These offbeat shorts go off the beaten track. Eccentric, boundary-crossing, peculiar, bizarre, unorthodox, weird, idiosyncratic… Call it what you want. But these animated shorts definitely bring something you never knew you wanted. Curated by Anna Eijsbouts and Karolina Głusiec.

ABANDONED VILLAGE
Mariam Kapanadez
Georgia

ANYWHERE BUT HERE
Maitry Rao
United Kingdom

BEAUTY & THE BEASTS
Äggie Pak Yee Lee
Hong Kong

EVENTS MEANT TO BE FORGOTTEN
Marko Tadic
Croatia

FOREVER
Mitch McGlocklin
United States

GLAZING
Lilli Carré
United States

I WISH
Nadia Goldman
Russia

LINES ON THE WINTER CAMPAIGN, 1980
René Reinhardt, Thadeusz Tischbein
Germany

THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF WAY OUT OF HERE
Rainer Kohlberger
Austria

THE MOUNTAIN LODGE
Jordan Wong
United States