Competition

Short 13

Slavery 05:03

Hungary 2017
Directed by: LittnerBudapest (George Ligeti)
Screenplay: LittnerBudapest
Animation: LittnerBudapest
Technique: 2D drawing
Music: LittnerBudapest
Production/School: HumanRobot Ltd.



This animated short is about a middleclass family: work, life and balance. Holiday, traffic jam, gardenparty and a secret in the father's life. He uses a kid to relieve his stress. But there is an unexpected twist in the story. There are 40 million children in Slavery (victims of markets for human organs, prostitutes, mobile-telephone makers, beggars).

Eden 06:00

France 2017
Directed by: Julie caty
Screenplay: Julie Caty
Animation: Julie Caty
Music: Portron Portron Lopez
Production/School: Sacrebleu Productions
Dialogue language: n/a
Subtitles language: n/a



E and A are bored to death in the Garden of Eden. One night, they run off in God's cabriolet. Early in the morning, God notices their absence. Furious, he summons Dinosaur, his henchman, and sends him to get the fugitives. E and A eventually reach the city, ready to live big! But Dinosaur is after them and soon finds them in a restaurant having a mountain of burgers. Then, slowly, he pulls a gun out of his pocket and shoots.

Midnight's Garden / Le Jardin de minuit 10:28

France 2016
Directed by: Benoît Chieux
Screenplay: Ron Dyens
Animation: Titouan Bordeau, Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo, Laurent Moing
Music: Valentin Portron, Marceau Portron
Production/School: Sacrebleu Productions
Dialogue language: n/a
Subtitles language: n/a



The moon is shining, a young couple is playing in the forest. Their game leads them into an unknown garden, in the middle of a clearing. Unaware of the danger, the young lovers sink into the meanders of the midnight's garden. Little by little, they are overwhelmed by a captivating charm and they lost their way in the mysterious maze. Will they be able to break the spell that keeps them prisoners?

La Paloma 02:20
Germany 2016
Directed by: Valentin Oellers
Animation: Valentin Oellers
Technique: 3D Animation
Production/School: University of Art and Design Offenbach

La Paloma (spanish " the dove ") is a story about the lightness of being. Delicious and light thoughts arise, filling the air and resisting gravity and inertia.


RIPrivacy 04:24

USA 2017
Directed by: aycan basar
Animation: aycan basar
Music: theo nogueira
Production/School: academy of art university



A satirical humor of our very much connected life.

Pining 02:15
United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Caibei Cai

Our Daughter is a Necromancer 03:54

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Elitsa Nedyalkova
Technique: 2D Digital
Production/School: Falmouth University



A young couple finds out that parenting isn't all sunshine and rainbows... but perhaps not all doom and gloom either!



Charlie 01:04

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Doreen A Edemafaka
Animation: Puppet animation
Technique: Stop motion
Production/School: The Children’s Society and MA Character Animation Central Saint Martins
Dialogue language: English



A young man re-enacts his role as a young carer for his mother. By morphing through some of his daily routine. He is overwhelmed by the fast paces of the changes, of his characters. He struggles to keep up but perseveres till the end.

Martin Krpan 24:10
Slovenia 2017
Directed by: Nejc Saje

Bye, Bye Comrade 12:42

Germany 2017
Directed by: Tianlin Xu
Screenplay: Tianlin Xu
Animation: Katsiaryna Kryzhanouskaya, Di Yang, Feng Li, Daniel Schulze-Niehof
Technique: Stop-Motion
Music: Timon Wawreczko
Production/School: Treibsand Film
Dialogue language: Chinese
Subtitles language: English



Taotao is 10 years old as the esteemed comrade General Kuang passes away. Now, through the declared national mourning, her political correctness is put to the test. We follow the young Tao Tao through her initial loneliness and her subsequent struggle to be with the collective as she finds herself under unbearable pressure when all the children in her classroom start crying over a man they have never met. When eventually Taotao succeeds in acting like, what is considered, a normal pupil, the grown-ups manage to confuse her yet again. The story is based on the childhood experiences of Chinese director Tianlin Xu.

The Big Adventure of a Little Line / La Grande Histoire D'Un Petit Trait 07:27
France 2016
Directed by: Antoine Robert

Contact 07:53
Spain 2017
Directed by: Alessandro Novelli

Robhot 06:07
France 2017
Directed by: Donato Sansone

Reruns 14:15
Netherlands 2017
Directed by: Rosto

Knockstrike 05:25
Spain 2017
Directed by: Genis Rigol, Pau Anglada & Marc Torices

AstroLOLogy 02:00
Malaysia 2017
Directed by: Jade Lee



Honesty 02:09

Canada 2017
Directed by: JC Little
Technique: 2D Digital
Dialogue language: English



When PickleWeasel meets someone he likes, he decides to cut some flowers to give as a gift. But, when he discovers the flowers belong to someone else, he finds himself in a pickle. Should he pretend he didn't cut them? Run away? A charming animated story about how to listen to your conscience, even when it's difficult.