Competition

Short 15

Kidding kid with dad 02:53

France 2016
Directed by: Lou Inglebert
Screenplay: Lou Inglebert
Production/School: Lou Inglebert
Dialogue language: English



(rotoscope video) A father loses face in front of his 3 year-old, up in the air on a raised carousel. Hard to see the incident… not so hard actually. Has dad just crashed into his childhood??

Disturbing Angels / Déranger les anges 04:47

France 2016
Directed by: Lou Inglebert
Screenplay: Lou Inglebert
Animation: Lou Inglebert & Simon Kobayashi
Production/School: Let's go films
Dialogue language: English



Two girlfriends argue at night. A girl painted on a wall stares at them and get in touch with one of them while a weird passerby tries to arbitrate the quarrel.

Going Ape 04:30

France 2017
Directed by: nicolas lesaffre, charles blanchard
Screenplay: nicolas lesaffre, charles blanchard
Production/School: Lily Leung



How apes will behave if they have access to social media and internet ? The story begins with a black monolith waking up an ape when landing in the stone age world. Through the monolith amazing window our protagonist will discover how his own kind have colonized the earth in a parallel world? Going Ape is a 2017 Nikopicto production.



Purple Dreams 02:14

Turkey 2017
Directed by: Murat Sayginer
Screenplay: Murat Sayginer
Production/School: Murat Sayginer
Dialogue language: English



A short animated film about the transition from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius.


Nawrocki - Fałszywe wschody słońca 03:51
Poland 2017
Directed by: Grażyna Rigall, Konrad Kulczyński
Screenplay: Grażyna Rigall, Konrad Kulczyński
Animation: Grażyna Rigall, Konrad Kulczyński
Technique: Cut-out, stop-motion animation
Music: Grzegorz Nawrocki
Production/School: It's an independent production.
Dialogue language: Polish
Subtitles language: English

"Nawrocki - Fałszywe wschody słońca / The false sunrises", is an animated music video. A poetic vision of the world in the times of post-truth.
From beyond the grave, my grandfather told me why I am alive today / Ukki kertoi haudan takaa, miksi minä elän 03:35

Finland 2017
Directed by: Otso Alanko
Screenplay: Otso Alanko
Technique: Stop Motion
Production/School: Otso Alanko
Dialogue language: Finnish
Subtitles language: English



20 years after the death of his grandfather, a grandchild finds an audio cassette in the attic of his grandparents house, on which the grandfather tells him how one small decision could have changed everything. From beyond the grave, my grandfather told me why I am alive today is a documentary short film utilizing the means of stop-motion animation. In the film, the director's grandfather tells a horrific true story from the Battle of Tornio at the end of World War II. A story of how one decision made by one individual can affect later generations, not to mention hearing about it 20 years after the death of the individual.

Weasel / Podlasica 11:35

Slovenia 2016
Directed by: Timon Leder
Screenplay: Timon Leder, Kaja Balog
Production/School: Jure Vizjak



A hungry Weasel attacks a flock of birds living on a last standing tree. The flock in the treetop is trying to keep the tree in balance, while persistent Weasel tries to climb up its trunk. Fragile balance of the tree is in danger and Weasel’s stomach gets louder. It manages to climb into a trunk and induces panic and fear in the treetop. But then a catastrophe turns into something completely unexpected.

A War to End No Wars 05:01

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: R Coggins
Screenplay: R Coggins
Production/School: R Coggins
Dialogue language: English



A War to End No Wars, is a stop-motion animated short following the life of a British Soldier called Tommy Atkins during his time in the trenches of the First World War.



Gif me that food 02:20

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Emi Tse (emi & the veggies)
Animation: Emi Tse (emi & the veggies)
Technique: 2d digital
Music: Harm Esterhuizen (Zing Audio)
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No dialogue



GIF ME THAT FOOD (Japan & Taiwan) is a compilation of bizarre food monsters celebrating a taste of delicious Asian flavors in a fun and humorous way. Every food monster is inspired by a street food or food product in Japan and Taiwan, and is created with a unique charm and personality. The animation was directed and animated by London based animator Emi Tse (emi & the veggies), and mainly comprised hand drawn frame by frame animation. The sound was designed by Harm Esterhuizen (Zing Audio), a young talent based in Pretoria. Director's note: Don't watch this on an empty stomach! For enquiries, commissions or just to say hi: emiandtheveggies.com emiandtheveggies@gmail.com Instagram: @emiandveggies Twitter: @emiandveggies harm@zing-audio.com Instagram: @zing_audio Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/zingaudio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zingaudio/

Looper - Farfisa Song introducing Mustard & Ketchup 03:13

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Iain Gardner
Screenplay: Iain Gardner
Animation: Iain Gardner
Technique: 2D
Music: Looper
Production/School: Iain Gardner
Dialogue language: English



Mustard and Ketchup are tasked to create a music video on a very tight budget


A Message For Brazey 01:51
USA 2017
Directed by: Jared D. Weiss
Screenplay: Jared D. Weiss
Animation: Jared D. Weiss
Technique: Traditional, Flash/Photoshop
Production/School: Jared D. Weiss
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English

Brazey gets a phone call.


Margarit and the Monster 09:32

Bulgaria 2017
Directed by: Nayden Nikolov
Screenplay: Nayden Nikolov
Animation: Nayden Nikolov
Technique: 2D, hand drawn
Music: Denitza Seraphim, Maxim Stoimenov, Mihail Yosifov
Production/School: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova / Activist38
Dialogue language: Bulgarian
Subtitles language: English



A tale about a little boy, who has to overcome his fears, ingrained by his grandmother, in pursuit of his first love.

To Be 06:00

Denmark 2017
Directed by: Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Screenplay: Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Animation: Farzaneh Omidvarnia
Technique: Puppet Animation
Music: Sassan Mohebbi
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No subtitle



“To Be” is about a whole chunk of human society being stranded, from unborn fetus to the decrepit, seeking a venue whence they can establish a living, braving perils on this mission the lesser of which they wouldn't dare face in their home country. It is not about weathering a storm and coming to safety, it is about storming one unfriendly climate after the next. The question is: what it takes "to be"? This short movie is an attempt to answer this question, or in other words to establish whether it is better to stay put rather than brave the hardship of a migrant's life. Is a good part of humanity entrapped in forced hardship befallen their homelands by long past events and bequeathed by their ancestors? In “To Be”, we tried to pose these questions, and we used dolls to pose them. Dolls have inherent movement restriction, and the dolls used are not those particularly suited to animation; more importantly, dolls are lifeless, they don't possess a living, and this conveys some resemblance to the state of those who have "left" but have not "arrived" and are not "settled" yet; those who are in flight from chaos and soon find themselves in chaotic flight; and even if they survive it, there is no guarantee that the asylums they newly secured would secure a living for them.

Nocturne / Nachtstück 05:19

Germany 2016
Directed by: Anne Breymann
Screenplay: Anne Breymann
Animation: Anne Breymann
Technique: Stop Motion
Music: Adam Pultz Melbye, Paul Stapleton
Production/School: Anne Breymann



At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost at stake.

Big Brown's TV Slap-Down! 01:00

USA 2016
Directed by: Cable Hardin
Animation: Stop motion



The Shape Peeps are always excited to make new friends.

Birth -The Dance of Life- 28:17

Japan 2017
Directed by: Aria Wakami, Bak Ikea, Hirofumi Ohashi
Screenplay: Bak Ikeda, Kaho Hamabe, Haruko Murase
Production/School: Hirofumi Ohashi
Dialogue language: Japanese



There are as many births and child delivery stories as there are people. This is a documentary animation on the very beginning and the mystery of life, told from the point of view of mother,father and daughter. Based on childbirth experiences told by several person, the film will have each story animated by a different animation filmmaker. Three women's birth stories will be adapted into three chapters, from night 1 to night 3.

Empty View 18:06

Iran 2017
Directed by: Ali Zare Ghanatnowi
Screenplay: Ali Zare Ghanatnowi, Mohammad Hadi Sobhanian
Animation: Ali Zehtb Zade, Bahareh Pishahang, Mohsen Jafari, Ali Emamzade
Technique: 2D, 3D, Rotoscope
Music: Mohammad Reza Aligholi
Production/School: Ali Zare Ghanatnowi
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: No Dialouge



Mother keeps a look out for her son to return home from war. She knits him a pair of gloves remembering how her son rubbed his cold hands together on the wintry morning he left. The war goes on. Mother waits. She unravels the gloves and knits them over and over again. When their small home is bombed, the gloves burn into ashes. Mother sits atop the rubble, plucks her white hair one by one and knits the gloves with her hair. Finally spring arrives and the war ends. Mother hears the sound of military boots nearing. She gathers all the strength left in her and walks down the stairs with anticipation.