Main Competition

COMPETITION PROGRAM 1

 

Mr. Pete & the Iron Horse

Switzerland, 2021, 07:35

Director: Kilian Vilim

Script: Kilian Vilim

Animation: Lorenz Wunderle, Kilian Vilim, Lukas Pulver, Fela Bellotto, Etienne Mory, Aira Joana, Frederic Siegel, Lara Perren

Music: Raffael Pochanke

Sound: Etienne Kompis

Production: YK Animation Studio GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

Kontakt/Contact: distribution@yk-animation.ch

The diligent soldier Mr. Pete does everything to meet the high standards of his baroness. To satisfy her insatiable lust for speed he shovels madly on her new iron horse's voyage.

 

1st Cosmos CREATION

Serbia, 2022, 07:15

Director: Jelena Bešir

Script: Jelena Bešir

Animation: Jelena Bešir

Music: Béla Bartók

Sound: Marko Kekezović , Ana Vasić

Produkcija: BLOK FILM

Contact: jelenabesir@gmail.com

Two fish are looking for each other and pass each other. A boy has lost his balloon and does not give up his intention to catch it again. A fantastic creature (a bird-woman) catches a fish. The fisherman caught the sun by chance... These characters are less the bearers of the plot and more symbolic representations of search, union, transformation and liberation.

 

THE UMBRELLA / Le Parapluie / 

France, 2022, 15:30

Director: Claire Ledru

Script: Claire Ledru

Animation: David Martin, Claire Ledru, Nikita Fraysse, Aurore Peuffier

Music: Mino Malan

Sound: Audrey Ginestet

Production: Xbo Films

Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.com

Incessant rain erodes the earth, its material collapses, nothing remains of the landscape except long and narrow pillars rising against an immense sky. On one of these islands, a survivor stands still, clinging to his umbrella, his only weapon against the downpour. In the narrow confines of this tiny stage, individuals will be forced to live one on top of the other.

 

THING / DING 

Germany, 2021, 04:32

Director: Malte Stein

Script: Malte Stein

Animation: Malte Stein

Music: Malte Stein

Sound: Malte Stein

Produkcija: Malte Stein

Contact: maltestein@gmx.de

Haunted by a little thing, a man gets driven to the edge.

 

SALUTE TO THE SUN

Croatia, 2022, 08:50

Director: Darko Masnec

Script: Darko Masnec

Animation: Darko Masnec, Anita Kos, Stjepan Milas

Music: Luka Smetisko

Zvuk: Luka Smetiško

Production: Studio u šumi

Contact: vanja@bonobostudio.hr

An astronaut in love orbits around the sun absorbing its energy. But the sun is too big, causing their connection to break, and the astronaut must continue on his own. As he tries to return to his source of energy, he realizes there are others like him. What started out as a game, slowly turns into a love triangle. Shapes change, but their needs remain the same.

 

THE GARBAGE MAN

Portugal, 2022, 11:50

Director: Laura Gonçalves

Script: Laura Gonçalves

Animation: Inês Teixeira, Marta Reis Andrade, Alexandra Ramires, Vitor Hugo Rocha, Maria Francisca Moura, Dimitrije Mihajlovic, Laura Gonçalves, Martim Cordovil, Patrícia Guimarães, Diana Peixoto

Music: Ricardo Santos Rocha

Sound: Pedro Marinho, Bernardo Bento

Production: Bando à Parte

Contact: emanuel@curtas.pt

On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked thirty years as a garbage man. Memories of each are crossed to tell the story of a man who lived a hard life through humor and fantasy, like when he returned to Belmonte, in a van full of trash, turned into a real treasure.

 

MY TIGER / Mon Tigre

France, 2022, 14:10

Director: Jean-Jean Arnoux

Script: Jean-Jean Arnoux

Animation: Jean-Jean Arnoux, Jon Boutin, Tom Chertier, Laure Escadafals, Françoise Losito

Music: Jean-Jean Arnoux

Sound: Quentin Romanet

Production: Xbo Films, L’image d’après

Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.com

Mr K works for « Pastagel », a miraculous product which keeps your hair perfectly smooth and shiny all day long. Mr K tries to be neat, but his hair is rebellious and doesn’t stay in place, perhaps just like him?

 

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.

 

11

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.

 

COMPETITION PROGRAM 3

 

GRANNY'S SEXUAL LIFE

Slovenia, France, 2021, 13.40

Director: Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard

Script: Urška Djukić

Animation: Émilie Pigeard

Music: Tomaž Grom

Sound: Julij Zornik

Production: Ciclic Animation, Ikki Films, Studio Virc

Contact: info@varicoloured.eu

Four old women, reflect on their memories of old times when they were young and how different the relationships between men and women were back then. Their voices merge into one single voice, that of the grandmother Vera, who tells her story in proper detail. A trip into grandmother’s youth and the memories of her intimate life illustrate the status of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century.

 

SEME

Serbia, 2022, 07.10

Director: Mihajlo Dragaš

Script: Mihajlo Dragaš

Animation: Mihajlo Dragaš

Music: NULA

Production: Sopperus Studios

Contact: soperus@yahoo.com

An old warrior and his companion ride through desolated lands in search of a place that was once their home. Music video for a band NULA.

 

3 geNARRATIONS / 3 geNARRACJE

Poland, 2021, 08.30

Director: Paulina Ziółkowska

Script: Paulina Ziółkowska

Animation: Paulina Ziółkowska, Max Litvinov, Vera Dematchouk, Alicja Błaszczyńska, Daria Kruszka, Zofia Skórka, Agnieszka Czachór

Music: Naybi Suyua Esparza Luna

Sound: Pablo Herrera Torres

Production: Fumi  Studio

Contact: festiwale@fumistudio.com

3 generations, 3 narrations, 3 different points of view. A dance of generations?

 

MR. XIFRO'S MORNING / El matí del senyor Xifró

Spain, 2022, 05.37

Director: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas

Script: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas

Animation: Marc Riba

Music: Xavi Lloses

Production: I+G Stop Motion

Contact: info@stopmotion.cat

Mr. Xifro is desperate. He just can't remember a song and it's all he can think about this morning.

 

SHADOW OF THE BUTTERFLIES / L’Ombre des papillons

France, 2022, 09.09

Director: Sofia El Khyari

Script: Sofia El Khyari

Animation: Sofia El Khyari, Camille Gibut, Margaux Kuhn, Ala Nunu

Music: Widad Brocos, Khalil Epi

Sound: Vincent Barcelo

Production: Am Stram Gram

Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.com

In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a nostalgic daydream as she observes butterflies.

 

LITTLE SMASHER / Petit cogneur

France, 2021, 13.56

Director: Gilles Cuvelier

Script: Gilles Cuvelier

Animation: Gilles Cuvelier

Music: Lucas Verreman

Sound: Yan Volsy

Production: Papy 3D

Contact: festivals@papy3d.com

Poetic testimony of a family crossing time and space to the rhythm of the uncontrollable crises of the youngest.

 

STOP IT! END THAT! CEASE! / Oprește-te! Termină! Încetează!

Romania, 2022, 04.53

Director: Eugen Munteanu

Script: Eugen Munteanu

Animation: Eugen Munteanu

Music: Daniel Stănciucu

Sound: Cristian Munteanu

Production: Eugen Munteanu

Contact: eugenmunteanu03@gmail.com

A girl with long sleeves is being followed by a boy trying to steal them. The obstacles on their path show disadvantaged boys and, at the end, the girl helps him snap out of it.

 

ID

Serbia, 2022, 17.00

Director: Ana Pakljanac

Script: Ana Pakljanac

Animation: Ana Pakljanac

Cast: Radivoje Bukvić, Dragan Mićanović

Music: Dušan Svilokos Đurić

Sound: Luka Barajević

Production: Digitalkraft

Contact: info@digitalkraft.rs

A man forced to finally deal with his problems ends up in a strange, desolate space, which he cannot leave until he puts all the pieces together.

COMPETITION PROGRAM 4

 

MONEY AND HAPPINESS

Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, 2022, 09.48

Director: Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak

Script: Ana Nedeljković

Animation: Ana Nedeljković, Leon Vidmar, Nikola Majdak

Music: Dušan Petrović

Sound: Julij Zornik

Production: Baš Čelik, Finta Film, B Film

Contact: festival@miyu.fr

The hamsters live and work in Hamsterland, a perfect state with a perfect economy. The GDP grows steadily, there is no unemployment, and 100% of the population declare themselves to be happy.

 

HOME OF THE HEART / À cœur perdu

France, 2021, 14.32

Director: Sarah Saidan

Script: Sarah Saidan, Simon Serna

Animation: Adèle Hamain, Xavi Siria, Milena Mardos, Francesca Marinelli

Music: Pierre Oberkampf

Sound: Laura Chelfi

Production: Caïmans Productions

Contact: distribution@caimans-prod.com

Omid is an Iranian immigrant who came to France with his family. One evening, in the street, he is attacked and stabbed in the heart. But Omid gets back up! At the hospital, the diagnosis is formal: he has no heart. Has he left it behind in Iran?

 

A TITLE

Serbia, 2022, 01.00

Director: Dana Vukajlović

Script: Dana Vukajlović

Animation: Dana Vukajlović

Sound: Dana Vukajlović

Contact: dana.vukajlovic@gmail.com

It all sucks but you have to start somehow…

 

A JOURNEY WITH MY DAD / Voyage avec mon père

Israel, 2022, 10.30

Director: Mor Israeli

Script: Tamar Surovich, Mor Israeli

Animation: Alex Khlebnikov, Omer Sharon, Shahar Shyia, Mathilde Roy, Guillaume Bourrachot, Mor Israeli

Music: Tamar Surovich

Sound: Aviv Aldema

Production: SU Art productions

Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.comt

For the first time, Tamar (5 years old) accompanies her dad in a hotel where vacationers look a bit strange... Through the eyes of the child then begins a journey tinged with surrealism. Tamar will eventually discover the hidden story of her father, a part of his life that she does not know...

 

HOLY MEN

Croatia, 2022, 10.46

Director: David Lovrić

Script: David Lovrić

Animation: David Lovrić, Marko Dješka

Sound: Jure Buljević

Production: Adriatic Animation

Contact: info@bonobostudio.hr

A man emerges from a fog-covered lake and goes on a hunt for souls. A girl watches him through her binoculars as he steals everything that is valuable to her. The chase across the ruins of a hidden realm forever changes her destiny.

 

PACHYDERM / Pachyderme

France, 2021, 10.57

Director: Stéphanie Clement

Script: Marc Ribs

Animation: Jérémy Ortiz, Marine Vaisse, Marc Robinet, Mina Convers, Morten Riisberg Hansen, Marthe Delaporte

Music: Olivier Militon

Sound: Pierre-François Renouf

Production: TNZPV Productions, Folimage

Contact: festival@miyu.fr

As every summer, Louise is entrusted to her grand-parents for a few days of vacation in the country. The green grass of the garden, the swimming in the lake, the fishing with Grandpa, everything seems as sweet as Grandma’s strawberry pies. Yet this year, the snow will fall in summer and a monster will die.

 

GARANO

Portugal, Lithuania, 2022, 14.08

Director: Vasco Sá, David Doutel

Script: Vasco Sá, David Doutel

Animation: Alexandra Ramires, Leonor Pacheco, Miguel Lima, Vykintas Labanauskas

Music: Jonas Jurkūnas

Sound: Bernardo Bento

Production: BAP - Animation Studio, Ar Shot

Contact: info@squareeyesfilm.com

A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun. Young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.