Student - Programme 11 (108')
Student Competition
Wednesday, 1 April 2015, Alkyonis New Star Art Cinema, Hours: 21:00-23:00
1. The True Knight, 3’ 05’’
UK 2014
Directed by Dominika Brodowska
Screenplay: Dominika Brodowska
Animation: Dominika Brodowska, Sihui Huang, Daiva Bumelyte
Technique: 2D Hand Drawn, 2D Digital
Music: Michal Rutkowski
Dialogues: None
A poor peasant boy named Rulf lives in a medieval village and wants to become a true knight. But can you really chase your dreams if all you have is a pile of hay and some old pillow bags? However Rulf is not alone! Can his friends help him realise his dream?
2. The Wandering Library, 3’ 26’’
UK 2014
Directed by Sarah Ismail
Screenplay: Sarah Ismail
Animation: Sarah Ismail, Sonia Naqvi, Abby Austin, Dan Collins
Technique: 2D Hand Drawn, 2D Digital
Music: Paul Wnedlandt
Dialogues: None
The story follows Julia, a quiet elementary school girl, who prefers spending time in the library during recess rather than playing outside with the other children. Lonely and bullied, Julia has found refuge amongst the library books.
3. Mystery of Werewolf’s mistake, 1’ 50’’
Ukraine 2014
Directed by Dmytro Bondarchuk
Screenplay: Dmytro Bondarchuk
Animation: Dmytro Bondarchuk
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues: None
It is story about life in the apartment building, where line between man and animal erased.
4. Live, 2’ 30’’
Ukraine 2014
Directed by Dmytro Bondarchuk
Screenplay: Dmytro Bondarchuk
Animation: Dmytro Bondarchuk
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues: None
One who imitates life risks to be infected and to face challenges of life's meaning and purpose.
5. The tale of a pear and a rabbit, 4’ 08’’
Serbia 2014
Directed by Dragana Kuprešanin
Screenplay: Dragana Kuprešanin
Animation: Dragana Kuprešanin
Technique: 2D Animation
Music: Ivan Branisavljević
Affiliation: Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade
Dialogues: None
Pear falls right on the hill. While contemplating the passage of time, a rabbit shows up and starts courtship...
6. Espresso Doppio, 3’ 54’’
Finland 2015
Directed by Mika Koskinen
Screenplay: Mika Koskinen
Animation: Mika Koskinen
Technique:
Music: Lida-Alina Poijärvi
Dialogues: None
Two different people, two different stories and a cup of coffee.
7. One More Page, 8’ 44’’
UK 2014
Directed by Matthew A Cooper, Jay Stewart, Nicholas Deary, Sam Osborne, Gary Pogue
Screenplay: Matthew A Cooper, Jay Stewart, Nicholas Deary, Sam Osborne, Gary Pogue
Animation: Matthew A Cooper, Jay Stewart, Nicholas Deary, Sam Osborne, Gary Pogue
Technique: 3D Computer animation
Music: Adam Kent, James Armstrong
Dialogues: None
A girl is absorbed in the a mysterious world, through the pages of a bed time story.
8. Another Season, 4’ 27’’
Germany 2015
Direction: Anna Lytton
Screenplay: Anna Lytton
Animation: Anna Lytton
Technique:
Music: John Tilbury
Dialogues: None
Like trees growing circles, breathing layers of skin. Between the trunk and the limbs, like the shape in between. The shedding of leaves and a whispering mouth.
9. How to save a princess, 6’ 37’’
Czech Repunlic 2014
Directed by Alžběta Göbelová
Screenplay: Martin Kubalec, Alžběta Göbelová
Animation: Alžběta Göbelová
Technique: Drawing Animation
Music: Petra Göbelová
Dialogues: Sebastiano Guzej, Veronika Zacharová, Radim Svoboda, Martin Kubalec
Subtitles: None
Can your dreams come true, even if you die? How to Save a Princess is short animated fairytale for callous children and young adults audience. Story of young prince and his adventurous journey for saving his princess. Dragons, bats and weird scarecrow included!
10. On the Way Home, 3’ 32’’
Slovakia 2015
Directed by Zuzana Balazova
Screenplay: Zuzana Balazova
Animation: Zuzana Balazova
Technique: 2D, 3D Computer animation
Music:
Dialogues: None
A young girl got dropped out of school. Rambling in the streets, she decides to take advantage of garbage around and tries to escape mundane reality of the city she lives in.
11. Enjoy, 4’ 32’’
Taiwan 2015
Directed by Wen Yi Chen
Screenplay: Wen Yi Chen
Animation: Wen Yi Chen
Technique: Wen Yi Chen
Music: Wen Yi Chen
Dialogues: None
The pursuit of food, sunset, nature and art come from the desire of human being. Everyone can enjoy them, and that’s why they are grateful and intoxicating.
12. Ordinary day, 3’ 54’’
Serbia 2014
Directed by Una Isailović
Screenplay: Una Isailović
Animation: Una Isailović
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music: Rundek Cargo Trio
Dialogues: Croatian
Subtitles: English
How would you feel to awaken in a day in which no other person existed in the world except you?
13. Neighboring Thoughts, 7’ 06’’
France 2014
Directed by Yves Francois
Screenplay: Yves Francois
Animation: Yves Francois
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music: Lucie Troger
Dialogues: None
The movie deals with a musician trying to find back his inspiration. Then the storyline follows him into his mind, linking his ideas, memories and dreams all together.
14. White forest, 3’ 32’’
Slovakia 2014
Directed by Marta Prokopova
Screenplay: Marta Prokopova
Animation: Marta Prokopova
Technique:
Music: Martin Chrastina
Dialogues: Slovak
Subtitles: English
The story about love in white forest.
15. The Black Rose, 3’ 27’’
Canada 2015
Directed by Alfonso Pontillo
Screenplay: Alfonso Pontillo
Animation: Paula Utria
Technique: 3D Computer animation
Music: 5 Alarm
Dialogues: (Voice over) Spanish
Subtitles: English
A love story, characterized by pain and an insurmountable distance. One that takes place in the dimmest hours of the night and for only the briefest moment. Two mannequins, trapped in opposite store fronts, have one minute every night to come alive and live their sad love story.
16. Fly, 1’ 46’’
USA 2015
Direction: Huy Huynh
Screenplay: Huy Huynh
Animation: Karley Ericson
Technique: Huy Huynh
Music: Huy Huynh
Dialogues: None
A toy Plane is dreaming about flying. While in his dream, his string starts to brake and he starts to fall, finally getting his dream to fly. Not being a real plane he only makes it a few feet outside of the window.
17. Essence, Martina Mikusova, 5’ 04’’
Slovakia 2014
Directed by Martina Mikusova
Screenplay: Martina Mikusova
Animation: Martina Mikusova
Technique: Paper cut Stop-Motion on a Greenscreen
Music: Composed by Adrián Malovaník, Tomáš Baľák, Vladimír Nosáľ
Dialogues: None
The Essence is film about life, love, and a scent that can wear off quickly. The protagonist is a young woman, a perfumer, who loses the essence she loved in her life. She decides to bring it back for a while, even if the scents are unstable and they wear off quickly. Just as life. However, sometimes the last sniff can be the most powerful goodbye.
18. Island, 4’
Ukraine 2014
Directed by Nikita Timoschuk
Screenplay: Nikita Timoschuk
Animation: Nikita Timoschuk, Andrey Timoschuk
Technique:
Music:
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: None
Land the road to which is through the heart. In our complex world there is a bright island where people live happily ever after. But how to find it?
19. Aion, 6’ 53’’
Slovakia 2014
Directed by Petra Heleninova
Screenplay: Petra Heleninova
Animation: Petra Heleninova
Technique: Rotoscope, Computer drawn animation
Music: Jan Krnac
Dialogues: None
What would you do if you find a remote control on the ground which stops the world? Every action has its reaction and our hero, who found this remote control, may be in jeopardy. But is he the only one, who is in danger?
20. Half Babka, 5’
Slovakia 2014
Directed by Jasmine Elsen
Screenplay: Jasmine Elsen
Animation: Jasmine Elsen
Technique: Drawing on paper
Music: Bardia Sheikholes Lami Ghazvini
Dialogues: None
The film is about loneliness in the society. An old woman does everything with her cat, which is more like a toy for her. sharing ice cream and knitting sweaters… but the cat runs away and she tries to replace it.
21. Adventures of a Teapot, 3’ 48’’
Russia 2014
Directed by Davydova Olga
Screenplay: Jitkovskiy Alexey
Animation: Davydov Alexander, Davydova Olga
Technique: Stop-motion
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven
Dialogues: Russian
Subtitles: English
Beautiful story about the Teapot and his three little lives.
22. Wanderer, 1’ 30’’
Spain 2014
Directed by Maria Torregrosa Domenech
Screenplay: Maria Torregrosa Domenech
Animation: Maria Torregrosa Domenech
Technique: 2D Digital animation
Music: Siberian Noise
Dialogues: None
Where would you go if you have the possibility of teleport yourself? Would you become a Wanderer?
23. Ryüjin, 2’
Spain 2014
Directed by Maria Torregrosa Domenech
Screenplay: Maria Torregrosa Domenech
Animation: Maria Torregrosa Domenech
Technique: 2D Digital animation
Music: Adrian Berenguer
Dialogues: None
Ryüjin is the name of one of the Sea Gods, and sometimes he picks humans to give them something special...
24. Open Wide: A Series of Remarkable Events, 1’ 41’’
Canada 2014
Directed by Andreea Vrabie
Screenplay: Andreea Vrabie
Animation: Andreea Vrabie
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music: Francis Theberge
Dialogues: None
Through an unexpected journey occasioned by a dream, Open Wide questions the role and the importance of our unconscious life.
25. A Theory of Everything, 2’ 05’’
USA 2014
Directed by Catalina Matamoros
Screenplay: Catalina Matamoros
Animation: Catalina Matamoros
Technique: Mixed Technique, 2D, 3D Computer animation
Music: Alexis and Sam
Dialogues: None
Subtitles: English
A geometric visual music composition about the essential parts of everything and the platonic solids.
26. Better world, 2’ 34’’
Germany 2015
Directed by Johanna Selge
Screenplay: Johanna Selge
Animation: Johanna Selge
Technique: Johanna Selge
Music: Johanna Selge
Dialogues: Johanna Selge
Language of dialogues: German
Subtitles: English
Two antagonists meet unintentionally: one, perfect example of rational top-heaviness, the other of a life of full excesses. The film is about the poles which they embody, the feelings which releases in us, around prejudices and tolerance.
27. Focus, 1’ 20’’
Canada 2015
Directed by Olea Tvengsberg
Screenplay: Olea Tvengsberg
Animation: Olea Tvengsberg
Technique: 3D Computer animation
Music:
Dialogues: English
Subtitles: None
Magnus is a subject for the Focus Clinical Research and Testing Centre, he has to try a new type of pill. Which after the first one, he discovers that they make him change personality and do things he never imagined could do.
28. Incident, 1’ 56’’
Bulgaria 2014
Directed by Dimitar Velev
Screenplay: Prof. Ivan Vesselinov, Dimitar Velev
Animation: Dimitar Velev
Technique: Cut-out animation
Music: Niya Veleva
Dialogues: None
A short tale of absurd and apathy.
29. Solitary, 2’ 28’’
Iran 2014
Directed by Nasrin Ghashghaei
Screenplay: Nasrin Ghashghaei
Animation: Nasrin Ghashghaei
Technique:
Music: Amin Salemi
Dialogues: None
Solitary is about a virtual place in human`s Mind. The actions are not really happen. But That`s a typification about what people do with Themselves.
30. A 4363's Trip, 2’ 55’’
UK / France 2014
Directed by Valentine Dumez
Screenplay: Valentine Dumez
Animation: Valentine Dumez
Technique:
Music: Bastien Dupriez
Dialogues: None
“A 4363's Trip” is an abstract direct-on-film short film, made using painting and scratches. The main leitmotiv of the film is the circle. The film was conceived for a music done by Bastien Dupriez.
31. The other side, 4’ 25’’
India 2014
Directed by Nishanth Sanjay
Screenplay: Nishanth Sanjay
Animation: Nishanth Sanjay
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music: Aniruddh S Menon, Vivek Singh Sangwan Dialogues: None
The character is in a state of introspection,in search for answers. In doubt of being a Narcissist and the revelation of 'The Other Side' he is on a journey to unravel the situation he is in.
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