- C'est la vie
12:51Poland 2021
Directed by: Jacek Olejnik, Rafał Sankiewicz, Wojciech Sankiewicz, Bartosz Terlicki
Screenplay: Jacek Olejnik, Rafał Sankiewicz, Wojciech Sankiewicz, Bartosz Terlicki
Animation: Wojciech Sankiewicz
Music: Rafał Sankiewicz
Production/School: Ferajna Filmowa Kapok
Dialogue language: Polish
Subtitles language: English
How to maintain well balanced life, how not to fall, when everything around is falling? How to progress when all solutions seem to be wrong? Which part should I play in the finest arts of all such as the art of live? Some of out everyday decisions may seem meaningless, whilst others affect us for years, occasionally putting our world upside down. The latest Ferajna Filmowa Kapok's movie is a short story about the man who actually faces the most peculiar moment of art of balance, art of choice, art of life. C'est la vie!
- Outsider
/ 圈外人 02:10China 2022
Directed by: Shuo Liu
Screenplay: Shuo Liu
Animation: Shuo Liu
Technique: Stop Motion
Music: Dong Zhang
The magic between ‘frames’ acts on clay, the table becomes a contradictory object that can be soft and hard. Some people get into it, but others are not. There is no differentiation between superior and inferior or right or wrong in this place, but how we face the world.
- Spoon
03:00France 2022
Directed by: Arthur Chays
Screenplay: Arthur Chays
Production/School: Elisabeth Martin
Dialogue language: French
To escape from everyday life, it's very simple: you need a ladder and a spoon. But is it really that easy ?
- My Grumpy Grandpa
/ Mon Papi à Moi 06:22Togo 2022
Directed by: Komi Messan Anthony
Screenplay: Komi Messan Anthony
Animation: 2D
Technique: Digital
Music: Laurent VANG, David ESCUDERO
Production/School: The Sketchy Lab
Dialogue language: No Dialogue
In a small town in France, Hugo, an 8 year old kid, is trying to escape his angry alcoholic Grandpa, who turned into a big and scary monster.
- Balcony Cacophony
05:05Netherlands 2022
Directed by: Quentin Haberham
Screenplay: Quentin Haberham
Production/School: Chris Stenger
When a rich lady with a passion for topiary must swap her mansion with lush gardens for a tiny council flat, she finds it difficult to cope with her new neighbour and his strange hobbies.
- FLOWING HOME
/ COMME UN FLEUVE (Như một dòng sông) 15:00France 2021
Directed by: Sandra Desmazières
Screenplay: Sandra Desmazières
Animation: Janet Perlman - Keyu Chen - Eva Cvijanovic - Jing Wang
Music: Manuel MERLOT
Production/School: LES FILMS DE L'ARLEQUIN (Dora Benousilio), ONF (Julie Roy)
Dialogue language: French
Subtitles language: ENGLISH
Two sisters grow up in Vietnam and are separated by the war between North and South. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Thao, in her teens, must leave the country with her uncle. Her sister Saoi Maï, only a little older, remains with their parents, hoping they will soon be reunited. But their separation will last nearly 20 years, and the letters they exchange are their only way to connect and relieve their loneliness. Thao and Sao Maï write about their everyday lives, their memories, the war, and its ghosts.
- no name cat
16:00Moldova 2022
Directed by: Ghenadie Popescu
Technique: Stop Motion
Production/School: Vitalie Popov
Dialogue language: Romanian, Russian
Subtitles language: English
In a quiet Moldavian village, an innocent cat witnesses how the inhabitants are uprooted and the village’s life takes a dramatic turn over night. Based on testimonies of stalinist repressions’ survivors.
- secant
03:00United States of America 2022
Directed by: Timothy David Orme
music by Lanier Sammons video by Timothy David Orme
- The melancholy of the Phoenix
/ La melancolía del fénix 12:00Spain 2022
Directed by: Mika Oliete
Screenplay: Mika Oliete
Animation: Sopa de sobre, Anna Falco
Music: Jordi Cornudella
Production/School: Diego Saniz, Manuel Manrique
Dialogue language: Spanish
A melancholic voice comes back through a conscious dream just before his birth, when he was closer to his mother. A being trapped by a loop, in an eternal journey to his deepest desires.
- Mine-Short film by Daphne Xourafi
08:01Greece 2022
Directed by: Daphne Xourafi
Screenplay: Daphne Xourafi
Animation: Daphne Xourafi
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Harry Andre Katsilis
Production/School: Daphne Xourafi
Dialogue language: -
Subtitles language: -
Amina is living in the big city, working from home. When adult life pressures reach an all time high, her house comes alive in strange and unusual ways, forcing her to face an invisible enemy to save her work day.
- Shelf Life
03:51United States of America 2023
Directed by: Peter Litwinowicz
Screenplay: Peter Litwinowicz
Animation: Peter Litwinowicz
Technique: 2D and 3D computer vision and graphics
Music: Chopin Prelude Op 28 No 17. Garrick Ohlsson, Piano
Inspired by the whimsical fruit and vegetable portraits of Arcimboldo, Shelf Life is a magical look at what might be dancing in the corners of our homes.
- The Gorgon Cycles
08:16United States 2023
Directed by: Miles Inada, Devyn McConachie, Tessa Brinckman
Dialogue language: English
The Gorgon Cycles is an animated fever dream – an intricately layered invocation for the return of the long-banished visionary, Medusa. Built around a mesmerizing original score for alto flute and electronica, with a supporting cast of fish, snakes, dinosaurs, a cat, a monkey, and a magician, The Gorgon Cycles is a statement of violent optimism – a contemplation of life on the brink of global catastrophe.
- DREAM FROM BEYOND
04:32Albania 2022
Directed by: ARMAND BORA, BERTRAND SHIJAKU
Screenplay: ARMAND BORA
Animation: Bertrand Shijaku
Technique: Cut outs
Music: Marin Janco
Production/School: BERTRAND SHIJAKU
Dialogue language: Albanian
Subtitles language: English
THE CITY NEEDS TO SLEEP BUT THE ACOUSTIC POLLUTION DOES NOT ALLOW IT
- Tying The Knot
02:17United States of America 2022
Directed by: Ryan Wilton Zlatniski
Screenplay: Ryan Wilton Zlatniski
Technique: Stop Motion
Production/School: Ryan Wilton Zlatniski
Dialogue language: English
A String feels overwhelmed by his tedious life, but finds comfort in a new relationship
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