Short 4

The Body is so Resilient 04:50
Germany 2021
Directed by: Moana Vonstadl
Animation: Moana Vonstadl
Technique: Charcoal on paper
Music: Jana Sotzko
Production/School: Moana Vonstadl
Dialogue language: English

A lyrical and raw gaze into a wild garden of Eden where you can find a vague version of Eve as a heroine with desire and craving.
Bob Bobbin and the Christmas Stocking 11:52

United Kingdom 2021
Directed by: Linda McCarthy
Screenplay: Steven Appleby, Linda McCarthy
Production/School: Linda McCarthy
Dialogue language: English



Another Christmas at Small Birds Singing and another disappointment for Spandisman. Join the fun with the Unbelievable family, Consommé, Delphinium and Hurtle as Spandisman tries to make next Yuletide the best one ever!



A Place in Blue / 푸른, 08:40

USA 2021
Directed by: Seung eon Yi
Screenplay: Seung eon Yi
Dialogue language: Korean



A girl is searching for her mother in a grocery store and in a forest. At the end of the forest, she encounters passages from her mother's life.



The Sausage Run 09:45

Germany 2021
Directed by: Thomas Stellmach
Screenplay: Paul Driessen, Thomas Stellmach
Animation: Nancy Bens, Kris Van Alphen
Technique: 2D, 3D
Music: Beo Brockhausen
Production/School: Thomas Stellmach, Germany / Ignace Collin, Belgium
Dialogue language: No Dialogue
Subtitles language: no



The 10-minutes cartoon film THE SAUSAGE RUN tells the tragic story of a little lamb with the help of multiple Zoetropes, loosely based on the well-known Grimm’s fairy tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. The roles of the humans and animals are exchanged. The human characters in the film are depicted as anthropomorphous animals. The animal in the story, the big bad wolf, is here a human being. The family of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ consists of the mother sheep, the lamb as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and a grandfather sheep. The forester and his wife are dogs with a soft spot for sausages. The wolf, a butcher, is a man with a serious problem - he has run out of meat. The story takes place in Zoetropes, which are historical optical and rather primitive devices that display sequences of drawn images in motion. It’s an invention from the 19th century and a forerunner of film technology.

Colossus 20:53

Canada 2022
Directed by: Samy Benammar
Music: Alexandra Blackburn Dorée



There is only one horse left standing against the digital flood and yet the storm is intensifying. Perhaps we already have brought down the colossi.



Kandittundu (Seen it) 11:49

India 2021
Directed by: Adithi Krishnadas
Animation: Adithi Krishnadas, Oorjit B.S, Vibha Rao
Technique: 2D Animation
Music: Nandhu Kartha
Production/School: Nilima Eriyat - Studio Eeksaurus Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Dialogue language: Malayalam
Subtitles language: English



The ever-vibrant Mr. P. N. K Panicker has several shockers up his sleeve. He takes the viewer along a moonlit stroll and paints a quirky picture of the supernatural encounters he has had.



Refugees and COVID-19 in the UK 03:30

United Kingdom 2021
Directed by: Stacy Bias, Peter Hopkins
Screenplay: Peter Hopkins
Dialogue language: English



This animation is a research-led piece using participants own words to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. It is an empathic exercise.

Holy Holocaust 17:22

Israel 2021
Directed by: osi wald, Noa Berman-Herzberg
Screenplay: Noa Berman-Herzberg
Production/School: osi wald
Dialogue language: English



A dark family secret from the past is revealed unexpectedly and opens an abyss between two close friends: Jennifer, a German, discovers that she is the black granddaughter of a Notorious Nazi commander, and her life is turned upside down, while Noa, an Israeli, is doing whatever she can to prevent her life from turning



Soft Tissue 08:30

Ireland 2021
Directed by: Cliona Noonan
Screenplay: Cliona Noonan
Animation: Cliona Noonan
Technique: 2D Digital hand-drawn
Music: Prediction.
Production/School: Cliona Noonan
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English



A father takes desperate measures in the hopes of saving his son, but his actions soon become a distraction from what matters to him most.

Flour & Mush / 人生總有堆肥 11:51

Hong Kong 2021
Directed by: Emily Wong
Screenplay: Emily Wong
Production/School: Emily Wong



Starting the production in 2019 Hong Kong, I hope that I could find ways to communicate the troubled times and to create meaning. The film is about an encounter between a sack of flour and a broken tree trunk—depicting unexpectedness in everyday life. Flour knows how to cook, embroider and make bread. His happiness is completed when he does all these to Mush. A pack of rats appear and attack Flour, causing him to disappear.