Short 7


Friday 29/03/2024 09:00 - 11:00 - Athens Animfest 2024 Official Screening
Friday 29/03/2024 21:00 - 23:00 - Athens Animfest 2024 Replay Screening
Total Duration: 01:37:55

  1. CRUSH / Crush 06:30
  2. Poland 2022
    Directed by: Michał Socha, Jakub Socha
    Screenplay: Michał Socha, Jakub Socha, Anna Bielak
    Animation: Michał Socha, Jakub Socha, Agnieszka Wócik
    Production/School: Jakub Karwowski, Piotr Szczepanowicz

    An ambitious thief wants to steal a precious diamond from a heavily guarded vault. On his way, he unexpectedly meets competition - a femme fatale who appeared for the same purpose. The rivalry for the diamond slowly turns into a mutual fascination that takes the couple into a world between dream and reality. Their gameplay balances between danger and sensual flirtation. The film is a mix of crime and love story, with a dose of humor.
  3. Onward Ye Costumed Souls 05:00
  4. United States of America 2024
    Directed by: Patrick Smith
    Screenplay: Patrick Smith
    Animation: Patrick Smith
    Technique: 2d
    Production/School: Kaori Ishida

    Thy back shall be broken, thy soul shall be enslaved, and thou shall assume, nay inherit, the role of tyrant.

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  5. aleph 02:23
  6. Greece 2023
    Directed by: DIMITRIS ELE AGATHOPOULOS
    Production/School: DIMITRIS ELE AGATHOPOULOS

    Drawing inspiration from Borges' exploration of infinite knowledge, "Aleph" unveils an ever-transforming city, an artistic representation of how AI constructs its own world. The city's shifts and changes echo the boundless potential of AI to shape reality according to its digital dreams. At its core, "Aleph" captures the essence of a new narrative era—a fusion of philosophical contemplation and technological ingenuity. This animation encapsulates the profound connection between Borges' cosmic musings and the emergence of AI as a conductor of change. The monologue, prompted by Dimitris Agathopoulos and crafted with the aid of ChatGPT-4, is conveyed using an AI-generated voice.

  7. A Cacophony of Scales 06:12
  8. United States 2024
    Production/School: William J Thinnes
    Dialogue language: English

    Music scales, weigh scales, and industrial scales converge to warn of the disasterous effects we are having on butterfly scales.

  9. Blue 06:52
  10. Poland 2023
    Directed by: Weronika Szyma
    Screenplay: Weronika Szyma
    Animation: Weronika Szyma
    Technique: 2d drawing on paper
    Production/School: FUMI Studio
    Dialogue language: Polish
    Subtitles language: English

    Blue is a story where time stretches. A mother and a daughter are trying to find their place after the father leaves. They spend time idly on a metaphorical empty beach. They fight their uncertainty and longing. The image of the sea comes back rhythmically. It is a promise of freedom but also a scary different world, far from the warm sand.

  11. A booger's nightmare / La pesadilla de un moco 00:30
  12. Spain 2022
    Directed by: Daniel Blanco
    Screenplay: Daniel Blanco
    Animation: Daniel Blanco
    Technique: 2D
    Production/School: Daniel Blanco
    Dialogue language: No Dialogue
    Subtitles language: No subtitles

    Imagine for a moment being in the skin of a booger, it can't be an easy life...

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  13. Jackdaw 03:48
  14. Russia 2023
    Directed by: Anastasiya Lisovets
    Screenplay: Anastasiya Lisovets
    Animation: Anastasiya Lisovets
    Technique: Hand-drawn
    Music: Alexey Prosvirnin
    Production/School: Olga Granovskaya
    Dialogue language: No Dialogue

    A small girl and a small bird discover together the surrounded world and open the lyrics of prose.

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  15. Right Station 06:50
  16. Russia 2023
    Directed by: Maria Rakitina
    Screenplay: Maria Rakitina
    Animation: Maria Rakitina
    Technique: 2D, tvpaint
    Music: Sander Põldsaar
    Production/School: Nikolay Makovsky
    Dialogue language: No Dialogue

    A man with a bird in his pocket enters the train and sits down with a stranger. An argument ensues between them, which ends in an unexpected surprise for both.

  17. While You Were On Your Way 02:11
  18. Russia 2023
    Directed by: Marina Spirina
    Screenplay: Marina Spirina
    Animation: Marina Spirina
    Technique: 2D animation
    Production/School: Nikolay Makovsky
    Dialogue language: Russian
    Subtitles language: English

    A young girl runs to a date and constantly looks at her phone, checking the time, afraid of being late. As a result, she is the one who has to wait and the waiting time seems eternal. In the film it is exaggerated to incredible limits. What can you do while you're waiting for a guy on a date and is it worth waiting at all?

  19. Growing Pains – A Film in Seven Parts / Idade Óssea – Um Filme em Sete Quadros 19:58
  20. Portugal 2022
    Directed by: Isabel Aboim Inglez
    Screenplay: Rui Horta Pereira, Isabel Aboim Inglez
    Animation: Isabel Aboim Inglez, Rui Horta Pereira
    Music: Eduardo Raon
    Production/School: Miguel Sales Lopes / Kinora Filmes, Isabel Aboim Inglez
    Dialogue language: Portuguese
    Subtitles language: English

    On a hot summer afternoon, life unfolds, shadows grow and the wind blows. Two children play without noticing that time advances relentlessly, theirs, the one of the creatures, the one of the earth, and the one of the imagination. This elastic and layered time reveals itself in its traces, marks, and elements, allowing us to learn more about earth and its inhabitants. Five narrators accompany us in this excavation that is intended to be infinite, revealing time and its marks.
  21. History 12:00
  22. Iran 2024
    Directed by: Majid Mahmoodi
    Screenplay: Nasrin Asadi, Ali Danesh
    Production/School: Omid Marandi
    Dialogue language: Persian

    This series is trying to read the history of the colonizers' thoughts and their worldview for audience by reviewing the pages and historical stories in the 15-volume collection of Colonial History. The narrator is a teenager that explains and analyses the events.

  23. Antipolis 25:41
  24. Estonia 2023
    Directed by: Kaspar Jancis
    Screenplay: Kaspar Jancis
    Animation: Triin Sarapik-kivi, Marili Sokk
    Technique: puppet
    Music: Kaspar Jancis
    Production/School: Kerdi Oengo
    Dialogue language: created language based on international words
    Subtitles language: English

    Some people believe that the Earth is flat. And then there are those who think that somewhere there, under the Crust of the Earth, another civilization exists. The events of “Antipolis” take place in the world inside the Earth. Unlike some of the well informed inhabitants of our civilization, the occupants of Antipolis have no idea that they are living inside a gigantic globe. Getting to know this is a sobering shock.

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