29.11.2026 at 17:00. Echo: Pskov. Dieu est timide / God Is Shy, Gherking, Final Party, Ye, Drained, Vagabundo / Vagabond, El Cuerpo De Cristo / Corpus Christi, The In-the-Head Film, Mirage Cinema Akvapolis

Time and place

Sunday, 29 November 2026 at 17:00
Pskov, Mirage Cinema Akvapolis:

Description

DIEU EST TIMIDE / GOD IS SHY

2025, 15 min., France, language - French; short-length animation

Director: Jocelyn Charles

GHERKING

2026, 7 min., Switzerland, language - no dialogue; short-length animation

Director: Claudius Gentinetta

FINAL PARTY

2026, 4 min., Germany, USA, language - no dialogue; short-length animation

Director: Patrick Buhr

YE

2026, 2 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length animation

Director: Anet Akbirova

DRAINED

2026, 5 min., Spain, language - no dialogue; short-length animation

Directors: Teodora Mihăilă, Mikaëla Daoust, Sara Maria Inoa

VAGABUNDO / VAGABOND

2026, 11 min., Portugal, language - no dialogue; short-length animation

Director: Susa Monteiro

EL CUERPO DE CRISTO / CORPUS CHRISTI

2026, 13 min., Spain, language - Galician, Spanish; short-length animation

Director: Bea Lema

THE IN-THE-HEAD FILM

2025, 12 min., Germany, language - German; short-length experimental

Director: Konstantin von Sichart

Dieu est timide / God Is Shy

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Jocelyn Charles

Producer: Félix de Givry, Ugo Bienvenu, Joséphine Mancini

Producer company : REMEMBERS, Manifest

Year: 2025

Country: France

Duration: 15 min.

Languages: French

Description

During a train ride, Ariel and Paul pass the time sketching their deepest fears. Their game takes an unexpected turn when Gilda, a mysterious passenger, intrudes on their exchange. Yet, her relationship with fear seems far less innocent than their playful drawings.

About the director:

Dieu est timide / God Is Shy

Jocelyn Charles 

Director and animator. He studied applied arts at École Boulle, École Estienne, and later Gobelins, where he honed his drawing skills and deepened his expertise in animation. He works as an illustrator and as a director of music videos for artists such as The Weeknd and L’Impératrice. Since 2020, he has collaborated with the Remembers studio, founded by Félix de Givry and Hugo Bienvenu.

Vagabundo / Vagabond

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Susa Monteiro

Producer: José Miguel Ribeiro

Producer company : Praça Filmes; rights — Agência – Portuguese Short Film Agency

Year: 2026

Country: Portugal

Duration: 11 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

Russian premiere

A lone man traverses landscapes. We don’t know if he runs away from something or if he is returning somewhere. It is absolutely free. He travels, contemplates and dreams.

About the director:

Vagabundo / Vagabond

Susa Monteiro

Animator, director. She was born in Beja in the south of Portugal, where she lives. She graduated in Stage and Costume Design from the School of Theatre and Cinema. She works as an illustrator for various publishers in Portugal and abroad. She illustrates for the press, designs posters, album covers, etc. She recently published two comic books. Vagabond is her first animated short film.

Ye

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Anet Akbirova

Screenwriter: Anet Akbirova, Anna Shveigolts, Liana Makaryan

Producer: Dina Goder

Producer company : School of Documentary Animation, Rudnik Film Festival

Year: 2026

Country: Russia

Duration: 2 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

A walk through memory as an attempt to say to someone gone what was left unsaid.

About the director:

Ye

Anet Akbirova

Filmmaker. She graduated from the Kazan State Institute of Culture in 2026. Her graduation film is the short A Field of Tall Grass.

Final Party

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Patrick Buhr

Year: 2026

Country: Germany-USA

Duration: 4 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

Russian premiere

A strange party has foreseeable consequences.

About the director:

Final Party

Patrick Buhr

Filmmaker and teacher, based in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin and media art at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He is now an assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. His films range from comedic auto-fiction to absurdist surrealism and often employ playful multi-layered storytelling. They have been shown at dozens of festivals, including Tampere, Oberhausen, Clermont-Ferrand, Pictoplasma Berlin, DOK Leipzig, Encounters Bristol, and Slamdance. Buhr’s works have twice been shown in the In Silico experimental film section at Message to Man: The Train, the Forest in 2018, when he also gave a masterclass, and 16 Years in 2022, which received a Jury Diploma.

Drained

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Teodora Mihăilă, Mikaëla Daoust, Sara Maria Inoa

Operator: Teodora Mihăilă, Mikaëla Daoust

Year: 2026

Country: Spain

Duration: 5 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

Russian premiere

When a fish-woman loses water in her apartment feelings rise as she questions what will truly quench her thirst.

About the directors:

Drained

Teodora Mihăilă

Filmmaker. Born in Romania. She graduated in film directing from the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Her film Memory Pills received a special prize at the Cluj Student Short Film Festival.

Mikaëla Daoust

Stop-motion animator. Born in Montréal, she holds a BFA in Film Animation from Concordia University.

Sara Maria Inoa

Self-taught artist and animator. Born in New York, she studied sociology and creative writing at Vassar College.

 

El Cuerpo De Cristo / Corpus Christi

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Bea Lema

Screenwriter: Bea Lema

Producer: Chelo Loureiro

Producer company : Uniko, Abano, Miyu Distribution

Year: 2026

Country: Spain

Duration: 13 min.

Languages: Galician, Spanish

Description

Russian premiere

With an unacknowledged mental disorder, Adela seeks answers in popular rituals. She feels that something is watching and harming her, and only religion seems to understand her. During a visit to a healer, she confesses the disturbing origin of her suffering.

About the director:

El Cuerpo De Cristo / Corpus Christi

Bea Lema

Illustrator and comic book author. Her work is generally autobiographical, dealing with themes related to madness, trauma, family relationships, religion, and folk rituals. She explores drawing and embroidery as mediums for her illustrations and comics. For her first graphic novel, El Cuerpo De Cristo (2017) — an autobiographical project that addresses mental illness from a child’s perspective — she received the Castelao Comic Award. The animated film Corpus Christi is also Lema’s debut short film.

Gherking

Genres: Animation, Short-length

Director: Claudius Gentinetta

Producer: Claudius Gentinetta

Producer company : Gentinettafilm

Year: 2026

Country: Switzerland

Duration: 7 min.

Languages: no dialogue

Description

Russian premiere

The dictator’s shouts are broadcast over the radio to every corner of the country. A fire is flickering in the stove, and an old woman makes provisions for the approaching winter.

About the director:

Gherking

Claudius Gentinetta

One of Switzerland’s most acclaimed animation filmmakers. Born in Lucerne in 1968. He studied graphic design and animation in Lucerne, Liverpool, and Kassel. In 1995 he received a fellowship in Kraków. He has worked as a freelance graphic artist and animator in Zurich and Bedigliora. Gentinetta’s films Sleep, Islander’s Rest, Think Something Nice, and Selfies became international festival hits and have won numerous accolades.

The In-the-Head Film

Genres: Experimental, Short-length

Director: Konstantin von Sichart

Year: 2025

Country: Germany

Duration: 12 min.

Languages: German

Description

Russian premiere

A rapidly associative animated film about life inside a neurodivergent mind: too many ideas, too little rest. It explores the inner noise of a filmmaker who wants everything at once – and almost breaks under it.

About the director:

The In-the-Head Film

Konstantin von Sichart

Multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and musician based in Berlin. He holds an MA from the Berlin University of the Arts, where he studied with Hito Steyerl and Ming Wong. He works across animation, experimental film, sound, and visual art, merging them into dense, fragmentary narratives that reflect both personal and societal states. His projects often combine analogue and digital material, AI-generated imagery, music production, and autobiographical inquiry. He works with diverse media, always with the aim of creating emotional and intellectual spaces where contradiction is allowed to exist. He co-founded the production company Tannenbaum Films with Alice Dalgalarrondo in 2018.