Ett filmpaket kurerat av REX Animation Film Festival speciellt för Kortfilmsdagen 2025, med de bästa pärlorna från deras senaste program. Eventet är en del av Kortfilmsdagen på Panora. 

Filmerna visas på originalspråket med engelska undertexter.

TENDERLAND
Regi: Juho Maurinen / Finland / 12 min
Two friends navigating a world of fantasy and hanging out. The stakes are low and morale is high.

WHENEVER THE FLOOD ARRIVES
Regi: Antonio Lomas Domingo / Spanien / 6 min
In a world where artists are tiny beings born from animals, a mockumentary explores the lives of four sisters hatched from bird eggs, who live completely isolated from civilization in what seems like an idyllic environment.

GRANDPA IS SLEEPING
Regi: Matei Branea / Rumänien / 13 min
A 6 years old girl refuses to accept her grandfather’s endless sleep and takes him out for one last beautiful day together.

CAZAFORTUNA
Regi: Valentine Castillo / Frankrike / 4 min
In Mexico, Daniela is secretly seeing her neighbor Javier. On her birthday, he gives her a diamond necklace and together they hatch a daring plan to protect their secret.

THE SYNTHETIC AGE
Regi: Dimitris Armenakis / Grekland / 8 min
In a city where people consume cartoons, a dog reconciles with its old friends, and together, they try to escape from humans

NIGHT BAT
Regi: Eleni Chandriotou / Cypern / 4 min
An animation created for the avant-folk music trio Monsieur Doumani from Cyprus, Nychtopapparos (Night Bat) follows the awakening of the night bat beneath the rising full moon, accompanied by the other creatures of the dark. In Cypriot slang, “nychtopapparos” also embodies the restless spirit of those who wander sleeplessly through the night. The animation weaves three interconnected narratives, exploring the concept that “the dreams of those who sleep become the inspiration for those who stay awake.

MY GRANDMOTHER IS A SKYDIVER
Regi: Polina Piddubna / Ukraina / 13 min
Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother’s safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to restore and rethink family memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.

FLOWERS 
Regi: Mathieu Labaye / Belgien / 4 min
In the heart of the gloomy mountains, a young woman walks alone. Arriving at the entrance of a cave, she ventures inside and heads towards a shimmering lake. Inside her body, a fierce battle is taking place between black and color, between melancholy and happiness, between death and life.