Competition

Short 14

A short interview with Bearington Bear 04:48

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Regan Mott
Screenplay: Regan Mott
Animation: Regan Mott
Music: Connor Mott
Production/School: University of The Arts London
Dialogue language: English (UK)



This short interview features Bearington Bear, the former popular 'toon', who suddenly rose to fame through the rise of animated productions. Bearington starred in such hits as 'Camp Bear' and 'Bearington Bear's No to Swears'. In this interview, we reflect on their career and discuss their comeback to the screen.

Rising waters in underwood springs / Déluge à Sous-Bois-les-Bains 26:00
France 2017
Directed by: Mathieu Auvray

The Best Customer / Cel Mai Bun Client 12:13
Romania 2017
Directed by: Serghei Chiviriga

The Voyage of the Beagle - A galapagos tortoise love story / Potovanje na ladji Beagle - Ljubezen galapaške želve 11:03

Slovenia 2017
Directed by: Jernej Lunder
Screenplay: Jernej Lunder, Sandra Ržen, Maja Dolores Šubic
Animation: Zarja Menart
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Jaka Strajnar
Production/School: Invida
Dialogue language: Slovenian
Subtitles language: English



Adventure ship Beagle is approaching the Galapagos Islands where animals live in peace and harmony. A tortoise couple is laying eggs on a sandy beach, when a finch bird warns them of the upcoming danger – humans. The animals are startled, as they are afraid of the hunting expeditions they know too well. But for the newborn tortoises, the journey will just begin.



Airport 10:35

Switzerland 2017
Directed by: Michaela Müller
Screenplay: Michaela Müller and Aleksandar Battista Ilic
Animation: Michaela Müller
Technique: Paint on glass
Music: Hrvoje Stefotic (Music) and Fa Ventilato (Sound Design)
Production/School: Schick Productions / Kinorama
Dialogue language: no dialogue
Subtitles language: no



In a modern day airport, the flow of passengers is broken by sudden irregularities.

In the beginning was the sea / Au commencement était la mer 10:04
France 2016
Directed by: Charlotte Arene

Into the forest 04:04
France 2017
Directed by: Karolina Chabier



We Are One 02:10

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Laura Franchito
Animation: Puppet animation
Technique: Stop motion
Music: Philip Glass
Production/School: ENO and MA Character Animation Central Saint Martins



We Are One depicts the battles of women in societies dominated by men in power - Hendrik Verwoerd, Harvey Weinstein, Hugh Hefner and Donald Trump.

The Only Option 08:27

USA 2016
Directed by: Owen Roberts
Dialogue language: English



The Only Option is a short animation about a wifi problem on an abandoned island.

Still Here and Everywhere 01:41
USA 2017
Directed by: Peter Whittenberger
Screenplay: Peter Whittenberger
Animation: Peter Whittenberger
Technique: 3D, 2D, still photography, Unity Engine
Music: Peter Whittenberger
Production/School: Peter Whittenberger
Dialogue language: na
Subtitles language: na

Still Here and Everywhere explores the indomitable continuity of time. With or without our individual selves, time marches on. We choose our relationship to this phenomena, but it is an indisputable truth. I find the idea very liberating and I want viewers to see this as something that can be embraced without fear. Everything ends, there is nothing we can do about it, and thats pretty great.


Sisterhood 07:07

Serbia and Montenegro 2018
Directed by: Jelena Prljevic
Screenplay: Jelena Prljevic, Natasa Prljevic
Animation: Jelena Prljevic
Technique: Erasure, Drawing on paper, Cutout
Music: Amir Khosrowpour (Music) and Slobodan Jukic Sloxxx (Sound design)
Dialogue language: English



The animated film Sisterhood uses an abandoned house from childhood as a metaphor of home and stability. The story, written in a form of a dialogue between sisters, as signifiers of past and present, describes an intimate experience of early maturing from a child’s perspective. The bond between sisters freezes time, capturing the emotional transitions that shape the landscape of a dissolving country.


Side 06:04
USA 2017
Directed by: Snow Yunxue Fu
Animation: Snow Yunxue Fu
Music: Daniel Brookman

We have a long-term dilemma for we have a short-term body. The shifting nature of human emotions is like the seaweeds on the bottom of the ocean, floating around according to the different currents passing by. Our love and joy, our betrayal and hates, and many things in between wave within the thoughts and choices we make in our everyday life. One cause for our desire for intimacy is to extend our limited selves. We attempt to know others and to love someone also help to achieve one of the greatest efforts of self-realization. Digital space has a certain stability so much more so than the real space we inhabit. Digital space is a realm that exists in-between life and death while it belongs to neither. Digital space can be treated as neutral. You may choose to attach meaning and thoughts to it, but its nature does not necessarily change. In a way, digital space is rather constant, the little piece of eternity that we can encounter in our everyday modern life.

Marydean Martin Library 00:51
USA 2016
Directed by: Jo Meuris
Animation: Jo Meuris
Technique: Hand-drawn Animation
Dialogue language: English

Promotional video for the Marydean Martin Library at Nevada State College, the first digital library in the state of Nevada.


My Favorite Forehead 03:19

USA 2017
Directed by: John Akre
Screenplay: John Akre
Animation: John Akre
Technique: clay, 2D computer
Music: Marty Brueggemann



Prominent foreheads get in the way of some serious smooching.

The Gift / Hadia 06:07

Turkey 2017
Directed by: Sinem Sakaoglu
Screenplay: Sinem Sakaoglu
Dialogue language: Arabic



Tarek is a 6-year-old boy. He is from Aleppo. He is also a superhero. At least back home he used to be. Now in a new place, he seems to have lost his super powers. Just before his biggest secret mission. This is the story of a little kid discovering that the gift is always inside them no matter where they are.