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The best short animation works from the Baltic and Nordic countries for your enjoyment. The programme presents carefully selected films from Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Germany, competing for the Best Animated Short Film Award, which will be presented by an international jury.The Border Guard and His Dog2023 / Poland, Spain / 3 min. 2 sec.A visit to the Belarusian-Polish border.Director: Pablo BallarínScreenwriter. 26 sec.The life of a talented juggler suddenly changes when his precious juggling balls are stolen. Determined to recover his prized possession, he embarks on a journey that involves acrobatic rabbits, dancing frogs and the shocking truth about his own existence.Directed by Rebeka KruusScript written by Rebeka KruusProduced by Lyza JarvisProduced by the Estonian Academy of Arts Stoka2023 / Poland / 10 min. 45 secA film about personal experiences of pain and suffering. It is a story about loneliness, anger and mourning experienced by parents who have lost a baby. It is an intimate and sensual visualisation of the world in which parents live after loss. It is about a situation for which no one is prepared, and the 'catalogue' of reactions that one has had up to that point becomes worthless. Directed by Paweł PrewenckiWritten by Paweł PrewenckiProduced by Ewa SobolewskaProduced by TV Studio Filmów Animowanych sp. z o.o. Inside the Sense2023 / Sweden / 7 min. 20 sec.Love is so strong that it enables time travel.Directed by Thomas Costa FretéWritten by Thomas Costa FretéProduced by Thomas Costa FretéNow or I'll Stay a Nun2023 / Finland / 10 min. A nun digs a man out of the ground and loses her sense of reality. Director: Heta JäälinojaScreenwriter: Heta JäälinojaProducer: Jani LehtoProducer: Böhle StudiosCiauliai2023 / Denmark / 6 min. Jani Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä, Jäälä! In this playfully amusing version of the famous fairy tale, a young pig farmer, who cares for the king's pigs, is bored in the pigsty at Christmas time until he remembers that he has a magic pot.Directed by Peter Smith, Magnus Igland MøllerProducers:Fleng Entertainment and Tumblehead productionPersonal Truth2023 / Poland / 9 min. 50 sec.After years of emigration, a granddaughter is eager to return to her homeland and see her beloved grandmother again.Directed by: Agnieszka KruczekScreenwriter: Agnieszka KruczekProducers: Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak Producer: FUMI StudioCode2023 / Germany / 15 min. 34 secScientist Karen Lips has been living in a small shack in Costa Rica for several years, where she observes frogs. When she returns from a short trip to the Misty Forest, the frogs are gone. Not one. Karen sets out to find them, but discovers the terrible truth.Directed by Volker SchlechtWritten by Max Mönch, Alexander LahlProduced by Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl, Max MönchProduction company.