From the new Donato Sansone film (Dark Globe) to the Estonian acclaimed puppet short 'On Weary Wings Go by' by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg (interviewed at Zippy Frames), the 24th edition of Countryside Animafest Cyprus features again an eclectic programme of auteur-driven animation -but also animation for children and its National, Cypriot competition program.

Scheduled for 8 to 10 August 2025, the Cyprus festival features 33 animation shorts from 18 countries, selected from over 700 global submissions. The Young Audience competition includes 8 films from 5 countries. The Cypriot Program features five films, and 10 more will screen in the non-competitive Cyprus Panorama.

The Selected Animation Films for Countryside Animafest Cyprus 2025

International Narrative & Non-Narrative Shorts Competition

Ancestor, Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume, United Kingdom, 2025, 03:08 / Non-Narrative
A Round of Applause for Death, Stephen Irwin, United Kingdom, 2024, 04:42 / Non-Narrative
Bread Will Walk, Alex Boya, Canada, 2025, 11:18 / Narrative
Breed, Yiyang Sun, Estonia, 2024, 08:32 / Non-Narrative
Carmela, Vicente Mallols, Spain, 2025, 14:21 / Narrative
Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado, Natalia León, France,14:03 / Narrative
Dark Globe, Donato Sansone, Italy, 2024, 03:18 / Non-Narrative
Dull Spots of Greenish Colours, Sasha Svirsky, Germany, 2024,10:32 / Non-Narrative
Earth coal, Bastien Dupriez, France, 2024, 12:51 / Non-Narrative
Freeride in C, Edmunds Jansons, Latvia, 2024, 10:12 / Non-Narrative
Glass House, Boris Labbé, France, 2024, 05:16 / Non-Narrative
How, Marko Mestrovic, Croatia, 2025, 08:47 / Non-Narrative
Hurikán, Jan Saska, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 13:07 / Narrative
Il burattino e la balena, Roberto Catani, France, Italy, 08:11 / Non-Narrative
It shouldn’t rain tomorrow, Maria Trigo Teixeira, Portugal, 2024, 11:15 / Narrative
Life with an Idiot, Theodore Ushev, France, 18:02 / Narrative
Mont Noir, Erika Haglund & Jean-Baptiste Peltier, France, 2024, 14:55 / Narrative
Moral Support, Vuk Jevremovic, Germany, Croatia, 2024, 04:24 / Non-Narrative
My Brother, My Brother, Abdelrahman Dnewar & Saad Dnewar, Egypt, France, Germany 2025, 14:57 / Narrative
Neither one nor two, Lucia Catalini, Italy, 2025, 05:57 / Non-Narrative
On Weary Wings Go By, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Estonia, 2024, 11:00 / Non-Narrative
Percebes, Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves, Portugal, 2024, 11:30 / Narrative
Samaa, Ehsan Gharib, Canada, 02:27 / Non-Narrative
SKRFF, Corrie Francis Parks & Daniel Nuderscher, Austria, 2024, 07:03 / Non-Narrative
Stampfer Dreams, Thomas Renoldner, Austria, 2024, 11:50 / Non-Narrative
Swifts, Ada Napiorkowski, Estonia, 2024, 05:02 / Non-Narrative
The Dog, Kaspar Jancis, Estonia, 2025, 05:45 / Narrative
The Last Drop, Anna Tőkés & Eszter Talabér-Glaser, Hungary, 2025, 10:43 / Narrative
The Route, Babak Beigi, Iran, 2024, 19:15 / Narrative
The Sounds of Things Ablaze, Hayat Najm, Canada, 06:35 / Non-Narrative
There's a Robbery in Progress, Morgan Miller, United States, 2025, 03:54 / Narrative
Where Blue Meets Red, Tamás Patrovits, Hungary, 2024, 04:05 / Non-Narrative
Yellow orange green blue red cut, Peter Millard, United Kingdom, 2025, 05:42 / Non-Narrative

On Weary Wings Go By

International Children & Young Audience Shorts Competition

Swallow's Tonada, Daniela Godel, France, 2024, 04:11
Capybaras, Alfredo Soderguit, France, 2024, 10:30
Freak of Nature, Alexandra Lermer, Germany, 2024, 08:16
Full Nest, Elena Walf, Germany, 2025, 05:40
Hello Summer, Martin Smatana & Veronika Zacharová, Slovakia, 2024, 10:45
The Girl who Cried Pearls, Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski, Canada,17:28
The sound of clouds, Mohamad Lotfali, Iran, 2024, 03:45
Woodland, Vanessa Chu & Jim Obmannn, Germany, 2024, 06:50

The Girl Who Cried Pearls

National (Cyprus) Shorts Competition
I am not always where my body is, Loukis Menelaou, 2024, 06:11
Little Human, Christiana Ioannou, 2024, 05:54
Reflected Lines, Sebastian Konstantinou, 2025, 03:05
What’s Left Behind, Charalambia Englezou, 2025, 02:02
To Your Hands, Ana Mouyis, 2024, 11:11
National (Cyprus) Shorts Out of Competition, Panorama
Fear, Filippos Tymvios, 2024, 00:57
Deep Love Delivers: Pop Stardom, Korallia Stergides, 2025, 01:23
Savis Vs Punks, Constantinos Syrimis, 2024, 02:46
Safe, Stelios Georgallides, 2025, 01:00
Giannakis at war, Sidera Giannakis, 2024, 02:54
The Iteration, Alexandros Papadopoulou Sabaiduc, 2025, 01:40
The Faceless Man, Katerina Charalambous, 2025, 02:50
Herder, Buyandelger Bayarbat, 2025, 02:50
Last Thought, Buyandelger Bayarbat, 2025, 01:33
Once Upon a Test, Venetia Theodosiou, 2025, 03:08

Jury:

International Jury:  This year’s jury includes Serbian filmmaker and visual artist Milos Tomic, Greek artist Dimitris Alithinos, and Cypriot poet Avgi Lilli.

Festival Highlights:

Spotlight on Palestine
On August 10, the festival will screen “The Tower”, a stop-motion feature by Norwegian director Mats Grorud, as part of the international “Palestine Animated” solidarity program.

Animation Film Camp (Third Edition, August 5 to 8, 2025, in Salamiou)
The first of its kind in Cyprus, the Animation Film Camp is the latest development program of Animafest Cyprus and the only professional animation development program in the country. Launched in 2023 with an international focus, it offers networking opportunities for emerging artists and students with global centers and festivals. The Film Camp is held in collaboration with the World Festival of First Animations,PRIMANIMA, in Budapest.

This year, the festival will host two distinguished mentors at the Animation Film Camp: Serbian visual artist and animation filmmaker Milos Tomic and Cypriot musician Vasilis Philippou. The workshops will focus on mixed stop-motion and direct animation techniques, as well as soundscape music composition.

Tributes &Retrospectives

Milos Tomic retrospective

Musical Traumas by Milos Tomic

Special screening of the Cypriot animated documentary “To Your Hands” by Ana Mouyi

FAN Network

Animafest Cyprus is part of the European Animation Network FAN (Festival Animation Network), Co-Funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Program of the European
Union. The network promotes auteur animation, with a special focus on highlighting emerging talents. This network unites five partner festivals CINANIMA (Espinho, Portugal), Animafest Cyprus (Salamiou, Cyprus), ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival (Syros, Greece), Imaginaria – animated film festival (Conversano,
Italy), and Prime The Animation (Valencia, Spain).

Festival Poster 2025

This year’s poster was created by acclaimed Canadian director and illustrator Janice Nadeau, whose work has been featured at past editions of the festival.

The 24th edition of Countryside Animafest Cyprus returns to the picturesque village of Salamiou from August 8 to 10, 2025. Full programme at animafest.com.cy

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