An animation selection diverse and rich in the Etiuda & Anima 2025 lineup. The Krakow festival (14-19 October 2025) has unveiled its selection of 55 animation shorts, both from newcomers and established filmmakers.

We see the new, 2D film 'Dog Ear' by Hungarian Péter Vácz (Rabbit & Deer); another film about troubled children is Sylwia Szkiłądź's 'Autokar' (awarded at the recent Animator Festival 2025).

The Polish film 'The Pool or Death of a Goldfish' by Daria Kopiec (reviewed here) is included. We have the new film by Finnish director Jenny Jokela, 'Dollhouse Elephant', and the multiple-award-winning Ukrainian story 'I Died in Irpin' by Anastasia Falileieva is included here.

The full animation lineup of Etiuda & Anima Festival 2025

A pior dor que há/The worst kind of pain, dir.: Ana Clara Miranda Lucena, Brasil 2024, 9’12’’
A Tragédia da Lobo-guará/The Tragedy of the Maned Wolf, dir.: Kimberly Palermo, Brasil 2025, 18’46’’
Amygdala, dir.: Andrea Russo, USA 2025, 6’00’’
Augenblicke/Moments, dir.: Katja Friedrich, Germany 2024, 1’20’’
Autokar, dir.: Sylwia Szkiłądź, Belgium, France 2025, 17’27’’
Basen albo śmierć złotej rybki/The Pool or Death of a Goldfish, dir.: Daria Kopiec Poland 2025, 13’48’’
Box, dir.: Aline Schoch, Switzerland 2024, 8’10’’
Cannot sleep!, dir.: Yingjie Zhou, Japan 2024, 2’27’’
Charbon de terre/Earth coal, dir.: Bastien Dupriez, France 2024, 12’51’’
Crumpled, dir.: Mohammad Yaghoubi, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2025, 2’41’’
Desi Oon, dir.: Suresh Eriyat, India 2025, 8’02’’
Detlev, dir.: Ferdinand Ehrhardt, Germany 2024, 12’50’’
Dollhouse Elephant, dir.: Jenny Jokela, Finland 2025, 11’14’’
Een Olifant in de Porseleinkast/An Elephant in the Porcelain Cabinet, dir.: Bonne Steinz, Netherlands 2024, 4’50’’
Eureka!, dir.: Kris Borghs, Belgium 2024, 9’54’’
First Light, dir.: Shunsuke Koyama, Japan 2025, 11’23’’
Floating, dir.: Jelena Milunović, Serbia 2025, 7’01’’
Freak of Nature, dir.: Alexandra Lermer, Germany 2024, 8’16’’
Gauze, dir.: Noran Fikri Alezabi, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, Xiaonan Zhou, France 2025, 7’45’’
Goodbye Waves, dir.: Ruihan Yang, China, Japan 2025, 8’30’’
House on the sea, dir.: Tünde Nagy,  Hungary 2025, 14’04’’
Humanity, dir.: Tereza Kovandová, Czech Republic 2024, 7’44’’
Hurikán, dir.: Jan Saska, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2024, 13’07’’
I died in Irpin, dir.: Anastasia Falileieva, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Ukraine 2024, 11’22’’
I Promise You Violence, dir.: Juan Maria Leon, Mexico 2025, 9’07’’
Il burattino e la balena, dir.: Roberto Catani, France, Italy 2024, 8’11’’
Impromptu, dir.: Steven Subotnick, USA 2025, 6’09’’
Karies/Caries, dir.: Aline Höchli, Switzerland 2025, 9’41’’
Kutyafül/Dog Ear, dir.: Péter Vácz, Hungary 2025, 20’44’’
L'aveugle, dir.: Rémy Xu, France 2024, 3’01’’
Lepší člověk/Better Man, dir.: Eliška Jirásková, Czech Republic 2025, 6’11’’
Maaimä, dir.: Lucija Mrzljak, Estonia 2024, 5’00’’
Mama Micra, dir.: Rebecca Blöcher, Germany 2024, 24’00’’
Marie, dir.: Jan B. Piskač, Czech Republic 2024, 3’32’’
Nagy, dir.: Janka Dósa, Hungary 2024, 1’12’’
Nie wszystkie gołębie idą do nieba/Not All Pigeons Go to Heaven, dir.: Anna Woltańska, Poland 2025, 1’50’’
Nie!, dir.: Janka Kočíšek, Austria 2025, 2’24’’
On Hold, dir.: Delia Hess, Szwajcaria/Switzerland 2024, 7’11’’
Physarum Polycephalum, dir.: Kamila Tomczyk, Poland 2024, 4’44’’
Plevel/Weeds, dir.: Pola Kazak, Czech Republic 2024, 13’47’’
Plimovanje, dir.: Živa Divjak, Czech Republic 2025, 3’16’’
Polio, dir.: Klára Kubenková, Czech Republic 2025, 5’10’’
Pomegranate, dir.: Livvy Seabrook-Wilkins, United Kingdom 2024, 2’31’’
Przedstawienie/The show, dir.: Agnieszka Popińska, Poland 2025, 11’47’’
Q, dir.: Masataka Kihara, Japan 2025, 7’33’’
Radix, dir.: Anne Breymann, Germany 2025, 4’14’’
Sucker, dir.: Angelina Damm, Germany 2024, 6’25’’
Tapir Memories, dir.: Pedro Nel Cabrera Vanegas, Colombia 2023, 9’19’’
Tethered, dir.: Alessandro Cino Zolfaneli, UK 2025, 9’48’’
The Lumber's Here, dir.: Zanna Abasova, Turkey 2025, 3’24’’
The Refusers, dir.: Wiep Teeuwisse, Netherlands 2024, 2’00’’
TV oder Die Ruhestörung an der Waldbergstrasse/TV or The Disturbance on Forest Hill Road, dir.: Frederic Siegel, Switzerland 2025, 14’09’’
Where To, dir.: Omar Hossam Eldin, Egypt 2024, 1’47’’
Wszystkie rybki śpią w jeziorze/There is plenty of fish in the sea, dir.: Joanna Szlembarska, Poland 2025, 10’10’’
Yummy, dir.: Martinus Klemet, Estonia 2024, 8’45’’

Yummy by Martinus Klemet

Autokar by Sylwia Szkiłądź

Dog Ear by Péter Vácz

The 32nd Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival takes place in Krakow, 14-19 October 2025.

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