VAF Film

Watch Ukrainian short animations from the time both “before and after the war”, when VAF joins Århus Festuge. Through film, music and, art we can build bridges and try to understand each other. 

Much changed on February 24th when Russia invaded Ukraine. Polina Kalmykova came to Denmark after the outbreak of the war. In Ukraine she was an aspiring actress and producer. During Århus Festuge she will be presenting Ukrainian animated short film in collaboration with Viborg Animation Festival. The films tell of stories far from our daily life and put matters into perspective or make us ask questions. The titles in this program are selected together with the Ukrainian Animation Festival, Linoleum.

The event is taking place in “Kuplen” in the town hall park.
Age recommendation: from 15 years

A good mix of the best animated short films from this year

Animated short films are a great format – a special storytelling style that requires courage, accuracy and sharpness because there is not much time to tell.

The animated short films in the program are visionary, humorous, absurd, sad, thoughtful. The filmmaker has free hands to experiment with different techniques: hand-drawn animation, 3D animation, cutout, puppet animation.

VAF Best Short program shows an impressive diversity and interesting new examples of animated short films from around the world.

VAF Best Short is films that manages to touch us deeply in a very short time.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Lada, Ivan’s Sister
• Zoon
• Once there was a sea
• All At Sea
• Steakhouse
• Pachyderme
• Frydenlund Hair Parlour
• Terra Incognita
• Swallow the universe

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 30 min
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

Watch Ukrainian short animations from the time both “before and after the war”, when VAF joins Århus Festuge. Through film, music and, art we can build bridges and try to understand each other. 

Much changed on February 24th when Russia invaded Ukraine. Polina Kalmykova came to Denmark after the outbreak of the war. In Ukraine she was an aspiring actress and producer. During Århus Festuge she will be presenting Ukrainian animated short film in collaboration with Viborg Animation Festival. The films tell of stories far from our daily life and put matters into perspective or make us ask questions. The titles in this program are selected together with the Ukrainian Animation Festival, Linoleum.

The event is taking place in “Kuplen” in the town hall park.
Age recommendation: from 15 years

A good mix of the best animated short films from this year

Animated short films are a great format – a special storytelling style that requires courage, accuracy and sharpness because there is not much time to tell.

The animated short films in the program are visionary, humorous, absurd, sad, thoughtful. The filmmaker has free hands to experiment with different techniques: hand-drawn animation, 3D animation, cutout, puppet animation.

VAF Best Short program shows an impressive diversity and interesting new examples of animated short films from around the world.

VAF Best Short is films that manages to touch us deeply in a very short time.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Sierra
• YUGO
• The Debutante
• Bestia
• Your bad animals
• Granny’s sexual life
• Til We Meet Again
• A story for 2 trumpets
• The sprayer
• The Best Grandfather in the World

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 35 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

Interesting short film program with experimental animation. The creators are exploring animation techniques, format and materials.

Experimental film is about breaking the laws of nature and the limits of what one can technically do with animation.

Here, the filmmakers are bold enough to turn the classic genres and conventions of filmmaking upside down. There is room for the absurd, the abstract, the trippy. Something, that one had not just imagined. Still, the filmmaker has to relate to the aesthetics, the technique, the medium and the narrative, not necessarily in a classic chronological narrative way, but by pushing the boundaries of the visual, sensory expression. The films are beautiful images, sensual roller coaster rides, provocations, elements that create a deep astonishment in the audience that gives food for thought.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Rites of spring
• Reparations
• Backflip
• Us
• Lizuna Fair
• Zolle: Resign
• In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
• The Hour Coat
• Solarix

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 25 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 7+

With beautiful images, mixes of materials and techniques, crazy stories, wonderful characters and an apartment staircase, the stories of the neighbors are intertwined, each struggling with the dramas and pleasures of life

We are in a circus and the stage is set; a magician is going to make his big final number and the assistant gets her legs cut off. The assistant is the woman in his life, his one and only, but the magic trick goes wrong, he cuts her legs off and they run out of the circus. We now follow the legs to an apartment building, where we are slowly drawn into the residents’ lives, stories, relationships, hopes and dreams.

The movie is screened in French with English subtitles

Recommended for 15 years

This film is nominated for VAF Best Feature Film, for more info, click here

An exciting program with a selection of films received from art and animation schools around the world

VAF Best Graduation Film celebrates young filmmakers from art and animation schools around the world.

The program is full of playful ideas, thoughtful themes, delicious energy and a lot of courage and desire to create and tell stories.

The films show a wide range of styles and techniques, where storytelling and ingenuity create unique ideas and visions from young filmmakers who are ready to go out into the world with their thoughtful and innovative films.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• I Want To Be Bored
• The soloists
• Curiosa
• Eyeshroom
• Pentola
• We are not there tomorrow
• Red Giant
• The child and the Goose
• Sauna
• Night of the living dread
• Lamina
• Downfall
• My Grandmother is an egg
• Lament
• The frolic

Country: International
Duration: 2 hour 3 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

A beautiful animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. The archipel consists of alluring, seductive drawings, documentary images and speeches that tell and dream about a place and its inhabitants, all to reflect on what makes a piece of land a region, a community. Does this only occur when we put it into words? tells its stories? Does it occur in our work? Or in our memories, songs and plays?

The film is directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière, and is a poetic documentary about the islands of St. The Lawrence River in Canada, which forms a metaphor for Quebec’s status as an “uncertain country” marked by tensions between its status as a province of Canada and the Québécois people’s conception of themselves as a distinct nation.

Recommended from 18 years

The movie is screened in French with English subtitles

The movie is nominated for VAF Best Feature, more info here

Interesting short film program with experimental animation. The creators are exploring animation techniques, format and materials.

Experimental film is about breaking the laws of nature and the limits of what one can technically do with animation.

Here, the filmmakers are bold enough to turn the classic genres and conventions of filmmaking upside down. There is room for the absurd, the abstract, the trippy. Something, that one had not just imagined. Still, the filmmaker has to relate to the aesthetics, the technique, the medium and the narrative, not necessarily in a classic chronological narrative way, but by pushing the boundaries of the visual, sensory expression. The films are beautiful images, sensual roller coaster rides, provocations, elements that create a deep astonishment in the audience that gives food for thought.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Blinkity Fingers
• Fire
• The Music that you play
• Intercom
• Chiaroscuro
• Only tourists
• A goat’s spell
• Animal locomotion
• Tunable Mimoid
• Quantum Shadow
• Despera

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 15 min
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

An exciting program with a selection of films received from art and animation schools around the world

VAF Best Graduation Film celebrates young filmmakers from art and animation schools around the world.

The program is full of playful ideas, thoughtful themes, delicious energy and a lot of courage and desire to create and tell stories.

The films show a wide range of styles and techniques, where storytelling and ingenuity create unique ideas and visions from young filmmakers who are ready to go out into the world with their thoughtful and innovative films.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Orange Peel
• Press(ed)
• Wind whisperer
• The immoral
• Laika & Nemo
• Cufufu
• This is Only getting worse
• The luggage room
• Misophonia Orchestra
• La Chambre Du General
• Dinner with Turkey
• I dreamed of

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 58 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

My love affair with marriage is a spectacular musical about biology, culture, and women’s role in society. Join us for the Danish premiere screening of Latvian cult director Signe Baumane’s new animated feature film

The film introduces us to the young girl Zelma, and her troubles of being the “right” kind of girl. She struggles when she finds out the boys do not like her because she has no bow in her hair, a pretty pink dress, and has quite the temperament. This struggle with boys continues, but as she gets older she realizes she wants to get married and have a husband – will she make the change? Taking us through the story of Zelma are the singing muses and the explanatory biology.

The film is created independently with the help of thousands of patreons and donations. Signe Baumane is one of the most interesting directors in animation, known for her handcrafted sets, strong visual style, and focus on women’s equality and role in society.

The film is screened in English with English subtitles

Recommened from 15 years

The film is in the VAF Best Feature competition, read more info here

As part of the VAF Artist program, this year’s festival concludes with the screening of Sara Koppels favourite cult classic; Son of the White Mare. It was created in 1981 in Hungary and is an animated fantasy adventure film directed by the world-renowned director, Marcell Jankovics.

Marcell Jankovics (1941-2021) was a pioneer in Hungarian animation. He worked across several media, as a graphic designer, film director, animator and author. Marcell Jankovics always had a deep fascination with (Hungarian) folk tales, which he has used in his films, as they contain timeless, universal narratives and themes and his style is colorful, graphic, psychedelic, and sometimes abstract.

In his 1981 masterpiece Son of the White Mare, a dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the underworld to rescue three princesses from three evil dragons and recapture the lost kingdom of their ancestors. In the film, we follow the man, Fehérlófia (Threeshaker), who is the third son of the horse and who possesses superhuman power.

Son of the White Mare is a swirling, colorful maelstrom of mythical monsters and Scythian heroes, partly Nibelungenlied, partly Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. Enjoy one of the world’s animation’s great psychedelic masterpieces!

The film is shown in Hungarian with English subtitles

Recommended from 18 years

The animated film ‘Bad Guys – they are super tough’ is based on the well-known children’s and youth series ‘The Bad Guys’ by the Australian author Aaron Blabey

No one has ever failed so hard in trying to be good as the 5 infamous friends in the gang Bad Guys, Mr. Wolf, Don Piranha, Mister Haj, Tarantula and Sir Snake. The gang is the world’s most wanted villain because of their countless robberies, but when they are finally put under lock and key, Mr. Wolf makes an agreement that will benefit all five of them: The gang’s super tough members will now in future only do good deeds.

With the help of their mentor Professor Marmalade, the gang travels the world to find out what is most important in the world. But a new villain in town makes it hard for Mr. Wolf and the gang, and the question then is just whether they can keep their word when the gang is facing their biggest coup ever?

The movie is screened in Danish

New Danish animated feature film for the whole family directed by Amalie Næsby Fick, and based on the children’s book of the same name written by Peter Frödin and Line Knutzons.

When Little Allan’s parents get divorced, he is forced to move to a brand new town with his father. His desperate search for new friends suddenly leads him to start acting as a human antenna for his older, UFO-obsessed neighbor, Helge. When the mind-reading alien, Maiken, lands at their place during an emergency, a unique friendship emerges between Alan and Maiken. But he must help her home, for Little Allan is not the only one interested in Maiken. A mad collector is also on the trail and wants an answer to the age-old question: Is there life in space and can it be stuffed? Together with his UFO-obsessed neighbor Helge, little Allan and Maiken must use all tricks to ensure that Maiken does not land in the collector’s hands.

The film is in the VAF Best Feature competition

An exciting program with a selection of films received from art and animation schools around the world

VAF Best Graduation Film celebrates young filmmakers from art and animation schools around the world.

The program is full of playful ideas, thoughtful themes, delicious energy and a lot of courage and desire to create and tell stories.

The films show a wide range of styles and techniques, where storytelling and ingenuity create unique ideas and visions from young filmmakers who are ready to go out into the world with their thoughtful and innovative films.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Orange Peel
• Press(ed)
• Wind whisperer
• The immoral
• Laika & Nemo
• Cufufu
• This is Only getting worse
• The luggage room
• Misophonia Orchestra
• La Chambre Du General
• Dinner with Turkey
• I dreamed of

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 58 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

Join us on an unforgettable and magical journey with the mouse Vilja and the fox Hvidbug! A beautiful and exciting story about an unlikely friendship you will never forget!

After a rather unfortunate incident on earth, the lively little mouse Vilja wakes up in the animal heaven. Here she meets the more cautious and shy fox, Hvidbug, which Vilja definitely thinks she has seen before… But where? Aha! It was Hvidbug who chased Vilja out on the road on earth, so it’s his fault that they both ended up in the animal heaven!

For natural reasons, they could never become friends on earth, but in the animal heaven, the situation is completely different: Here, animals can no longer eat each other, and they are freed from their natural instincts. This is very lucky, because Vilja and Hvidbug will have to work together to be successful on their journey through the strange new world. Together they embark on an amazing and unforgettable adventure. And who knows – maybe the hard-working couple still have more in common than they just think!

The movie is screened in Danish

Recommended from 7 years

The film is in the VAF Best Feature competition, more info here

Watch Ukrainian short animations from the time both “before and after the war”, when VAF joins Århus Festuge. Through film, music and, art we can build bridges and try to understand each other. 

Much changed on February 24th when Russia invaded Ukraine. Polina Kalmykova came to Denmark after the outbreak of the war. In Ukraine she was an aspiring actress and producer. During Århus Festuge she will be presenting Ukrainian animated short film in collaboration with Viborg Animation Festival. The films tell of stories far from our daily life and put matters into perspective or make us ask questions. The titles in this program are selected together with the Ukrainian Animation Festival, Linoleum.

The event is taking place in “Kuplen” in the town hall park.
Age recommendation: from 15 years

Where’s Anne Frank?
With the opening film for this year’s festival, Where’s Anne Frank? VAF clearly shows how animation is a powerful and fascinating medium for telling important historical events that are still of great relevance to us today, as human beings, as societies and as world citizens.

During the German occupation of the Netherlands, the only 13-year-old Anne Frank wrote the, today world-famous diary, in which she wrote for her fantasy, Kitty. In the film, we follow Kitty, who wakes up in today’s Holland in the same house that Anne Frank lived in, in Amsterdam. Kitty is determined that Anne Frank must still be alive, and Kitty goes on a journey into the modern world to find her. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to the development of a new Europe after World War II, where Kitty discovers how the current situation in modern Europe frightens her.

Where’s Anne Frank? is an animated magical realism film from 2021 directed by Israeli director Ari Folman. He is a true master of storytelling, as he showed in 2008 with his animated documentary Waltz with Bashir, which received great acclaim and was nominated for an Oscar. In the film Where’s Anne Frank? He manages to draw us into a world where great emotions are at stake and where our present world is being fused into one world with the last 7 terrible months of Anne Frank’s life and our future.

This screening is in English with Danish subtitles

The film is nominated for VAF Best Feature, more info here

Watch Ukrainian short animations from the time both “before and after the war”, when VAF joins Århus Festuge. Through film, music and, art we can build bridges and try to understand each other. 

Much changed on February 24th when Russia invaded Ukraine. Polina Kalmykova came to Denmark after the outbreak of the war. In Ukraine she was an aspiring actress and producer. During Århus Festuge she will be presenting Ukrainian animated short film in collaboration with Viborg Animation Festival. The films tell of stories far from our daily life and put matters into perspective or make us ask questions. The titles in this program are selected together with the Ukrainian Animation Festival, Linoleum.

The event is taking place in “Kuplen” in the town hall park.
Age recommendation: from 15 years

An exciting program with a selection of films received from art and animation schools around the world

VAF Best Graduation Film celebrates young filmmakers from art and animation schools around the world.

The program is full of playful ideas, thoughtful themes, delicious energy and a lot of courage and desire to create and tell stories.

The films show a wide range of styles and techniques, where storytelling and ingenuity create unique ideas and visions from young filmmakers who are ready to go out into the world with their thoughtful and innovative films.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• I Want To Be Bored
• The soloists
• Curiosa
• Eyeshroom
• Pentola
• We are not there tomorrow
• Red Giant
• The child and the Goose
• Sauna
• Night of the living dread
• Lamina
• Downfall
• My Grandmother is an egg
• Lament
• The frolic

Country: International
Duration: 2 hour 3 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

An exciting program with a selection of films received from art and animation schools around the world

VAF Best Graduation Film celebrates young filmmakers from art and animation schools around the world.

The program is full of playful ideas, thoughtful themes, delicious energy and a lot of courage and desire to create and tell stories.

The films show a wide range of styles and techniques, where storytelling and ingenuity create unique ideas and visions from young filmmakers who are ready to go out into the world with their thoughtful and innovative films.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Orange Peel
• Press(ed)
• Wind whisperer
• The immoral
• Laika & Nemo
• Cufufu
• This is Only getting worse
• The luggage room
• Misophonia Orchestra
• La Chambre Du General
• Dinner with Turkey
• I dreamed of

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 58 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

VAF wants to give thanks to all the creators of the festival and celebrate the courage they show by sharing their work with the festival audience. The nominated films will be judged by the professional juries of 2022, who will also be announcing the winners.

VAF receives animated films from filmmakers from all over the world with strong messages and stories that illuminate current themes, trends and challenges. These are films that you would not necessarily be able to see in the cinema or on various streaming services. That’s why the VAF Award nominees need to be celebrated as unique film experiences, whether it’s short films or feature films. We are always deeply grateful for the filmmaker’s courage and creative urge to create such amazing animated experiences.

The awards of 2022 is:

• VAF Best Feature
• VAF Best Short
• VAF Best Experimental
• VAF Best Student Film
• VAF Best Commissioned Work – NEW
• Open Workshop Best Danish Animated Short
• ANIMOK School Competition
• ANIDOX:VR Award

Read more about the awards and jury here

As part of the VAF Artist program, this year’s festival concludes with the screening of Sara Koppels favourite cult classic; Son of the White Mare. It was created in 1981 in Hungary and is an animated fantasy adventure film directed by the world-renowned director, Marcell Jankovics.

Marcell Jankovics (1941-2021) was a pioneer in Hungarian animation. He worked across several media, as a graphic designer, film director, animator and author. Marcell Jankovics always had a deep fascination with (Hungarian) folk tales, which he has used in his films, as they contain timeless, universal narratives and themes and his style is colorful, graphic, psychedelic, and sometimes abstract.

In his 1981 masterpiece Son of the White Mare, a dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the underworld to rescue three princesses from three evil dragons and recapture the lost kingdom of their ancestors. In the film, we follow the man, Fehérlófia (Threeshaker), who is the third son of the horse and who possesses superhuman power.

Son of the White Mare is a swirling, colorful maelstrom of mythical monsters and Scythian heroes, partly Nibelungenlied, partly Yellow Submarine, lit by jagged bolts of lightning and drenched in rivers of blue, red, gold and green. Enjoy one of the world’s animation’s great psychedelic masterpieces!

The film is shown in Hungarian with English subtitles

Recommended from 18 years

A good mix of the best animated short films from this year

Animated short films are a great format – a special storytelling style that requires courage, accuracy and sharpness because there is not much time to tell.

The animated short films in the program are visionary, humorous, absurd, sad, thoughtful. The filmmaker has free hands to experiment with different techniques: hand-drawn animation, 3D animation, cutout, puppet animation.

VAF Best Short program shows an impressive diversity and interesting new examples of animated short films from around the world.

VAF Best Short is films that manages to touch us deeply in a very short time.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Lada, Ivan’s Sister
• Zoon
• Once there was a sea
• All At Sea
• Steakhouse
• Pachyderme
• Frydenlund Hair Parlour
• Terra Incognita
• Swallow the universe

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 30 min
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

A good mix of the best animated short films from this year

Animated short films are a great format – a special storytelling style that requires courage, accuracy and sharpness because there is not much time to tell.

The animated short films in the program are visionary, humorous, absurd, sad, thoughtful. The filmmaker has free hands to experiment with different techniques: hand-drawn animation, 3D animation, cutout, puppet animation.

VAF Best Short program shows an impressive diversity and interesting new examples of animated short films from around the world.

VAF Best Short is films that manages to touch us deeply in a very short time.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Sierra
• YUGO
• The Debutante
• Bestia
• Your bad animals
• Granny’s sexual life
• Til We Meet Again
• A story for 2 trumpets
• The sprayer
• The Best Grandfather in the World

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 35 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

Interesting short film program with experimental animation. The creators are exploring animation techniques, format and materials.

Experimental film is about breaking the laws of nature and the limits of what one can technically do with animation.

Here, the filmmakers are bold enough to turn the classic genres and conventions of filmmaking upside down. There is room for the absurd, the abstract, the trippy. Something, that one had not just imagined. Still, the filmmaker has to relate to the aesthetics, the technique, the medium and the narrative, not necessarily in a classic chronological narrative way, but by pushing the boundaries of the visual, sensory expression. The films are beautiful images, sensual roller coaster rides, provocations, elements that create a deep astonishment in the audience that gives food for thought.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Rites of spring
• Reparations
• Backflip
• Us
• Lizuna Fair
• Zolle: Resign
• In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket
• The Hour Coat
• Solarix

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 25 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 7+

With beautiful images, mixes of materials and techniques, crazy stories, wonderful characters and an apartment staircase, the stories of the neighbors are intertwined, each struggling with the dramas and pleasures of life

We are in a circus and the stage is set; a magician is going to make his big final number and the assistant gets her legs cut off. The assistant is the woman in his life, his one and only, but the magic trick goes wrong, he cuts her legs off and they run out of the circus. We now follow the legs to an apartment building, where we are slowly drawn into the residents’ lives, stories, relationships, hopes and dreams.

The movie is screened in French with English subtitles

Recommended for 15 years

This film is nominated for VAF Best Feature Film, for more info, click here

An exciting program with a selection of films received from art and animation schools around the world

VAF Best Graduation Film celebrates young filmmakers from art and animation schools around the world.

The program is full of playful ideas, thoughtful themes, delicious energy and a lot of courage and desire to create and tell stories.

The films show a wide range of styles and techniques, where storytelling and ingenuity create unique ideas and visions from young filmmakers who are ready to go out into the world with their thoughtful and innovative films.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• I Want To Be Bored
• The soloists
• Curiosa
• Eyeshroom
• Pentola
• We are not there tomorrow
• Red Giant
• The child and the Goose
• Sauna
• Night of the living dread
• Lamina
• Downfall
• My Grandmother is an egg
• Lament
• The frolic

Country: International
Duration: 2 hour 3 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

A beautiful animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. The archipel consists of alluring, seductive drawings, documentary images and speeches that tell and dream about a place and its inhabitants, all to reflect on what makes a piece of land a region, a community. Does this only occur when we put it into words? tells its stories? Does it occur in our work? Or in our memories, songs and plays?

The film is directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière, and is a poetic documentary about the islands of St. The Lawrence River in Canada, which forms a metaphor for Quebec’s status as an “uncertain country” marked by tensions between its status as a province of Canada and the Québécois people’s conception of themselves as a distinct nation.

Recommended from 18 years

The movie is screened in French with English subtitles

The movie is nominated for VAF Best Feature, more info here

Interesting short film program with experimental animation. The creators are exploring animation techniques, format and materials.

Experimental film is about breaking the laws of nature and the limits of what one can technically do with animation.

Here, the filmmakers are bold enough to turn the classic genres and conventions of filmmaking upside down. There is room for the absurd, the abstract, the trippy. Something, that one had not just imagined. Still, the filmmaker has to relate to the aesthetics, the technique, the medium and the narrative, not necessarily in a classic chronological narrative way, but by pushing the boundaries of the visual, sensory expression. The films are beautiful images, sensual roller coaster rides, provocations, elements that create a deep astonishment in the audience that gives food for thought.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Blinkity Fingers
• Fire
• The Music that you play
• Intercom
• Chiaroscuro
• Only tourists
• A goat’s spell
• Animal locomotion
• Tunable Mimoid
• Quantum Shadow
• Despera

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 15 min
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+

New Danish animated feature film for the whole family directed by Amalie Næsby Fick, and based on the children’s book of the same name written by Peter Frödin and Line Knutzons.

When Little Allan’s parents get divorced, he is forced to move to a brand new town with his father. His desperate search for new friends suddenly leads him to start acting as a human antenna for his older, UFO-obsessed neighbor, Helge. When the mind-reading alien, Maiken, lands at their place during an emergency, a unique friendship emerges between Alan and Maiken. But he must help her home, for Little Allan is not the only one interested in Maiken. A mad collector is also on the trail and wants an answer to the age-old question: Is there life in space and can it be stuffed? Together with his UFO-obsessed neighbor Helge, little Allan and Maiken must use all tricks to ensure that Maiken does not land in the collector’s hands.

The film is in the VAF Best Feature competition

An exciting program with a selection of films received from art and animation schools around the world

VAF Best Graduation Film celebrates young filmmakers from art and animation schools around the world.

The program is full of playful ideas, thoughtful themes, delicious energy and a lot of courage and desire to create and tell stories.

The films show a wide range of styles and techniques, where storytelling and ingenuity create unique ideas and visions from young filmmakers who are ready to go out into the world with their thoughtful and innovative films.

For more information on the films in competition, click here.

Films in the program:

• Orange Peel
• Press(ed)
• Wind whisperer
• The immoral
• Laika & Nemo
• Cufufu
• This is Only getting worse
• The luggage room
• Misophonia Orchestra
• La Chambre Du General
• Dinner with Turkey
• I dreamed of

Country: International
Duration: 1 hour 58 min.
Language: No dialogue
Subtitles: None
Age limit: 15+