SERIES FOR TEENAGERS AND ADULTS

Spear's lifeless body is reanimated to enact brutal vengeance.

When chin hairs sprout and deep lines appear, thirty-something Danni is thrust into a battle over how a Black woman is “supposed” to age – and who decides what “aging gracefully” really means.

Bianca Lambert is a filmmaker, beauty journalist, and creative producer from Atlanta. Her award-winning animated short, Super High: A Period Piece, explores Black women’s experiences with fibroids and has screened at Oscar-qualifying festivals, including Slamdance, Atlanta Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival. Formerly a beauty and style video producer at BuzzFeed, she has written for ESSENCE, PEOPLE, Bustle, Byrdie, HuffPost, and Who What Wear. She also won a 2023 Webby Award with Amazon Studios and is touring with her second short, My Black Is Cracking.

Soul Shift – a visually stunning and delightfully wacky animated series by Christian Franz Schmidt – follows Evolution Managers shaping life across the universe. When Dew Blue and Sunny-Yellow enter a cosmic contest, it spirals into a wild battle that tests not only their strategy, but their friendship too.

Christian Franz Schmidt (1984) studied animation at HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg. He was a pre-selection juror for the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film in 2013. From 2012–2019, he headed animation at a major media agency and has been working as a freelancer since 2012.

Throughout “Il est une fois” (There Once Was...) we encounter Little Belgian Riding Hood, Bluebeard, a Wolf on a motorcycle, a duck that lays golden eggs, three little pigs, and many more characters whom we think we know already, but turn out to be different than expected. Seeing as these tales cross both centuries and borders, this series can become an opportunity for a colourful present-day voyage that visits Marseille, makes a stop at Montreal and ends up in Brazza. Fasten your seatbelts, we are ready for take-off!

Patrick Béraud, aka Volve (b. 1972, France), studied audio-visual media to become a sound engineer, specialising in post-production for animated films. Then He co-founded the experimental collective La Lueur Déchirée (1997) and later the production company Metronomic (2000), directing a number of music videos and an educational series for UNESCO. He also directed award-winning short films and is now directing the second season of the series while developing a new animated series, TILT.

“Funny Snails” is a compilation of 5 episodes of a short animated series about social problems and stereotypes. The main characters are snails. Each of them represents one specific social group and the stereotypes that are characteristic of that social group. They talk about different topics, from cleaning the house to women’s issues rights.

Dragana Stanković is a shy and curly artist from Bosnia. She began her art journey in 2017 when she applied for a Bachelor's degree in graphic design. After her Bachelor's degree, she realized that she liked animation the most, so she decided to continue her studies in the field of animation. Now (2025), she has finished her master's studies at the University of Nova Gorica, where she has worked on her animated series called “Funny Snails”.

Sassy, his conjoined sister: Nancy, and their Yaoguai family find themselves caught in wacky adventures filled with mystery, magic, and folklore!

Qieer Wang is a NYC based illustrator and animation artist who likes to explore conceptual ideas of sensations and absurdity using digital techniques with character-driven visual works. Calvin Lofton is an entrepreneur and creative based out of NYC. His main focus is storytelling and editing.

Tristan gets immersed in a new hobby.

“The Adventures of Tol-Dar (& KITU is also there!)” is all that remains of a (fictitious) Saturday-morning cartoon that was lost to time, created sometime in the 1980s to advertise the “Tol-Dar” line of action figures. Tol-Dar has all the outward qualities of an '80s action hero, but none of the bravery or heroism. He is to He-Man what Don Quixote is to King Arthur, what Johnny Bravo is to Elvis. When his life is on the line, Tol-Dar turns to the camera and attempts to teach “the kids at home” whatever life lesson he believes can be drawn from the situation. Tol-Dar's advice is almost always wrong and tends to fail spectacularly. We are led to believe that this is why - while its contemporaries continue to be remade and rebooted – Tol-Dar's animated series became “lost media”, of which only a single episode remains.

Bruce Caruso is a 22 years old animator in Buenos Aires, in his last year of studies at the Universidad Del Cine. When he was 3yo, he accidentally discovered stop-motion animation whilst playing with a digital camera. He spent a large portion of his childhood animating for fun, and his young adulthood working in studios like Can Can Club and Borguz. He recently directed an animated intro to the ANIMA Córdoba festival. This is his first independent film as a writer, director and producer.

In this highly acclaimed award-winning episode of “Smiling Friends”, a walking talking frog will change your life and rewire your brain.

A place where dreams are real, wishes come true, and everything is always awful for everyone.

Parker Croft’s most recent short film, “As Easy As Closing Your Eyes” (2024), has earned 144 awards across more than 200 film festivals, including 16 for Best Director. His debut short, “Suncatcher” (2019), was similarly acclaimed, screening at 62 festivals and earning 13 awards. Croft first made his mark as a screenwriter with the feature Falling Overnight (2011), which won the Special Jury Prize at Cinequest and later streamed on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.

Two friends navigating a world of fantasy and hanging out. The stakes are low and morale is high.

Juho Maurinen is a filmmaker, visual artist, animator and musician from Helsinki, Finland. He has deep roots in DIY culture and he’s been described as an “unstoppable genre bending creative force”. Maurinen believes in sincerity and personal intuition in all his work and he enjoys finding new ways of creating.