Competition

Short 10

Eisnasen 07:58
Switzerland 2018
Directed by: Veronica L. Montaño & Joel Hofmann
Screenplay: Veronica L. Montaño & Joel Hofmann
Animation: Joel Hofmann, Manuela Leuenberger, Dominic Lutz, Valentine Moser, Patrick Portmann, Jürgen Haas
Technique: Puppet & 3D
Music: Maple Tree Circus
Production/School: Tiny Giant GmbH
Dialogue language: No dialogue

Bo and Moco live in an icy cold world. Moco is blaming the ice for his snotty nose and starts melting it with his Bunsen burner. At the same time Bo ist trying to fix the damage with needle and yarn.
The event horizon / Horyzont zdarzen 12:28

Poland 2017
Directed by: Michal Orzechowski
Screenplay: Michal Orzechowski
Animation: Michal Orzechowski
Technique: 2d
Music: Pawel Cieslak
Production/School: FUMI Studio (Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak)
Dialogue language: polish
Subtitles language: english



The Event Horizon , the door to our world. A place on the edge of space where time stops and the faintest ray of light ceases to exist forever. Behind this boundary there's a totally different world. A place where the boundaries of perception are stretched.

Oh Mother! / O Matko! 12:15

Poland 2016
Directed by: Paulina Ziolkowska
Screenplay: Paulina Ziolkowska
Animation: Paulina Ziolkowska Natalia Krawczuk Barbara Rupik Karolina Specht Aleksandra Wit Artur Hanaj Aleksandra Kucwaj Zofia Skorka Beata Strzelecka Wojciech Wojtkowski
Technique: 2d
Music: Tomasz Opalka
Production/School: FUMI Studio (Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak)
Dialogue language: -
Subtitles language: -



Mother and son are changing places and roles constantly: once, the mother is an adult, sometimes son matures and takes care of suddenly childish mother. The arrangement works fine, until the boy decides to escape from under the skirt of the overprotective mother and start an independent life.

Charles 10:00

France 2017
Directed by: Dominic-Etienne Simard
Screenplay: Dominic-Etienne SIMARD
Animation: Dominic-Etienne SIMARD
Music: Ramachandra Borcar
Dialogue language: No Dialogues



Charles, a little kid with adult-sized problems, must look after his neglectful mom. At school, he’s the target of bullies. To escape the teasing, he journeys into a parallel world, a watery haven populated by frogs.

Bolero Paprika / Boléro Paprika 20:53

France 2017
Directed by: Marc Ménager
Screenplay: Marc Ménager and Nicolas Lemée
Animation: Ignacio de Marco, Teresa Pérez Girau, Patricia Sourdes, David Martin, Marc Ménager
Technique: Sand, puppets
Music: Tomás Jiménez
Production/School: Xbo films
Dialogue language: french, spanish
Subtitles language: english



In France in the 1950s, Diego, the son of Spanish Republicans in exile, witnesses a police roundup targeting his mother and grandfather amongst the last opponents of the Franco regime. Immersed in reminiscing about a history that is still very much alive, Diego will preserve the memory of those who resisted totalitarianism.



Hallowstide 04:17

USA 2017
Directed by: Steve Socki
Screenplay: (none)
Animation: Steve Socki
Technique: 2D Computer & some hand-drawn
Music: Gary Chang
Production/School: Steve Socki Productions
Dialogue language: (none)
Subtitles language: (none)



Dreamy, haunting forms transform, then ascend into a new spiritual world.



The Wayward Kite 07:55

Taiwan 2017
Directed by: Yuting Hsueh
Screenplay: Yuting Hsueh
Animation: Yuting Hsueh
Technique: Computer Animation
Music: Ted Yu
Production/School: Yaju Hsieh
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No subtitles



A little kite breaks its tether, fleeing to the city for a dream. The setbacks and wounds make it grow, change, and realize its real inner goal to fight for.

The Walker / Le Marcheur 11:18

Belgium 2017
Directed by: Frédéric Hainaut
Screenplay: Laurence Baud'huin
Animation: Frédéric Hainaut, Mathieu Labaye, Patrick Martial, Ghania Ouali
Technique: animated drawing, watercolor
Music: Mathieu Labaye
Production/School: Jean-Luc Slock (Camera-etc)
Dialogue language: French
Subtitles language: English



The Walker works in a poultry farm. Disgusted by his despicable work, he gives up and follows the Indignant, diluting his anger in theirs.

Conception: Catie + Jen 04:14

United Kingdom 2018
Directed by: Moth Studio
Animation: Moth Studio, Joe Bichard, Russ Etheridge, Yu Knifeson, Pablo Lozano, Ross Plaskow, Max Taylor, Claudio Salas
Technique: 2D hand-drawn computer animation
Music: Pierre O'Reilly
Production/School: Moth Studio, Margaret Cheatham Williams
Dialogue language: English



"This film was produced as part of the New York Times’ Conception series, a six-part animated series showcasing different real life stories about becoming a Mother. We follow Jen and Catie: two sisters struggling with infertility, an unexpected pregnancy and difficult life decisions. Sisterhood and motherhood meet in this powerful story of love, fear and trust."



Sweet Tooth 01:29

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Hannah Anastasi
Screenplay: Hannah Anastasi
Animation: Hannah Anastasi
Technique: 2D, Hand-drawn on paper, Traditional.
Music: Kevin Macleod
Dialogue language: n/a
Subtitles language: English



Sweet Tooth is an animated Microfilm, with a run time of just under 90 seconds. It features a peculiar doodle nicknamed Crescent the Cat, whose first action, upon being drawn to life, is to devour a large jar of multicoloured candy...

Sola 03:15

Australia 2017
Directed by: Jonathan
Screenplay: Jonathan Nix , Greg Walker
Animation: 2D/3D computer
Technique: Black and white scratch and silouhette
Music: J Walker and Machine Translations
Production/School: Jonathan Nix, Greg Walker
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English



As the world collapses around them, humanity walks on oblivious, compulsively editing selfies and updating profiles