ECFA SHORT FILM COMPETITION
TBA
Total time: 67 mins
Germany 2024 | 4 mins | No dialogue
Director, script: Julia Ocker
Animation: Sofiia Melnyk, Julia Ocker
Music: Claudia Kaiser, Martin Lickleder
Production: Thomas Meyer-Hermann | Studio FILM BILDER GmbH, https://filmbilder.de/, studio@filmbilder.de
Distribution: Studio FILM BILDER GmbH, https://filmbilder.de/, studio@filmbilder.de
A musical performance goes off the rails when one of the performers has learnt the wrong lyrics!
Belgium, France 2025 | 17 mins | Audio: Polish, French | Subtitles: English, Finnish
Director, script: Sylwia Szkiłądź
Animation: Gaspar Chabaud, Eve de Roek, Sylwia Szkiłądź, Pierre Lebrun, Ronni Shalev, Agathe Sollier, Anne Escot
Editor: Jérôme Erhart
Music: Barbara Drazkov
Cast: Natalia Wolska, Anna Seniuk, Henryk Niebudek, Elżbieta Gaertner, Marcin Pempuś, Lidia Sadowa, Barbara Jonak, Mariusz Ostrowski, Konrad Beta
Production: Jérémie Mazurek, Christophe Beaujean, Mathieu Rolin, Viviane Vanfleteren | OZÙ Productions, Vivi Film, Amopix, Novanima, https://ozuproductions.be/en/, festival@miyu.fr
Distribution: Luce Grosjean, Miyu Distribution, https://www.miyu.fr/distribution/en/home/, festival@miyu.fr
Agata is a brave little girl who has to travel alone by bus from Poland to Belgium, where her mother has found work. Agata has a blue pen with her, which she uses to write a letter to her father, who lives in Poland. However, the pen falls and rolls somewhere far away in the bowels of the bus. While searching for her pen, Agata encounters other passengers who seem strangely animalistic.
Finland 2024 | 11 mins | Audio: Finnish | Subtitles: English
Original title: Pukuhuone
Director, script: Sebastian Granskog
Cinematography: Mikael Ahtikari
Editor: James Coker
Music: Oliver Wegmüller
Cast: Toivo Ståhlberg, Eemil Kontuniemi, Sampo Sarkola, Lina Schiffer, Shemeikka Mustakallio
Production: Mia Palmgren | Character House, www.characterhouse.fi, mia@characterhouse.fi
Distribution: Finnish Film Foundation, Otto Suuronen, otto.suuronen@ses.fi
It’s basketball day in P.E. class, but first it is time to change into gym clothes in the boys‘ locker room. For Calle and Emil the locker room feels like a huge, ugly monster that mocks them every time they go near it. Will the boys find the courage to face their fears and step into the locker room with the other boys?
Netherlands 2024 | 18 mins | Audio: Dutch | Subtitles: English, Finnish
Original title: Zomerdromen
Director, script: Kim Faberom
Editor: Fatih Tura
Production: Nienke Korthof, Willem Baptist | Tangerine Tree, https://www.tangerinetree.nl/, festival@tangerinetree.nl,
Distribution: Tangerine Tree, https://www.tangerinetree.nl/, festival@tangerinetree.nl
At a special summer camp for children with cancer, 11-year-old Lotte finds a rare chance to step outside the shadow of her illness. In the camp’s warm and safe atmosphere she can simply be a child again even if the illness never fully leaves her thoughts.
Finland, Lithuania 2024 | 11 mins | Audio: Finnish, Lithuanian | Subtitles: English
Director: Olli Ilpo Salonen
Script: Saana Räntilä, Annalisa Schmuckli
Cinematography: Hannu Käki
Editors: Pierre-Louis Umdenstock, Aleksi Raij
Cast: Emilia Heiskanen, Aatos Höglund, Pamela Tola, Kirilas Glušajevas, Annalisa Schmuckli
Production: Annalisa Schmuckli, Saana Räntilä | Empire Pictures, FEEL REEL, www.empirepictures.fi, annalisa@empirepictures.fi, saana@empirepictures.fi
Distribution: Empire Pictures / Finnish Film Foundation, www.empirepictures.fi, www.ses.fi , info@empirepictures.fi
Fifth grader Sofia loves drawing. A graffiti wall will open in the city, where anyone who wants to can paint their own artwork. Sofia needs to sketch her graffiti, but her parents are annoyed by her constant drawing. The parents restrict Sofia and her brother's activities until a surprising change in gravity occurs, and suddenly everything is turned upside down.
Germany, Croatia 2025 | 6 mins | No dialogue
Original title: Der Stachel im Po
Director: Elena Walf
Script: Elena Walf, Simon Thummet, Varvara Kuznetsova
Animation: Elena Walf, Urte Zintler, Uwe Fährmann, Angela Steffen, Dirk Reddig, Raphael Wahl, Goran Stojnic, Ulf Grenzer, Yves Paradis, Lisa Scharf, Kris van Alphen, Maya Yonesho, Iris Meier, Jens Rosemann, Aline Helmcke
Music: Nicolai Krepart
Cast: Nathalie Imboden, Yuri Tsvetaev, Elena Walf, Luis Schöffend, Everett Forrest Mason, Andreas Hykade, Florian Stamm, Diomid Vinogradov
Production: Thomas Meyer-Hermann | studio@filmbilder.de
Distribution: Studio Film Bilder GmbH, studio@filmbilder.de
It’s snowing outside and it is time for the little hedgehog to settle in for winter hibernation, but one of its spikes is missing. Could the whimpering sound from outside have something to do with the lost spike?





