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.