2025 / Lithuania / 2 min 10 s

An old sculptor is creating a bust of Friedrich Nietzsche in his workshop for a grand ceremony of finishing the bust by attaching Nietzsche's moustache which are larger than they should be. Citizens observe the sculptor as he carries moustache towards the pedestal, all kinds of people are waiting for the solemn finalization of the bust, the priests are confused not knowing what they are doing here. Wave of applause erupts as sculptor walks towards the tribune after attaching moustache. “In the future a man will live 300 years!” - says sculptor.

Directed by Elijas Požidajevas Screenwriter: Elijas Požidajevas Producer: Elijas Požidajevas Company: Vilnius Academy of Arts

2024 / Lithuania / 2 min 12 s

"Can't Bear This"- a short film about the uncontrollable impulse to commit violence against oneself. In a fast-paced world full of information and experiences, the protagonist faces self-destruction. Is it worth it to ignore, hide, cover up one's faults? Or is it possible just accept them?

Directed by Jorė Černiauskaitė Screenwriter: Jorė Černiauskaitė Producer: Eva Rodz Company: Animatest

2024 / Estonia / 7 min 12 s

If traditionally the animator is a master illusionist, conjuring motion through static mediums, what does this process look like when they are given a machine of infinite images? "Diffusion Pilot" is the name of author's ongoing research project, AI animation toolkit in development, and a short film that follows author's contemplative journey through said project. This journey is fuelled by the conflicting nature of AI technology - that which both empowers and overpowers the very notion of creativity.

Directed by Aurelijus Čiupas Screenwriter: Aurelijus Čiupas Producer: Aurelijus Čiupas Company: Estonian Academy of Arts

2025 / Lithuania / 2 min 8 s

This film is analyzing the psychi of a misunderstood human being. How trauma affects ones behavior and memories

Directed by Sonata Vilkevičiūtė Screenwriter: Sonata Vilkevičiūtė Producer: Sonata Vilkevičiūtė Company: Vilnius Academy of Arts

2025 / Lithuania / 3 min 0 s

On April 15, 2025, a forgotten Soviet "Doomsday" radio suddenly comes to life, broadcasting encrypted messages. An abstract animated film about echoes from the past disrupting the present.

Directed by Antanas Skučas, Julius Zubavičius Screenwriters: Antanas Skučas, Julius Zubavičius Producers: Antanas Skučas, Julius Zubavičius

2025 / Lithuania / 4 min 44 s

A music video made for the punk-orchestra Lapkričio dvidešimtosios orkestras, based in the underground of Vilnius, Lithuania, embraces chaos as its aesthetic. It transforms glitches, fragmented scans, and digital noise into a raw, unpredictable visual experience. Using Blender and a simple scanning app, the video distorts reality, rejecting polished CGI in favor of a pixelated, unfiltered world. The band’s fusion of distorted sound and glitchy imagery mirrors their experimental approach to music. In this “Glitchpunk Odyssey,” imperfection becomes an art form, proving that rebellion thrives in digital disorder.

Directed by Robertas Nevecka Producer: Robertas Nevecka

2025 / Lithuania / 1 min 18 s

This experimental animation is a journey into a mind overloaded with information during a sleepless night. Flashes of light, chaotic imagery, imagined games and thoughts replacing one another faster than they can be grasped—all contribute to a dreamlike, tense atmosphere. The piece explores the moment between wakefulness and sleep, when reality begins to fragment and everything becomes unclear. Sound becomes an equally important means of expression—broken phrases, voice messages, and fragmented noises echo the unstoppable stream of thoughts. It’s a state where you can’t fully wake up, yet sleep remains out of reach—as if caught between two worlds.

Directed by Ugnė Žvirblytė Screenwriter: Ugnė Žvirblytė Producer: Ugnė Žvirblytė Company: Vilnius Academy of Arts

2024 / Lithuania / 4 min 38 s

A lonely man lives in a city full of people, but the man does not see them. Black colour covers his consciousness and he loses touch with reality. Since the constant journey up and down repeats in his daily life, trying to search for some meaning, the man finds a red stone, but the meaning is not created. Not finding a way out of the city, the man freezes like a stone himself.

Directed by Rebeka Salomėja Kavaliauskaitė Screenwriter: Rebeka Salomėja Kavaliauskaitė Producer: Rebeka Salomėja Kavaliauskaitė Company: Vilnius College of Technologies and Design

2025 / Lithuania / 4 min 35 s

"Inverted" unfolds like an origami — a delicate inward construction of one’s world behind closed doors. The film reflects on hikikomori existence, where physical withdrawal is interwoven with cultural immersion. Media, imagination, and subtle disruptions shape a fragile space balancing solitude, participation, and quiet resistance to societal rhythms.

Directed by Ignotas Kuprys Screenwriter: Ignotas Kuprys Producer: Ignotas Kuprys

2024 / United Kingdom / 4 min 48 s

A phone conversation between friends, reminiscing about their plan to go skinny dipping at night, secretly from others on a weekend getaway. However, they end up enjoying the planning itself so much that they never execute the plan.

Directed by Rusnė Dragūnevičiūtė Screenwriter: Rusnė Dragūnevičiūtė Producer: Rusnė Dragūnevičiūtė Company: Royal College of Art

2025 / Lithuania / 2 min 52 s

This short animation explores the importance of caring for ourselves and others through the relationship between a person and their plant. Through everyday life, the protagonist faces the challenge of helping his withering plant and realises the importance of small changes, finding a healthy way to balance love for others and themselves.

Directed by Beatričė Jackutė Screenwriter: Beatričė Jackutė Producer: Beatričė Jackutė Company: Vilnius Academy of Arts

2025 / Lithuania / 4 min 51 s

Liucija, who lives according to the rules of the Church, faces an inner struggle with her sexual identity. Her internal conflict is reflected in her dreams, where she travels through different rooms marked with inscriptions expressing societal and familial judgments: "whore," "ungrateful," "liar." These rooms also symbolize the Ten Commandments. In reality, Liucija searches for answers online and watches an interview with the Pope, in which he states that homosexuality is not a crime. Ultimately, after symbolic trials in both her dreams and real life, she is faced with the most important decision of her life – to accept herself.

Directed by Aistė Misiūnaitė Screenwriter: Aistė Misiūnaitė Producer: Aistė Misiūnaitė Company: Vilnius Academy of Arts

2025 / Lithuania / 7 min 46 s

In Soviet-occupied Lithuania, two young pioneers—one a true believer, the other a skeptic—are promoted to serve on the legendary 'Red Wall.' But as they journey through a decaying industrial nightmare, they uncover a horrifying truth: the Wall is built from living flesh. Faced with eternal torment, they make a desperate bid for freedom.

Directed by Matas Pakutinskas Screenwriter: Matas Pakutinskas Producer: Matas Pakutinskas Company: Willem de Kooning Academie

2024 / Lithuania / 6 min 0 s

The film explores the impact of urban development and infrastructure decisions in Vilnius on the needs of the population and environmental sustainability. Using the tools of contemporary animation, the work creates a dystopian vision that raises questions about the human relationship to the city and its well-being in the contemporary urban world.

Directed by Olga Abramova Screenwriter: Olga Abramova Producer: Olga Abramova Company: Vilnius Academy of Arts

2024 / Lithuania / 1 min 38 s

This abstract animated short questions our perception of existence as a coherent timeline. It is an exploration of contrasts and connections, depicting the juxtapositions between possible spaces and threads of time. Film depicts layers of time as they peal from city’s walls, once new and modern, now the reminder of past, once new and shiny. It also shows strings of time that start as Illuminated initials, expand and open a vast space of possible futures or pasts.

Directed by Martynas Genkovas, Mantas Talmantas Screenwriters: Martynas Genkovas, Mantas Talmantas Producer: Martynas Genkovas

2024 / Estonia, Lithuania / 10 min 34 s

A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.

Directed by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg Screenwriter: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg Producers: Marianne Ostrat, Agnė Adomėnė, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg Company: Fork Film, Art shot