Short - Programme 5 (109')
Short Competition
Monday, 30 March 2015, Greek Film Archive, Hours: 20:00-22:00
01. Bertie Bean's Rock / Bab Berci köve, 9’ 25’’
Hungary 2014
Directed by Márton Kovács
Screenplay: Árpád Hermán, Ervin Lázár
Animation: Ervin B. Nagy
Technique: 2D Digital animation
Music: Balázs Alpár
Dialogues: Hungarian
Subtitles: English
Bertie Bean hears a voice only to discover that none other than an otherwise inanimate rock is addressing him. Unusual as it may seem, the two soon become friends. The rock shares its frustrations with Bertie Bean, telling him how it longs to find some useful purpose, and asks its newfound friend to help.
02. Catched, 7’ 35’’
China / Colombia, 2014
Directed by Ricardo Arce
Screenplay: Ricardo Arce
Animation: Ricardo Arce, Meng Gang
Technique: Drawn animation
Music: Li Bai, Additional music: Gepel, Latché Swing, Jared Balogh
Dialogues: Chinese
Subtitles: English
It doesn't really matters what Mr. Mao does, he's got only nine lives.
03. Conversations between an iguana and a chameleon / Conversaciones entre una iguana y un camaleón, 5’ 31’’
Colombia 2014
Directed by María Ximena Cortázar Triana
Screenplay: María Ximena Cortázar Triana
Animation: María Ximena Cortázar Triana
Technique: Traditional animation, Cut-out animation
Music: Juan David Villacrez Meza, Andrés Mira Olarte
Dialogues: None
An Iguana and a Chameleon are at a coffee place. Both characters send bizarre messages to each other, and that's how the peculiar understanding between them is evident.
04. Faded Finery / Oripeaux, 10’ 08’’
France / Belgium 2013
Directed by Sonia Gerbeaud, Mathias de Panafieu
Screenplay: Sonia Gerbeaud, Mathias de Panafieu
Animation: Sonia Gerbeaud, Mathias de Panafieu
Technique: Ink on paper animation
Music: Nathanael Bergese
Dialogues: None
In a remote village, a little girl befriends a pack of coyotes. But the villagers brutally put an end to this relationship, unaware of the revolution that waits.
05. Guida, 11’ 30’’
Brazil 2014
Directed by Rosana Urbes
Screenplay: Rosana Urbes
Animation: Rosana Urbes
Technique: 2D Animation
Music: Ruben Feffer, Gustavo Kurlat
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: English
Guida, a sweet lady who has been working as an archivist at a Courthouse for 30 years, has her routine changed when she sees a newspaper ad about life drawing classes in a cultural center of the city. Through the main character's creative sensibility, the short film offers a reflection about the artistic inspiration recovery process, art as a transformation agent and the concept of beauty.
06. Jasmin / Yasmeen, 6’ 35’’
Syria 2013
Directed by Hussam Wahab
Screenplay: Hussam Wahab
Animation: Abd el Raheem Alloosh, Yamaan Edelby, Delor Sulaymaan, Hasan Abu Zaid, Samer Dawood
Technique: 2D Animation
Music: Sameer Kusaibaty
Dialogues: None
In a city consumed by fire and damned to destruction, a man seeks to dissociate himself from the clashing masses, but, instead, falls victim to the devastation that has scourged all; only to find out that the jasmine flower alone, with all its charm, can rebuild all that has been destroyed and bring to life what the fire has ravaged.
07. Light River, 5’ 40’’
China 2014
Directed by Liu Sha
Screenplay: Liu Sha
Animation: Liu Sha
Technique: 3D Animation
Music: Zhai Xiaofei
Dialogues: None
"Light River" talks about a garbage man who lives by the river, one day he picks up a river lamp, and encountered a series of bizarre events in the process of looking for the person who losses this lamp.
08. Metaphor, 4’ 03’’
Syria 2014
Directed by Wael Toubaji
Screenplay: Wael Toubaji
Animation: Diala Brisly, Abdo Haj Kasem, Wael Toubaji
Technique:
Music: Karam Ayzouq, Wael Toubaji
Dialogues: No Dialogue
Within the contrast between beautiful details and war surrounding, the main character keeps on collecting Jasmine flowers enjoying the beautiful details left in her home.
09. Penguins: The Magic Hat, 9’ 59’’
USA 2015
Directed by Jarrod Moschner
Screenplay:
Animation: Jarrod Moschner
Technique:
Dialogues:
After a wizard loses his magic hat in a duel, the hat is discovered by a group of little blue penguins. The inquisitive little penguins accidentally cause the hat to take them on an adventure through time and space.
10. Queen Tush / Königin Po, 11’’
Switzerland 2015
Directed by Maja Gehrig
Screenplay: Maja Gehrig, Pamela Dürr
Animation: Maja Gehrig, Stefan Holaus
Music: Kaspar König
Dialogues: Swiss German
Subtitles: English
Queen Tush is a bedtime story invented on the spot by a father and daughter. Teeter-Totter-Town is Queendom right up in the sky. The subjects Triangle and Fourangle are suffering from up and downs and would like to get rid of their Queen.
11. Sisyphos, 1’ 30’’
Germany 2014
Directed by Florian Grolig
Screenplay:
Animation: Florian Grolig
Technique: 3D Computer animation
Music:
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
12. Terminus, 15’ 37’’
Pakistan 2015
Directed by Talha Muftee
Screenplay: Talha Muftee, Risham Waqar
Animation: Talha Muftee
Technique: 3D Computer animation
Music: Talha Muftee
Dialogues: None
The limits of space, of what we can achieve are only what we decide for our imagination and ourselves. Terminus follows the story of a lone stranded space explorer trying to find and rescue his fellow explorer, but something much grander or sinister might be at play.
13. Settling, 8’ 16’’
France / UK 2014
Directed by Emma McCann
Screenplay: Emma McCann
Animation: Emma McCann
Technique: Stop-motion animation
Music: Rosanna Cecchini
Dialogues: None
Bruce the gritter unwittingly makes an enemy as he carries out his job, clearing the roads of snow.
14. Ghosts World, 4’ 50’’
France / Japan 2014
Directed by Jerome Boulbes
Screenplay: Jerome Boulbes
Animation: Jerome Boulbes
Technique: 3D Computer animation
Music: O’death Jug (Michel Henritzi, Christophe Langlade)
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