International Anidoc Competition

As we announced earlier, this year our festival brings something new! 🎉

SevilFest’s first International AniDoc Competition brings together animated documentaries from different countries that have been featured at international festivals.

From personal stories and collective memory to gender norms and the impact of war, these short films show how animation can tell real stories in powerful ways.

With different visual styles and creative approaches, the programme invites audiences to discover both inspiring stories and the unique language of animated documentary filmmaking.

Because I’m a girl  

Sayazhan Ispolganova, Alisa Tyan, Rosita Keneshova, Fatima Chorobekova, Alina Alybekova, Dariya Murzulukova 

7 min | Kyrgyzstan | 2025 
 

Because I Am a Girl is a short animated documentary created with teenage girls in Kyrgyzstan.Through personal reflections, the girls speak about everyday expectations and social roles they grow up with.The film listens carefully to how these norms are expressed, repeated, and accepted as ordinary parts of life. 

Hairy legs 

Andrea Dorfman 

16 min | Canada | 2024

A woman chooses to accept her natural appearance despite social pressures around beauty and grooming standards.
 

Because today is Saturday 

Alice Eça Guimarães 

12 min | Portugal, France, Spain |  2025

A woman wakes up early because she wants to give herself a gift: time.

But each spark of inspiration is cut short by household responsibilities that demand her attention, the children, the laundry, the meals.

The mental load of these tasks becomes unbearable, and she reaches a breaking point.

Paradaïz 

Matea Radic 

9 min | Bosnia, Canada | 2025

Welcome to a place where the houses have holes, tomatoes are ticking time bombs and snails wander the streets in search of a safe space. In Paradaïz, Sarajevo-born artist Matea Radic uses absurdist animation, archival images and her own slippery childhood memories to explore the real meaning of home.

Whose Woods Are These 

Kate Nartker 

7 min | USA | 2024
 

Created frame by frame from over 500 feet of woven fabric, this six minute animated short reimagines the mysterious disappearance of the filmmaker's great- great-great-great-grandmother, Julianna Hofrichter. In 1841, Julianna left her home in northwest Ohio's Great Black Swamp to gather hickory nuts, never to be seen again. In this film, she follows signs woven through the landscape to find solace and a deep connection to the wild. Through textured imagery and poetic visuals, the film invites viewers to explore themes of memory, transformation, and the threads that connect family and place. 

Memoria Colectiva

Cristina Colmenares 

15 min | Colombia, Peru | 2026

In 1983, during the darkest days of Peru’s Armed Conflict with the Shining Path, masked soldiers entered Adelina’s home and took her husband away. She would never see him again. After facing silence and contempt from the Police and Army, Adelina joins forces with the many other women who have lost their husbands and children to soldiers who were supposed to protect them. Together, they will unite to demand justice.