2026 Program

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

BEAUTIFULLY ABSURD

Addicted To It — Nigel Tierney, Federico Heller — Argentina, Ireland, United States
The 12 Inch Pianist — Lucas Ansel — United States
LOOK OUT! — Brian Carroll — United States
Sticky Fingers — Melanie Mendoza, Andrea Esmaeil — United States
Juju attend le bus — Nicolas Roy — Canada
Sapling — Connor Yarish — Canada
Horny Jail — Ai Matsuno — Japan
To Have and To Hold — Julianne Martin — United States
MagiMart — Abe Enoch — United States
Flink’s Pigeon Problems — Susan Fitzer, Brian Pimental — United States
The frogspell — Ilona Cauchon, Anna Éberling, Layane Charara — Canada
Popped or Alive — Dani Fevola — United States
MISMATCH — Luna Lee — United States
Shop Talk — Director not listed — United States
NSFW — Tom Kariv, Shacham Rubin — Romania
Space Gift — Mathys Motard — Canada
The View — Angela Wu — United States
Foxing: Kitsuné-tsuki — Takeru Shinozuka — Japan
Shooting the Moon — Antonia Eve Novakovich — Canada

MUSIC IN MOTION

En el cuarto de Nico — Julita Conde, Magaly — Country not specified
Spirit Jumper — Director not listed — United States
Novyny (NEWS) — Sergii Bublyk — Ukraine
Last Gasp of Summer — Director not listed — United Kingdom
Death Comes To My Side Music Video — Oliver Anderson — United States
INLE — Siying Yu — France
Other I — Alina Popescu — France
Tulipomania: I’ve Been Told — Cheryl Gelover, Tom Murray — United States
Dance Is Everything — Bea Labikova — Canada
Leonard Cohen in the Eating Disorder Ward — Lucas Crawford — Canada
Blur Theory — Terry Blade — Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States
David Tao Moonchild — SWYY, ALX112 — Country not specified
Le monstre — Philippe Beauséjour — Canada

WHAT WE REMEMBER

All This Death — Fadi Syriani — Lebanon
End of End — Junar Kim — South Korea, United Kingdom
PEARL — Alice Il Shin — Canada
Christine Sinclair — Eoin Duffy — Canada
Sundays — Ashley Gerst — United States
In Pigeon’s Blood — Chaya Moshayev, Hod Adler — Israel, Uzbekistan
CICADA CLOUDS — Dennis Tae Wook Kim — Canada
EXIT — Victor Watier-Berthiaume, Jeremie Dagenais — Canada
Freshwater — Olivia Wilyman — Canada
Mu — Jessica Ngo, Hoang-Hai Luu — Canada

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

WORLDS IN TRANSITION: A.I.

The Greedy Nightmare — 德飞 孔 — China
Companionship — Li Zhang — China
HUGO AND THE STRAY — Sylvan Siyuan Zhao — United Kingdom
THE BELL — Michael Ferrara — United States
Run Koala Run — James Calvert — Australia

HUMAN CONNECTIONS

The Boy Who Erased Kisses — Radostina Neykova, Fernando Galrito — Bulgaria, Portugal
Frances & Margo — Charlotte Lavoie Auspert, Derya Ozparlak — Canada
Last Lines — Greg McLeod — United Kingdom
Illuminate — Max Hogg — United Kingdom
Long-Term Extramarital Affair — Neely Goniodsky — United States
Lipstick — Éilis O’Neill — Ireland
In the Back of Your Head — Pauline Aksay — Canada
Cardboard Heart — Catalina Ferreira Martin — Colombia
Double-Edged Dagger – Festival Cut — Yunica Taboso — Canada
When We Meet — Director not listed — United States

ROOTS AND JOURNEYS

Epic Enkidu — Mike A Smith — United States
Ocher — Chee Ho — Canada, United States
Nenaboozhoo — Isaac Murdoch — Canada
Tainos — Eduardo Schuldt — Dominican Republic, Peru
North of Harbord — Mateusz Garbulinski — Canada
Violet After the Storm — Bekky O’Neil — Canada
Home — Shusei Sasaya — Japan
A Tale of Hollow Spring — Flore de Kermoysan, Aruzhan Makhmetova, Caroline Buzot, Domitille Lepeu — Canada
Who’s Waiting for You — YUCA — Mexico

TURNING POINTS

Synthetic Age — Dimitris Armenakis — Greece
Roaring Thunder — An Qi Li — China
Ode Sea Country — Kirsten Hudson — Australia
Shattered — Ana Luísa Vilaça Fernandes — Belgium, Portugal
Gallien — Ophélie Duchesne — Canada
Wiindigoo — Christian Tremblay — Canada
My Journey to University — Luigi Allemano — Canada

AFTER DARK

Beast of Seine — Jon Portman — United States
Dunya — Mazen Khaled — United States
Hexapod — Director not listed — Canada
SAFE ZONE — Ahmad Alameldeen — Egypt, Italy, United States
1981 — Carolyn London, Andy London — United States
Boy Who Cheated Death — Pipou Phuong Nguyen — France, Spain, Vietnam
Dolly Baby — Bouchera Tahraoui — Canada
Lazuli — Milton Felipe Laforgia Honda, Beatriz Gonçalves da Cruz, Aline Pinheiro de Figueiredo — Brazil, Canada
Fish Out of Water — Corey Nikolaus — Canada
Immémoriale — Gwenaelle Du-Thumm — United States
Death’s Peak — Willy Fair — United Kingdom
Misfolding — Soetkin Verstegen — Belgium
EQUAL — Tom Bessoir — United States
ROCKS — Tom Gasek — United States

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

YOUNG ANIMAZE: BIG ADVENTURES

Woolly Woolly — Emmanuel Linderer — Canada, France
Dog & Pony — Michael Annear — United States
Antsy Antics — Maximus Ouellette — United States
Cosmicat — Hyeonji Oh — Canada
Booba 3D Puzzle — Leonid Rakhmanin — United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Footprints — Geoffrey Asch — United States
The Moon Stole My Stripes — Sarah Buckley — United States
Cloud Herder — Aidan McAteer — Ireland
Crested Ibis — Guisheng Zhao — China
Fish — Yingdan Lai — China, United States
Epic Yarn — Andrew Gordon — United States

STRANGE WORLDS

Bloom — Zachary Gladwin — United States
ChikaBOOM — C. Craig Patterson — United States
Travelous — Samira Hoseini — Iran
TAUT — Ilya Lorenz Barrett — Germany
Mariposa — Brook Vitovsky — United States
Mumbling Sand — Yama Sihan Li — United States
What Color Are Your Dreams — Giorgi Papuashvili, Davit Papuashvili — Georgia
Winter Mountain — Lee Seung Hoon — South Korea
No Trespassing — Maria Chatzimourati — Greece
Patch — Meg Cook — United States

FUTURE TENSE

Forbidden Valentine — Owen Coughlan — Canada
Sunspark — Danny Bourque — United States
Iridescent — A.B. Osborne — United States
One Last Answer — Tiger Cai — United States
Adventures Buff Chunky — Gaetano Frangella, Jamie Sutton — Canada
Just One Peek — Mulan Fu — United States
Lost Track — “Luna” Sam McKee — United States
Bluebird — Toby Duska, Damon Orcherton, Jack Hornecker — Canada
Gramophone — Eduardo Stachow Figueiredo — Brazil
Neko Neko Night — Fanélie Ollivier, Éline Bellon-Curutchet, Lorena Lopez Ospina, Yamato Ebina, Raisa Monroy Castro — Canada
MENACE — Syama Pedersen — Canada
Sentinel — Charles-Antoine Rathé — Canada

TURNING POINTS

SHEEPDOG — Amaris L’Heureux-Telfer — United States
Drawn Together — Jessica Pan, Maya Sliwinski — Canada
Dog on My Back — Director not listed — Canada

SÉLECTION OFFICIELLE ANIMAZE 2026

Tous les films sélectionnés pour Animaze 2026 conservent leur statut de Sélection officielle et demeurent admissibles aux prix du jury.