04.10 | 17:00
18+
Step into the wild side of animation with #killmeplease - a curated clash of the disturbing, daring, and delightfully unhinged. Expect a head‑spinning mix of techniques and films that are too weird, raw, or provocative for the ordinary screen. For those who crave the unsettling, the provocative, and the utterly unforgettable.
Curated by Aaron Wood, Skwigly Animation Magazine.
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Germany | 05:20 | 2025
A nude model is posing with statuesque stillness for an elite drawing class – until an unfortunate mosquito bite challenges his self-control. Driven to madness by the itch, he’s caught between the ruthless demand for perfection and his most unhinged, animalistic impulses.
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Germany, United Kingdom | 01:31 | 2025
A young man feels lost in the modern, digital world before finding himself in a piece of clickbait.
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Bulgaria | 06:23 | 2024
Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.
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Netherlands | 03:51 | 2025
The life cycle of the seemingly useless organoid. The beauty of its movements, its character, its dry lips, and so they are all part of life. Beautiful isn’t it? Yes, it is.
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Mexico | 01:00 | 2025
While chewing gum at his boring work, a mature man thinks about the mistakes of his life, his childhood traumas, his addictions. How did he end up working in a parking lot?
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Australia | 06:00 | 2024
Fentanyl trafficking. A highly lucrative sex industry. Foreign wars, armed rebel militia, late stage capitalism, Russian electioneering and sweet, sweet oil - everything we deserved from a live action Barbie film.
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Italy | 01:56 | 2024
An animated stream of consciousness, a selection of personal fears and intrusive thoughts in a cycle of life and death.
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Japan, South Korea | 03:17 | 2024
A bright red desk and a blue pencil. Skulls, cups, and a modular synthesizer. When you sit at the desk, they appear. With fluffy purple bodies, they’re called ‘Desk Bugs’.
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Czech Republic | 08:51 | 2024
Echoes of the Forest Night is a full of dreams autobiographical film telling the story of a bunch of friends that took place one summer night. Through his perspective, the author invites us into the circle of friendship, but also takes us into the depths of his mind, where he must face a mysterious dream journey from which there is no escape.
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France, Germany, Greece | 04:21 | 2025
A three part story about a heart in pain, a cat, and a powerful witch.
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Costa Rica | 07:40 | 2024
Little guy goes to a party and ends up lost in a fountain with himself.
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Estonia | 04:00 | 2024
In a barren dystopian landscape, a remnant of a human searches for sources of oxygen. In it's journey it finds mind altering experience.
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United Kingdom | 02:50 | 2024
Music video for Frank & Beans' song 'Bob Dylan's Big Dick' A man goes for a drink, but is stalked by the manifestation of his grotesque masculinity.
