Competition

Student 2

Hole 06:03

Canada 2018
Directed by: G. Goletski
Screenplay: G. Goletski
Animation: G. Goletski
Technique: 2D Traditional, 2D Digital, 3D Digital, Stop Motion, Paint on glass
Music: G. Goletski, Pale Red
Production/School: Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English



Mo is an adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder. They spend a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.

Fried Taro / 炸芋丸 04:51

Taiwan 2018
Directed by: An Wu Li
Screenplay: AN WU LI
Dialogue language: Chinese



A girl Chiou-Chiou and her family go to grandma’s house for lunch. Grandma is happy until she finds grandpa is drinking. She is angry at her husband. Chiou-Chiou asks grandma if she could eat the sweets”fried taro”before lunch. Grandma get furious with her husband, and slap on Chiou-Chiou’s face, even though she is regret immediately. Chiou-Chiou is upset. She leaves grandma’s house and goes back home herself. At mid-night, Chiou-Chiou find that her parents are not at home. Without other choices, she runs out to grandma’s house for help...

Prey 05:59

USA 2018
Directed by: Sun, Jing
Animation: Sun, Jing
Technique: 2D,Cutout, 3D Background
Music: Shuangyi Liu
Production/School: California State University, Los Angeles
Dialogue language: English



As an ancient eastern proverb described: “a mantis hunting the cicada unknowingly falls prey to the eyes of an oriole.”— the most vivid view of natural cycle in human societies is best seen through lens of karma on a microscopic scale. 本片取材于古谚语 “螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后”，讲述了一个关于人类社会与自然循环的故事。


Synchronicity 03:47
United Kingdom 2018
Directed by: Michelle Brand
Animation: Michelle Brand
Technique: 2D Digital Animation, Frame by Frame
Music: Vincenzo Di Francesco
Production/School: Royal College of Arts, London
Dialogue language: No Dialogue
Subtitles language: No Dialogue

People come, people go - Yet everyone is moving in the same direction. We all are sharing something that we are unaware of, creating one big picture we are unable to see.
Balance 03:36

Singapore 2018
Directed by: Raymond Limantara Sutisna
Dialogue language: English



Balance is a 2D animated short film about a boy and a girl fighting for painting space, both refusing to give in until the mess they create goes out of control. They then realise the only way out is to work together and strive for coexistence.


Carnival Entropic 05:23
USA 2018
Directed by: Eleanor Louise Anderson

A young boy attempts to join the sideshow at a traveling carnival, unaware of the dangers that lay ahead. What he discovers when he enters the fairgrounds is that the showman is hiding a macabre secret.
Hounds 05:47

Israel 2018
Directed by: Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen
Screenplay: Ido Shapira, Amit Cohen
Production/School: Bezalel Academy Of Art and Design



The life of a dog, trained to act as human, changes when a pack of Hounds gathers around his house.

Rhizoma 03:00

Belgium 2018
Directed by: Santiago Pérez Rodríguez



Hounds and transmission towers. Frequencies of flesh and electric howls. A disturbing atmosphere where the animal, the organic and the industrial blend.

Poetika Anima 05:14

Slovakia 2018
Directed by: Kriss Sagan
Screenplay: Kriss Sagan
Production/School: FTF VŠMU



Poetika Anima is a non-narrative animated film based on a lyrical poem created by the synthesis of director’s diary notes. Countless symbols and visual metaphors, along with the original atmospheric music by Frederic Robinson, create a story rich with interpretations about a woman who transforms her disheartenment within a fluid time and space.

Alef b'Tamuz / א' בתמוז 05:58

Israel 2018
Directed by: Yael Reisfeld
Screenplay: Yael Reisfeld
Production/School: Department of Screen based Arts Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design
Dialogue language: Hebrew



Three destitute pilgrims experience a strange night in the old Jewish cemetery in Zefat, when they are possessed by souls from the 16th century.

Barbaer 02:24

Switzerland 2018
Directed by: Luzia Schifferle, Tobias Speiser
Technique: 3D CGI
Music: Riccardo Venanzi
Production/School: Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst
Dialogue language: No Dialogue



Viking chief Ulf has lost his desire to be a Viking and his best friend Berth tries to reignite his passion for the axe. After some failed attempts Berth accidentally inspires Ulf to pick up a new occupation. The chief opens up a hair saloon for his fellow Viking warriors and hence they all plunge into battle perfectly styled.

Love Me, Fear Me 06:06

Germany 2018
Directed by: Veronica Solomon
Screenplay: Veronica Solomon
Animation: Veronica Solomon
Technique: Claymation
Music: Dascha Dauenhauer
Production/School: Veronica Solomon
Dialogue language: no dialogues
Subtitles language: no subtitles



"What would you be willing to do for them to love you? " LOVE ME, FEAR ME is a dance metaphor about the roles we play and the shapes we take, about the stages we chose, the audience we try to impress and the price of acceptance.



Corps Exquis 04:34

Korea 2018
Directed by: Kaylee SooHyun Lee
Music: Danny Hynds



A ballerina lives through her daily life, dreaming of the spotlight.

Hedge 06:05

USA 2018
Directed by: Amanda Bonaiuto
Production/School: California Institute of the Arts



A family visits a funeral home.

R.I.S.E Pathfinder 09:10

France 2018
Directed by: Chloe Dumoulin, Clementine Dudreuilh, Alexandre Fruitet, Megane Nousse, Gabriel Sepulchre
Screenplay: Chloe Dumoulin
Animation: Alexandre Fruitet, Megane Nousse
Technique: 3D computer
Music: Olivier Michelot
Production/School: Franck Petitta
Dialogue language: no dialogues



In the 70's, a science team has created a robot named Pathfinder. Its mission is to calculate the distance between the Earth and the end of the Universe. [Please download stills from: http://www.studio-wasia.com/promofilms/menu.html]

Journey 08:41

Slovakia 2018
Directed by: Marek Jasaň
Screenplay: Marek Jasaň
Production/School: Juraj Krasnohorsky, Michal Podhradsky



Journey is the story of a man, who daydreams entering the minds of people around him, stealing their dreams, desires and personal experience in order to fill his own, empty mind.

Concrete 07:34

Switzerland 2018
Directed by: Pirmin Bieri, Aira Joana, Luca Struchan, Nicolas Roth
Screenplay: Aira Joana, Luca Struchen, Nicolas Roth, Pirmin Bieri
Animation: Aira Joana, Luca Struchen, Nicolas Roth, Pirmin Bieri
Music: Zimmermann Rahel
Production/School: HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts



Troubled by his own reoccurring transformations, a restless backpacker seeks his place in the world. Through a mysterious encounter in a concrete building in the midst of a barren swampland, he hopes to have finally found such a place.

The Chimney 04:26

United States of America 2018
Directed by: Mengyao Zhang
Screenplay: Mengyao Zhang, Xi Wu
Production/School: Mengyao Zhang
Dialogue language: English



"The Chimney" is a 3D animated short film. It tells a story about a cat-like aliens creature, Philip, who lives on a cold planet where all the beings live like zombies. However, Philip evokes his consciousness and his distinguishing characteristic is not allowed in his world. One day, when all other creatures walking on their way to destroy themselves, Philip realized something went wrong. Therefore, he decided to run away from there. The film tells a story about independence and freedom as well as sends a message of respecting the differences between individuals.

Everyflower 08:36

China 2018
Directed by: Can Yuanqing
Screenplay: 蔡源青
Animation: 蔡源青
Technique: 2D
Music: CHEN Xinkang
Production/School: China Academy of art
Dialogue language: Chinese
Subtitles language: Chinese/English



A mentally ill girl who ran away from hom and tortured by memory . oneday ,she came back home，but only to find that her family had moved away。its a story about the family problems influent on teenagers life。

Pet Man 04:25

Iran 2017
Directed by: Marzieh Abrarpaydar
Screenplay: Marzieh Abrarpaydar
Animation: Marzieh Abrarpaydar
Technique: digital hand-drawn animation
Music: Behrooz Shahamat
Production/School: Marzieh Abrarpaydar& Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC)
Dialogue language: English



Pet Man is an animated short about an animal dealer gone asleep in his shop and had a nightmare finding himself caught in an animal cage, then escaped to seek rescues for animals but every time faced with an obstacle... . At last, He awoke from the nightmare but still feeling himself surrounded with ambiguity and fear of those animals.