Foto: Damir Šuša - The Black Smoke of Prediction....
578 animated films from 57 countries of the world were submitted to the competition of the International Animated Film Festival BANJA LUKA 2025. Most of the films came from France, Spain, Russia, China, Portugal, Brazil and Croatia.
37 films were entered in the Grand Competition Program, 29 in the Student Competition Program, and 15 in the Children's Competition Program.
GRAND COMPETITION PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
Distance To The Moon |
Victoria Watson & Sacha Kyle |
UK |
9'24'' |
|
2 |
Simply Divine / Pur și simplu divin |
Mélody Boulissière |
France, Romania |
14'10'' |
|
3 |
Disturbia |
Mira Yankova |
Bulgaria |
6'23'' |
|
4 |
Larval |
Alice Bloomfield |
UK |
12'10'' |
|
5 |
On Hold |
Delia Hess |
Switzerland |
7'11'' |
|
6 |
Ira |
Rozenn Busson |
France |
7'20'' |
|
7 |
Silent Cinema / Nemi Filmovi |
Krste Gospodinovski |
North Macedonia, Romania |
16'25'' |
|
8 |
Two Ships |
McKinley Benson |
Portugal, USA |
6'49'' |
|
9 |
Joko |
Izabela Plucinska |
Poland, Germany, Czechia |
15'43'' |
|
10 |
A Winter Night’s Dream |
Svyatoslav Ushakov |
Russia |
16'14'' |
|
11 |
King of Nothing / Kralj ničega |
Aleksa Gajić |
Serbia |
17'44'' |
|
12 |
Where Blue Meets Red |
Tamás Patrovits |
Hungary |
4'04'' |
|
13 |
Freeride in C |
Edmunds Jansons |
Latvia |
10'12'' |
|
14 |
Voiceless / Sans Voix |
Samuel Patthey |
Switzerland |
15’23” |
|
15 |
Gaze / OKOvy |
Alexandra Domnina |
Russia |
12'15'' |
|
16 |
The Weaver |
Yiorgos Tsangaris |
Cyprus |
4'19'' |
|
17 |
Catlands / Maček med vrati |
Ana Čigon |
Slovenia, Croatia |
9'44" |
|
18 |
Three Birds / Tri tičice |
Zarja Menart |
Slovenia |
8'18" |
|
19 |
Žarko, You Will Spoil the Child! / Žarko, razmazit ćeš dite! |
Veljko Popović, Milivoj Popović |
Croatia, France |
13'37" |
|
20 |
Desi Oon |
Suresh Eriyat |
India |
8'02'' |
|
21 |
Fačuk |
Maida Srabović |
Croatia, Slovenia |
12'47" |
|
22 |
Water Girl / Fille de l’eau |
Sandra Desmazières |
France, The Netherlands, Portugal |
15'00'' |
|
23 |
Bad River |
Moze Mertens |
The Netherlands |
3'20'' |
|
24 |
Profitable place |
Alex Maximov |
Belarus |
5'10'' |
|
25 |
Adiós |
José Prats |
UK |
8'31'' |
|
26 |
Il burattino e la balena |
Roberto Catani |
France, Italy |
8'11'' |
|
27 |
Life with an idiot |
Theodore Ushev |
France |
18'06'' |
|
28 |
Devil's Beacon / Luz Diabla |
Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza |
Argentina, Canada |
11'10'' |
|
29 |
Tango Tonino |
Boris Korshunov |
Russia |
11'09'' |
|
30 |
My Brother, My Brother / خَائِنَةَ الْأَعْيُنِ |
Abdelrahman & Saad Dnewar |
Egypt, France, Germany |
14'57'' |
|
31 |
One-Way Cycle |
Alicia Núñez Puerto |
Portugal, Spain |
10'49'' |
|
32 |
Contradiction of Emptiness |
Irina Rubina |
Germany |
3'25'' |
|
33 |
The Black Smoke of Prediction..../ Crni dim predviđanja.... |
Damir Šuša |
Croatia |
9'08'' |
|
34 |
Yellow Light |
Tal Kantor |
Israel |
2'08'' |
|
35 |
Murmuration / Zwermen |
Janneke Swinkels & Tim Frijsinger |
The Netherlands |
12'30'' |
|
36 |
Not Dead / Morto Não |
Alex Reis |
Brazil |
14'58'' |
|
37 |
No Room / Nema mjesta |
Jelena Oroz |
Croatia |
6'22" |
STUDENTS COMPETITION PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
In Between City / Meziměstí |
Ilya Kreines |
Czechia, Israel |
8'50'' |
|
2 |
Valentine's Day / Walentynki |
Sonia Mossoczy |
Poland |
6'50'' |
|
3 |
Straight and in a Circle |
Palina Ramashka |
Lithuania |
4'24'' |
|
4 |
Courage |
Margot Jacquet, Nathan Baudry, Marion Choudin, Jeanne Desplanques, Lise Delcroix, Salomé Cognon |
France |
5'21'' |
|
5 |
Interlude / Interludij |
Sara Tomas |
Croatia |
11'13'' |
|
6 |
After A Whale |
Kate Jansone |
Estonia |
5'16'' |
|
7 |
D.S. al Coda |
Maxime Wattrelos, Jérémy Trochet, Louis Cocquet, François Mainguet, Emma Feret, Rachel Cuvilliez, Florian Lecocq |
France |
8'18'' |
|
8 |
Neither one nor two / Né una né due |
Lucia Catalini |
Italy |
5'57'' |
|
9 |
Konundrum |
Milica Ćejić |
Bosnia & Herzegovina |
3'36'' |
|
10 |
I |
Hsu Chih-Chen |
Japan, Taiwan |
4'12'' |
|
11 |
Girls In Real Life Situations |
Ofre Sparrow Vaknin |
USA |
6'24'' |
|
12 |
Stone of Destiny / Kámen Osudu |
Julie Černá |
Czechia |
10'26'' |
|
13 |
La Eterna Búsqueda del Quién |
Raquel Velasquez |
Colombia |
2'02 |
|
14 |
Pear Garden |
Shadab Shayegan |
Germany |
7'02'' |
|
15 |
Ambush |
XI Chengzhuo |
France |
4'03" |
|
16 |
Don't Be Late / Nemoj Kasnit |
Ivana Šoljić |
Croatia |
5'14'' |
|
17 |
Blue / 蓝 |
Lao Xiaoqing |
China |
2'42'' |
|
18 |
Jeanne & Jean Jean |
Thanys Martin |
France |
7'02'' |
|
19 |
States of Matter |
Marvin Hauck |
The Netherlands |
7'00'' |
|
20 |
Sleep Tight / A Demain |
Aliénor Ghys, Aline Hu, Clara Onteiral-Diaz, Guillemette Cahuzac, Marie-Lou Lejeune |
France |
2'14'' |
|
21 |
Spine / Kičma |
Marta Margetić |
Croatia |
4'22'' |
|
22 |
Wish You Were Ear |
Mirjana Balogh |
Hungary |
10'14'' |
|
23 |
Ballad of Fishes and Birds / Balada de peces y pájaros |
Anny Uribe, Juan José Arévalo |
Spain |
7'34'' |
|
24 |
Memoirs |
Olena Onyshchuk |
Ukraine |
3'47'' |
|
25 |
Won’t be Here / WO BU ZAI DE MING TIAN |
Jiali Tan, Haoyuan Zhu |
China |
16'43'' |
|
26 |
Four Walls of Memory / Cztery sciany pamieci |
Joanna Platek |
Poland |
11'44'' |
|
27 |
WROX |
Daniel Farkaš |
Czechia |
3'26'' |
|
28 |
How to make a friend |
Jinfei Ge, Bin He, Myrtille Huet, Julie Jarrier-Stettin, Yuqiang Zhang |
France |
7'16'' |
|
29 |
Beneath the Surface / Ispod Površine |
Maja Ćetojević |
Bosnia & Herzegovina |
9'09'' |
CHILDREN COMPETITION PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
Alex Rostotsky. The Leopard / Alex Rostotsky. Leopard |
Boris Korshunov |
Russia |
4'38'' |
|
2 |
Hell troops |
Emilio Gallego, Jesús Gallego |
Spain |
8'48'' |
|
3 |
Majushko vs. Superslimes / Majuško protiv Superljiga |
Tomislav Gregl |
Croatia |
6'00'' |
|
4 |
Son / Syn |
Zhanna Bekmambetova |
Russia, Kazakhstan |
20'55'' |
|
5 |
Nutissimo |
Nicolas Bianco-Levrin |
France |
2'39'' |
|
6 |
Skin Colour |
Liya Daniel Elbashan and Gilad Pfeffer |
Israel |
3'24'' |
|
7 |
Lost and Found / Izgubljeno-nađeno |
Morana Dolenc |
Croatia |
6'25'' |
|
8 |
Aria |
Arthur P. Motta |
Brazil |
13'00'' |
|
9 |
Flight of the bumblebee |
Nadezda Syachina |
Russia |
2'27'' |
|
10 |
First Flight |
Adrian Jaffe |
Germany |
3'18'' |
|
11 |
Sailboat at the End of the Street / Jedrenjak na kraju ulice |
Lucía Aimara Borjas |
Croatia |
8'02'' |
|
12 |
With Each Passing Day / A Cada Dia Que Passa |
Emanuel Nevado |
Portugal, Slovenia |
10'55'' |
|
13 |
ACE |
Bruno Simões |
Spain |
5'47'' |
|
14 |
Sequencial |
Bruno Caetano |
Portugal |
12'05'' |
|
15 |
Fishing / Rybalka |
Elena Kurkova |
Russia |
3'59'' |
STUDENTS PANORAMA PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
A Trip Through the Eyes of Those Who Survived and Want to Change the World / Podorozh ochyma tykh, khto vriatuvavsia i khoche zminyty svit |
Valery Grysha, Oleksandr Hoisan |
Ukraine |
8'30'' |
|
2 |
Fish Power / Сила Рыбов |
Varya Volkova |
Russia |
5'34'' |
|
3 |
The Old Klavirista / Le Vieux Klavirista |
Sarah Coppin, Simon Delhaye, Théo Massa, Léopold Delcambre |
France |
7'42'' |
|
4 |
Spark! / Siriñke! |
Alibi Mukushev |
Kazakhstan |
20'25'' |
|
5 |
Good Job, Xiao! |
Elise Nabilah |
Malaysia |
6'29'' |
|
6 |
Kiki and Bouba: A Peachy Story / Kiki i Bouba: Brzoskwiniowa Historia |
Leon Bugajski, Kinga Chłodek, Adrian Krzych, Basia Szczerbanowska, Julia Wiereńko |
Poland, Portugal |
4'18'' |
|
7 |
Ivanščica |
Tea Bošnjak |
Croatia |
03'50'' |
|
8 |
The Song of the Sheep / Le Cantique des Moutons |
Jules Marcel, Anaïs Castro de Angel, Juliette Bigo, Evan Lambert, Alex Le Ruyet, Jeanne Bigo, Anaïs Ledoux |
France |
7'48'' |
|
9 |
Layla |
Oscar Baron, Emma Ferréol, Rachel Gitlevich, Diego Hernández-Blanco, Narda Rodríguez, Lucille Reynaud |
France |
6'06'' |
|
10 |
Kapitan |
Andrei Simkin |
Spain |
9'50'' |
PANORAMA PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
Periquitos |
Alex Rey |
Spain |
6'21'' |
|
2 |
Raven / Raaf |
Jeroen Ceulebrouck |
Belgium, Portugal |
13'04'' |
|
3 |
Fito |
Carlos Farina |
Argentina, Italia |
6'07'' |
|
4 |
Glimmer |
Natalia Ryss |
UK, Israel |
4'10'' |
|
5 |
To Your Hands |
Ana Mouyis |
USA, Cyprus |
11'11'' |
|
6 |
On Weary Wings Go By / Linnud läinud |
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg |
Estonia, Lithuania |
10'33'' |
|
7 |
The Graffiti / Rakugaki |
Ryo Orikasa |
Japan, USA |
12'33'' |
|
8 |
The Diversity of Waves Under the Scrutiny of Ma Yuan |
Dmitry Geller |
China |
8'58'' |
|
9 |
Kafka. In Love |
Zane Oborenko |
Czechia, Latvia |
10'10'' |
|
10 |
Nadya |
Sergey Seryogin |
Russia |
15'34'' |
|
11 |
Butterfly / Leptir |
Sunčana Brkulj |
Croatia, Denmark |
8'07" |
|
12 |
As if swallowed by earth had swallowed them up |
Natalia León |
France |
14'00 |
|
13 |
How |
Marko Meštrović |
Croatia |
8'47" |
|
14 |
The Garden Sees Fire |
Kiera Faber |
USA |
14'58'' |
|
15 |
Fishes on the Hook / Thoondil meengal |
RM Udhayan |
India |
8'28'' |
|
16 |
The Fall |
Christine Rebet |
France |
5'19'' |
|
17 |
The Abyss |
Dmitry Nekrasov |
Russia |
7'55'' |
|
18 |
Stand Alone |
Soyeon Kim |
South Korea, USA |
5'16'' |
|
19 |
Connections / Svyazi |
Svetlana Andrianova |
Russia |
4'00'' |
|
20 |
Void Spaces / Puste przestrzenie |
Marta Koch |
Poland |
14'00'' |
|
21 |
Silent Panorama |
Nicolas Piret |
Belgium |
5'08'' |
|
22 |
Katun River |
Maria Zheleznova |
Russia |
9'00'' |
|
23 |
Merrimundi |
Niles Attallah |
Chile |
21'00'' |