One day, while scrolling through his Instagratte feed, Benjamin Efrati meets his algorithm, a giant cosmic cat in neon colours. A pure reverberation of his behaviours, the algorithm is a golden prison that reinforces his beliefs and both alienates and comforts him. ‘Mon Algorithme à Moi’ is a contemporary fable in the form of a psychedelic odyssey into the virtual space of social networks.

This short reflection on Ostrava’s environment and inhabitants is based on a poem by Viktor Beznoha, who recites it himself. His apt verses full of observations and points are visualised in animation. This high-school film is an authentic and humorous testimony about our civilisation.

This music video is about the fight between communists (striking miners) and Yugoslav nationalists in Trbovlje in 1924. At that time, Slovenia was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and dozens of people died in the struggle. The music video evokes the echoes of the first decades of the 20th century through artistic movements.

A disturbing story set in the near future. People are holed up in their small dwellings and live in a virtual world. Everyone films and streams various videos. They don’t have a clue that they’re not free until one of them goes outside. But the discovery of the outer reality is something their virtual masters aren’t happy to see.

In this modern fable, rife with absurd symbolism, Meat Dept. delves into the heart of a dysfunctional love relationship. Behind the dynamic of a perpetual power struggle between man and woman lies a deeper, more complex truth: the duality of feminine and masculine energies, far from forming an immutable antagonism, offers a field of perpetual creation.

Guys working on a construction site have a problem – their shovel got stuck in the sand. A student from the Plzeň Studio of Animation, known to Anifilm audiences from previous festival editions, has once again chosen a provocative topic and form. Can the guys solve their problem by lunchtime? And if not, will something happen?

This poetic and charmingly animated music video with an environmental message was created by a Croatian director based in Estonia. It talks about contradictory relationships between humans and nature. Climate change, overpopulation and loss of species diversity are concerns that affect and speak to all of us.

This visually remarkable abstract music video for the duo Gnaw combines multiple animation techniques. The director uses lines, shapes and various photographs. The experimental sound is created by traditional Persian and Finnish instruments with synthesisers and creates an atmosphere of mystery and pleasant thrills.

This semi-abstract atmospheric film animates engravings by Andriy Sokolenko, an artist from the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Animated in fast-paced sequences with appropriate sounds, they form urban scenes which alternate with ‘abstract’ rain. Thanks to detailed shots, we distinctly feel individual scratches – the bumps hitting the ground.