The Sky Was Candy (Germany, 2025)
Director: Anh Tú Nguyen
Genre: Experimental, Artistic, Drama, Music film
Technique: 2D/Traditional, Pencil on Paper
Synopsis:
A yellow and blue day in the life of a little child.
Competition
Musical Motive Competition
Rimsky-Korsakov. Flight of the Bumblebee / Н.А. Римский-Корсаков. Полёт шмеля (Belarus, Russian Federation, 2026)
Director: Natalia Chernysheva
Genre: Music film
Technique: 2D/Traditional
Synopsis:
Flight of a bumblebee in the apartment …
El pastor (Russian Federation, 2025)
Director: Sofia Levina
Genre: Music video
Technique: 2D Computer, Stop-motion, Paint on Paper
Synopsis:
Air, mountains, rocks, cacti, music.
A day of shepherd’s life.
A flock of sheep floats through the hills —
or are they clouds?
Krankk ft Selah Sue – NOVA (Belgium, 2026)
Director: Yoann Stehr
Genre: Experimental, Surrealism, Artistic, Fairy tale, Fantasy, Horror, Philosophical, Music video
Technique: 3D, Live Action, AI
Synopsis:
Dive into a fractured imagination, somewhere between clinical experiment and hallucination.
Creatures, protocols, absurd visions: everything feels orchestrated, or deranged.
A mental journey where meaning slips away.
No Disco (France, 2025)
Director: Angèle Chiodo
Genre: Music video
Technique: 2D Computer
Synopsis:
Animals drink and dance to the rhythm of the beat. The party is scorching. The air is heavy. The club is humid. The atmosphere is clammy. The walls are oozing. The space fills with liquid. The wildlife is submerged.
Bubble (Hong Kong, 2025)
Director: Xuqin SUN
Genre: Experimental, Abstract, Music video
Technique: 2D Computer, AI
Synopsis:
Summer, soft drinks, and a sense of cool are themes of BUBBLE. The animation’s motion matches the lively, rhythmic beats of the music while also attempting to visualize its more relaxing moments, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in a summery atmosphere.
A child was born / Ha nacido un niño (Argentina, Hungary, 2025)
Director: Kati Egely
Genre: Educational, Music video
Technique: Stop-motion, Cut-outs
Synopsis:
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Let’s not forget the importance of compassion and equality as we grow up.
Esplin (Argentina, 2025)
Director: Julita Conde, Magality
Genre: Music video
Technique: 2D/Traditional
Synopsis:
Esplin is that instant when everything turns into chaos through the creation of dreamlike worlds that, despite seeming beautiful, are so overloaded with information that they become overwhelming. They are packed so tightly that a simple change—like a touch or a drop—makes everything shatter and scatter through the air. Then, the worms inhabiting these worlds paint the cracks of the reconstructed objects with gold, representing Kintsugi, the Japanese art of learning to love our inevitable scars.
Sky Deverel – RUN (Germany, 2025)
Director:Michelle Brand
Genre: Experimental, Abstract, Philosophical, Music video
Technique: 2D/Traditional, 2D Computer
Synopsis:
The dreamer wakes up in abstract vastness. In this surreal space, terrain is unfixed and moves in time. As the dreamer starts running from the impermanent, they come to accept the unknown. Nothing can remain still.
Machine’s Dream (Israel, 2025)
Director: Natalia Ryss
Genre: Experimental, Abstract, Artistic, Drama, Philosophical, Science, Music video, Music film
Technique: 2D/Traditional, 2D Computer, Paint on Paper, watercolor on paper
Synopsis:
A robot that wanted to have dreams.
Pictures for Piano (South Africa, 2025)
Director: Diek Grobler
Genre: Experimental, Music Video
Technique: Pinscreen
Synopsis:
An abstract interpretation of Chopin’s Etude Opus 10 no. 12. The
film was made without any planning by improvising on the
pinscreen.
Shepherd, Ram and Girl / Пастушок, Баран и Девочка (Russian Federation, 2025)
Director: Liza Kott
Genre: Music video, Music film
Technique: 2D Computer
Synopsis:
The little girl wants to deliver to shepherd his lunch, but she can’t find him anywhere.
Hail! (Russian Federation, 2025)
Director: Aleksandra Semenova
Genre: Music video
Technique: Paint on Glass
Synopsis:
There lives a little carefree girl named Maria, about whom there is a great providence in human history. Gradually, as she grows older, the heroine stores words in her heart that reveal the meaning of her future.