Competition

Short 1

Hidden 06:06

Not Specified 2018
Directed by: Heejoo Kim
Screenplay: Margaret Lockwood-lass
Production/School: Heejoo Kim



Hidden is an experimental animated documentary film intended to reveal the hidden physical and emotional crisis of elder abuse by presenting a personal experience of impairment and exploitation based on real stories of people with dementia. While physical abuse is the most talked about type of abuse in elder abuse, this film demonstrates more subtle forms of caregiver neglect and self-abuse due to fear or loss of confidence. It also goes beyond the symptoms of the problem to include a happy ending, when the main character discovers that her friendships and experiences are more important than her belongings or her memory loss.

Flossenburg 06:30

Not Specified 2017
Directed by: Heejoo Kim
Screenplay: Heather Elliot-Famularo
Production/School: Heejoo Kim



Based on one of Philip Markowicz's stories of survival during the Holocaust, his transport to a concentration camp in Flossenburg, Germany.

Thatha's Secret 08:30

India 2018
Directed by: Sharanya Ramesh
Screenplay: Tanya Agarwala, Sharanya Ramesh, V S Kumar (Tamil)
Production/School: V S Ramesh, Mala Ramesh
Dialogue language: Tamil



Every summer, Arya and her sister Tara spend their holidays at their grandfather’s forest home. And no summer holiday is complete without their customary camping trip and their grandfather’s (thatha) stories under the open night sky. But this year thatha’s story has a few unexpected twists that could change Arya profoundly.

Where Am I Going? / 當一個人 15:00

Taiwan 2018
Directed by: Huang Yun-Sian, Tsai Yi-Chin
Screenplay: Huang Yun-Sian
Production/School: Hsieh Pei-Wen
Dialogue language: Chinese



Have you ever been curious about how an old man, who is ignored by family and society, starts his each day? The old man goes to mend window screen by his bike. He passes through busy streets, buildings under construction, an evening market and finally the MAZU Temple. In such an era, what kinds of scenery, smells and sounds surround him? December 15th in the lunar calendar, is the day all Gods go to have a rest and stop handling people’s wishes. Could all the ups and downs of his life attribute to calms on this day?

The Blue from Heaven 03:39

United Kingdom 2019
Directed by: Suzie Hanna
Screenplay: Stevie Smith
Production/School: Suzie Hanna
Dialogue language: English



Glenda Jackson provides the voice of poet Stevie Smith in this animated interpretation of her extraordinary 1950's poem 'The Blue from Heaven'. Suzie Hanna has adapted and animated the poet's own drawings to communicate her rueful, wistful, comic, and melancholy themes with music and sound design by Phil Archer.

Humra. Srories about Human Rights 04:45

Russia 2019
Directed by: Konstantin Komardin
Screenplay: Heehoos Jah
Animation: no
Music: Ilya Chistyakov, Mikhail Ostrovsky, Petr Tikhonov, German Mamaev
Dialogue language: Russian
Subtitles language: English



This educational series is based on the animated film “Planet HUMRA. A Story about Humanz Rights”. It reveals the essential aspects necessary for the understanding of the concept of human rights. The main characters Cheggi, Yukka and Pankrat discuss what human rights are, why are they needed, and who should ensure them. The educational episode 2 continues the action of the animation film “Planet HUMRA. A Story about Humanz Rights”. It broadly shows how in the course of history, even the most despotic power must impose restrictions on its actions.The main characters learn that human rights regulate vertical relations between unequal forces, such as government and the individual. The series also touches the concept of majority and minority groups.

Ghosts 04:29

United Kingdom 2019
Directed by: Michael Hughes
Screenplay: Michael Hughes
Production/School: Tony Presley
Dialogue language: English



A short film about people who were important at one time but have become ghost-like figures who live in the past and memories.

My Generation 08:04

France 2018
Directed by: Ludovic Houplain
Screenplay: Mirwaïs Ahmadzaï, Ludovic Houplain
Production/School: H5, 50/50 Productions
Dialogue language: English, German



As the pilot of My Generation, his new short animation film, Ludovic Houplain surely took a look back to the path taken in the rear view mirror.  In 2009, with his first short movie, Logorama, the director and co-founder of H5 depicts a city (Los Angeles) entirely made of logos with a whole population of brand characters. A first attempt that has happened to be a masterpiece: Logorama has been granted with an Oscar for best short film in 2010 and a César in 2011. In 2015, he extends the Logorama experience releasing the prophecy of a dehumanized world with his short 3D film Money Time. This world is ruled by machines. After having destroyed life on earth, they are starting to wreck the space. This was the first opportunity for Ludovic Houplain to collaborate with Mirwaïs (Taxi Girl, Madonna...) who created the original soundtrack. In 2018, based on an original idea by Mirwaïs, My Generation shows Ludovic Houplain’s apocalyptic vision of the modern world and sends an insurrection manual to the new generation.  From a deadlock to an hypothetic future, My Generation is a POV shot, from a mysterious vehicle rolling backwards on a wide highway and driving through every great plagues of our time materialized by amazing interconnected theme parks: art, big data, sports, religion, sex, politics and finance. Whether it is by Jeff Koons’ Baloon dogs, Wall Street bull or even Donald Trump’s election, the public is overwhelmed by the immensity of a reality that can be displayed on a smartphone’s screen. How to stop this continuous flow of information? How to breath when stuck under the avalanche? The answer is at the end of the road in this pop and hybrid animation film where one can find Walt Disney Mickey Mouse, Jamie Hewlett’s Tank Girl or even Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira. From Jérôme Bosch to Jack Kirby there were only a few steps to take. My Generation is the third part of a work in progress and is presented in three different variants: an 8 minutes short animated film with a soundtrack by Mirwaïs, a music video by Mirwaïs giving a foretaste of his next album and the trigger of a travelling installation that gathers many different artists around My Generation.   Driving backwards in history, alongside Ludovic Houplain and Mirwaïs, it will be impossible not to change perspectives. This road trip will lead to ignition.

Mercurio 10:00

Italy 2018
Directed by: Michele Bernardi
Screenplay: Michele Bernardi
Animation: Michele Bernardi
Technique: 2D, Rotoschope
Music: Luca D'Alberto
Production/School: Michele Bernardi
Dialogue language: No dialogues
Subtitles language: No subtitles



Through his passions that link him to his childhood, a young man manages to accept the unavoidable human condition’s rules. This way, he escapes the physical and mental alienation of the fascist dictatorship and gains absolute freedom.

Love Story 10:00

Belgium 2018
Directed by: Laura Ibáñez López
Screenplay: Laura, Ibáñez López
Animation: Laura, Ibáñez López
Technique: 2D, Cut-outs, Paint on Glass, Photocopies, Photos
Music: Kobe Boon
Production/School: Laura, Ibáñez López
Dialogue language: Spanish
Subtitles language: English



My grandparents lived a peaceful routine their whole life. My grandfather died nine years ago. My grandmother keeps living in their house. Through her memories I try to reconstruct the life they had together.


White Lobster / Langosta Blanca 09:00
Mexico 2019
Directed by: Paul Gómez López
Screenplay: Paul Gómez López, Eddy Guifarro
Animation: Paul Gómez López
Technique: 2D, Claymation, Puppets, Stop Motion
Music: Gerardo Enciso
Production/School: Gonzalo Estrada
Dialogue language: No dialogues
Subtitles language: No subtitles

3 humble fishermen surviving in a unpropitious sea, today they will find a misterious white lobster that will show them their deepest wills and dreams, but also can drag them to a dark path of perdition and greed.
Feminam 02:00
Belgium 2017
Directed by: Marijke de Belie
Screenplay: Marijke De Belie
Animation: Marijke De Belie
Technique: Others
Music: Marijke De Belie
Production/School: Marijke De Belie
Dialogue language: English, Spanish
Subtitles language: Mute

The movie FEMINAM, Latin for woman is an autonomous visual work by Marijke De Belie in which the artist plays with representations of women throughout the centuries. Still it has not become a scientifical chronological enumeration of all female icons but more a flood of images like the one we experience in our REM sleep. For this she uses a direct animation technique. With a black aquarel pencil on a white panel of wood she registers the drawing process itself, in an authentic and uncomplicated drawing style.

The future we lost 08:08
China 2018
Directed by: Wenqian Gao
Screenplay: Gao Wenqian
Animation: Gao Wenqian
Technique: 2D, Ink on Paper
Music: Jiao Yusi
Production/School: Xue Bing
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English

Just as humans today imagine the world a century in the future, ancient humans also envisioned themselves in future scenarios where we are now today. There is no way for us to know whether the visions of the future can be realized, but we can predict it by referring to the discrepancy between past imagination by ancient people and the realities of today which were used to be future for them.I reviewed different versions about 21st century by ancient people in a differing centuries from the following points:architecture, technology, urban design and lifestyle.I constructed a parallel world according to what the ancient people have failed to accomplish and abandoned designs.

Biowaste Reserve / Bioabfallreservat 16:09
Germany 2018
Directed by: Larissa Sharina
Screenplay: Larissa Sharina
Animation: Larissa Sharina
Technique: Puppets, Stop Motion
Music: Oleh Gultz
Production/School: Illuklasse HGB Leipzig
Dialogue language: German
Subtitles language: English

Awaking in the operation room, the protagonist gets know, that his creator is partially a guinea pig. At the some institution, situated on the platform in North of Pacific, he meets closed society, which exists absolutely isolated from mankind. With perception of adult and without any personal memories, he tried understand what happens around: Who is he? What kind of creations surrounds him? Why is he on probation? And generally — which aims follows the Biowaste Reserve.