Competition program 2

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.