Competition

Student 1

Mother / "אמא" 05:46
Israel 2020
Directed by: Gal Kinan
Screenplay: Gal Kinan
Animation: Gal Kinan, Romi Granot , Lior Aviram
Technique: 3D Animation
Music: Ulrich Ganga
Production/School: AKV St.Joost Master of visual culture
Dialogue language: Non
Subtitles language: English

On the evening of Independence Day lonely Solomon stands, lost in thought, on Hahagana Bridge next to the Tel Aviv central station. As the fireworks die down a vision in the sky with him as a baby and his mother appears and for a short moment, he is transported back to his childhood.
EBI 04:18
Luxembourg 2020
Directed by: Majorva Sajous, Michael Kopp, Maya Lemaitre, Michel Li
Screenplay: Majorva Sajous
Animation: Majorva Sajous, Michael Kopp, Maya Lemaitre
Technique: 2d Animation
Music: Majorva Sajous
Production/School: Lycée des Arts et Métiers-LAM
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English

AFRICA - 18th century. Near the banks of Dahomey (Benin), a group of African hunters accompanied by European sponsors are preparing themselves to attack a village. Sonangnon and Kemi are brother and sister and live in the village. Their destiny meets that of Teye, one of the African warriors, who has to choose: let them go or captured them.
Once upon a time in Israel / Pewnego razu w Izraelu 10:44
Poland 2021
Directed by: Weronika Szyma
Screenplay: Weronika Szyma
Animation: Weronika Szyma
Technique: handdrawn 2d animation
Music: Damian Czajka
Production/School: The Polish National Film School in Lodz
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: -

An animated documentary in the form of a travel journal. A girl while being in love with a Palestinian boy goes to Israel for the first time. Her simplified vision of the world and a desire to take sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is quickly confronted with the reality of living on the border of Sderot and the Gaza Strip.


Incognito / Inkognitó 07:35

Hungary 2020
Directed by: Júlia Lantos
Screenplay: Júlia Lantos
Animation: Viktória Antal, Tímea Benkő, Johanna Géczi, Orsolya Hegedűs, Júlia Lantos, Regina Pekárik, Eszter Szabó, Lili Szirmai
Technique: 2D digital animation
Music: János Keszei, Júlia Lantos, Tali Tadmor
Production/School: Budapest Metropolitan University
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No dialogue



A young girl works in an office, lives alone in a small flat in a crowded city and her only companion is a yellow bird. One day a cloud appears above the flat, which brings rain endlessly. A supernatural process begins in her flat, helping to lock her out of the outer, grotesque and absurd world. At the end of the film, the wall between the two worlds breaks down, the small flat could not become the place she dreamed of, but rather a weak bunker in a war.

Lost and Found 01:52

Hungary 2020
Directed by: Éva Adorján
Screenplay: (told story)
Production/School: Melinda Kiss
Dialogue language: English



Theater director Dadiow Lin recalls one of her 5-year-old dreams.


Last Dance; Dinner Date 04:55
United States of America 2021
Directed by: Brandon Paterno
Screenplay: Brandon Paterno
Animation: Brandon Paterno
Technique: 2D Digital Animation
Music: Henry Tegethoff
Production/School: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Dialogue language: English

A man tries desperately to hold onto a fleeting relationship when he doesn't even know himself.
Sueño 05:02

Estonia 2020
Directed by: Maria Rakitina
Screenplay: Maria Rakitina
Animation: Maria Rakitina
Technique: 2D computer drawn-animation
Music: Max Manila
Production/School: Estonian Academy of Arts
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No



A boy wakes up into the night and notices the feather on his pillow and also he finds the hole in the pillow. The dream starts, where he is a participant with the naked birds around him.  



Displaced 07:00

Estonia 2020
Directed by: Laura Benavides Ramirez
Screenplay: Laura Benavides Ramirez
Animation: Laura Benavides Ramírez, Pablo Ballarín
Technique: 2d Drawing
Music: Mari Meentalo, Edgar Cortés Angaríta
Production/School: Estonian Academy of Arts
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No



A foreign figure decides over the destiny of one indigenous woman. Her scape is a dance that reveals what means to be displaced.



Provisional 04:35

Colombia 2020
Directed by: Natalia Díaz Jiménez
Screenplay: Natalia Díaz Jiménez
Animation: 2D Digital
Technique: 2D Digital
Music: Violeta Price Díaz
Production/School: Natalia Díaz Jiménez/Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Dialogue language: Spanish



A curious creature discovers that it can create a whole world using very colorful orbs, however it realizes that sacrifices must be made to get the world it desaires.

Troubled Water / Trübes Wasser 09:58
Germany 2020
Directed by: Elena Wiener
Screenplay: Elena Wiener
Animation: Elena Wiener & Josefine Maier
Music: Lucas Voss
Production/School: Bergische Universität Wuppertal

What to do when your body eats you up? When the fight against yourself overshadows your daily routines, your relationships and your freedom? It‘s about fighting autoimmune diseases and inner demons.
To See a Fly Die / Para ver morir una mosca 07:27

Colombia 2019
Directed by: Diego Felipe Cortés
Screenplay: Diego Felipe Cortés
Production/School: Diego Felipe Cortés
Dialogue language: Spanish



I see with distance the crowd that dances, I observe them with my body dancing, and the certainty that I will not see the body of who no longer dances. The dance of the living contains death itself.



Unearthly 06:03

Singapore 2020
Directed by: Chan Guanhua
Screenplay: Carol Leng, Gerald Wee, Ng Shi Qian, Chan Guanhua
Animation: Carol Leng, Gerald Wee, Ng Shi Qian, Chan Guanhua
Technique: 3D Animation, Motion Capture
Music: Henry Brandstetter
Production/School: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore



"Unearthly" is a 3D Animation short focused on two siblings who discover a macaque and fox mask in a forest. When worn, the masks allow them to take on animal traits. Things take a darker turn when the masks begin working on them in unexpected ways. But is it always the animal who turns out more savage than man?


This is Only Getting Worse / החרא הזה רק ממשיך לגדול 07:36
Israel 2020
Directed by: Michael Negari, Eran Luzon
Screenplay: Dana Petrov
Animation: Michael Negari, Eran Luzon
Technique: Stop-Motion, Mixed Media
Music: Tal Greenfeld
Production/School: Eran Luzon, Michael Negari, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Dialogue language: Hebrew
Subtitles language: English

Jerusalem is divided by a mysterious crack, pulling any metal object around it. Revital, a woman in advanced pregnancy, is trying to get to the crack in order to kill herself and the baby she carries.
Alona 04:56
United Kingdom 2021
Directed by: Kea Xie
Screenplay: Kea Xie
Animation: Kea Xie
Technique: Kea Xie
Music: Chia Ying Tsai
Production/School: Kea Xie
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English

There is only a little boy on the planet. Day after day, even the boy is lonely however he works very hard to keep his daily routine implemented.All the efforts he does is just waiting for the day coming... At the time of loneliness, people mistakenly believe that love can eliminate the feeling of that. Thus, we try and pursue love or be loved, and our willingness to pay the price, and even greater to do everything. In fact, all actions and aims are to please him or her and eager to give back. We put too much fantasies in love unconsciously. And this behavior often makes us disillusioned or even hurt in the relationship. So, "love a person" is loving different individuals? or just self-projection?
The Personal is Political 08:38

United Kingdom 2020
Directed by: Carol Harrison
Screenplay: Carol Harrison
Dialogue language: English



A Musical Animated Memoir set in London 1968-73 A reflection and re-creation of the years that shaped who I am. A time when protest and resistance were part of everyday life. What was personal - politicized when people came together to fight for their rights. The actions of Students, the Women’s Movement, Gay Liberation, Squatters and Claimants Unions, provide a documentary framework for what are in essence personal memories, a child’s POV. The political message is traced through the means of communication; hand drawn comics, screen- printed posters, leaflets, placards, papers, pamphlets and the underground press. They reflect the concerns of the time, relate directly to what’s going on today and feel just as relevant 50 years on. An exercise in trace memory associated with home. A sensory journey through the textures, colours and sounds of childhood, re-constructed.