Competition

Student 2

Days 03:38

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Sofia El Khyari
Screenplay: Sofia El Khyari
Production/School: Royal College of Art
Dialogue language: Arabic, French



Three generations of Moroccan women exchange feelings and anecdotes while preparing the traditional ceremony of Eid Al Adha.

Travelogue Tel Aviv 06:00
Switzerland 2017
Directed by: Samuel Patthey
Screenplay: Samuel Patthey
Animation: Samuel Patthey, Claudia Wirth, Valentine Moser, Hannes Oehen, Alice Müller, Estelle Gattlen
Technique: Samuel Patthey
Music: Julien Gobet & Patrick Overney
Production/School: HSLU Art and Design
Dialogue language: -
Subtitles language: -

A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself to this contrasted environnement.
Not The Same River. Not The Same Man. 04:19

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Michelle Brand
Production/School: Michelle Brand
Dialogue language: English



A fisherman takes his boat out on the river. While he and his surroundings are in a constant flow, the viewer observes the passing of time, watching everything go through movement and change. In an ever-flowing cycle, things come to be, change, evolve, and pass on....



I Am Sex - Alon Eder (music video) / אני מין - אלון עדר 04:08

Israel 2017
Directed by: Yuval Haker
Screenplay: Yuval Haker
Animation: 2D
Technique: Digital
Music: Alon Eder and Michal Geva
Production/School: Yuval Haker
Dialogue language: Hebrew
Subtitles language: English



Graduation film at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
An animated music video for the song 'I Am Sex' by Israeli musician Alon Eder. Animated in a constant dynamic pace, the style mixes a childlike line with classic animation principles. The song, recorded on an 80's Casio organ, deals with sex, anxiety, love and intimacy in a raw and honest way.
Film budget: $0



UnSketched / DesTraçado 09:20

Brazil 2017
Directed by: Leonardo Cantú
Screenplay: Nayara Xavier
Animation: Leonardo Cantú
Technique: CG Animation
Music: João Gabriel Rodrigues
Production/School: School of Communications and Arts
Dialogue language: No Dialogue
Subtitles language: No Subtitles



Beatriz, an architect who lives around "The Big Worm" in São Paulo, is trying to work on a sunny weekend. With an unhappy coincidence, her drawings start to become reality in a magical way, so Beatriz decides to change her future.



Toymaker 07:04

USA 2017
Directed by: Nellie Robinson, Barbara Meier
Animation: 3D computer animation
Music: Ben Nacar
Production/School: Brown University | Rhode Island School of Design



A toymaker’s five-year-old daughter sees a carnival in a picture book and wants to go. The toymaker can’t take her, so instead starts building a miniature, detailed recreation of the picture book scenes.



Broken Pieces 07:37

USA 2017
Directed by: Elif Kaner
Screenplay: Elif Kaner, Elly Nemtsov
Animation: Elif Kaner, Elly Nemtsov, Sam Ortiz
Technique: 3D
Music: Daniel Siper
Production/School: Screaming Goat Animation Studios / Drexel University
Dialogue language: English



Broken Pieces follows the emotional and psychological journey of a mother grieving the lives of her deceased children.



Missing 04:00

Israel 2017
Directed by: Shai Getzoff
Music: Daniel Markovich



Following a woman’s journey in which she loses all what she had and who she was, “Missing”, explores the meaning of memory, life and love.



What To Do When The Dead Come Back 06:45

United Kingdom 2016
Directed by: Joe Dias
Screenplay: Joe Dias
Animation: 2d
Technique: after effects 2d puppet
Music: audio by Mark Holme
Production/School: Leeds Beckett univeristy
Dialogue language: English



The dead rule the earth. People fight and struggle to survive, but one man chooses to be human, rather than a survivor.



Where the Sunflowers Grow 11:05

USA 2017
Directed by: Parker Chatham and Jarrod Chatham
Screenplay: Parker Chatham and Jarrod Chatham
Animation: Parker Chatham and Jarrod Chatham
Music: Parker Chatham
Dialogue language: English



In a post apocalyptic world, plagued by radiation poisoning and pollution, a young boy finds an atypical friendship with a lone sunflower.



Salary Serf 02:26

USA 2017
Directed by: Baya Bae
Animation: 3d animation
Technique: Cinema 4D
Music: Lasse Aagaard
Production/School: School of Visual Arts
Dialogue language: English



“Salary Serf” is a short, 3D motion graphics animation about a chameleon named BAYA who works at a huge pharmaceutical company called “PAIN”. What looks like a model corporation on the outside, is pretty much an employee's’ torture chamber on the inside. Here the more misery you can withstand, the more money and honor you’ll receive. Caught in this degrading system, BAYA eventually makes his exit into a sometimes mystical, moral, psychological landscape before he reaches the end of his anti-hero’s journey.

Flower Found! / Bloem? 06:46

Netherlands 2017
Directed by: Jorn Leeuwerink
Screenplay: Jorn Leeuwerink
Animation: Jorn Leeuwerink
Technique: 2D computer, paint on paper
Music: Bryan Teoh
Production/School: HKU University of the Arts Utrecht
Dialogue language: none



A beautiful red flower stands in the middle of the forest. When it suddenly disappears Mouse is very sad. Bird takes Mouse around the forest to search for the flower and other animals join in too. Then they think they've found the flower and things quickly get out of hand.



Amnesia 09:34

Austria 2017
Directed by: Shadab Shayegan
Screenplay: Shadab Shayegan
Animation: Shadab Shayegan
Technique: Stop motion - 2D digital Hand drawn
Music: Ines Vorreiter
Production/School: University for applied Art Vienna, Austria, Cash for Culture organisation
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English



After years a being finds out that every thing that s/he has done was based on His/Her memory and the memory of the whole world and try to delete his/her memory to see what's happen.



Attraction 04:32

United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Emily Scaife
Screenplay: Emily scaife
Animation: Emily scaife
Technique: Mixed media
Music: Ben Bell and Emily Scaife
Production/School: Royal college of art
Dialogue language: n/a
Subtitles language: n/a



Urges in the undergrowth, erupting fungal fantasies, bursting botanicals; the dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe. A mixed media, experimental animation imagining attraction and pleasure of insects, and seduction methods of the plants and fungi that beckon.



Home Delivery 05:29

USA 2017
Directed by: Steven Baltay
Production/School: Pratt



A homeless man receives a new house through a comedic mistake.