Panther is an intensive study about freedom. What does an animal in captivity feel? Can these feelings be visualised at all? The director’s characteristically restless animation found ideal material in Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem about a panther kept in the menagerie of a Parisian botanical garden. Once again, the director accompanies his suggestive visual style with expressive music, this time based on the electric guitar.

This dreamy collage combines original digital drawings with photographs dominated by various flowers in bloom. The rays of the setting sun gleam on the water and create a fitting backdrop for the melancholy song of a musician who came to the Netherlands from Cameroon.

To learn how to process bad news and face adversity in life, you undoubtedly need some skills. In this short humorous film, probably loosely inspired by Inside Out and Inside Out 2, we get to see the mental processes of an unfortunate person and hopefully get some tips on what to do.

Jan Šrámek is a constructor of vector nostalgias with the sense for a style unity boardering with unification. This time he has even managed to tame the rain that, in regular grid, sprinkles the damaged and desertedremains of an urban infrastructure. The amount of ruined military hard-ware confirms it is a standard post-apocalyptic scenario, for which the people themselves are to blame.It is not clear who will change places with them (us). Veronika Vlkova “Little Girl“ is the only living person we see in our wanderings through the deserted city, she does have to bet he the seed of a new civilization, not a remainder of the…ours. Maybe she is only one the only one, the one and only

This original spot made for the Czechia 2026 project was created to mark the Czech Republic’s honorary presence at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Using playful animation, it metaphorically connects literary worlds with the vision of the Czech Republic as a cultural haven and invites people to discover our stories.

This short puppet music video reintroduces Jan Werich’s song about the fateful girl Cecílie, whose beauty intoxicates everyone who lays eyes on her. The diva’s beauty blinds the actor himself as his playfully animated puppet version is trying to gain her favour. A sweet and humorous tribute to an unforgettable song.

This song by a Uruguayan band thematising melancholy works with the motif of a mosaic which gradually disintegrates. It reveals dream worlds – beautiful at first sight – which overflow with so many motifs and information that we feel overwhelmed. An important and symbolic role in this music video is played by ceramic and the art of kintsugi, which teaches us to love our inevitable scars.

This black-and-white music video visualises a stream of consciousness in which the director transforms structures from broken asphalt, lichen and glass fibre concrete. He combines these materials with illustrations from his old textbooks and encyclopaedias which are similar to shamanic drawings. From this dark and surreal tangle, a head emerges – a photograph of Edgar Allan Poe.

A short and captivating non-narrative animation be Polish filmmaker Konrad Ożgo.