Competition

Short 3

Ivet and Michuco / Ivet y Michuco 04:49
Spain 2020
Directed by: Juan Ignacio Meneu Oset
Screenplay: Juan Ignacio Meneu Oset
Production/School: Juan Ignacio Meneu Oset
Dialogue language: Spanish

Ivet is a 6-year-old girl, so she thing is already very old, or so she thinks at least. Ivet is dreamy and has an extraordinary imagination. She is always inventing new worlds and characters. She has a cat - well, it's stuffed puppet - and she calls her Michuco. Since she has no siblings, at home she always plays alone and fantasizes uncontrollably, causing complicated situations on more than one occasion.

The Expected 14:30
Sweden 2021
Directed by: Carolina Sandvik
Screenplay: Carolina Sandvik
Animation: Carolina Sandvik
Music: Markus Samnell

A man finds his pregnant partner drained of all her blood in the tub. She is moved to the bedroom where she remains confined, unable to do anything but staring and blinking. The father-to-be anxiously moves around the flat until he decides to pour the blood from the tub into the couple’s aquarium, and shortly, something can be seen moving in there.
Food Life Joy 03:30

Japan 2020
Directed by: Mari Miyazawa
Screenplay: Mari Miyazawa
Production/School: Mari Miyazawa



Autumn is the harvest season. Grains of rice turn into onigiri and head toward the village, led by the sweetfish. Festive music from the Kagura could be heard while traversing various lands. Appreciation toward nature was shown during the Kagura until nightfall. After enjoying this Kagura to their hearts' content together with people, they head to the next harvest with a sense of reassurance.

Bramley Bop 01:00
United Kingdom 2020
Directed by: Kate Anderson
Dialogue language: No Dialogue

Hats off to the great Bramley Apple.
Mirage 01:00

Not Specified 2020
Directed by: Kate Anderson



A 60 second escape, in collaboration with harpsichordist Satoko Doi-Luck, made when not being able to travel during the Coronavirus restrictions in 2020.

Washing Machine / Pračka 05:02

Czech Republic 2020
Directed by: Alexandra Májová
Screenplay: Alexandra Májová, Martin Máj
Animation: Alexandra Májová
Technique: 2D computer
Music: no music
Production/School: Alexandra Májová
Dialogue language: no dialogue
Subtitles language: no dialogue



Wash and love.

ME 13:00

Spain 2020
Directed by: Begoña Arostegui
Screenplay: Fernando Franco
Production/School: Fernando Franco
Dialogue language: Spanish



For our hero, every day looks the same. Or maybe they are too much alike: the same routines repeated over and over again. One day, a simple board that says "Park" will make everything shake.



Banga 22:52

Hungary 2020
Directed by: LittnerBudapest
Screenplay: LittnerBudapest
Animation: Dorina Pap, Peter Makovi, Dora Illes, Fanni Fodor, Gyorgy Ligeti
Technique: drawing and photos
Music: Szabolcs Bognar
Production/School: HumanRobot
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: english



This fake documentary is on a special African ritual, "banga" which helps for a tribe to find water. The elit of the African country makes big profit on banga. This ritual becomes very popular in Europe and in America until something changes. And something also changes in the African country.

Mex and the animals 08:22

Canada 2020
Directed by: Elisa Gleize
Screenplay: Elisa Gleize
Production/School: Elisa Gleize
Dialogue language: French



Mex and the animals could be the title of a children's book. How does a person grow up without animals? What imaginary world will we construct around them, and from what? The story is narrated by Mex, a melancholy cyborg who wanders through virtual space among images of different animals. These creatures are no more than rough virtual reconstructions of those that have long since disappeared, visibly still dominated and commodified. Mex's quest raises anthropological questions through a fictional story set in an unknown time. It belongs to a common fantasy world fuelled by eco-anxiety and portrays a 'post-animal' epoch through an individual who is nostalgic for these absent bodies.

Lèvres bleues 08:18
Canada 2020
Directed by: Philippe Hamelin

In making Lèvres bleues, Philippe Hamelin was interested in using computer-generated imagery as a reconstructive tool - in this case using it to reconstruct a lover's memory. The story comes from a collection of accounts told by strangers who the artist met on dating sites in 2008. The memory takes form through matter, objects, movement and the senses. In the animation, human mechanisms and machinery are placed in parallel while the apparatus of narrative mechanics are explored. There is a crossover between the human being's interior movement (its feelings) and its movement in space. The dramatic expectations too often linked to representations of love between two men are derailed.
Scream For Ice 04:02

Turkey 2021
Directed by: Emir Aytemür
Screenplay: Emir Aytemür
Animation: Motionmatik
Technique: Cell, 2D, 3D
Music: -
Production/School: Emir Aytemür
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No dialogue



The Sun shines, ice melts A polar bear on its own A child cries out ah! The haiku poem you read above is the core of the "Scream For Ice". And the narrative form of "Scream For Ice" is based on the traditional Japanese art of poetry, Haiku.


Sense Nonsense 08:31
India 2020
Directed by: Harish Iyer
Screenplay: Harish Iyer
Animation: Harish Iyer
Technique: Digital 2D
Music: P S Jayhari
Production/School: IDC School of Design
Dialogue language: Malayalam
Subtitles language: English


Kicha is an atheist and is affiliated to the Communist Party in Kerala. He lives with his extremely devout grandmother. Under a single roof, these opposing ideologies are always at loggerheads. Unfortunately for Kicha, all hell breaks loose on an important day when he refuses to pay heed to his grandmother's warnings of ill omens. Does Kicha manage to overcome his misfortune! Artham Anartham is ideally an impartial look into two diametrically opposite beliefs. It is upto viewer to decide what makes sense and what is nonsense.
 
 
 
Horacio 10:07

France 2020
Directed by: Caroline Cherrier
Screenplay: Caroline Cherrier
Production/School: Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago
Dialogue language: French



Guillaume kills Horacio “because he was shouting too loud.” At his trial, the vacuity of the motive disconcerts. During his 10 years in prison, Guillaume gradually forgets this story which had convinced no one. When he gets out, someone starts shouting again…

 

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Sheep, Wolf and a Cup of Tea... 12:11

France 2019
Directed by: Marion Lacourt
Production/School: Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago



At night, while family members indulge in curious rituals before sleeping, a child invokes a wolf from the bottom of a box hidden under his bed. Disturbing sheep then besiege the door of his bedroom....

 

Courtesy of Movistar+ and Les films du preau