Love Story Film
Competition

Love Story Film Competition

Water Girl

Water Girl / Fille de l’eau (France, Netherlands, Portugal, 2025)

Director: Sandra Desmazières

Genre: Artistic, Drama, Love story, Biography

Technique: 2D Computer, Paint on Paper

Synopsis:

Mia has spent her whole life freediving, fishing and gliding through seaweed and rocks. Time has passed, tracing its lines on her body, and shaping the landscapes around her. Loved ones have vanished. Tonight, Mia remembers.

Birch

Birch / Береза (Russian Federation, 2025)

Director: Liudmila Sibirtseva

Genre: Experimental, Tragedy, Drama, Love story, Documentary, Music video

Technique: 2D Computer

Synopsis:

Leaving the city, the woman meets a man.

Post Mortem

Post Mortem (Argentina, 2025)

Director: Josefina Gabrielli Gioda, Candela Lujan Moyano, Martina Perez

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Love story, Fantasy, Mystery

Technique: 2D/Traditional, Stop-motion, Clay, Animated Objects

Synopsis:

At night in a cemetery, the remains of a skeleton and a ghost profess their love by bringing each other a flower.

The Man Behind The Curtain

The Man Behind The Curtain / Человек за шторой (Russian Federation, 2025)

Director: Ivan Bondarenko

Genre: Abstract, Love story

Technique: 2D/Traditional

Synopsis:

In every relationship there are ups and downs. This is a story about overcoming a crisis that arose as a result of inattention towards each other. The turbulent emotions that arise help to establish connections in the relationship of a married couple.

Wish You Were Ear

Wish You Were Ear (Hungary, 2025)

Director: Mirjana Balogh

Genre: Drama, Love story, Fantasy

Technique: 2D Computer

Synopsis:

In a world where ex-partners must swap a chosen body part after each break-up, every relationship leaves a visible mark. Disfigured and longing for wholeness, the protagonist encounters someone wearing their former ear—and begins a journey toward self-acceptance. A reflection on how relationships reshape us, inside and out.

Letters to His Neighbor

Letters to His Neighbor / Письма соседке (Russian Federation, 2025)

Director: Lyudmila Levich

Genre: Drama, Love story, Biography

Technique: 2D Computer, Stop-motion, Puppets

Synopsis:

Marcel Proust seeks quiet to write, but finds a cacophony of neighbors instead. From the chaos overhead, an unexpected muse emerges, turning noise into inspiration. Based on the true events of a famous writer. Based on the book of the same name by Marcel Proust.

Upon Touch

Upon Touch (Italy, 2026)

Director: Torfon Adisakdecha

Genre: Surrealism, Artistic, Love story, Philosophical

Technique: 2D/Traditional, 2D Computer

Synopsis:

Every human being is born a receiver, shaped by friendship, love, and the pains we grow through. As we learn and mature, we eventually become givers, passing something meaningful forward to others. All of this is told quietly through the journey of hands.

Under lock&key

Under lock&key / Под замком (Russian Federation, 2025)

Director: Daria Kefirova

Genre: Drama

Technique: 2D Computer

Synopsis:

A master from a rickety booth opens other people’s locks until love removes the lock from his heart forever.

Petra and the sun

Petra and the sun / Petra y el sol (Chile, 2025)

Director: Malu Furche, Stefania Malacchini

Genre: Tragicomedy, Love story, Fantasy

Technique: Stop-motion

Synopsis:

During a heavy snowmelt in the Andes, Petra, 71, discovers the perfectly preserved corpse of a mountaineer from the last century. Initially hesitant, she brings him to her wooden chalet, sparking an unexpected romantic story.

Nephila

Nephila / Нефила (Bulgaria, 2025)

Director: Kristian Zaharinov Zahariev

Genre: Surrealism, Drama, Love story, Horror

Technique: 2D/Traditional, Stop-motion, Cut-outs

Synopsis:

A BOY (Black and White Drawing)is in love with A GIRL (Cardboard Cut Out Puppet), he is too shy and anxious, which makes him too incapable to express his feelings for her. THE GIRL tries to get closer to him, but after he doesn’t react to her approaches, she decides to stop trying. When she leaves, she drops a little cardboard spider, which THE BOY takes home…

Friction Force

Friction Force / Сила трения (Russian Federation, 2026)

Director: Anna Lyubimtseva

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Technique: 2D Computer

Synopsis:

Two in a room. Total control of the senses. The forest outside the window terrifies with its freedom and love of life…