Animation — International
False Door2026
OFFICIAL SELECTIONAlmaty Indie
Film Festival2026 EDITION
Film Festival2026 EDITION
About the film
Animated short
- Director
- Oktawia Derybowska
- Country
- Poland
- Runtime
- 7 min 4 sec
- Language
- English, Polish
Official trailer
Film stills
5 STILLSSynopsis
A traveller crosses a vast frozen desert towards a place that seems like a mirage. Like a ghost seeking a return to the living, he keeps walking. A lynx follows, waiting for his strength to fail.
Festivals and awards
Official Selection · international premiereAnnecy International Animation Film Festival2026
Official SelectionInternational Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR2026
Official SelectionImaginaria2026
Honourable MentionAnimatica2026
Credits
- Director, writer
- Oktawia Derybowska
- Music and sound
- Mikołaj Pospieszalski
- Art direction
- Paulina Wyrt, Miłosz Margański
Director
Oktawia Derybowska
Oktawia Derybowska
Oktawia Derybowska grew up in the countryside near Warsaw. She attended the Wojciech Gerson art school and studied animation at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań, earning her master’s degree in 2025. She works with pencil, pastel and sand animation.
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