Foto: Lana Čolić - The Vent
692 animated films from 61 countries entered the competition of the International Animated Film Festival BANJALUKA 2026. The selection committee included 41 films in the Large competition program, 24 in the Student competition program, 13 in the Children's competition, 26 in the Panorama program and 11 films in the Student Panorama program. Most films came from France, USA, Spain, Russia, Poland and Croatia.
GRAND COMPETITION PROGRAM / VELIKI TAKMIČARSKI PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
Eri |
Yano Honami |
Japan, France |
12'00'' |
|
2 |
El cuerpo de Cristo / Corpus Christi |
Bea Lema |
Spain, France |
12'30'' |
|
3 |
A Report about Phantoms : Mr.Y's Pastime |
Yujin Iwai |
Japan |
3'20'' |
|
4 |
Dance of Creation |
Natalia Ryss |
Israel |
3’13’’ |
|
5 |
Qui a tué Narin G****? / Who Killed Narin G****? |
Ayçe Kartal |
France |
4'41'' |
|
6 |
10 Ainulaadset Paika Mida Kindlasti Külastada / Top 10 Things to See |
Mihkel Reha |
Estonia |
14'15'' |
|
7 |
Procrastination Yoga |
Paulina Ziółkowska |
Germany, Poland, Mexico |
7'36'' |
|
8 |
Una rosa / A Rose |
Simone Massi |
Italy |
5'00" |
|
9 |
Tapeworm Alexis & the Opera Diva |
Thaïs Odermatt |
Switzerland |
11'18'' |
|
10 |
Sự tích Trần Thanh Dương / The Tale of Tran Thanh Duong |
Hachul Le Do |
Vietnam |
8'00'' |
|
11 |
Una Storia Di Sangue / A Blood Story |
Stefano Buonamico |
Italy, Romania |
9'30'' |
|
12 |
Do dna / Down the Hatch |
Alexandra McGuinness (Lukina) |
Russia, USA |
7'48'' |
|
13 |
Riba Luna / Fish Moon |
Andrey Koulev |
Bulgaria |
12'00'' |
|
14 |
Carla und ihre Beine / Carla and her legs |
Christoph Büttner |
Germany |
14'00'' |
|
15 |
Lona / Canva |
Malena Martinez |
Argentina |
2'20'' |
|
16 |
Dernier Acte |
Victor Desroys Du Roure |
France |
3'19'' |
|
17 |
Lángbogár a zsebemben / Fire in My Pocket |
Janka Feiner |
Hungary |
9'57'' |
|
18 |
Opération Maple Leaf / Operation Maple Leaf |
Alan Jennings |
USA |
5'58'' |
|
19 |
Seven Years in Twitter |
David J Graham |
Finland, UK |
3'22'' |
|
20 |
I Have a |
Rory Waudby-Tolley |
UK |
4'43'' |
|
21 |
Mi juego / My Game |
David Navarro Bravo |
Spain |
7'00'' |
|
22 |
Priredba / School Show |
Ana Horvat |
Croatia |
5'31'' |
|
23 |
Dnevnik snivanja / The Book of Dreaming |
Irena Jukić Pranjić |
Croatia |
11'00'' |
|
24 |
Kosmogonia |
Karolina Chabier |
France, Poland, Belgium, Portugal |
16'00'' |
|
25 |
Plat de résistance / Mealitancy |
Zinia Scorier and Marie Royer |
Belgium, France |
12'00'' |
|
26 |
Gherking |
Claudius Gentinetta |
Switzerland |
7'22'' |
|
27 |
Con café (Cuentos con la C) / With Coffee (Tales With the Letter C) |
María Manero Muro |
Spain, France |
11'30'' |
|
28 |
If Only |
Ada Güvenir |
Belgium |
6'00'' |
|
29 |
Tar |
Fariba Farzanfar |
Iran |
5'00'' |
|
30 |
Small Hours |
Oscar Wyndham Lewis |
UK |
9'56'' |
|
31 |
A Tree |
Mark Wee |
Singapore |
9'16'' |
|
32 |
Cocon / Cocoon |
Ines Sedan |
France |
13'05'' |
|
33 |
Casca |
Bianca Toloi |
Brazil |
13'52'' |
|
34 |
Dieu est timide / God is shy |
Jocelyn Charles |
France |
15'34'' |
|
35 |
Venezia Diorama |
Nicolas Piret |
Belgium |
6'26'' |
|
36 |
Težnja / Strive |
Krešimir Pernek |
Croatia |
19'15'' |
|
37 |
Safo / Sappho |
Rosana Urbes |
Brazil |
12'20'' |
|
38 |
Territory |
Barbara Synak |
Poland |
7'00'' |
|
39 |
Acid City |
Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim |
USA, France |
12'30'' |
|
40 |
Algo en la casa |
Luce Grosjean |
Spain, France |
12'00'' |
|
41 |
Kozmonavti / Cosmonauts |
Leo Černic |
Slovenia, Italy, France |
14'10'' |
STUDENTS COMPETITION PROGRAM / STUDENTSKI TAKMIČARSKI PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
It Might Even Be Real |
Yael Bonne |
Israel |
7'09'' |
|
2 |
Dvotočka zagrada / Colon Parenthesis |
Marija Ana Turčić |
Croatia |
3'43'' |
|
3 |
My Grandmother is a Skydiver |
Polina Piddubna |
Germany, Ukraine |
12'59'' |
|
4 |
Aşk / Love |
Magdalena Iris Özen |
Poland |
6'27" |
|
5 |
Nothing Will Die |
Rasmus Sølvsten |
Denmark |
8'24'' |
|
6 |
La Volière / The Birdhouse |
Mathias Barnabé, Inès Dolivet, Victor Lesaffre, Sasha Monteiro, Peiwen Tang, Wei Hsin Weng |
France |
8'00'' |
|
7 |
Izduvni ventil / The Vent |
Lana Čolić |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
7' 10'' |
|
8 |
Hledám pana Lejzra / I'm Looking for Mr. Laser |
Laura Boráros |
Czechia |
6'00'' |
|
9 |
Fellow |
Martha Rivière, Laura Darras, Théo Bergougnoux, Gaspard Keller de Schleitheim, Johanne Coppier, Romane Casha |
France |
7'13'' |
|
10 |
Insecticida /Insecticide |
Paula Gallego |
Spain |
5'42'' |
|
11 |
Kamarade |
Garance Valere, Valentin Okoundou, Hubert Chauvaux, Alice Bourget, Louise Laurent, Fleuriane Le Guillou |
France |
8'18'' |
|
12 |
Nagging |
Danhee Lee |
USA |
3'36'' |
|
13 |
Each, All and Every |
Nikoletta Veress |
Hungary |
11'29'' |
|
14 |
Cold Bathroom |
Eleni Aerts |
Belgium, Switzerland |
6'12'' |
|
15 |
So He Grabbed the Knife |
Sam Kuwa |
Japan, China |
12'16'' |
|
16 |
Language of Heart |
Kasra Yazdani |
Belgium, Finland, Portugal, Iran |
10':56" |
|
17 |
Dziś Wstanie Słońce / The Sun Will Rise Today |
Bruno Bednarski |
Poland |
4'27'' |
|
18 |
Tina |
Eliana Fernández |
Spain |
5'42'' |
|
19 |
Le Procès / The Trial |
Lian Cornieux, Ingrid Lala, Agathe Arduini, Ilan Blauwblomme |
France |
5'19'' |
|
20 |
The Panic Inside |
Matthias Strasser |
Germany |
8'33'' |
|
21 |
|
Sonya Nikitina (co-directors: Juliette Gangl, Vitaly Ushakov) |
Spain |
4'14" |
|
22 |
Znovu rozkvést / To Bloom Again |
Natálie Durchánková |
Czechia |
8'00'' |
|
23 |
Les Fleurs de Malva / The Flowers of Malva |
Anna Lys, Rémy Berlemont, Alice Hamel, Chen-Yun Hu, Ludivine Lebourg, Estelle Martin, Agathe Ribout |
France |
6'54'' |
|
24 |
Alkos |
Smiltė Butkevičiūtė |
Netherlands |
18'50'' |
CHILDREN COMPETITION PROGRAM / DJEČJI TAKMIČARSKI PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
Sunspark |
Danny Bourque |
USA |
10'58'' |
|
2 |
Vauhtipyräys / Speeding, of Course |
Anni Sairio, Joonatan Turkki |
Finland |
3'57'' |
|
3 |
Utrka prijateljstva / The Race of Friendship |
Dean Hamer |
Croatia |
7'09'' |
|
4 |
The Sun & The Wind |
Yellowshed: Soyeon Kim & Todd Hemker |
USA |
2'38'' |
|
5 |
Mes petits contes - Les larmes de la jardinière / My little stories - The gardener's tears |
Manuelly N'landou-Tchibindat |
Côte d'Ivoire, Congo |
6'30'' |
|
6 |
Goma / Rub |
Júlia Francino |
España, Portugal |
6'00'' |
|
7 |
Tawny Owl |
Anastasiia Zhakulina |
Russia |
8'00'' |
|
8 |
The Swing |
Jackie Ross |
USA |
6'00'' |
|
9 |
Poisson Nuage / Cloud Fish |
Noe Garcia |
France, Belgium |
5'47'' |
|
10 |
Monito Elfo Samurai |
Emilio Gallego & Jesus Gallego |
Spain |
5'00'' |
|
11 |
There once was a tiger |
Marina Verik, Dmitry Mosyagin |
Russia |
12'05'' |
|
12 |
Esquisses sur glace / Sketches on Ice |
Marion Auvin |
France, Belgium |
4'10'' |
|
13 |
Bubbly Water |
Iurii Tomilov |
Russia |
5'15'' |
STUDENTS PANORAMA PROGRAM / STUDENTSKI PANORAMA PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
No te conozco / I don't know you |
Josefa Rozas, Sofia Vargas Rubilar |
Chile |
11'04'' |
|
2 |
Kontakt |
Anna Belova |
Czechia |
14'00'' |
|
3 |
Kenopsia |
Camille Redon, Sélène Le, Alice Hegymegi-Kiss, Gregoire Pezzulo, Fanny Belougne, Quentin Szczygiel, Adel Tebib |
France |
6'36'' |
|
4 |
Kameni Svatovi / The Stone Wedding |
Jan Arapovic |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
4' 04'' |
|
5 |
Rage Bait |
Ursula Felicity Electra |
Indonesia |
4'37'' |
|
6 |
Tell me where to look |
Mikelle Männiste |
Canada |
4'57'' |
|
7 |
Coming back with the waves |
Žoel Kastelic |
Belgium |
4'10'' |
|
8 |
Naše zdi / Our Walls |
Živa Divjak |
Czechia |
7'00'' |
|
9 |
Don Gatto |
Nina Šipek |
Croatia |
05'03'' |
|
10 |
Tiny's Last Wish |
Sandra Vasilj |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
1'00'' |
|
11 |
Susurros |
Alexandra Pewinski, Marie Lombard, Florian Reignier, Emma Pluchard, Lisa Francillon, Alice Parmentier |
France |
7'27'' |
PANORAMA PROGRAM
|
No. |
Film Title |
Director |
Country |
Running Time |
|
1 |
From male and female |
Bassem Ben Brahim |
Tunisia, France |
11'34'' |
|
2 |
Fassaad / Facade |
Elise Kruusel |
Estonia |
12'25'' |
|
3 |
Woven world |
Marina Kecman |
Serbia |
7'20'' |
|
4 |
Pobre Marciano / Poor Marciano |
Alex Rey |
Spain |
7'27'' |
|
5 |
Juž mnie nie ma / I Am Not Here Anymore |
Nawojka Wierzbowska |
Poland, France |
14' 59'' |
|
6 |
Kiievi tort / Kyiv Cake |
Mykyta Lyskov |
Estonia |
22'10'' |
|
7 |
Самота, сняг и борове / Loneliness, snow, and pines |
Vladislav Ivanov and Ivaylo Zahariev |
Bulgaria |
4'34'' |
|
8 |
Жевріння / Ember |
Vladyslav Kalenskyi |
Ukraine, Luxembourg |
12'00'' |
|
9 |
Nuestra querida criatura / Our beloved criature |
Santi Rojo |
Spain |
6'08'' |
|
10 |
Starlit |
Shannon Lee |
USA |
9'53'' |
|
11 |
Aktos |
Madina Yelikbayeva |
Kazakhstan |
13'07'' |
|
12 |
Traces |
Tilly Wallace |
UK |
5'32'' |
|
13 |
The Hare |
Yulia Ruditskaya |
USA |
9'25'' |
|
14 |
Majmoueh- daar / The Collector |
Mahsa Shoja |
Iran |
12'39'' |
|
15 |
Steeping |
Eilidh Nicoll |
UK |
3'22'' |
|
16 |
12 p.m. |
Polina Bovkun |
Russia |
7'30'' |
|
17 |
Decaer / Decay |
Juan Camilo González |
Colombia |
7'08'' |
|
18 |
L’Etrange Humeur Adolescente¸/ Strange Teen Spirit |
Frank Ternier |
France |
15'40'' |
|
19 |
Pictoman |
Branko Farac |
Croatia |
8'59'' |
|
20 |
Under the Lake |
Juan Carlos Mostaza |
Spain |
14'39'' |
|
21 |
Statue in the Garden |
Qianhui Yu |
UK |
7'38'' |
|
22 |
Hier, Aujourd’hui / Yesterday, Today |
Siyang Dong, Nina Glavaški, Angie He, Hélène Ksiezak, Grâce Mispelaere |
France |
7'00'' |
|
23 |
The Right to Be Forgotten |
Tue Sanggaard |
Denmark |
10'55" |
|
24 |
Četiri / Four |
Dea Jagić |
Croatia |
6'28" |
|
25 |
Kalligeneia |
Mohammad Babakoohi |
France |
3' |
|
26 |
En attendant les barbares / Waiting for the Barbarians |
Georges Sifianos |
France, Greece |
11'45'' |