Competition

Short 3

Bach-Hông 18:00

France 2019
Directed by: Elsa Duhamel
Screenplay: Elsa Duhamel
Animation: Camille Chao, Viviane Boyer-Araujo, Leonard Bismuth, Eva Lusbaronian, Marcel Tigchelaar
Technique: 2D computer and ink on paper
Music: Christophe Heral
Production/School: Sophie Fallot
Dialogue language: French
Subtitles language: English



Jeanne was born in 1959 in Saigon. She enjoyed a privileged lifestyle, protected from the war between North and South Vietnam. Fascinated by horses, Jeanne rode a mare called Bach-Hông. But on April 30th 1975, the communists stormed the city.

Bela 04:52

Australia 2019
Directed by: Nick Simpson
Screenplay: Nick Simpson
Production/School: Nick Simpson
Dialogue language: English



The biography of Bela Julesz, Hungary’s most famous visual neuroscientist, creates a disturbance in the tedious lives of two isolated people.

Homo erecTattoos 08:18
Korea 2020
Directed by: Tae-woo KIM
Screenplay: Tae-woo KIM
Animation: Tae-woo KIM, Hye-young HAM, Yu-jin JEONG, Sung-won YOUN, Miri Bae, Youn-seul PARK, Won-bin HONG
Music: Mad Fresh
Production/School: T.S.Studio
Dialogue language: Korean
Subtitles language: English

Private KIM, a man who loves drawing is badly burned from a accident in the military and survives a year of painful treatment. Finally the day has come to unwrap the bandages…
Forest Dental Clinic 04:38
Korea 2019
Directed by: Herian KIM
Screenplay: Herian KIM
Animation: Herian KIM
Production/School: Inki and Herian design studio
Dialogue language: X
Subtitles language: English

Sora KIM tries to run away from the dentist. She is chased by a giant tooth, filling her with pressure and anxiety. Sora escapes from the dentist’s office which is filled with artificial plants and arrives in a familiar forest. Her relief is only brief as the forest soon transforms into a concrete city.
Divine Consultants - The Beginning 18:00

Finland 2019
Directed by: Juha FIilin
Screenplay: Adam Cullen
Animation: Jan Andersson
Technique: 2d
Music: Caspar Courlander
Production/School: Juha Fiilin / Fiilin Good Films
Dialogue language: English



The main character, Joy (16), lives in a divided society. For some people, this world is utopia, the ideal society, and for others, dystopia, the perfect opposite of the ideal society. Joy belongs to a discriminated minority, rumored to spread a dangerous disease. She tries to merge into the mainstream. The significance and analogy of Joy's story can be sought in today's world, where distorted power structures take the power from the individual and divide society into artificially opposing groups.

Mimi Says No / 米米說不 04:46

Taiwan 2019
Directed by: Yih-Fen Chou
Screenplay: Yih-Fen Chou
Production/School: Bill Chen
Dialogue language: Chinese



Mimi Says No is an animation closely in tune with the everyday life and inner world of children. Mimi’s mother wants to help Mimi navigate various life situations, but Mimi insists on doing everything herself. It conveys momentary beauty, warmth and thought through a simple story. Finally, because the titular tag line is expressed solely from the child’s standpoint, it abounds with childlike charm and righteousness!

Rare Bird 16:15

United States 2019
Directed by: Jack Chakerian
Screenplay: Jack Chakerian
Production/School: Jack Chakerian
Dialogue language: English



A bird offers a man a rare gift: Immortality as a pigeon.

The Witch & the Baby 04:45
Russia 2020
Directed by: Evgenia Golubeva
Screenplay: Evgenia Golubeva, Myles McLeod
Animation: Oleg Shaplyakov, Katerina Savtschuk, Natalia Repkina, Koralina Adrianova, Sergey Rubin
Technique: 2D
Music: Tatiana Shatkovskaya-Aysenberg
Production/School: Boris Mashkovzev, Mikhail Aldashin, Yulia Gruvman
Dialogue language: English

An ageing witch needs a baby for a spell to make her young again. But when she brings home an infant princess things don't go to plan.
Eaten 07:20

Iran, Islamic Republic of 2019
Directed by: Mohsen Rezapour
Screenplay: Mohsen Rezapour
Production/School: Mohsen Rezapour, Haleh Moaddabian



In a mysterious unknown planet, a rabbit-like creature is eaten; but that’s not the end of the story.

Blind Date 02:15

Netherlands 2019
Directed by: Camiel Schouwenaar
Screenplay: Camiel Schouwenaar
Production/School: Martin Venema
Dialogue language: Other



During her first date with Bas, Bodine hides her thick glasses. She better shouldn’t have done that. Bodine is looking forward to her first date with Bas. Before he joins het at the table she quickly takes of her thick glasses. What should have become a romantic evening becomes a big disaster. Bodine can’t read the menu and Bas lacks all table manners. When he invites her to dance and drags her on the dancefloor, Bodine knows they are a mismatch. Until she puts her glasses back on.

New Year 09:03

United Kingdom 2019
Directed by: Rory Waudby-Tolley, Diana Gradinaru
Screenplay: Rory Waudby-Tolley, Diana Gradinaru
Technique: 2D
Music: Skillbard
Production/School: Becky Perryman
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English



In 1999 a boy becomes obsessed with the Y2K bug; In the distant future a girl is learning to be a priest in a religion based upon the ‘artefacts’ left behind by the boy.

THE LIBERTARIAN / EL LIBERTARIO 16:14

Colombia 2019
Directed by: Eugenio Gómez Borrero
Screenplay: Eugenio Gómez Borrero
Animation: Luisa Guerra-Pablo Rubio-David Molina
Technique: 2D Cut-out
Music: Sergio Gutiérrez Zuluaga
Production/School: Elicenia Ramírez Vásquez
Dialogue language: Spanish
Subtitles language: English



Between rhymes and songs, the musician Papámarimba narrates the legend of El Libertario. A story about a ghost ship, a slave rebellion and the eternal struggle for freedom. But his son Canchimalo no longer believes in these stories. Think that they are superstitions that keep your people backward. A challenge that will lead him to face face to face with the spirits of his ancestors and discover for himself the sinister side of the progress he so desires.