These are fifteen Asian short films you shouldn’t miss at the Fest Anča International Animation Festival which will take place from June 29 – July 2, 2023 in Žilina, Slovakia.

& MORE draws from the architecture of the M+ museum of Hong Kong. Our film challenges the definition of a museum by looking at it as an object itself. Through a geometric play of shapes and forms in the M+ building, we explore what underpins our material world. (FestAnca 2023)

Love relationships don’t get to be completed until we pour out all the feelings one has for each other. We need to have a conversation with ourselves by recalling the past at the end of every relationship, in order to sum up the honest self and continue moving forward alone. (FestAnca 2023)

The character who craves freedom tries to move to a wider place, but the shapes always harass the character and prevent it from moving forward. (FestAnca 2023)

From the primitive touch to a ‘twist, press, click’—— Piles of images generate and decay into the soil, they are the real flesh, also the intangible memory. (FestAnca 2023)

Bukhansan Mountain grows in an earthquake in a normal daily life. Little by little, as fine cracks appear on the wall that divided the world of fantasy and reality, someone begins to notice the existence of an invisible world. (FestAnca 2023)

The deadline is approaching. Producer Park, who is in charge of closing, comes to the writer. The writer escapes to delusions and goes crazy due to the PD’s pressure and stress of the deadline. (FestAnca 2023)

Being cut – Five sections of horse. (FestAnca 2023)

When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they’re actually watching me. A charming animation rhyme that weaves together the many days of observing, recording, and experimenting. (FestAnca 2023)

A grandma tries to recall the familiar stranger sitting next to her. With much difficulty and frustration, she weaves her hazy memories of the stranger together, only for her to forget them once again. (FestAnca 2023)

The process of being encroached by the persona. (FestAnca 2023)

There is a strange big box in the quiet house. The cat thinks it is his new cat tree, it turns out to be a copy machine instead. (FestAnca 2023)

Stepping into a cave, the sight fluctuates by the firelight. Left to right, top to bottom. The same goes for the screen in front of you. It is a borderless tunnel, presenting domestication and desire.  (FestAnca 2023)

Among the tall buildings of the city, the lonely guard hides a beautiful field that no one knows, and meets an egret there; but the expansion of the city never stops, one day the field is destroyed, the egret escapes without a trace, he begin to see mysterious illusions… (FestAnca 2023)

“The Mental Athlete” is Wednesday’s new mental care project for everyone stuck at their home or office or home office. It is another series of work that deals with mental health. “The Mental Athlete” is based on a mixture of her personal experiences. It illustrates the relationship between mental health and cleaning and how exercise boosts the brain and improves mental health. A clean home and healthy body are the evidence of a state of mind. (FestAnca 2023)

Tired of being talked at by men, a woman takes a sensual trip with unusual friends. (FestAnca 2023)

More information: https://www.festanca.sk/en/