COMPETITION PROGRAM 1
Misaligned / Koniunkcja
Poland, Latvia, 2022, 7:00
Director: Marta Magnuska
Script: Marta Magnuska
Animation: Marta Magnuska, Martins Dumins, Kristine Zvirbule
Sound: Michał Fojcik
Production: Animoon, Atom Art
Contact: katarzyna.wilk@kff.com.pl
The woman and the man are in a room, a gecko sits in a terrarium, several flies are circling a lamp. Gradually we find more and more dependencies and analogies between their activities and observed elements as the rhythm of their universes accelerates. The microcosms shown seem to interact rhythmically and belong to some cosmic order.
LUPUS IN FABULA
Serbia, 2023, 07:18
Director: Vuk Palibrk, Tanja Brzaković
Script: Tanja Brzaković
Animation: Vuk Palibrk
Music: Janja Lončar
Sound: Miloš Drobnjaković
Production: Talas Film
Contact: office@talas.info
Animated film "Lupus in fabula" was inspired by a children's poem "Once Upon a Time there was a Lion", by a famous Serbian children's poet Dusko Radovic. Our hero, Wolf, is faced with existential problems of the modern age, dreaming of being more adapted, more secure and protected.
An End to War Enough / A guerra finita
Italy, 2022, 04:43
Director: Simone Massi
Script: Simone Massi
Animation: Simone Massi
Music: Lorenzo Danesin
Production: Emergency
Contact: simonmassi@gmail.com
A world without war is another utopia that we cannot wait any longer.
Aaaah!
France, 2022, 04:41
Director: Osman Cerfon
Script: Osman Cerfon
Animation: Quentin Marcault, Hippolyte Cupillard, Osman Cerfon, Martin Touzé
Sound: Arnaud Kalmes, Denis Vautrin
Production: Miyu Productions
Contact: contact@miyu.fr
Aaaah! is a cry of pain, surprise, fear, joy, songs, grumbling, laughter, anger… Aaaah! is the expression with which children, these primary and innocent beings, experience life in a community, framed by the whistles of adults.
From one painting… to another / D’une peinture… à l’autre
Switzerland, France, 2023, 03:10
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Script: Georges Schwizgebel
Animation: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Roberto Aussel
Production: Studio GDS, Radio Télévision Suisse, Miyu Productions
Contact: contact@miyu.fr
An immersion in art through two paintings on the same subject created half a century apart.
Her Dress for the Final
Croatia, 2023, 08:45
Director: Martina Meštrović
Script: Martina Meštrović
Animation: Martina Meštrović, Marko Meštrović, Ivana Bošnjak
Sound: Iva Kraljević
Production: Kreativni sindikat
Contact: vanja@bonobostudio.hr
One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
Beautiful Figures
Belgium, 2022, 04:00
Director: Soetkin Verstegen
Script: Soetkin Verstegen
Animation: Soetkin Verstegen
Sound: Magda Drozd
Production: Soetkin Verstegen
Contact: contact@soetkin.com
Thoughts ripple over the pages of a personal notebook, kept during a stay at different science labs in Zürich. They float from one to another, like a mind map of unfinished ideas on memory, medical imaging, cells, and aging.
Trace / Sleda
Bulgaria, 2022, 06:42
Director: Asparuh Petrov
Script: Asparuh Petrov
Animation: Asparuh Petrov
Music: Andrea Martignoni
Sound: Andrea Martignoni
Production: Compote Collective
Contact: vanja@bonobostudio.hr
A young writer dedicates his nights to hunting entangled phrases with his pen. The moment he is confronted with the pregnancy of his wife his world collapses. Lingering fears and painful memories overwhelm him and he needs to trace the missing piece.
Amok
Hungary, Romania, 2022, 14:17
Director: Balázs Turai
Script: Balázs Turai
Animation: Balázs Turai, Zoltán Koska, Dániel Bárány, Márton Szakonyi
Music: Benjamin Efrati
Sound: Péter Benjámin Lukács
Production: Boddah, Safe Frame
Contact: zsofi@daazo.com
After losing his fiancée and his good looks in a freak accident, Clyde must confront his inner demon.
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.
COMPETITION PROGRAM 3
Oneluv
Russian Federation, 2022, 10:35
Director: Varya Yakovleva
Script: Varya Yakovleva
Animation: Nadezhda Fedotova, Varya Yakovleva, Tatiana Yatsina, Pavel Suslov, Sasha Deeva
Music and sound design: Alexei Prosvirnin
Production: Studio SHAR
Contact: sharstudia@gmail.com
Strangers come to visit the home of a young couple. Taking advantage of the hospitality of the hosts, the unexpected guests push the couple to do rash things, which leads to the destruction of the established order and harmony within the family.
The Boy and the Crow
Romania, 2023, 2:49
Director: Tudor Om
Script: Tudor Om
Production: Tudor Om
Contact: tudor.omstudio@gmail.com
The crow swallows the boy's blood from its beak. The boy has only one choice: run or face his fears.
Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse
Croatia, 2022, 9:57
Director: Ivana Bošnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda
Script: Ivana Bošnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda
Animation: Ivana Bošnjak Volda, Thomas Johnson Volda
Director of photography: Ivan Slipčević
Sound design: Hrvoje Niksic
Production: Kreativni sindikat
Contact: vanja@bonobostudio.hr
A waitress goes about her daily routine serving coffee whilst having thoughts of escaping her reality. A customer is constantly recording and listening back to the surrounding sounds of the café and is completely fixated by this task. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation, but do either of them realize that they are themselves examples of this condition?
STAIN-Fade
Serbia, 2023, 5:05
Director: Mihajlo Dragaš
Script: Mihajlo Dragaš
Animation: Mihajlo Dragaš
Contact: soperus@yahoo.com
Imprisoned in frozen landscapes, a young girl tries to defeat her own demons and regain a lost part of her soul.
COLD SOUP
Portugal, 2023, 9:50
Director: Marta Monteiro
Script: Marta Monteiro
Production: Animais Avpl; La Clairière Ouest
Contact: emanuel@curtas.pt
A woman victim of domestic violence looks back at the years when she was married, recalling how difficult it was to stay afloat.
Sit Down, Don't Touch Anything
Switzerland, 2022, 5:20
Director: Frederic Siegel
Script: Frederic Siegel
Production: Team Tumult
Contact: fredericsiegel@hotmail.com
A face is born out of chaos. It struggles to exist. It struggles to find its purpose. It struggles to sit on a chair. In fact, it struggles with many things. But thank God, it’s trying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
OPERATION LARP
Estonia, 2023, 9:58
Director: Mattias Mälk
Script: Mattias Mälk
Production: Eesti Joonisfilm
Contact: rutt@joonisfilm.ee
After a clash with a flock of ducks, the military loses its missile into a thick forest. On the outskirts of the same forest, a woodsman and his lover Vicky are caught redhanded by the local huntress Selma. Vicky runs naked into the forest with the vengeful huntress hot on her heels. Fortunately, an ongoing LARP camp provides a hideout for Vicky who tries to blend in.
The Master of the Swamps
Germany, 2023, 4:07
Director: Sasha Svirsky
Script: Sasha Svirsky
Music: Jessica Moss
Production: XZ Foundation
Contact: nasvirskaia@gmail.com
The film is devoted to Russian emperor Peter the Great, who lived in the late 17th and 18th centuries and brutally westernized the country. He aspired to build a great empire and considered this goal worth paying any price. Centuries have passed since his reign, but the last events show us that his bloody dream still contaminates people's minds in Russia.
Family Portrait
Croatia, Serbia, France, 2023, 14:30
Director: Lea Vidaković
Script: Lea Vidaković
Animation: Marion Le Guillou, Bilitis Levillain, Viollete Delvoye
Sound: Zoran Maksimović
Music: Miroslav Jovančić
Production: Adriatic Animation, Vivement Lundi!, Biberche Productions
Contact: lea.leavidakovic@gmail.com
As Austro-Hungary teeters on collapse, Andras and his daughter are taken aback by the visit from Andras' brother, Zoltan, who comes accompanied by his large family.
COMPETITION PROGRAM 4
Kharms
Russian Federation, 2023, 13:15
Director: Svetlana Andrianova
Script: Svetlana Andrianova
Animation: Svetlana Andrianova
Music and Sound design: Artem Fadeev
Production: School-Studio “SHAR”
Contact: sharstudia@gmail.com
Surreal, grotesque, and absurd film in the spirit of the Russian avant-garde based on the short stories of Daniil Kharms and inspired by the work of constructivists and suprematists.
HARVEST
Russian Federation, 2023, 6:10
Director: Ivan Arkhipov
Script: Ivan Arkhipov
Animation: Ivan Arkhipov
Sound design: Vladislav Levitskiy
Production: Ivan Arkhipov
Contact: chichibu14@gmail.com
Experience is something you've never done… The deeper you go, the more frightful this experience is…
Animation film reveals to the viewer the mystical moment of the intercession of the Great Mother for humanity before the power of doom. Animation made of metal plates and graphic prints in the art of drypoint engraving.
Love bubbles
Switzerland, 2023, 7:34
Director: Marcel Hobi
Script: Marcel Hobi
Animation: Joana Toste
Music: Mario Batkovic
Sound design: Peter Braeker, Oscar van Hoogeves
Production: Looping Animations
Contact: info@looping-animations.ch
Floating on a pink cloud as a couple is easy. It is much more difficult to cope with everyday life and the future together - an amusing relationship drama.
Almost Forgotten / Quase Me Lembro
Portugal, 2023, 9:07
Director: Dimitri Mihajlovic, Miguel Lima
Script: Dimitri Mihajlovic, Miguel Lima, Pedro Bastos
Animation: Carolina Bonzinho, Dimitri Mihajlovic, Leander Meresaar, Marta Andrade, Miguel Lima, Rozenn Busson, Teresa Baroet
Music: Hainbach
Sound design: Bernardo Bento, Pedro Marinho
Production: BAP - Animation Studio
Contact: emanuel@curtas.pt
A woman wanders through the impermanence of her childhood memories, trying to rebuild the story of the house where her grandfather lived.
Heartbeat
Netherlands, 2023, 3:00
Director: Kim Spierenburg
Script: Kim Spierenburg
Animation: Kim Spierenburg
Music: Kim Spierenburg
Dizajn zvuka/Sound design: Pat Stewart
Production: Kim Spierenburg
Contact: kimspierenburg@gmail.com
Heartbeat is an ode to (new) life. Inspired by the sound of the violin that revives me. Heartbeat is about moving on and how making music is precious and should be cherished. As a disabled artist I have firsthand knowledge of the fragility of life. As a female artist, I intuitively express the themes of womanhood, the experience of womanhood, birth and the creation of life in this film.
Bright Souls
Russian Federation, 2022, 8:00
Director: Anastasiia Zhakulina
Script: Anastasiia Zhakulina
Animation: Anastasiia Zhakulina
Music: Sofia Petkevich
Sound design: Elena Nikolaeva
Production: Fireball LLC
Contact: sharstudia@gmail.com
Adapted from the short story of the same name by Vasily Shukshin. Heat, summer, countryside, harvest… Misha is a truck driver who's always off at work, transporting grain from faraway villages. His wife Yenya misses her husband terribly and craves love and attention. She is hurt when Misha swings by home and immediately starts tinkering with the truck. The dark summer night is so beautiful, and the time is running out to just be with each other.
Bientôt la Lumière
France, 2022, 4:24
Director: Thami Nabil, Hedi Nabil
Script: Thami Nabil, Hedi Nabil
Music: Mad Rey
Production: Miyu Productions, Red Lebanese, Studio X8
Contact: festival@miyu.fr
In a dystopian Paris, a young man tries to survive by selling drugs. Hunted by a rival gang, he goes on a roadtrip through the city.
Lost Kisses
Serbia, 2022, 8:37
Director: Marija Milanović Lazarevski
Script: Marija Milanović Lazarevski
Animation: Marija Milanović Lazarevski
Music: Sonja Lončar, Andrija Pavlović
Sound design: Miki Todorović
Production: Media Global Agency
Film about transience, loss, with happy end.
Shaptach
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2023, 3:45
Director: Mladen Đukić
Script: Mladen Đukić
Animation: Mladen Đukić
Music: Katarina Shelehova
Sound design: Predrag Blagojević
Production: Aeon Production
Contact: mladen.djukic@aeonproduction.com
Contemplating a conflict and its potential outcomes.
Margarethe 89
France, 2023, 18:00
Director: Lucas Malbrun
Script: Lucas Malbrun, Marie Larrivé
Animation: Morgan Curt, Hippolyte Cupillard, Jean-Baptiste Peltier, Charlie Belin, Jonas Schloesing, Daria Skripka, Yehor Bondarenko, Angelina Dorozhinskaia
Music: Mael Oudin
Sound design: Quentin Romanet
Production: Eddy Production
Contact: miguel.wasia@gmail.com
Leipzig, 1989. Margarethe, a young punk opposed to the East German regime, is detained in a psychiatric hospital. She dreams of breaking out to join the man she loves - a punk musician named Heinrich. Though the regime's days may well be numbered, the Stasi informants are more present than ever.
