Semi-Finalists 2021
| Project Title | Country | Directors |
| Pacing the Pool | Australia | Radheya Jegatheva |
| Once There Was a Boy | Antonious Bassily | |
| I live | Slovenia | Rok Matić |
| Something Fishy | Canada | David Creighton |
| The Sky Pulled Over Our Eyes | Russian Federation | Alexey Sizov |
| Rabbit And Bear | China | zhaocongbo |
| Tomorrow, an animated film about climate change | Mohammad Shihab Uddin | |
| DARKING WAY | Hungary | Zsolt Pozsgai |
| On the track of Robert van Gulik | Belgium | Rob Rombout |
| HUMANITY KEY | Italy | ETTORE PASCULLI |
| Neurosynergy | United States | Oscar Li |
| Save as… | Russian Federation | Andrew Anisin |
| Saiti the son of Zouli | Russian Federation | Amerkhanov Amur Magomedovich |
| Heroes of Our Time | Pavel Kobyak | |
| Little Somebody | Yaroslav Bulavin | |
| Foxmen | Elizaveta Andyakina | |
| Place to Place | Natasha Cánepa | |
| Cave Ablaze | United States | Daniel Williams |
| THE SANATORIUM | Russian Federation | Роман Владимирович Гредин |
| Invisible Children | Mark Krol | |
| Papa is big, I am small | Anya Ru, Masha Rumyantseva | |
| The Boy and The Mountain | Chile | Santiago Aguilera, Gabriel Monreal |
| «Home is waiting» | Russian Federation | alexandr anatolyevich dalmatov |
| Leisure Machine | Australia | Jim Batt |
| Oncology | Russian Federation | Инглин Артём |
