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A box of chocolates, a simple misunderstanding, and the beginning of an unexpected connection. In our short film, a cardboard chocolate box becomes the catalyst for a charming meet-cute on a train. Mistaking the chocolates already sitting on the table for her own, the protagonist unknowingly begins eating them. Although confused, the protagonist quietly lets her enjoy his treats. As the journey unfolds, a special connection starts to emerge between them. When she finally realizes her mistake, she swaps the boxes and leaves behind not only her own chocolates, but also her phone number—opening the door to a story that may continue beyond the train ride.

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This video focuses on the circular design potential of folding cartons by transforming ordinary product packaging into a functional interior piece. The story begins with a common everyday discomfort: a night light emitting an aesthetically unpleasant, harsh glare. Instead of discarding the product's folding carton packaging, it is cleverly reconsidered as a design solution. Utilizing the rigid and opaque properties of the cardboard material, geometric patterns are precisely drafted and hand-cut. Assembled glue-free using only its original interlocking mechanisms, the transformed packaging becomes an elegant light diffuser. When integrated, the raw, piercing light is softened, casting dramatic geometric shadows across the room and elevating a simple plastic device into a premium design object. Furthermore, the small cardboard offcuts are responsibly recycled, emphasizing a zero-waste philosophy. This transformation demonstrates that folding cartons are more than temporary protection—they are versatile design assets capable of finding a meaningful second life.

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"More Than Once" gives paper a personality, turning an everyday object into an empathetic character. Motivated by how easily we overlook daily essentials, this film follows a paper cup’s emotional journey through disposal and recycling to its second life as a tea box. What makes this entry special is its emotional approach to circularity. Instead of just listing environmental facts, we personify packaging to build a deep consumer connection with sustainable materials. By showcasing this transformation, the film highlights carton’s ultimate sustainability credential: it is renewable, recyclable, and vital for a low-waste future. Our vision is to change how viewers value waste, reminding them that a product’s story shouldn't end after one use. Carton packaging isn't made for a single life it is made to live more than once. Vote for us to celebrate the beautiful cycle of renewal!

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When we begin to appreciate the true value of cartons in our lives, we can easily see how versatile and adaptable they really are. As you can see in this video, whether it's a folded piece of carton to steady a shaky desk or a custom light-dimmer for a table lamp, it is nearly possible to create any product we can think of. In the end, it all comes down to the limits of human imagination.

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Teenage life is hard, and it’s even harder when you have no money to be able to participate in things you would like to do. Our story is about a girl not having the means to got to her prom, but instead of just not going and giving in, she decides to create her own beautiful night with a truly spectacular dress.

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Cartonboard is an environmentally advanced packaging material, characterised by its lightweight structure, durable fibre composition, and high recyclability rate of approximately 87%, making it a strong example of circular, low-waste design. The advertisement ‘A Fistful of Cartonboard’ creates a visually engaging content that raises awareness of environmental issues and encourages active behavioural change. The aim was to inspire viewers to go beyond recycling and recognise their role in addressing ecological challenges. The video follows a young couple divided by their priorities: leisure versus pro-planet activism. It reflects the urgency of current global conditions, reinforcing the message that timely action is essential. Cartonboard is presented as a versatile material, extending beyond packaging into creative reuse, including its presence in activism for environmental protection, animal welfare, and human rights. The production was filmed using professional-grade equipment provided by SRH University of Applied Sciences, ensuring high production quality and a cinematic presentation.

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Every box has another story to tell. This project explores the hidden potential of recyclable cardboard through a handcrafted pop-up book. Instead of focusing solely on recycling, it highlights how a simple cardboard box can become part of everyday life in unexpected ways. As the pages unfold, cardboard transforms into a cat house, a puppet theater, a robot costume, and other creations shaped by children's imagination. Each scene represents a new purpose, showing that cardboard is more than packaging—it is a material that inspires creativity, play, learning, and care. The story follows a continuous cycle: a discarded piece of cardboard becomes a book of possibilities, revealing new stories with every page. Through this journey, the project encourages viewers to see cardboard not as waste, but as the beginning of something new.

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The Little Things tells the story of a journey shared by two people, beginning with a simple drawing. At the start of the film, a young woman sketches the fruits she wishes to eat on a piece of paper. Without saying a word, her companion notices what she has drawn. Throughout their journey, paper cut-out silhouettes—a boat, a tree, a fish, and a flower—frame ordinary scenes, inviting the audience to notice the small details that often go unnoticed in everyday life. In the end, the young man surprises her with the very fruit she drew at the beginning, bringing the story full circle. The film explores the idea that love is often expressed through the smallest acts of attention—by noticing another person’s quiet wishes, remembering them, and turning them into a heartfelt surprise.

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Sustainable Fashion Show is a short animated film inspired by the transformative potential of a single cardboard package. The core idea of the project is that cardboard is not only a material that carries and protects but also a creative resource that, through recycling, can take on different identities, forms, and characters. In the film, a milk carton, a napkin holder, a coffee package, a noodle box and a popcorn box appear on the runway as different possibilities of the same material. Each character represents the power of cardboard to be reused, recycled and reimagined. The visual language of the project transforms sustainability from a serious warning into a playful, rhythmic and memorable fashion show experience. The final reveal, “Sustainable Fashion Show,” emphasizes that cardboard is not limited to a single life, but can be transformed through imagination into beauty, movement and a new identity.

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From a box to a bond: stories that grow.

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Our animation “Carton Connects” tells the story of a man and a woman who meet while recycling their paper and carton. Time and again, their paths cross by chance, and sparks fly from the very first moment. Through four brief encounters, we want to show how a simple package can become the spark for a first connection and, ultimately, a future together. “Carton Connects” demonstrates that sustainable action can be the ultimate meeting point for new connections.

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Cardboard Dreams is a short film that tells the story of how there are no limits to what children can do with cardboard.

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Our idea was to tell the story of paper in a different way, not just as a simple material, but as a symbol of creativity, imagination, and possibilities. Through a simple, funny, and engaging video, we wanted to share a positive message: believe in your goals and have the courage to go beyond your limits. The small character represents anyone who has a dream to achieve. Even when he faces difficulties, obstacles, and failures, he never gives up and keeps moving forward. His journey becomes a metaphor for life: sometimes we feel blocked or limited, but with determination and confidence we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. The video shows that even something simple, like a sheet of paper and a small doodle, can become a great story that can entertain, inspire, and make people think.

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The Carton Spirit follows a curious spirit searching for its purpose. After becoming a real carton, it travels through printing, cutting, transportation, and retail before protecting its product and fulfilling its role. Once recycled, the carton begins a new journey, returning to the cycle once again. Through simple stop-motion storytelling, the film highlights the value, purpose, and circular life of cartonboard packaging.

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Our project highlights the potential of cardboard as a modern, practical, and sustainable material. Through creative visual storytelling, we showcase its versatility, recyclability, and its role in supporting a more sustainable future. The video encourages viewers to look at familiar materials from a new perspective and consider how small choices can make a meaningful impact.

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More than a story about cardboard. It is a story about choice, responsibility and hope, told through an environmental future. In 2046, a cardboard robot awakens in a world transformed by convenience, automation, and forgotten responsibilities. As it journeys through a plastic-dominated society, the robot discovers that hope has not disappeared, it has only been forgotten. By reconnecting scattered cardboard fragments and awakening others, it becomes a symbol of the choices that once mattered. Through its distinctive visual language and hopeful narrative, it encourages audiences to think, reconnect with responsibility. The film does not predict the future. It challenges us to decide it. Its main idea is clear: the future is not made of materials, but of choices.

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One box. One act of care. One new home. 'A Home from Cardboard' tells the story of a simple cardboard box that gains a second life through empathy and creativity. After noticing a stray cat near her home, a woman transforms used cardboard into a small shelter and a feeding bowl. What first seems like ordinary waste becomes a safe space, a daily routine of care, and eventually a home for a mother cat and her kittens. This stop-motion story highlights the potential of cardboard as a reusable, accessible, and meaningful material. It invites viewers to look at packaging not as something to throw away, but as a material full of second chances, kindness, and new beginnings.

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"Pandora’s Box" reinterprets a timeless myth to confront one of today’s most critical challenges: plastic pollution. By contrasting the synthetic permanence of plastic with the organic, sustainable potential of cardboard, the film transforms a narrative of crisis into a powerful visual manifesto for circularity. At the heart of the story lies the karton bird—a symbol of ingenuity and ecological hope. It demonstrates that true innovation doesn’t lie in indestructible synthetics, but in renewable, fiber-based solutions. "Pandora’s Box" highlights how cardboard is not merely a packaging material, but a catalyst for restoring nature. This project merges creative storytelling with a clear design philosophy, inviting the audience to embrace the simplicity and sustainability of cardboard. It is an invitation to choose materials that vanish without a trace, leaving behind nothing but hope.

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Cartonboard is a versatile and adaptable material whose value extends beyond packaging through reuse, transformation, and everyday functionality. The animated short “Carton Home” follows a couple who discover a cat sheltering from the rain inside a carton box and decide to bring it home. Believing a different house would improve the cat’s comfort, they replace the carton with a plastic alternative. However, the cat’s reaction leads them to reconsider and create a new carton home instead. The motivation behind the film was to explore emotional attachment to familiar spaces while highlighting carton as a material associated with comfort, creativity, and adaptability. Within the story, carton becomes more than a container; it becomes part of the relationship between the characters and the cat. Produced entirely through animation, the project uses visual storytelling and expressive character performance to communicate emotion and create impact within a short format.

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This video shows a a man and his son, after a long day of work. It was his birthday, but no one has said to him happy birthday. At the bus stop the kid was bored, so he asked to his dad 1 euro to buy a little pizza, but when he came back from the bakery, he ran to the bus stop and the little pizza fell from his hands. He throw in the bin the little pizza, but he thought that he could reuse the packaging, to turn it in something special for his dad...

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Our project: Reflections - is a Music Video following a girl whose dream is to become a well-known Pop-Star and sing live for her fans. She comes from a lower-class home, where she watches all these big start singing live on TV and she falls in love. Her creativity gets her to create a microphone and other instruments using carton-board and her DIY skills and starts playing for her parents. As time passes, she becomes an actual beginning Pop-Star that is making it onto the front pages of magazines and gets articles written about her. She later gets on an actual stage with a huge spotlight on her. As she touches the microphone, she looks back at her younger self, creating the carton board microphone, realizing how far she came into achieving her dreams. With tears of joy, she looks at the audience, creating a deep connection with herself.

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"From Carton to Pitch" brings the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup excitement to life through a sustainable lens. The video follows a creative journey of a young fan who crafts a fully functional, 3D star-shaped soccer ball entirely out of recycled cardboard. From cutting the precise geometric shapes to setting up target practices on the street, the project showcases how simple packaging materials can be reimagined into interactive, eco-friendly sports gear. The narrative takes an exciting turn when other youth, wearing iconic jerseys from Brazil, Argentina, and Germany, join in to test the cardboard ball’s durability through active passing and juggling. This film highlights how sustainability can foster community, play, and global sports passion, proving that the future of entertainment doesn't need plastic—just a bit of imagination and the endless possibilities of cartonboard.

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“Under the Stars“ is a poetic short film about how cartonboard can turn misunderstanding into connection. In a Berlin Späti, a young man becomes fascinated by a deaf, non-speaking shop assistant. He tries to impress her with charm, but through his inner monologue we understand what he does not: he is looking at her, but not truly seeing her. When he mistakes one of her handmade cartonboard lanterns for rubbish and throws it away, the mistake becomes the emotional turning point. With help from her best friend, he finally understands that cartonboard is not waste to her. It is a material for light, imagination and expression. He builds a glowing cartonboard star lantern, transforming the ordinary store into a magical night sky. The film combines romance, visual storytelling and a strong material idea: cartonboard becomes the language that words could never provide.

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As graduation nears, a student transforms years of collected cardboard packaging from everyday shared moments into a vibrant collage of her and her roommate. The short film explores friendship, memory, and sustainability, showing how ordinary materials can preserve meaningful connections and gain a second life.

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A single cartonboard flower links two generations and two beginnings. Years ago, a young man folded a used food carton into a flower and wrote a simple invitation inside. The gesture began a relationship, and the flower was kept as a memory. Years later, their child discovers it and unknowingly uses the same flower to begin a story of his own. Through this quiet parallel, the film shows how cartonboard can live far beyond its first purpose. Its foldability transforms packaging into a meaningful object; its surface carries a message; its durability preserves both form and memory across time. What once protected a product becomes a symbol of connection, creativity, and lasting value. Rather than presenting cartonboard as disposable, the film reveals its potential to be reimagined, reused, and remembered. A fold does more than change shape: it gives material a second life and a story that continues.

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In the rain, a cat walks alone down the street as people pass by. It moves slowly until it finds a cardboard box on the ground and crawls inside, seeking shelter. At night, as the rain beats against the cardboard, the cat sleeps curled up inside: the box is its new home. The next day, a little girl sees the box move. She crouches down, opens it, and the cat looks at her cautiously. She smiles, pets him, and decides to adopt him. The box remains empty until a homeless man finds it, fixes it up, and uses it as a shelter during the winter. In the summer, he leaves it in a dumpster. The cardboard is recycled and turned into a new, decorated box. Inside is a little bed. At home, the girl opens it, and the same cat climbs into the box, recognizing it as his home and

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A novice photographer, who does not have a professional camera, finds an ad on Wallapop that offers a “special” camera. Moved by curiosity, shopping. When the package arrives, its illusion becomes confusion: the camera is made entirely of cardboard. Despite the disappointment, he decides to try it. Photograph everyday objects and get stunned when they become recyclable cardboard. Intrigued, he goes out into the street and photographs everything he can, confirming the strange power of the camera. At night, exhausted and confused, he returns home and falls asleep, leaving the camera next to the laptop. The next morning, the camera disappeared. Instead, he finds a Polaroid photograph showing the ProCarton logo, suggesting a message about transformation and recycling.

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Two neighbors have been arguing over text. They both want to apologize but can't find the courage to do so. Since digital communication isn't working, the girl decides to take an old piece of paper and a marker and write a sarcastic message for the boy in the window across the way. He gets even angrier upon reading it and responds in kind. The two boys continue to argue until the girl hands them a final peace letter, and after a warm embrace, they both begin to clean up all the used papers.

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Have you ever wondered what a day would look like if everything we touched was made of cardboard? Our video explores this provocation through an ironic and surreal journey into everyday life. In the first part, we follow various people performing completely normal actions, but with an absurd twist: stiff blankets, unusable pens, and cups filled with pieces of cardboard instead of milk. This comical exaggeration serves to highlight, through paradox, just how deeply embedded this material is in our thoughts. However, the ending flips the perspective and brings us back to reality. In a crowded square, we see the real, noble, and irreplaceable uses of paper: pizza boxes, cosmetics packaging, shopping bags, and shipping cartons. The message is clear, light, and immediate: we cannot do without cardboard because it is a vital, sustainable, and absolutely indispensable element for our civilization and our daily lives.

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A Carton Love Story follows a young woman who falls in love at first sight but keeps missing the man she cannot stop thinking about. Their only connection is a small handmade carton elephant he accidentally leaves behind. Seeing him buying a flower and believing it is meant for someone else, she lets go of the elephant until he returns with the flower and reveals he was in love with her all along and hoped the elephant would bring them together eventually. Through a charming and heartwarming narrative, the film celebrates how a handmade carton elephant becomes a symbol of connection, showing how simple creations can bring people together and turn small moments into meaningful relationships.

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Love at first sight in the carton aisle!

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Me in the World of Cardboard is a hybrid animation that blends live-action and 3D, inviting viewers into a magical universe where everything is made of cartonboard. At the heart of this extraordinary journey is Mr. Cardboard—a charming little guide who welcomes the main character into his world and reveals its hidden wonders. As they explore together, every landscape, object, and transformation uncovers the remarkable qualities of cartonboard: its lightness, strength, versatility, and ability to be recycled into new life. With every step, reality seamlessly merges with imagination, creating an immersive experience where cartonboard becomes far more than a packaging material. It is a living world that protects, transforms, inspires, and reminds us that even the simplest material can hold endless possibilities.

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Dear judges, get ready for an up-close-and-personal interview that is completely out of the box. This short film breaks away from conventional institutional messaging to deliver a fast-paced Q&A, where the most common questions about sustainability get some highly unexpected answers. A fresh, pop, and magnetic format that turns a crucial topic like recycling into pure visual entertainment. It’s a work that proves green education can be witty, sharp, and genuinely engaging, keeping the audience hooked from the very first second to the last. Press play and let the star of this exclusive interview surprise you.

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