COMPETITION PROGRAM 2
LUCKY MAN
Switzerland, 2022, 07.50
Director: Claude Luyet
Script: Claude Luyet, Thomas Ott
Animation: Sébastien Godard
Music: Balz Bachmann
Sound: Peter Bräker
Production: Studio GDS, Luyet, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.com
A man plays and wins. He's over the moon. But… Different player, different game, different winner. Nature shows its presence. On the end, a praise of slowness.
ELENA
Lithuania, France, Croatia, 2021, 12.30
Director: Birutė Sodeikaitė
Script: Birutė Sodeikaitė
Animation: Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson
Music: Ruben De Gheselle
Sound: Gabrielė Griciūtė, Gailė Griciūtė
Production: Art Shot
Contact: festival@shortcuts.pro
Elena is enjoying her life in clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed brings to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of doing so.
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Croatia, Germany, 2022, 05.28
Director: Vuk Jevremović
Script: Vuk Jevremović
Animation: Vuk Jevremović
Music: Luka Šulić
Sound: Filip Vidović
Production: Vuk Jevremović
Contact: vanja@bonobostudio.hr
Three masters of football... They can perform wonders during the match and score impossible goals... But what happens in their heads when they are about to take penalty kicks?
BEAR HUG
France, Norway, 2021, 10.33
Director: Margrethe Danielsen
Script: Margrethe Danielsen
Animation: Margrethe Danielsen
Music: Jon Erik Kaada
Sound: Håkon Lammetun
Production: JPL Films
Contact: production@jplfilms.com
An eager little bear is waiting for his birthday guests to arrive. Slowly he realises that he has been rejected. But the determination to celebrate his birthday is still strong, and, free as a bird, his hunt for company begins.
SIERRA
Estonia, 2022, 15.57
Director: Sander Joon
Script: Sander Joon
Animation: Sander Joon, Henri Veermäe, Valya Paneva, Teresa Baroet
Music: Misha Panfilov
Sound: Matis Rei
Production: BOP Animation
Contact: info@squareeyesfilm.com
Father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, a boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
THE PINK JACKET / Casaco Rosa
Portugal, France, 2022, 08.20
Director: Mónica Santos
Script: Mónica Santos
Animation: Joana Nogueiral
Music: Pedro Marques
Sound: Kévin Feildel
Production: Animais AVPL, Vivement Lundi!, Um Segundo Filmes
Contact: emanuel@curtas.pt
A political musical film about a Pink Jacket that always has something up his sleeve. In the comfort of his home, Casaco Rosa uses couture and torture to stitch up the opponents of the system.
ICE MERCHANTS
Portugal, 2022, 14.33
Director: João Gonzalez
Script: João Gonzalez
Animation: João Gonzalez, Ala Nunu
Music: João Gonzalez
Sound: Ed Trousseau, Ricardo Real
Production: COLA - Colectivo Audiovisual, Wild Stream
Contact: emanuel@curtas.pt
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.