Competition

Short 1

Haboob / هَبوب 09:00

Iran 2020
Directed by: Mahsa Samani
Screenplay: Mohammad Sadegh Golchin Arefi.Mahsa Samani
Animation: Tayebeh Baghbani. Atoosa Ghaffari
Technique: 2DAnimation Mixed With Live Action
Music: Mim Rasouli
Production/School: DEFC
Dialogue language: Persian
Subtitles language: English



A man and his daughter are used to living in harmony and peace with nature, but some disruptions change their lovely little life.

Shlomo and the Rabbi / Shlomo et le Rabbin 09:05
France 2020
Directed by: Julien David
Screenplay: Julien David
Animation: Etienne Faivre, Marie Deboissy, Adrien Vallade, Clotilde Hiron, Salomé Rouaud-Nicod
Technique: 2D
Music: Jeffrey Livingston
Production/School: Daniel Sauvage, Jérôme Barthélemy
Dialogue language: French
Subtitles language: English

Winter 1895, in a small ukrainian town, farmer Shlomo is expecting his tenth child. Thrown into a panic, he runs to the Rabbi for some advice and discovers that everything is about relativity.
A Cat Called Jam 08:10
Ireland 2019
Directed by: Lorraine Lordan
Screenplay: Lorraine Lordan, Shane Perez
Production/School: Jeremy Purcell
Dialogue language: English

A cat from out of town tries to befriend three dogs as they wait for the butcher to throw out scraps of meat. When they chase a cat, Jam meets Treacle who makes him question how he views himself.


Befriend: call to action 02:40

United Kingdom 2021
Directed by: Nigel Smith
Screenplay: Nigel Smith
Production/School: Ellie Walsh
Dialogue language: English



An animated documentary introducing three stroke survivors while an animated gannet makes a dangerous journey.

LOST VEGAS 00:47

Canada 2021
Directed by: Megan Landry
Production/School: Megan Landry
Dialogue language: English



The City of Sin in one motion



The Police After Me / Peşimdeki Polis 05:52

Turkey 2021
Directed by: Kayahan Kaya
Screenplay: M. Şeref Özsoy, Kayahan Kaya
Animation: Kayahan Kaya
Music: Derya Türkan
Production/School: Kayahan Kaya
Dialogue language: Turkish
Subtitles language: English



Istanbul, 1950. Following the Second World War’s end, in an atmosphere where freedom of thinking was under restrictions; poets, writers, and artists were followed by the police, in their every step. During the same period, the police also followed the famous poet Orhan Veli, one of the founders of the ‘Garip’ movement in Turkish poetry. Meanwhile, a young poet wants to read his poems to Orhan Veli. Will he succeed?

How To Get Out Of Here? / Jak stąd wyjść? 03:14

Poland 2020
Directed by: Marcin Jażyński
Screenplay: Marcin Jażyński
Production/School: Marcin Jażyński, Marta Fihel
Dialogue language: English



The film is an answer to the following question: how to get out of a place which cannot be seen?

The Grave of Saint Oran 08:50

Australia 2019
Directed by: Jim Batt
Production/School: Josie Hess , Jim Batt
Dialogue language: English



Narrated by the masterful Neil Gaiman and based on his poem In Relig Odhrain, this is a tempestuous tale of sacrifice and faith. Director Jim Batt brings Gaiman's poem to life with beautifully illustrated paper cutouts, meticulously animated using stopmotion techniques and in camera visual effects.


It's All the Salt's Fault 10:00
Colombia 2020
Directed by: María Cristina Pérez
Screenplay: María Cristina Pérez
Music: Daniel Jones Cozzarelli
Production/School: Mauricio Cuervo
Dialogue language: Spanish
Subtitles language: English

The youngest daughter of a family of sloths rebuilds her parents' and three siblings' story. Behind the human normality of a family, the wild spirit appears in everyday life's details, turning everything into untameable memories.
Mother Bunker 04:48

Australia 2020
Directed by: George Metaxas
Dialogue language: English



Set during the robot-human war, a military robot - Mother - begins to self express by dressing in human drag and performing to a robot army. The short follows Mother, stationed in an underground bunker, as she prepares, performs, and reflects on her individuality.

Black Snot & Golden Squares 01:00
Germany 2020
Directed by: Irina Rubina
Animation: Ruslan Gavrilov • Alexander Sharapov • Yelyzaveta Pysmak • Sofiia Melnyk • Paulina Ziółkowska • Anna Volchkova • Irina Rubina
Technique: Viktor Stickel
Music: Luis Schöffend
Production/School: iraru.films
Subtitles language: english

a little something for worried souls
The Boy and The Mountain / El niño y la montaña 11:23

Chile 2020
Directed by: Santiago Aguilera, Gabriel Monreal
Screenplay: Pablo Aguirre, , Santiago Aguilera, Kylie Trupp , Gabriel Monreal
Dialogue language: Spanish



Hernán is a child who likes to daydreaming, but in his studies he is not doing well at all. His father constantly urges him to improve, advising him that he must reach very high to succeed in life. Hernán dispenses with his dream, gradually forgetting it to devote himself to his studies. Over time, and already become a successful entrepreneur, Hernán achieves the dream that his father instilled in him, reach high, until one day he will realize that he has not really achieved something he always longed for. Then he will make the crucial decision to fulfill his dream, but fate will play tricks on him. Hernán will have to face a new challenge that will change the meaning of his life.



Roberto / ROBERTO 09:00

Spain 2020
Directed by: Carmen Córdoba González
Screenplay: Carmen Córdoba González
Animation: Carmen Córdoba González, Ignacio Maure Rosés, Pablo Guevara, Josep Castaño, David Rubio Colomer
Technique: 3D and 2D
Music: Jordi Carbonell
Production/School: Carmen Córdoba González
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No subtitles



15 have passed and Roberto is still in love with his neighbor, but she prefers to hide ashamed of her body. With his art and an old clothesline as the only ways of communication, Roberto has a plan to push his beloved for face her monsters at once.

The Chair 06:54

United States 2020
Directed by: Ronnie Cramer



A woman encounters a chair with strange properties, but can't decide if the experience is exciting or annoying. Created old-school style, using only pen and paper, and made up of 2,700 individual drawings

The Dentist / 歯医者さん 04:00

United States of America 2020
Directed by: Jeremy Speed Schwartz
Music: Yuurei Gaisha Michidure
Production/School: Alfred State College
Dialogue language: Japanese
Subtitles language: English



An adventure in tooth extraction with a handsome, powerful and successful dentist.



Living in a free fall / Vivre en chute libre 12:36

France 2020
Directed by: Karleener
Screenplay: Karleener
Animation: 3D
Music: Jean-Christophe Masson



"Living is a horizontal fall" said Jean Cocteau. The life of Raki, his wife Sibi, then their daughter Eryl is its vertical transposition in a dreamlike and metaphorical animation, where a decaying Earth can be a source of dangerous obstacles or a safe haven in danger.


One, Two, Three, Four 10:00
Italy 2020
Directed by: Fabrizzio Bartolini
Screenplay: Fabrizzio Bartolini, Daniel Castro
Animation: Fabian Geos (2D), Fabrizzio Bartolini (3D)
Technique: 2D - Digital 2D
Music: Fiskales Ad Hok, Hirax
Production/School: Fabrizzio Bartolini, Rod Sáez Chávez
Dialogue language: Spanish
Subtitles language: English

Based in a real story. Some friends celebrate that they got a housing subsidy and also, one of them gets a job, they go to the kitchen to prepare Churros thanks to a recipe that came as a gift in the newspaper, they are preparing it without taking into account the error that it causes that burns badly. one of them, showing how fragile they are