Official Selection Platforma BD Short and Medium-Length Animated Films

The animation program of the Platforma BD 2026 Official Selection brings together 14 short animated films under 4 minutes and 14 animated films over 4 minutes from fifteen countries, exploring transition as lived experience. Bodies transform or disappear; identities are claimed, concealed or contested; borders, languages and homes are left behind. Cities and public spaces are reshaped by those who inhabit them and those who govern them. Moving between irony, documentary urgency, folkloric imagination and lyrical abstraction, the films span hand-drawn, stop-motion, gouache, pastel and hybrid 2D/3D techniques. Rather than offering definitive answers, they leave space to consider what changes, what endures and what is lost along the way. More than half are wordless; the remaining films are subtitled in English.