This German film, minimalistic in terms of its editing and semantics, depicts a current issue – fear of war and attempts to ignore its very existence. The main character is a man living his peaceful life in the top floor of a high-rise block of flats without any contact with the outside world. But the war, though distant, becomes more and more intense.

This graduate film follows a dialogue between the filmmaker and his saba (Hebrew for Grandpa) in the last chapter of his life. Saba Beno tells his grandson his life story, beginning when he was a child, but in his own humorously ironic way, which the director depicted with a simple and yet inventive artistic style.

The occasionally fragmentary and humorous film Awkward is a mosaic of absurd moments related to various communication and social ineptitudes that happen during a single day. The film, bursting with ideas, is characterised by dynamic animation and pleasantly stylised drawing.

An ordinary clerk defies the system and with unexpected support from his colleague changes the course of his routine life. This pixilated love story set in a world where everything is controlled and timed by light, was a success at more than 300 festivals including Annecy (Audience Award). Luminaris has also won the prestigious Fipresci award.

Green, yellow and blue, striking graphic stylisation and five dwarfs; these are the building stones of this playful film. In absurd moments, a world defined by lines and geometric shapes transforms and disintegrates until someone who can restore its lost order comes along.

The experimental film Sacred Clockworks reflects religion through photographic animation of their impressive sacral architecture. Thereby the Domes of churches, mosques or synagogues are treated like clockworks – infinitely continuous, embodying thousands of years of history. The film examines the dome’s distinctive structure built from multiple layers of circular patterns. It pays homage to the beautiful art that emerged from religious institutions without overlooking the fact that these same institutions led to violence, suffering and death. The film reminds us of the commonalities of different religions by examining the similarities of their sacral architecture. A statement for more tolerance and against any fundamentalism.

An animated slapstick by a graduate of Moscow's SHAR studios, Leonid Shmelkov. Short, but full of great ideas, Very Lonely Cock is a series of absurd situations as experienced by a cock and its owner. A simple initial situation gets more and more complicated and the cock, not having a good day, only makes it worse by dealing with incoming problems.

Ada the Crow has a strange dream. She would like to have the same wedding as humans. Ada sets out to find information and equipment to make her dream come true. But mainly, Ada needs to find a future husband. A new film by Ülo Pikkov, who used distinctive drawing style, is packed with absurd humour and unexpected points.

When a young boy hides into a wall clock during playtime, his life shrinks into a single game of hide and seek. He becomes an old man with lots of memories of his childhood that manifest themselves in surreal scenes and tell a story about something which concerns every single one of us. Hide N Seek is Bára Halířová’s graduation film from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

This short educational film portrays the youth of Czech gymnast František Pecháček and the events that shaped his personality. Towards the end, it takes us to the Strahov Stadium in Prague in 1938, where 30,000 members of the Sokol organisation performed his choreography Oath to the Republic.