Competition

Student 5

Ayny - My Second Eye 00:10:40

2016
Directed by: Ahmad Saleh
Screenplay: Ahmad Saleh
Production/School: Stefan Gieren, Fiction 2.0 in coproduction with KHM Cologne
Dialogue language: Arabic



A cruel war has taken two brothers’ home. Their mother protects them under her arms and fosters the seed of their new life. Anxious her sons could come in danger if they leave the house. But the boys chase their dream to play a music instrument they’ve fallen in love with. A beautiful Oud. They collect scrap metal to earn the money and must find out that their mother’s fear was for a good reason. But as strong birds will always fly, the two boys become one to overcome their trauma.

E is for Evolution 00:05:37

Germany 2016
Directed by: Paul Kusmaul
Screenplay: Paul Kusmaul
Production/School: Oliver Arnold
Dialogue language: English



E is for Evolution is an animated short. It consists out of 26 short episodes aboutevolution. Each Episode has its own point of view and interpretation due to evolution. The film deals with several topics and questions. For example the development fromreptiles to mammels and the instinct of procreation. Was all life on earth created by godor was it just randomly developed by nature with a method we call evolution. And whatabout the future? Will humans and machines merge together in one new lifeform?These all questions and topics are merged in everyday storys and stereotypes.The alphabet builts a chronolgical base of the film. To each letter there is an episode. Inthe end the film results in an collaged overall picture. A small ABC of evolution.

Bloody Sour Grapes, Indeed / Verflucht Saure Trauben, Führwahr 00:19:13

Germany 2015
Directed by: Deveroe Aurel Langston
Screenplay: Deveroe Aurel Langston, Sofia H. Chirico
Production/School: Ingmar Böschen



It’s already been 18 years since David Foster Wallace built his epic novel Infinite Jest around a dystopian society ruled by a constant pressure to achieve and an obsession with efficiency.The film’s title Verflucht saure Trauben, fürwahr is a quote from the german version of the novel: on the search to decipher the meaning of existence, humans are constantly deceived by the appeal of shiny hedonism and plastic entertainment. The perfect illusion of unlimited possibilities for self-fulfilment just within reach is eventually unmasked, and leads only to bitter disappointment. The animation was created with the technique of rotoscoping. More than 23.000 individually drawn images reveal, in the setting of a psychotherapy session, the inner life of a young woman, visually representing, as only animation can, the complex interior network of childhood memories, reflections brought on by the session itself, psychosis and virtuality.

Roohangiz / روح انگیز 00:06:17

Iran 2016
Directed by: Elmira Bagherzadeh
Screenplay: Elmira Bagherzadeh
Production/School: Tehran University of Art
Dialogue language: Persian



A short film about a séance in Qajar- era of Persia. The Ouija session goes wrong because of the medium’s mistake, and triggers a humorous disaster.

Silent London 00:02:45

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Ivelina Ivanova
Screenplay: Ivelina Ivanova, Kyle Peyton
Production/School: University of Westminster



An impressionistic take on the essence and importance of nightlife in the context of a contemporary metropolis: the intensity and coldness of the big city versus the liberation, frivolity and creativity of the clubbing scene. An observation-based animated reality of the creative underworld of London in the age of the digital, synthetic and abstract. A celebration of community’s instinctual need for unity through dance. Outside of the club stretches out a vast cityscape of urban mundanity. Inside the club, the borders of reality become blurry to open up truths outside of representation.

Stars 00:05:06

USA 2016
Directed by: Han Zhang
Screenplay: Han Zhang
Production/School: Han Zhang



Grandpa and grandson street sellers sell stars in a town near the shore. One night, they run out of the stars…

Imaginarium 00:11:33

Colombia 2016
Directed by: Laura Vanessa Lamus Gamboa, Diego Alejandro Rico Diaz
Screenplay: Laura Vanessa Lamus Gamboa, Diego Alejandro Rico Diaz
Production/School: Diego Alejandro Rico Diaz, Laura Vanessa Lamus Gamboa
Dialogue language: Spanish



Andy and Nacnac are playing inside of Imaginarium when they find Tinna, a little girl that wakes the jealousness of Nacnac, making him leave them completely alone, fact that Kanker takes advantage of in order to attack Tinna, but his plans seem frustrated because of Andy due to the terrible curse he receives, meanwhile Salida, the guardian of Imaginarium runs in order to tell Nacnac what happened, who ends up saving the kids with his magic.

I'm Not Alone! 00:02:30

Iran 2017
Directed by: Amin Malakootikhah
Screenplay: Amir Moeini, Amin Malakootikhah
Production/School: Amin Malakootikhah



A person is taking some selfies in the process of creating a new personal account on a social network, but something unexpected happens to him.

Runaway 00:02:48

Iran 2017
Directed by: Amir Kazemi
Production/School: Amir Kazemi



A person escapes from his roots to reach his lost one.

Mirror 00:05:17

Germany 2016
Directed by: Anna Lytton
Screenplay: Anna Lytton
Production/School: Academy of Media Arts Cologne



To touch and be touched, to reveal and conceal. Pencil lines exploring skin, an inner world made visible on the body’s outer layer. Movements and gestures become manifestations of the relationship between the body and my drawings.

Oh Baby! 00:02:24

USA 2017
Directed by: Gigi Harris
Screenplay: Gigi Harris
Dialogue language: English



An alien meets a human baby.

Icky 00:05:55

Iran 2017
Directed by: Parastoo Cardgar
Screenplay: Parastoo Cardgar
Production/School: Parastoo Cardgar
Dialogue language: English



In the world of people with Rubik's cube head, there is a kid who is different from the others...

P.E (Physical Embarrassment) 00:03:17

United Kingdom 2016
Directed by: Rosa Fisher
Dialogue language: English



P.E (Physical Embarrassment) follows a gangly young girl, who finds the whole experience of P.E lessons to be a completely humiliating ordeal. It shows the journey she undergos to overcome her P.E induced trauma. The animation questions P.E's emphasis on competition, where children are ranked against each other to find the ultimate 'best child'.

Resistance Zucchinis / Les Courgettes De La R 00:06:00

France 2016
Directed by: Melissa Idri, Benoit Lecailtel, Ivana Ngamou, Come Balguerie
Screenplay: M
Animation: M
Technique: 3D
Music: Pablo Pico
Production/School: Supinfocom Rubika
Dialogue language: Arabic, French
Subtitles language: English



Hiding in the mountains, a man feeds the resistance during the Algerian war.

Geôlier 00:04:00

France 2016
Directed by: Héloïse Ferlay
Screenplay: Héloïse Ferlay
Animation: Héloïse Ferlay
Technique: Puppets, Stop Motion
Music: Camille Taver
Production/School: Héloïse Ferlay
Dialogue language: No dialogues
Subtitles language: No subtitles



The jailer stands guard, in his clearing of woman-trees. He locked his love up here, because he loved her too much, because he wanted her for him. He became her torturer. But one day, he decides that this love-prison has gone on for long enough...

Citipati 00:07:00

Germany 2015
Directed by: Andreas Feix
Screenplay: Andreas Feix
Animation: Andreas Feix
Technique: 3D
Music: Petteri Sainio
Production/School: Francesco Faranna
Dialogue language: No dialogues
Subtitles language: No subtitles



After being subjected to a cataclysmic meteorite impact, a small dinosaur attempts to battle the horrific aftermath both physically & psychologically. A tale about life, death & rebirth, told from a unique, prehistoric perspective.