Student - Programme 8 (108')
Student Competition
Monday, 30 March 2015, Alkyonis New Star Art Cinema, Hours: 23:00-1:00
01. Among Trees, 8’ 28’’
Czech Republic 2015
Directed by Pavla Baštanová
Screenplay: Pavla Baštanová
Animation: Pavla Baštanová
Technique: 2D animation (drawn animation in computer)
Music: Dan Řezníček
Dialogues: None
This short animated film tells a story about searching, finding and preserving love. It happens when two foxes meet accidentally. In the very beginning there is a fear, shyness and doubts but it changes into curiosity and finally into desire. The film basically shows how not being alone is important and beautiful.
02. Colour, 3’ 28’’
Hong Kong 2014
Directed by Ki Yuen Tsang
Screenplay: Chak Fung Ip
Animation: Chak Fung Ip
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music:
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: English
ln a white world, there are three character inside, red, yellow and blue, they liked their colours, they want to empty their own colours painted world, but in the course of the case occurred in the region to compete with each other, mixing the three primary colours make the whole world was a big mess, the world become black one then. Later, they feel guilty because of the mess world, so they decided to unite, they try to exert the colour of their own, use characteristics of the three primary colors, create more kinds colours, added a different color for the world, make the world to be more colorful.
03. Missing Bees, 3’ 02’’
Hong Kong 2013
Directed by Ching Chiu Lam, Ka Yung Cheung, Ki Yuen Tsang, Wai Lam Wan
Screenplay: Ching Chiu Lam
Animation: Ka Yung Cheung
Technique: 3D Computer
Music:
Dialogues: N/A
Subtitles: English
Bees, an organism seems insignificant and abominable. However, they are closely related to our society. Recently, bees disappear gradually because of the serious pollution. Only very little people put focus on this problem, but the extinction of bees will destroy our food chain, further lead to the extinction of human beings. We hope to raise people’s awareness of this profound issue through our animation.
04. Violence, 1’ 18’’
Hong Kong 2014
Directed by Man Kit Siu, Ka Yung Cheung, Chak Fung Ip, Wing Hang Chan
Screenplay: Ka Yung Cheung
Animation: Chak Fung Ip
Technique: 3D Computer
Music:
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: English
In the world, no matter where you are, violence always happen. However, we found that the victims always affair to face the problem at source. Same as the characters in the movie, they face different kind of violence and try to run away. When they meet each other, they try to consociate. Finally, they face the violence together. We hope the victims in the world can fight for their right and face the violence.
05. Ground Floor, 2’ 50’’
Israel 2014
Directed by Asya Aizenstein
Screenplay: Asya Aizenstein
Animation: Asya Aizenstein
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Music: Yonatan Albalak and Uri Kalian
Dialogues: None
An urban environment reflects the inner feelings of a city walker.
06. Batman vs Superman, 1’ 40’’
UK 2015
Directed by Harvey Macdonald
Screenplay: Harvey Macdonald
Animation: Stop-motion
Technique: Stop-motion
Music: Royalty-free
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: None
The Dark Knight faces off against the Man of Steel in this short Lego animated fight scene, based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller.
07. Villains, 5’ 22’’
UK 2014
Directed by Alex Crowley
Screenplay: Alex Crowley
Animation: Alex Crowley
Technique: Stop-Motion
Music: Michal Brzezinski
Dialogues: Mathew Swann, Thomas Peacefull, Harriet Titlow
Language of dialogues: English
Subtitles: English
Infamy. Notoriety. Legacy. Three words accurately describing what egotistical Kevin and his team of misfits hope to achieve with their villainous plan.
08. The Little Boy in the Big Forest, 1’ 58’’
Belgium 2014
Directed by Kenny Hoste
Screenplay: Kenny Hoste
Animation: Kenny Hoste
Technique: Hand drawn with bistre, Composition and editing on computer
Music:
Dialogues: Kenny Hoste
Language of dialogues: French
Subtitles: English
A little boy takes a walk through a big forest, where he hears wild beasts howling in the night.
09. How the World Began, 6’ 16’’
Hungary 2013
Directed by Iván Tamás
Screenplay: Iván Tamás
Animation: Iván Tamás
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music:
Dialogues: Hungarian
Subtitles: English
Two wrestlers, a mad elephant, an old lady and her kleptomaniac daughter, 160 camels and a great flood are all essential to deciphering how the world began!
10. The Subtenant, 6’ 43’’
Poland 2015
Directed by Damian Krakowiak
Screenplay: Damian Krakowiak
Animation: Damian Krakowiak
Technique: 3D Animation, Drawing, Stop-Motion
Music: QDC
Dialogues: None
Apartment of main character is hiding some secret. Their interaction begins to trigger more negative energy. The film is about different stages of loneliness and depression.
11. Song of the Man, 6’ 51’’
UK / Bulgaria 2015
Directed by Eleonora Asparuhova
Screenplay: Nikola Vaptsarov
Animation: Eleonora Asparuhova
Technique: Hand drawn on paper
Music: Epidemic Sound, Piano with Cello
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: None
A murderer goes to prison after killing his father for money and surrounded by darkness is where he finds his light. An adaptation of the Bulgarian poem "Song of the Man" by Nikola Vaptsarov.
12. Tibiaq, 7’ 25’’
Germany 2014
Directed by Henrike Rothe
Screenplay: Henrike Rothe
Animation: Ulf Grenzer, Lisa Neubauer, Henrike Rothe
Technique: Digital 2D animation
Music: Oleg Hollmann
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: English
The young Tibiaq sets off to look for his lost brother who was captured by an evil spirit. It turns out to be a dangerous but magical journey. A free adaption of an Inuit legend.
13. The Chair, 3’ 57’’
Portugal 2014
Directed by Students of the School E/B. 2.3 Prof. Dr. Egas Moniz, Avanca
Screenplay: Students of the School E/B. 2.3 Prof. Dr. Egas Moniz, Avanca
Animation: Collective of children
Technique: Real image, Frame-by-frame
Music: António Osório, António Fonseca
Dialogues: None
The story of a chair that feels lost when removed from its usual place.
Rejected by the new group to which it belongs, its aim is to fight to be a part of it and conquer new friends.
14. Conquerers of the Triangle Space, 6’ 15’’
Poland 2015
Directed by Alicja Błaszczyńska
Screenplay: Alicja Błaszczyńska
Animation: Alicja Błaszczyńska
Technique: Stop-motion
Music:
Dialogues: Polish
Subtitles: English
Two triangular creatures are trapped on a platform. When strange voice from space tells them what to do to get out creatures begin the game which is not as easy as the instruction they got.
15. Blood Ties, 3’ 53’’
France 2014
Directed by Sophie Kavouridis, Manon Lazzari, Marion Louw, Simon Pannetrat and Thomas Ricquier
Screenplay: Sophie Kavouridis, Manon Lazzari, Marion Louw, Simon Pannetrat and Thomas Ricquier
Animation: Sophie Kavouridis, Manon Lazzari, Marion Louw, Simon Pannetrat and Thomas Ricquier
Technique:
Music: Thomas Ricquier
Dialogues: None
In a family headed by a tyrannical father, the younger daughter will regain his freedom on his birthday ...
16. A Dog's Life, 8’ 20’’
Belgium 2014
Directed by Pieter Vandenabeele
Screenplay: Pieter Vandenabeele
Animation: Pieter Vandenabeele
Technique: 2D Digital
Music:
Dialogues: None
A dog lives a lonely life in the house of his master and tries to fill his days with all kinds of hobbies.
Hopefully, some unexpected event will take place. If not, this could turn out to be a very boring film.
17. The Search for the Monster of Lake Quannapowitt, 3’ 28’’
USA 2015
Directed by Sarah Lynne Reul
Screenplay: Sarah Lynne Reul
Animation: Sarah Lynne Reul
Technique: Hand-drawn animation in TVPaint, with Cintiq
Music:
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: None
Lake Quannapowitt does not have a monster. Or does it?
18. Alien Antics!, 6’ 30’’
USA 2014
Directed by Terry L. Ernsberger
Screenplay: Terry L. Ernsberger
Animation: Terry L. Ernsberger
Technique: 3D Computer animation
Music: Nate Combs
Dialogues: N/A
Subtitles: N/A
An alien and his little buddy get more than they bargained for when they try to steal a freezer full of ice cream treats from a backwater gas station near Roswell, New Mexico.
19. Nighty Night, 6’ 23’’,
Czech Republic 2014
Directed by Viktor Svoboda
Screenplay: Viktor Svoboda
Animation: Viktor Svoboda
Technique: Computer 2D
Music: Pavel Vrtěl
Dialogues: None
Older brother teases his sister and she can’t sleep that night. And he is the only one close by when his sister is having a bad dream.
20. The Last Homeland, Huixin Huang, 5’ 56’’
China 2013
Directed by Huixin Huang
Screenplay: Huixin Huang
Animation: Huixin Huang, Zhang Shimin, Zheng Kaiwen, Deng Yinmei
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Chen Sihui
Dialogues: None
It's a story happens in the world which is destroyed by humans, because of an endless war. A polar bear and a penguin are looking for a new homeland and food. The humans only want to kill each other, animals are trying to survive.
21. Gashapon Kou-lou-kou-lou, 5’ 12’’
Taiwan 2014
Directed by Wei-Yuan Chen
Screenplay: Wei-Yuan Chen
Animation: Eden Chan, Wen-Yi Chen
Technique:
Music: Wen-Yi Chen
Dialogues: None
Facing the plots that we transformed from our observation of society, the leading role questioned the society and intended to do something at last.
22. Swim Your Way, 6’ 14’’
Taiwan 2014
Directed by Eden Chan
Screenplay: Eden Chan
Animation: Eden Chan
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Three little guys lived a normal life in the ruins. One day a mysterious object fell from the sky, and stimulated them to swim. However, due to the structure of their bodies, which were not appropriate for the freestyle stroke, they felt depressed.
23. Pa Pa Pa, 1’ 56’’
Taiwan 2015
Directed by Eden Chan
Screenplay: Eden Chan
Animation: Eden Chan
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues: None
This is an imagined story about turning three different elements into an unusual situation.
ATHENS ANIMFEST
