Competition Programs | Commissioned Films Competition
UNIT.Verse | B.12

12+

Commissioned animation has always been a strange and flexible beast: part job, part experiment, part Trojan horse for artists to sneak style, mischief, and personality into it all.

This year’s competition brings together 24 films that ricochet through a mix of techniques, tones, and worlds — punk bursts, Brazilian rhythms, jazz-inflected turns, educational shorts, video game visions, noodle ads, and festival trailers. Some works sell, some teach, some celebrate, some simply scream.

Taken together, they form a chaotic, oddly harmonious ride through the ups, downs, swerves, and sideways glances of this thing called life.

Running time 77 min.

  • WTF?! - 16th Anibar Animation Festival Trailer
    Joni Männistö

    Finland, Kosovo | 01:15 | 2025

    What's the future? A row of spectators is seeking answers while the world is in flames. WTF?!

  • Oberka – Wildbait
    Lee Oz, Eliška Oz

    Czechia | 03:05 | 2025

    In a bizarre, neon-bright clay world, an angler monster bursts into chaotic motion, rampaging through the tangled forest of her own imagination. Trees twist into impossible shapes, colors pulse like living things, and the whole landscape breathes with playful absurdity. The monster stumbles from one surreal moment to the next. The result is a wild, grotesquely poetic ride through the subconscious, where humor and the surreal melt together into one delirious spectacle.

  • MAUDAU x WYH9
    Heorhii Blinov

    Ukraine | 00:30 | 2026

    Everyday life of a chicken family.

  • Duke Mobb - LA RIDE PARTIE 2
    Edern van Hille

    France | 03:35 | 2025 

    Four people are sleeping in the middle of a living room after a wild night out. One of the characters wakes up and is taken by surprise when he sees himself on television. He remember the passed night, somewhere between hallucination and memories of a wild fairground party.

  • Reames Noodles
    Vitalii Nebelskyi

    United States, Ukraine | 00:30 | 2025

    In a world of thin noodles and mediocre soups, one ingredient dares to be more. We asked a simple question: what if your noodle had a personality? The answer is 30 seconds of retro-cartoon swagger, vegetable sidekicks, and a finale that hits like a hot bowl on a cold day. An animated brand launch built around one very confident carb.

  • Clara Crocodilo 1980, Arrigo Barnabé
    Samuel Mariani, Camila Kater

    Brazil | 01:15 | 2026

    Clara Crocodilo, a ferocious crocodile music icon, comes back from the 80's to instil fear among traditional families in the neighborhoods of São Paulo.

  • Yorushika – Snake
    Miyo Sato

    Japan | 04:17 | 2025

    The official music video of “Snake” by Japanese rock band "Yorushika". A man who is an incarnation of a snake fall in love with human woman.

  • How smart are crows?
    Irida Zhonga

    Greece, United States | 04:49 | 2025 

    In one of Aesop’s fables, a crow is searching for water. It spies a pitcher— but the water inside is beyond its reach. So, the crow begins dropping in pebbles. One-by-one, they displace the water, and the crow quenches its thirst. This is just one of many fascinating displays of intelligence from corvids. Katharina Brecht digs into what makes this bold, brainy family of songbirds so smart.

  • Jacob Collier - Lark In A Sky Shop
    Marie Lavis

    France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom | 01:52 | 2025 

    Music video for the song Lark In A Sky Shop by Jacob Collier

  • Kolyada Dyva
    Oleksandra Ros-Kostenko

    Ukraine | 01:28 | 2025 

    A Ukrainian animated social film created as part of a Christmas campaign in collaboration with the "savED" foundation. The project raises awareness about the need for safe educational spaces for children in wartime and focuses on raising funds for an underground educational space for children in the Sumy region.

  • Juana Molina - “Uninhuman”
    Dante Alan Zaballa

    Argentina | 04:55 | 2025

    A song inspired by the story of the Monkey King from the Chinese classic Journey to the West. In this story, a powerful monkey, born from a magical stone, is trapped beneath a mountain by Buddha himself after becoming too powerful and causing chaos in heaven.

  • You Are An Idiot
    Inari Sirola

    United Kingdom | 02:50 | 2025

    A cathartic anthem for the absolute mad times we are living in!

  • Radio Night
    Anastasiia Tiahun, Kateryna Omelianenko

    Ukraine | 04:04 | 2025

    For a long time Yosyp Rotsky with his friend Jeffrey Sabbatnik has been followed by a criminal group called “Mob”. That’s why the music hero of the barricades is forced to flee somewhere else. He quickly finds this “somewhere” in a completely unusual place.
    Adapted from a fragment “Radio Night” by Yuri Andruhovych with a Croatian voice acting, the film is inspired by the frantic Zagreb school of animation.

  • Traffic Lights - Flea feat. Thom Yorke
    Nespy 5euro

    Italy | 05:41 | 2026

    Amid urban alienation and constant agitation, a solitary figure plays the trumpet. Words and images loop through an upside-down reality where real and fake collapse, and identity must be endlessly proven through familiar automated rituals.

  • Death Of Fles
    Zechen Huang

    United Kingdom | 05:55 | 2025

    A body is found torn apart. Three enigmatic witnesses recount fragmented memories of its soul, their testimonies unraveling a surreal trial where reality dissolves into nightmare, each note deepening the descent into darkness. This is a story about the death of Fles.

  • Enchant the world
    Pablo Roldán

    Argentina | 01:15 | 2025

    This piece was created collaboratively by the teams at Rudo Company and 440 Studio for the 2025 edition of the Pixelatl festival, inspired by its manifesto “Enchant the World.”

  • My New World Never Unfolds for Anyone Else
    LU LINGJIE

    China | 03:46 | 2025

    Everything in this world feels irrelevant to me. There is nothing worth caring about.
    In my head, only one forceful slogan keeps repeating:
    “My new world does not unfold for anyone else.
    My new world does not unfold for anyone else.
    My new world does not unfold for anyone else.”
    But is that really true?

  • HEROES FOR ALL - Accessible film version: How does it work?
    Anne Isensee

    Germany | 09:00 | 2025

    A movie is only a movie when everyone can laugh or hold their breath at the same point! However, people with hearing and visual impairments can only laugh or shudder if the movie is available in an accessible version. And how does that work? Our animated video “Heroes for all” is aimed at filmmakers, with especially the next generation in mind. It shows how a high-quality accessible film version is created.

  • The Phoenix
    Mary Yanko, Marlène Ciampossin

    France | 04:05 | 2025

    The Phoenix is a 2D animated music video set in a dystopian heaven where angels rise against oppression. In a city of brutalist towers and masked enforcers, a lone hero joins a growing revolution. Symbols of resistance spread across the streets and protests erupt as the angels confront the guardians of the golden-gate.

     

  • Friss Kakas Animation Film Days spot
    Máté Horesnyi

    Hungary | 00:37 | 2026

    A promotional film created for the premiere event of MOME Animation diploma films, presented at the Friss Kakas Animation Film Days in Budapest.

  • Emory – Dirt
    Julia Fernandez

    United States | 03:30 | 2025

    Composed of 300 hand-crafted ceramic tiles, the analogue stop-motion music video for “Dirt” by Emory constructs a fragile universe from dirt itself. As tiles shift and landscapes slowly transform, the animation reflects the quiet progression of time: revealing moments of growth, stillness, and subtle change.

  • NBAT2 - IT'S OK TO BE
    Francesca Colombara, Matteo Dang Minh

    Italy | 02:19 | 2025

    Animation created for the series It’s Ok to Be - NBAT2, which portrays in a surreal way the fears of NBA player Cam Johnson. In the episode, the protagonist talks about his encounter with a terrifying wolf spider and the time his family was caught in a storm.

  • Novyny (NEWS)
    Sergii Bublyk

    Ukraine | 03:28 | 2025

    An animated music video for the song “Novyny ”(NEWS). The video is a conversation with the viewer about the mutual influence between news and people: how news affects people, how people shape events, and how events in turn become news.

  • YBN RSN
    Natalia Skriabina

    Ukraine | 03:14 | 2025

    The film is a music video for the Kyiv pop-punk band 100% BAVOVNA. All on-screen actions are timed to the music and reference the song's lyrics.