Do not look for the logic of what you are about to see — this is an unofficial slogan of our Animation Madness program. These are the cartoons that reload consciousness and open up new horizons of understanding animated films.

No more talking — true madness can not be described, it can only be seen and experienced.

And, as practice shows, it's best to do it in a friendly company of the same crazy like-minded people at KISFF.

The films contain several sequences with imagery and sustained flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivities.

AWKWARD

Nata Metlukh

USA | 2020, 4 min

A short film about awkward social moments.

MERCURY'S RETROGRADE

Zohar Dvir

UK | 2020, 6 min

A millennial is looking for her magic 8 ball inside her unconsciousness.

BYE LITTLE BLOCK! | PÁ KIS PANELOM!

Éva Darabos

Hungary | 2020, 9 min

A young woman learns that soon she will have to move from the blockhouse flat she lives in. After receiving the upsetting news from the owner of the flat she is overwhelmed with emotions. Her teardrop of farewell grows into a concrete monolith. When the drop hits the ground a surreal panorama of the blockhouse area - she used to call home - unfolds...

EASTER EGGS

Nicolas Keppens

Belgium, France, Netherlands | 2020, 15 min

The Chinese restaurant is empty. Mister Ping is gone. The exotic bird’s cage stands wide open. No one knows what happened. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as a great opportunity to catch the birds and sell them for a great amount of money. But catching the birds ain’t as simple as it seems…

BABY ANGER | BÉBÉ COLÈRE

Jonathan Vinel, Caroline Poggi

France, Italy | 2021, 13 min

A lost baby, confronted with a contemporary world and its empty spaces, asks himself how to grow up.

FRIEND OF A FRIEND

Zachary Zezima

France | 2020, 14 min

A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracism.

COCKPERA

Kata Gugić

Croatia | 2020, 4 min

A short opera inspired by Aesop's fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.

MEGAMALL

Aline Schoch

Switzerland | 2020, 4 min

In a world of escalators, figures pursue their desire to consume in a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room, where it joins the playing group. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a chips-mad dog. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.

GHOST DOGS

Joe Cappa

USA | 2020, 11 min

A home-alone rescue pup is visited by a host of deceased pups in this mind-bending short.

How to live if you were born with Donald Trump's face? How can masculinity be tested at the badminton tournament? How to behave if you want to avoid hurting everyone's feelings? How to fit into the team of millennials if you've never had coffee before? Answers to these and other questions will be found in this year's selection of comedy shorts that are connected by the light satire of Western society.

Curated by Olga Gusiatynska

Death, Blood

MARVIN’S NEVER HAD COFFEE BEFORE

Andrew Carter

USA | 2020, 8 min

Marvin Wexler tries coffee for the first time and desperately wants to talk to someone about it.

SHUTTLECOCK

Tommy Gillard

UK | 2020, 13 min

Carl is forced to question what it means to be a man when a new, mysterious member of the badminton club joins in with the charity tournament.

SWIMMER

Jonatan Etzler

Sweden | 2020, 13 min

There’s a man floating around in an indoor swimming pool. The police order him to get out, to be arrested, but the man refuses. Swimmer is a humorous short film about a dramatic arrest that turns into an anticlimax.

MISS FORTUNATE

Ella Jones

UK | 2020, 15 min

Scarlet’s mum has died, leaving her with two cats, a huge tax bill and a crush on a boy she can’t talk to. A comedy-drama about grief, in which a young woman loses her mother, and finds herself.

THE AFFECTED

Rikke Gregersen

Norway | 2020, 13 min

Minutes before takeoff, a situation occurs, preventing an airplane from departing. In an attempt to prevent the deportation of one passenger, another refuses to sit down forcing the pilot to take a political stand.

BOUND

Joe Carter

UK | 2020, 14 min

When a single mum from Leith and a middle-class Scottish geek wake up handcuffed together, the differences in their lifestyles are put to one side as they attempt to break free in this farcical dark comedy.

GRAB THEM

Morgane Dziurla-Petit

Sweden | 2020, 13 min

Sixty-year-old Sally longs for love and happiness. Lately, her search has been complicated by the fact that she resembles the current American president. One man's crazy assault on the world is a lonely woman's burden.

The topic of sexuality has long ceased to be a private matter. It's fun to talk about sex, and the Midnight Sexy Shorts program will show you it is possible in any form. Get ready to glimpse at the most remote corners of your consciousness, where the nature of your understanding of sexuality lies. Here, body language, unveiled human fantasies, and sensuality, fuse in real ecstasy.

No taboos or forbidden grounds. This is a case when ethical concerns and moral contemplations are better left behind the cinema doors.

Blood, Death

SQUEEGEE

Morgan Krantz

USA, Canada | 2020, 10 min

High-powered CEO meets high-rise window-washer for an erotic rendezvous on opposite sides of her skyscraper window.

FLEX

Matt Porter

USA | 2020, 16 min

Charles explores the gray areas of his own sexuality after going through an unexpected breakup.

ADALAMADRINA

Carlota Oms

Spain | 2018, 10 min

While she claims to be an expert in sex and love on YouTube, Ada can barely speak to her gym trainer, with whom she's madly in love with. When she sets her sights on him, everything changes.

HOLD ME TIGHT

Mélanie Robert-Tourneur

Belgium, France | 2021, 6 min

In the heart of a dark forest, two silhouettes meet, attract and repel each other in an explosive bridal
parade. Hold Me Tight is a bittersweet romance.

SUMMER HIT

Berthold Wahjudi

Germany | 2019, 19 min

Laia from Spain and Emil from Iceland are Erasmus students in Munich. After having sex for a couple of times, Emil professes his love to Laia - but she panics and runs away. Now the two have to figure out whether they are more than just a summer fling.

1-1

Naures Sager

Sweden | 2020, 7 min

Ayman's sex date with Jonas gets crashed by his friends Amirah and Samir which takes a positive turn.

HOT SPOT

Anaïs Couet-Lannes

France | 2021, 14 min

A “hot spot”, in genealogy, is a hypothetic zone of magma formation based within a planet’s coat. Nowadays, knowledge on hot spots is still very incomplete, as much as the ones about female orgasm. When Adèle has to deal with her parents’ funeral, she has an everlasting orgasm.