COMPETITION PROGRAM 2
Ana Morphose
Portugal, 2023, 10:00
Director: João Rodrigues
Script: João Rodrigues
Production: Bando à Parte
Contact: sales@bandoaparte.com
A little girl reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics. Ana has to escape being swallowed by the overwhelming accumulation of printed knowledge and find her own space in a world where nothing is what it seems.
Intermission
Hungary, 2022, 4:50
Director: Réka Bucsi
Script: Réka Bucsi
Music: David Kamp
Production: Boddah
Contact: zsofi@daazo.com
Repetitive still standing movement, an exploration of the visual image for its own sake. A projection of mental images, which are formed while listening to music. From the simple act of drawing a line, to the intricate movement and complex structure of animation that is able to self-generate.
A kind of Testament / Un genre de testament
France, 2023, 16:24
Director: Stephen Vuillemin
Script: Stephen Vuillemin
Production: Remembers
Contact: festivals@manifest.pictures
A young woman comes across animations on the Internet that have clearly been created from her private selfies. An unknown female with the same name confesses to identity theft. But death is quicker than the answer to the question: “Why?”
PLSTC
France, 2022, 1:37
Director: Laen Sanches
Script: Laen Sanches
Sound Design: Magnus Monfeldt, Nick Smith
Production: Laen Sanches, Autour de Minuit
Contact: miguel.wasia@gmail.com
Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images, this animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life and leaves you gasping for breath.
Letter to a Pig
France, Israel, 2022, 16:40
Director: Tal Kantor
Script: Tal Kantor
Animation: Meton Joffily, Anne Kraehn, Tal Kantor
Music: Pierre Oberkampf
Production: Miyu Productions, The Hive Studio
Contact: festival@miyu.fr
A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.
Shorts from the box / it's a match
Hungary, 2023, 6:42
Director: Géza M. Tóth
Script: Géza M. Tóth
Production: Kedd
Contact: festival@kedd.net
"Let's try to always think outside the box."
The last matchstick left in an old matchbox pops out and goes on its journey. After many funny adventures it always ends up in the same place, it returns to the same box, but never in the same way.
TIAMAT
Serbia, 2023, 9:20
Director: Darko Dacović
Script: Darko Dacović
Music: Damjan Jovičin
Sound Design: Damjan Jovičin
Production: Vorky Team/Kinematika
Contact: kinematika.produkcija@gmail.com
This is an animation experiment, inspired primarily by an ancient Babylonian myth on creation, “Enuma elish”. The goddess Tiamat, who created gods and the world, is in conflict with her offspring. She had lost the battle, and now new forms arise out of her body…
Sweet Like Lemons
United Kingdom, 2023, 5:31
Director: Jenny Jokela
Script: Jenny Jokela
Animation: Jenny Jokela
Music: Sarah Playford
Sound Design: Adam Woodhams
Production: Jenny Jokela
Contact: vanja@bonobostudio.hr
Sweet Like Lemons is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.
PINA
Belgium, France, 2022, 20:00
Director: Jeremy Depuydt, Giuseppe Accardo
Script: Jeremy Depuydt, Giuseppe Accardo
Animation: Pauline Defachelles, Vincent Detourbe
Music: David Gana, Laurent Cabrillat
Sound Design: Julien Baissat
Production: Punchline Cinema , Next Days Films
Contact: maxime@nextdaysfilms.com
At the end of the 19th century, in a Sicilian countryside village, the young Pina holds the power to regenerate the land. With each harvest, the village is prey to shameless mafia looting. Pina's encounter with the mafia chief will plunge the hamlet into an era of starvation, endangering the destiny of the whole country.
