Competition

Short 6

the train driver / Der Lokführer 05:22
Germany 2020
Directed by: Christian Wittmoser, Zuniel Kim
Screenplay: Christian Wittmose, Zuniel Kim
Animation: Elisabeth Zwimpfer
Technique: 2d Animation (Watercolour)
Music: /
Production/School: Raumkapsel Animation
Dialogue language: german
Subtitles language: englisch

"The Train Driver" The five-minute animated documentary film "The Train Driver" is about Bernd Ziegler. Throughout his professional life he has killed six people because they threw themselves in front of his train. How does a train driver handle this?
Time / TIME 03:00

Argentina 2020
Directed by: ILEANA ANDREA GÓMEZ GAVINOSER
Screenplay: ILEANA ANDREA GÓMEZ GAVINOSER
Animation: ILEANA ANDREA GÓMEZ GAVINOSER
Technique: STOP MOTION-DRAWING ON PAPER
Music: ANDRÉS DA GRAVA
Production/School: GRUPO UNIVERSO (DE ARTE)
Dialogue language: NO DIALOGUE
Subtitles language: NO DIALOGUE



TIME PASSES.

The Trouble with Angels 06:21

Iran 2020
Directed by: Sam Chegini
Screenplay: Sam Chegini
Animation: Sam Chegini
Technique: 2D Computer Animation, Rotoscope
Music: Jakko M Jakszyk
Production/School: Sam Pictures Productions
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English



The innate urge to reach out to a stranger, following a chance meeting in Monte Carlo. Combined with the monochrome memories of Wim Wenders' Wings Of Desire, where a moment of crisis is redefined by something magical. Jakko M Jakszyk

Horizons / Horizontes 02:00
Argentina 2019
Directed by: Ileana Andrea Gómez Gavinoser

A stone in the shoe / Un caillou dans la chaussure 11:28
France 2020
Directed by: Eric Montchaud
Screenplay: Eric Montchaud, Cécile Polard
Music: Pierre Bastien
Production/School: XBO Films, Nadasdy Films

A pupil turns up to his new class for the first time. This pupil however is different to the others, he's a frog in a class of rabbits.
Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic 07:00
Denmark 2020
Directed by: Paul Bush
Screenplay: Paul Bush
Music: Andu Cowton

An animated extravaganza of plastic collected from beaches, roadsides, attics and junk shops.
Homeless Home 15:00
France 2020
Directed by: Alberto Vázquez
Screenplay: Alberto Vázquez
Music: Victor Garcia

No one can escape their roots, however rotten they may be.
Empty Places 08:30
France 2020
Directed by: Perrine Bernollin
Screenplay: Geoffroy de Crécy
Production/School: Autour de Minuit

Completed before the global lockdown, Empty Places is an ode to the melancholy of machines.
A la Mode 08:40
France 2020
Directed by: Jean Lecointre
Screenplay: Jean Lecointre
Music: Valentin Hadjadj

In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a queen and her court must always keep up with the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will consume them: the Ridicule. But with the arrival of a disarmingly natural cowboy, this nation of fashion victims laughs, and a simple question arises: what if the Ridicule isn’t what we think?
The Call / المكالمة 02:38
Egypt 2020
Directed by: Mina Nader - Mina Maher

Poise / Suspensão 07:00
Portugal 2020
Directed by: Luís Soares


Grotesques 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Anna Bolshakova
Animation: Anna Bolshakova

Those who choose a different path know it best: when a hundred eyes stare at you, look for the ones that shine.
The piano kissed by a frail hand / Le piano que baise une main frêle 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Clarissa d'Orival
Animation: Clarissa d'Orival

Memory fades, the past gets foggy. An old man and his piano revive the memory of his loved one.

My familiar dream / Mon rêve familier 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Astrid Guinet
Animation: Astrid Guinet

"I often have this dream, strange and penetrating..." A young woman summons the memory of the one that loved her and whom she loved.
After three years / Après trois ans 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Nina Heckel
Animation: Nina Heckel

A house, a garden, a pond, a young woman comes back to her childhood house and revives her memories.

O sad, sad was my soul / Ô triste, triste était mon âme 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Raphaël Jouzeau
Animation: Raphaël Jouzeau

Haunted by the frozen smile of the woman he loved, an aviator is ready to crash.
Marine 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Maksim Litvinov
Animation: Maksim Litvinov

The thunder: roars! The storm: breaks out! The lightning: strikes! The sea throbs and embarks us on her salty saga.
Autumn song / Chanson d'automne 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Jean-Baptiste Marchand

We have not forgotten: dead leaves are picked up by the shovel. But the leaf blower, ignoring melancholy, takes flight.
Setting suns / Soleils couchants 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Aurélie Monteix
Animation: Aurélie Monteix

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might just find, you get what you need.
Cordialities / Cordialités 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Nathanaël Perron
Animation: Nathanaël Perron

He stretches, he squirms, he sucks you in with his wretched mouth: the Parisian metro. if the crowd is a zombie and you're riding against traffic, enter the resistance.
Sentimental walk / Promenade sentimentale 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Emilie Tronche
Animation: Emilie Tronche

At dusk, a quite curious assembly observe with consideration an amphibian dancer's choreographed languor.
It's crying in my heart / Il pleure dans mon coeur 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Ariane Teillet
Animation: Ariane Teillet

The mouse repeats to herself: to hell with feeling blue, I'll keep smiling. What to do though when you can't help but being downhearted?
Seeking to escape you / Voulant te fuir 03:00
France 2020
Directed by: Valentine Vendroux
Animation: Valentine Vendroux
Music: Julien Divisia, Yan Volsy
Subtitles language: English

Don't be mad if I leave, don't leave if I'm mad: when a disagreement turns into a domestic dispute, one might lose one's head...
Tango Sparks 03:06
United States of America 2020
Directed by: Maureen Zent
Animation: Maureen Zent
Technique: Stop Motion
Music: Mark Allaway, William Peklinsky

Two lonely people wait at the edge of a dance floor. Can the siren call of the tango help them overcome their reserve?