Competition

Short 7

Tête à Tête 07:41

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Natasha Tonkin
Screenplay: Natasha Tonkin
Animation: Natasha Tonkin
Technique: Handdrawn, Cut Out, Stop Motion, 2D computer, Live action
Music: Naomi McLean
Production/School: National Film and Television School
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English



A young woman visits her family. Over the weekend tensions flare, whilst technology provides an easy respite. As Kerri’s gaze shifts from the screen, she discovers a deeper kind of connection.


Cabin Pressure 03:15
United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Matthew Lee
Screenplay: Matthew Lee, Karim Khan, Conor Keane
Animation: Matthew Lee
Technique: Stop motion
Music: Rachael Philip
Production/School: National Film and Television School
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English

A safety and regulations obsessive is forced to revaluate things when a routine flight runs into difficulties.


Alien & Alien 01:00

Poland 2017
Directed by: Mariusz Moscicki
Screenplay: Mariusz Moscicki
Animation: Mariusz Moscicki & Marta Topolska
Technique: stop motion
Dialogue language: English



Alien visited Earth recently. He saw how people treat animals and each other. He got sick because of the air pollution and chemicals in food. He witnesses war, terrorism and death. Now because of ALL of that he can be compensated and law firm Alien & Alien is about to help him.

Genesis 10:32

Iran 2017
Directed by: Abtin Mozafari
Screenplay: abtin mozafari
Animation: Farshid Mousavi
Technique: 3D
Music: Javad Safari
Production/School: Peyrang
Dialogue language: No Dialgue
Subtitles language: No Dialgue



A fantasy about the syria

Heart Chakra 07:21
USA 2017
Directed by: Angela Stempel

Mae's life is routinely disrupted by the advice from her online crystal healer and her devotion to horoscopes. Armed with healing crystals and numerology, Mae is ready to follow the predictions on an unexpected path to find her soulmate. Made at CalArts, 2017.
New Toy / Brinquedo Novo 06:25

Brazil 2017
Directed by: Rogerio Boechat
Screenplay: Mauricio Stal and Rodrigo Amim
Animation: Alexandre S Matos, Bruno Brito, Emanuel Barroso, Leonardo Siqueira and Nayara Abreu
Technique: Digital 2D
Music: Bianca Gismonti and Claudia Castelo Branco
Production/School: LUVA
Dialogue language: no
Subtitles language: no



On an boring day, a baby gets a teddy bear from his mom. The new toy becomes his best friend. Over time, it turns into a tedious object. He carries it around sadly, until destiny surprises him...



Inscape 03:00

Brazil 2017
Directed by: Leo Uehara
Animation: Digital
Technique: 3D animation
Music: YB Music
Dialogue language: No dialogues
Subtitles language: N/A



Inkscape tells the story of a man seeking for something that fills his own void.



Coco's Day / Kokosha 04:20

Russia 2017
Directed by: Tatiana Moshkova
Screenplay: Tatiana Moshkova
Animation: Oleg Sheplyakov, Karolina Andrianova, Olga Belyaeva, Sergey Rubin
Technique: 2d Computer (Flash)
Music: Tatiana Shatkovskaya-Eisenberg
Production/School: Soyuzmultfilm Studio
Dialogue language: Russian
Subtitles language: English



Meet Coco, a little crocodile who hides from blizzards, explores underwater worlds and even turns into Godzilla – and all inside one flat!



Alphabet 05:55

Iran 2017
Directed by: kianoush abedi
Screenplay: AMIR HOSSEIN NOROUZI
Animation: FARNOUSH ABEDI



It has been years since the people of this town forgot the alphabets of life. They have no sight, hearing or speech left... but the words are impatiently waiting to be sung again

Enough 02:19

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Anna Mantzaris
Screenplay: Anna Mantzaris
Animation: Anna Mantzaris, Marcos Valin
Technique: Stop Motion Animation
Music: Phil Brookes
Production/School: Royal College of Art
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No dialogu



Moments of lost self-control

The Train 02:30
Iran 2017
Directed by: Javad Matouri

Creature from the lake 05:10

France 2017
Directed by: Renata Antunes, Alexis Bedue, Léa Bresciano, Amandine Canville, Maria Castro Rodriguez, Logan Cluber, Nicolas Grangeaud, Capucine Rahmoun-Swierczynski, Victor Rouexel, Orianne Siccardi, Mallaury Simoes



In the 80s, a manly and experienced monster hunter hero of a low-budget TV show, followed by his fat cowardly camerawoman, goes to a remote lake on the night of a full moon, when mysterious disappearances tend to occur...

It's a Bird thing / It's a Bird Thing 05:44

France 2017
Directed by: Sylvain Bonnet, Justine Gautheret, Mathilde Le Gloahec, Maximilian Ly, Johanna Nizard, Leo Pieri, Andrea Roncancio, Jeremy Souillet, Ludivine Vincent



In the underworld of the favelas, Aaron, a little boy, lives a wretched and lonely life. Until the day he sees a wonderful bird flying overhead. At this moment, a strong desire to escape his constrained life stirs deep in his heart. He will do his best to achieve his goal: flying!

Garden Party 07:25

France 2016
Directed by: Théophile Dufresne, Florian Babikian, Gabriel Grapperon, Lucas Navarro, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire



In a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts.

Cream 06:15
Denmark 2017
Directed by: Lena Olafsdottir

In a doctor’s cozy waiting room the cold and ugly sides of human behavior are revealed while some of the patients enjoy an ice cream.
#selfie 05:00

Germany 2016
Directed by: David M. Lorenz
Screenplay: David M. Lorenz
Production/School: FILMMENSCHEN Filmproduktionen David M. Lorenz Paul Weiss
Dialogue language: English



A couple on holiday in Berlin. Everything is perfect, but then he wants to take a selfie... The ending of a relationship as seen through a mobile phone.



H0_pe 02 09:29

Italy 2017
Directed by: Francesco Bruno Sorrentino, Antonio Genovese
Screenplay: Antonio Genovese, Francesco Bruno Sorrentino
Animation: Antonio Genovese, Francesco Bruno Sorrentino
Technique: Mixed technique 2D/3D/Stopmotion
Music: Mario Autore
Production/School: Stefano Incerti
Dialogue language: Italian
Subtitles language: English



H0_Pe is a robot who lives alone on a tiny planet somewhere in the space. His job is to regain materials. After hundreds of years of a lonely life, he starts to create objects "to live better". He will be able to built the first intelligent robot (H0_pe 01) to overcome loneliness. But, on his planet, this kind of activity is forbidden by law. In fact the H0_Pe's life is spied by the Headquarters situated on a close planet. The Headquarters discovers his secret and, through the use of signs, it warns him to stop his illegal activity. At the end of the story, H0_Pe will be forced to reveal a great and hidden secret.



Sunday in the Park with dog 07:35

USA 2017
Directed by: Robert Rosenbaum
Screenplay: Robert Rosenbaum
Animation: 2d
Technique: Hand drawn
Music: original score by Dara Taylor
Production/School: Robert Rosenbaum
Dialogue language: English



While enjoying a sandwich on a relaxing day in the park, a high-strung Guy has a chance meeting with a very zen, three-legged doG, who may or may not be... an existentialist. Sunday in the Park with doG stars the ever popular Mason Reese as the voice of doG, the wise-cracking hound that may or may not be… an existentialist. Carl Welden voices Guy, a bit of a high-strung chap out for a quiet day in the park. When Guy meets the three-legged talking doG, he marvels at the zen-like attitude doG has towards his “handicap.” doG tries to assure Guy that everything in the universe is as it should be, but alas the nature of Guy is more antipathetic. The film in a traditional animation with hand-painted watercolor backgrounds by artist Dawn Robyn along with some stylized nods to Suerat, MaGritte, Dali and Munch. The original score was beautifully composed by Dara Taylor. The script is based on the original play “My Conversation with doG” by the writer/director of the piece Robert Rosenbaum.



Letters 13:00

Russia 2018
Directed by: Alexander Savarsky
Screenplay: Alexander Savarsky (based on the Konstantin Paustovky's short story
Animation: Valeriy Hayrapetyan, Evgeniy Ivanov, Elena Kvasova, Antonina Grischenko, Olga Maxyuk, Pavel Chaika, Marina Galagan, Anastasia Stus, Natalia Golubchenko-Kvasova, Olga Ogurtsova, Evgenia Myaksheva, Mikhail Bolonkin
Technique: watercolor, rotoscope
Music: Alexey Korolev, Andrey Akimov, Sergey Smirnov
Production/School: Margarita Savarskaya
Dialogue language: Russian
Subtitles language: English, German



"Letters" is a film about beautiful and sudden love. It tells us that every loss is a new link in a regular chain of future findings. Love is the thing that always starts when finished. And when losing it, in the moment of temporary emptiness, we look back to see one more time what we’ve just lost. We don’t even suspect that this time everything is waiting for us in the future, and the lines of new happiness have already appeared in our illusive loss of our past.

Ontario, Quebec & Me 02:22
USA 2017
Directed by: Richard O'Connor
Screenplay: Richard O'Connor
Animation: Taisiya Zaretskaya
Technique: Digital Drawing
Music: Billy Bragg
Production/School: Richard O'Connor
Dialogue language: English

Flying in the rainy season, a romance. Animated, based on a song by Billy Bragg.
Disillusionment of 10 point font 01:12

USA 2017
Directed by: Greg Condon
Dialogue language: English



a collection of playfully animated words, created on a typewriter