Audience Awards:
SHORT FILM: SUBWAY
2D ANIMATION: THE IMPROVEMENT OF HUMAN REASON
CLAY ANIMATION: BLIND DATE
DIRECTION: WHAT IS LEFT
DOCUMENTARY: TETE-MACHINE
EXPERIMENTAL: LES BONS MOMENTS
HAND DRAWN ANIMATION: HORIZONTES
HUMAN INTEREST FILM: ONE UPON MY LIFE
KIDS FILM: A STORY AT THE SEASIDE
MICRO-SHORT: JELLY
NEW MEDIA FILM: THE MORGUE
SOUND & MUSIC: WETSITALES: THE SUN AND THE MOON
STOP MOTION ANIMATION: WOMAN IN MY LAST NAME
STORY: IT WILL PASS AWAY
STUDENT FILM: SHAPESHIFTER
SEE THE FULL LINEUP OF FILMS:
May 29th – NORTH AMERICAN ANIMATION
A TRACE, 5min,. USA
Directed by Julietta Zamora Lam
A 3D Animated Shortfilm in which a young girl learns to shed her guilt about her absent father.
https://www.facebook.com/atraceshortfilm
https://www.instagram.com/atrace_shortfilm/
LARRY’S BIG IDEA, 2min,. USA
DIrected by Burton Rocks
Larry’s Big Idea tells the story of an imaginative boy who uses science to invent special batting gloves for his Little League game. The animated short is the first cartoon produced by internationally-recognized scientist and author, Dr. Lawrence Rocks.
SHAPESHIFTER, 1min., USA
Directed by Kyle C. Johnson
Mr. Hand navigates an abstract shifting landscape of money and taste.
HUNGER, 3min., USA
Directed by Enrique Pilozo-Liuxander Ricardo Silva
In a society where everyone lives inside their own little world, someone dares to break the status quo.
CIRCUS BREAKERS, 2min., Canada
Directed by David Convery
Join Potato the Chicken and Frittata the Egg on a thrilling carnival adventure that takes an unexpected turn! When they find themselves in a retro 2020s carnival powered by gasoline, they engage in an epic competition to see who can turn off more stuff and end up taking things a little bit too too far!
SWAMPS, 1min., Canada
Directed by David Convery
Bello takes a mystery trip through the wood wide web and lands in a swamp – nature’s water treatment plants.
POLLINATOR HIGHWAYS, 2min., Canada
Directed by David Convery
Frittata and Rocket Pants head to the big city to check out some green highways: Pollinator Highways! Pathways of flowers and greenery planted to make it easier for pollinators to get around in urban spaces
The Future Chicken Today Show: Animal Superpowers, 11min., Canada
Directed by Jayson Thiessen
Potato wishes she could be a superhero like the ones in her comic books but doesn’t know what superpower she has. Wildlife conservationist, Aneeshwar Kunchala, joins the show to talk about animal superpowers and inspires us all to become heroes by observing, connecting, and protecting the beautiful creatures around us. After saving an Inch Worm, Potato realizes she has so much to offer as a planet protecting chicken. Circuitree agrees – Potato has a big heart, and reminds her of all the ways she has connected and protected the animals on the farm through the years. Sometimes the BEST superpower is kindness and Potato, our optimistic hero, has that in spades.
LES BONS MOMENTS, 2min., Canada
Directed by Jasmine Carpentier
Les Bons Moments is a non-narrative film inspired by the feelings of well-being and nostalgia we can feel through our lives. Whether it’s during the most insignificant events or the most trivial. Whether it’s a birthday, a good memory with a loved one or just the joy we share with our four-legged companions, Les Bons Moments brings warmth to our hearts when we need it the most.
https://jasminecarpentier.wixsite.com/jazz-carpentier/le-bons-moments
BLIND DATE, 2min,. Canada
Directed by Jasmine Carpentier
In a world where we feel forced to fit certain criteria, Blind Date represents someone’s journey through self-acceptance in a minimalistic way. No gender or sexual identity is represented. Only ones true self, love, care and acceptance
MAY 30th – ANIMATION – WORLD
THE IMPROVEMENT OF HUMAN REASON, 10min., Iran
Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
A baby alone on a remote island is suckled by a deer. He grows up, covers his body in imitation of animals, makes a weapon from a tree branch to defend himself, and discovers fire with lightning. He thinks of the sky and knows the world as a living body.
http://www.moradizadeh.com/
https://www.facebook.com/hossein.moradizadeh.7/
https://www.instagram.com/mora.films/
IT WILL PASS AWAY, 5min., China
Directed by Nan Yao
After the end of a relationship that went nowhere, a woman’s complex emotions seem to be amplified, and in the midst of insomnia she feels she can touch the many subtle voices…
https://www.instagram.com/ninanona_yao
SONG OF SEA FISHES, 1min., Russia
Directed by Denis Vasilev
18 century, sea. Sea fishes want to crash a ship. The sailors and ship animals begin to protect the ship.
https://www.instagram.com/merlin_movie_vfx/
DREAM I, A POEM BY GRACIELA SUÁREZ, 1min., Argentina
Directed by Ileana Andrea Gómez Gavinoser
EYES OPEN IN THE NIGHT
HORIZONTES, 2min., Argentina
Directed by Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser
BIRD SEARCHS HORIZONS
https://www.facebook.com/grupouniversodearte/
https://twitter.com/@ileanagavin
TAKIFUGU, A STORY BY ADOLFO CHOUHY, 3min., Argentina
Directed by Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser
A STORY OF JUSTICE
TIME, 3min., Argentina
Directed by Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser
TIME PASS
MAY 31st – ANIMATION – EUROPEAN SHORTS
THE RITUAL OF A CITY, 4min., Albania
Directed by Bertrand Shijaku
SOME PEOPLE CLEAN THE CITY SOME OTHERS MAKE DIRTY JUST FOR LIVING
http://www.bota-shqiptare.al/
https://facebook.com/BOTASHQIPTARE
A STORY AT THE SEASIDE, 9min., Albania
Directed by Bertrand Shijaku
It is the party of the fishermen , children are playing on the sand , they go to find the shells but something went wrong …
WOMAN IN MY LAST NAME, 5min., Sweden
Directed by Rana Kadry
Woman is my last name is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.
https://www.instagram.com/ranakadry/
WHAT IS LEFT, 6min., Italy
Directed by Bianca Costanzo, Federica Tornaghi, Gaia De Napoli, Cristina Capoano
Quel che rimane is a short film about a man who is left alone in the village where he was born. The man owns a restaurant and, despite the fact that his wife passed away and his daughter has left the town, he remains anchored in his old routine, continuing to run the tavern.
JELLY, 2min., Italy
Directed by Giovanna Senatore
Love can be dangerous, like pollution
SUBWAY, 5min,. Poland
Directed by Robert Kuźniewski
Typical situation on the subway. Plasticine grotesque. Social satire.
https://www.instagram.com/brasco698/
TETE- MACHINE, 9min., France
Directed by Mona Maud LEFEVRE
The dreamer is sleeping, isn’t he? He is speaking, but do we really know what he is talking about?
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