StopTrik Best Animated Films for the Youngest

The 14th StopTrik International Stop Animation Film Festival will screen animated films for the youngest. The programme is curated and presented by Yiorgos Tsangaris, Artistic Director of Animafest Cyprus.

Animanimusical / Živživalmuzikal
Julia Ocker, 2024, Germany, 03’28’’
The Animanimals want to do a big musical performance but somebody got the wrong notes.

Baking With Boris / Pečemo z Borisom / La Boulangerie de Boris
Maša Avramović, Folimage, 2023, France, 08’15’’
Every morning Boris, the village baker, makes a fresh batch of crusty bread and pastries for all his neighbours until… Achoo! He can’t stop sneezing. He has become allergic to flour. How will he manage to keep baking for everyone in the village?

Pufferfish / Napihovalka / Kugelfisch
Julia Ocker, 2022, Germany, 03’37’’
In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish is trying to seem as big and strong as possible.

Return / Vrnitev
Lindong Chen, Tama Art University , 2023, Japan, 02’56’’
If the fish in the stream are freer than the fish in the tank, then the fish in the river are freer than the fish in the stream. If the fish in the river are freer than the fish in the stream, then the fish in the sea are freer than the fish in the river. But if the fish in the sea are freer than the fish in the river, where is the freest fish of all?

Hoofs on Skates / Kopita na drsalkah / Kanopos ir pačiūžos
Ignas Meilūnas (Kadrų Skyrius), 2024, Lithuania, 12'24''
In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with this other kind without letting fear and preconceptions take over.