ATHENS ANIMFEST
Competition
| Student | Greek |
Short 4 - 115. 40’
Short Competition01. A LIFE WITH ASPERGER’S, 4’
USA 2013
Direction: Jaime Ekkens
Screenplay: Emmett Goodman, Jaime Ekkens
Animation: David Lyndon VanTuyle, Katie Kirschner, Josh Daniel, Tristian Goik, Brianne VanPutte
Technique: Rotoscoped animation on live action
Music: Julie Hill
Dialogues: English
“A Life with Asperger’s” is an animated documentary that explores the challenges of growing up and living with Asperger’s Syndrome. It is a voice over narrative that demonstrates that Asperger’s is not simply “being a little awkward”, rather it is about adapting to one’s limitations in the face of anxiety and isolation. The technique is a collage of photography, rotoscope, animated characters and live action footage.
02. BOLES, 12’ 30’’
Slovenia/Germany 2013
Direction: Špela Čadež
Screenplay: Gregor Zorc, Špela Čadež
Animation: Oliver Throm
Technique: Puppet animation
Music: Tomaž Grom
Dialogues: Yes
Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood. He dreams of writer’s glory and luxurious lifestyle in a more prosperous part of town. One day Filip gets a knock on the door. His neighbour Tereza, an older prostitute that Filip tries to avoid by all means, asks him to write a letter for her fiancé. Filip agrees. And it would all end up fine if a week later Tereza would not show up at his doorstep again, asking him to write an answer to the previous letter.
03. THE SONG / El Canto, 8’ 30’’
France 2013
Direction: Inès Sedan
Screenplay: Inès Sedan
Animation: Inès Sedan
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Robert Marcel Lepage
Dialogues: None
A woman is forced by her husband to be silent forever. But, when listening to nature she finds her own song and a hopes for a new life.
04. FALLT, 2’ 12’’
USA 2013
Direction: Chadwick Whitehead
Screenplay: Chadwick Whitehead
Animation: Chadwick Whitehead
Technique:
Music: Jeff Gensterblum
Dialogues: English
Subtitles:
A farmer struggles to keep his farm when Mr. Fall’s fault finding goes too far and a judge must question his judgment.
05. HOTZANAK, FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY , 5’
Spain 2013
Direction: Izibene Oñederra
Screenplay: Xabier Gantzarain
Animation: Izibene Oñederra
Technique: Ink on paper, 2D Computer animation
Music: DJ Amsia
Dialogues: Basque
Subtitles: English
I told him I was a filmmaker...
06. KALY LIVE DUB – ALLAXIS, 4’ 15’’
France 2013
Direction: Wasaru
Screenplay: Wasaru
Animation: Wasaru
Technique: Frame by frame (flash)
Music: Kaly live dub
Dialogues: None
During a lone californian roadtrip, a very special passenger appears.
07. KIKI OF MONTPARNASSE / Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos, 14’ 27’’
France 2013
Direction: Amelie Harrault
Scrinplay: Amelie Harrault
Animation: Lucile Duchemin, Serge Elissalde, Amelie Harrault
Music: Olivier Daviaud
Technique: 2D mixed media
Main voice: Marie-Christine Orry (Kiki)
Language: French
Subtitles: English
"Kiki de Montparnasse" was the unwary muse of major avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. Memorable witness of a flamboyant Montparnasse, she emancipated from her status as a simple model and became a Queen of the Night, a painter, a press cartoonist, a writer and a cabaret singer.
08. LONG BRIDGE OF DISI DIRECTION, 8’ 50’’
Russia 2012
Direction: Ivan Maximov
Screenplay: Ivan Maximov
Animation: Tatiana Yazyna, Roman Efremov, Milana Safonova, Anna Volchkova
Technique: Drawn on paper
Music: Pavel Karmanov
Dialogues: None
The story about a lonely man who lives with his pet on a small island and longed to get to "other people."
09. MISERERE, 11’’
Spain 2013
Direction: Mario Serrano-Hérvas
Screenplay: Mario Serrano-Hérvas, Santiago Vélez, Víctor Lorenzo, Jorge San Martín
Animation: Santiago Vélez Alfonso, Víctor Lorenzo Pinel.
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Arturo Diéz Boscovich
Dialogues: Spanish
Subtitles: Greek
Miserere tells the story of a pilgrim who wants to compose the most pious miserere in order to redeem his old sins. His searching will take him to a ruined old monastery where he will find a trail of betrayal, revenge and death.
10. MY NAME IS LEILA, 3’ 19’’
Nigeria 2014
Direction: Olanrewaju Oluwafemi, Rashidat Ayoola Oluwafemi
Screenplay: Temitope Omotoye
Animation:
Animation Technique: Classical, traditional hand-drawn, 2D animation
Music: Free African Rhythms
Dialogues: None
This is an animated short based on a true life story of a young woman who recounts her violent experiences in the hands of a trusted male figure in her life and how she exacted revenge and suffered the consequences.
11. ON/OFF, 6’ 27’’
Poland 2013
Direction: Piotr Ludwik
Screenplay: Piotr Ludwik
Animation: Piotr Ludwik
Technique: Clay animation
Music: Piotr Kubiak
Dialogues: None
Mr Potato lives in typical, Grandma's, stuffed flat. Green, awful wallpaper on the walls, TV in each room and a few mechanical improvements made not to waste time for shaving, cooking, washing up, going to buy beer. Why should you lose time if you can spend it on watching TV? So Mr Potato has everything organise, lives peacefully and devotes himself to his new passion- staring at the box. But one day...
12. SNOWDYSSEUS, 6’ 12’’
USA 2013
Direction: Evan Curtis
Animation: Evan Curtis
Technique: Stop-motion
Music: Voodoo Friends
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: None
Snowdysseus explores the vulnerability in feeling nostalgia for one's home.
13. TULKU, 11’
France 2013
Direction: Sami Guellai, Mohamed Fadera
Screenplay: Sami Guellai, Mohamed Fadera
Animation: Sami Guellai, Mohamed Fadera, Yannis Boulatadakis, Charlotte Cambon, Vic Chhun, Adrien Fromenteil, Emmanuel Lantam, Bung Nguyen, Medhi Tebbakh, Alix Fizet
Technique: 2D, 3D computer animation
Music: Thierry Bertomeu
Dialogues:
Papoo, an old fisherman from a remote island, catches a "Tulkou" in his fishing net and takes it home, hoping they will become friends. The old man, thrilled by the changes due to this presence, doesn’t see that this very different creature, perishes…
14. UNICORN BLOOD / Sangre de Unicornio, 9’
Spain 2013
Direction: Alberto Vazquez
Screenplay: Alberto Vazquez, Pedro Rivero
Animation: Giovanna Lopalco, Alberto Vazquez
Technique: Ink on Paper, 2D computer animation
Music: Victoria García
Dialogues: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Two teddy bears go hunting unicorns, their favorite prey. Unicorns have tender flesh and delicious blueberry-flavoured blood, which the bears need to stay cute-looking.
15. DJI, DEATH FAILS, 3; 56’’
Moldova 2012
Direction: Dmitri Voloshin
Screenplay: Vadim Novac, Dmitri Voloshin, Serdar Djumaev
Animation: Valentin Nacu, Stanislav Popov, Evgheny Izmailov, Emil Lungu
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music: Gogol Bordello
Dialogues: None
Dji is a terribly unlucky death. All he has to do is to take the soul of a dying man. But he comes up against many obstacles in the process.
16. CANDYHEARTS, 15’
Spain 2013
Direction: Joan Martín
Screenplay: Joan Martín
Animation: Joan Martín
Technique: Stop-motion animation
Music: Xevi Collado
Dialogues: None
A child victim of a depressing street entertainment and a girl, apparently fragile, live a night of terror in the village of Krauss, when Conrad, the old candy man, gets obsessed for the young girl.
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