonardo Dal Fabbro, Alejandra Diaz, BAU – College of Arts & Design
Greece . 0:04:55 . 2024 . Colour . Stop-motion . Dialogue
Plantasia
by Aggelos Gourzis
Small, human-like creatures devour nature, excreting the raw materials needed to build a towering monument to human control. With its empty, unseeing gaze, the tower devastates the natural world. In retaliation, nature gives rise to a colossal flower, ready to engage in a boss-fight with the tower.
Production • Aggelos Gourzis
Greece . 0:03:39 . 2023 . Black & White . 3D Animation . No dialogue
Italy
Curated by IMAGINARIA
Abdita
by Valentina Giorgi, Arianna Morganti, Dennis Pezzolato, Giulia Zanette
A little girl finds the courage to face the scary world of depression her mother lives in.
Producers • CSC Piemonte
Italy . 0:05:00 . 2020 . Colour . 2d Animation . Dialogue
Danzamorphosis
by Irene Conti Mosca, Ilaria Perino, Anita Cisi, Isabella Pasqualetti
Four animators explore the links between movement, body and emotion. In four sequences that differ in style and atmosphere, they tell the story of four different conditions through dance.
Producers • CSC Piemonte
Italy . 0:05:14 . 2023 . Colour . 2D Animation, projections . No dialogue
The Underworld
by Benedetta Sani
The divine maiden knows the inebriating flower. She discovers that the narcissus radiant beauty is due to the existence of the underground, a world below where the ground was fertilized by a buried seed. Nothing could be born without death, nothing could shine without that unknown darkness.
Production • Benedetta Sani
Italy . 0:07:04 . 2021 . Colour . Cut-outs . No dialogue
The Night
by Martina Generali, Simone Pratola, Francesca Sofia Rosso
Venice Carnival: Pulcinella tries to sneak into a VIP party, but fails to do so. His dream of wealth and fame quickly turns into a nightmare.
Original Title • La Notte
Production • CSC Piemonte
Italy . 0:06:30 . 2023 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
Siderea
by Elisa Bonandin, Fiorella Cecchini, Isabel Matta, Carlotta Vacchetti
A girl lives secluded in a house surrounded by a tall hedge. When the wind carries dry leaves, empty shells, faded petals, and other small fragments from the forest to her balcony, she collects them to keep inside and admire their beauty. It is the wind that accidentally forces her out of the house, venturing beyond the hedge, and propelling her toward a reconnection with nature and with herself.
Production • CSC Piemonte
Italy . 0:06:48 . 2020 . Colour . 2D Animation . Dialogue
En Rang Par Deux
by Elisabetta Bosco, Margherita Giusti, Viola Mancini
The idea for the film came from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. In this film, midway between an interview and a music video, Afif, originally from Tunisia and Aliou, from Senegal, tell their different stories, talk about friendship, immigration, freedom and, above all, about the fundamental value of making music together.
Production • CSC Piemonte
Italy . 0:06:51 . 2020 . Colour . 2D animation . Dialogue
Raices
by Maddalena Brozzi, Laura Cagnoni, Sara Moschini
You’ve gone. Gone: poisoned word. It creeps frozen under the skin. I see your smile again, your peonies. How can it be true?
Production • CSC Piemonte
Italy . 0:07:34 . 2022 . Colour . 2D Animation . Dialogue
The Secret Seducer
by Valeria Biasin, Marco Checchin, Claudia Petrangeli
For a few days, a nun has been receiving mysterious slips of paper: someone slips them under her cell door. Concern and fascination simultaneously occur in her mind, but she collects those little notes anyway. This ritual has now led to a revealing truth: all those disparate parts can fit together into a unifying whole, the big picture.
Production • ISIA
Italy . 0:03:44 . 2023. Colour . Draiwng on paper . No dialogue
Portugal
Curated by CINANIMA
Bursting at the Seams
by Daniela Tietzen, Luana Rodrigues, Adriana Andrade
Narrations of 3 women about their experiences, their inner fight with being feminine and masculine, and their accepting journeys. A movie about girlhood and accepting ourselves, as women.
Original Title • Pelas Costuras
Prodution • Universidade Lusófona – Lusófona Filmes
Portugal . 00:03:38 . 2024 . Colour . Animated objects, 2D Animation . Dialogues
Café
by Mafalda Cruz
Two energies that exchange glances, yield to a passion that vibrates in harmony. Both are transmuttedd, revealing themselvves as witnesses that with a gesture of love i tis possible to desserve the world.
Prodution • Universidade Lusófona – Lusófona Filmes
Script • Mafalda Cruz
Portugal . 0:02:54 . 2025 . Colour . 2D animation . No dialogue
Between Hairs
by Feno Dias, Theo Quinhones, Lucas Serra
Three women from different generations discuss their relationship with their body hair, the pressure they felt to shave throughout their lives or the lack of it. How each of them approaches the subject, defending the individuality of their bodies and their right to choose.
Original • Entre Pelos
Producers • Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal . 0:04:17 . 2025 . Colour . 2D Animation . Dialogue
Remember Me
by João Cadima, Caroline Soares, Bárbara Barreto
Malu and Clara are two children who in a sudden meeting create a genuine friendship full of creativity and energy – until it’s time to go home.
Original Title • Lembra De Mim
Producers • Universidade Lusófona – Lusófona Filmes
Portugal . 0:04:35 . 2024 . Colour . 2D digital animation . Dialogue
TóPê
by Gil Mendonça
The stories and memories that my family keeps of António Portugal, my deceased father.
Prodution • Gil Mendonça, Escola Artística Soares dos Reis
Script • Gil Mendonça
Portugal . 0:04:50 . 2025 . Colour . 2D Animation . Dialogue
Paulinha
by Ana Marta Mendes
A music video about a woman named Paulinha.
Prodution • Jorge Ribeiro – Os Filmes do Pinguim
Portugal . 0:02:39 . 2025 . Colour . 2D Animation . Dialogue (music video)
VENI VIDI NON VICI
by Leonor Calaça
The brutal nature of bullfighting practices in Portugal, by focusing on the cynical way real pro-bullfights arguments shock with reality. An informal discussion between two friends, whose opinions start to diverge when bullfights, become the subject of conversation.
Producers • Leonor Calaça
Script • Leonor Calaça
Portugal . 00:03:34 . 2024 . Colour . Drawing on paper, paint, 2D animation . Dialogue
The Bird from Within
by Laura Anahory
The film follows a woman and the bird which lives inside of her, and how their inability to co-live together leads to physical wounds to her body.
Original Title • O Pássaro de Dentro
Producers • Laura Anahory
Script • Laura Anahory
Portugal . 00:05:56 . 2024 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
Spain
Curated by Prime the Animation!
Tesoro
by Carmen Álvarez Muñoz
Un día, un grupo de cuervos empieza a devolverle el favor regalándole pequeños detalles. Sorprendida, decide mejorar la calidad de la comida haciendo que los cuervos mejoren también sus regalos.
Script • Carmen Álvarez Muñoz
Prodution • Màster d’Animació de la UPV
Spain . 0:06:00 . 2024 . Colour . 2D Animation . Dialogues
Whenever the Flood Arrives
by Antonio Lomas Domingo
Original Title • Cuando llegue la inundación
Prodution • Màster d’Animació de la UPV
Spain . 00:06:20 . 2024 . Colour . 2D Animation . Dialogue
Ballad of Fish and Birds
by Anny Uribe Zambrano & Juan Arévalo Reyes
“Carline (12), a girl who lost her father in the Colombian armed conflict, lives alone with her mother, Irene. The pain is still unbearable and they cling to their memories and personal belongings to survive. Carline receives an impulse from these objects and lets herself be carried away by it. The girl crosses the marked path entering her fears and hatred, but these feelings, far from helping her overcome the situation, transform her. In this internal struggle
Carlina opts for forgiveness, thus finding inner peace.”
Accepting the circumstances, he says goodbye to his pal unaware of the paper that the construct secretly puts on his pocket. Nico decides to open the door, even if it makes his friend dissolve. Once on the plane, he notices something: the photo they took before on their day of fun. This makes him smile, willing to make new memories while embracing his past.
Original Title • Balada de Peces y Pajaros
Prodution Company • Master en Animación UPV
Spain . 0:07:00 . 2025 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
Ciao Peskao
by Guillermo González Fidalgo, Andrea García García
What does a pink cat do in a remote island? Well, starve to death, get stalked by creatures from the depths of the ocean and ride a boat five meters above the water, of course! And best of all: He does not even know he is not alone!
Producers • U-tad, Nacho Campa
Script • Guillermo G. Fidalgo, Andrea García García, Miguel García
Sound • Cristina Zadia, Cayetano Gutiérrez, Marta Scandella, Javier Romero ‘Jota’
Spain . 0:06:38 . 2023 . Colour . 2D Animation . No dialogue
