WORLD PANORAMA
Andy: A Dog’s Tale
USA, 2022, 07:31
Director: Jamy Wheless
Script: John Kelly
Production: Jamy Wheless, Jeanine Konopelski
Contact: vesna.dinic@craterstudio.com
Andy is an uplifting story of how one puppy overcomes a series of obstacles to find his purpose in life and become a service dog.
Hadis
Azerbaijan, 2023, 09:19
Director: Nazrin Aghamaliyeva
Script: Nazrin Aghamaliyeva, Roman Balayan
Production: ANIMAFILM Studio
Contact: animafilm.animation.studio@gmail.com
In a world ruled by crows and discrimination, a young girl decides to fight for justice.
The Song of Flying Leaves / Trchox terevneri ergy
Armenia, 2023, 12:37
Director: Armine Anda
Script: Armine Anda, Ismail Iman
Music: Miqayel Voskanyan
Production: Hoshkee Film
Contact: hoshkeefilm@gmail.com
A journey to a dream through an encounter between Suna, a twelve-year-old girl who uses leaves as a blanket, and an old man who possesses secret knowledge. A reflection on friendship between a father and a daughter, a teacher and a student, an adult and a child, and the path that can turn the impossible into possible...
Dog Days
Netherlands, 2022, 02:15
Director: George Hampshire
Script: George Hampshire, Milo Cremer Eindhoven
Music: Tessa Rose Jackson, Darius Timmer
Production: Submarine
Contact: mathilde.medard@submarine.nl
A young man clings to the last remaining piece of his relationship: his ex girlfriend’s beloved sausage dog. At first his inability to let go helps him cope with his broken heart, while creating havoc in the city. But this takes a turn when the sausage dog starts to alienate him from the rest of the world.
Morning Joy
USA, 2022, 07:37
Director: John Henry Hinkel
Script: Ethan D. Pakchar
Music: Ethan D. Pakchar
Production: Talesgate Animation, Amorivant
Contact: jhhinkel@gmail.com
A recently widowed pianist has an unexpected encounter.
Let's be friends
Netherlands, 2022, 05:26
Director: Arno Coenen, Rodger Werkhoven
Contact: theuszwakhals@li-ma.nl
Synthetic actors, generated with DALL•E 2, explain the differences between ‘traditional’ 3D-animated characters and them, AI-generated actors, as well as how artificial intelligence will affect acting careers in general soon.
First Aid/Premiers secours
France, 2023, 07:06
Director: Borislav Sajtinac
Production: Hélène Sajtinac
Contact: sajtinac@orange.fr
You are never better served than by yourself.
The Record
Switzerland, 2022, 08:38
Director: Jonathan Laskar
Script: Jonathan Laskar
Animation: Jonathan Laskar, Sébastien Godard
Music: Jonathan Laskar
Sound Design: Carlos Ibanez Diaz
Production: Punched Paper Films
Contact: festivals@papierperfore.ch
An antique musical instrument dealer obsessively plays a magical vinyl record that “reads your mind and plays your lost memories.” Even the forgotten ones.
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Golden Headacher
Finland , 2022, 17:00
Director: Niina Suominen
Script: Niina Suominen
Music: Risto Ylihärsilä
Production: Force Majeure Films
Contact: andy@rainafilms.com
An experimental animation documentary about women’s hate and aggression and the culturally sanctioned ways to express or suppress these uneasy feelings. The film was created by animating textile and décor waste and beautiful glossy pictures of children that were popular in Scandinavia in the last century. The work brings to the fore the irritation and exhaustion felt by women and the thoughts often left unsaid outside the walls of home, as well as reflecting on the remorse and the shame felt after the bursts of anger.
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BALKAN PANORAMA
Nest
Bulgaria, 2023, 07:02
Director: Nastimir Nikolov Tzatchev
Script: Nastimir Nikolov Tzatchev, Viara Donio Doneva
Production: Nagual
Contact: nagualn@gmail.com
This is a story-metaphor about the life of a snail whose dream is to fly! Our dreams and wishes don't always come true, but we may see them in the generations after us.
Evanescence
Croatia, 2023, 03:32
Director: Mare Šuljak
Script: Mare Šuljak
Sound Design: Jeronim Jandrić
Production: Kinoklub Zagreb
Contact: mare.suljak@gmail.com
Evanescence is a reflection on death and transience from the point of view of a person remaining behind. It is a film about the search for identity in an ever-changing world, whose future itself is increasingly uncertain. The death enforces the awareness of the inexorable nature of transience. Enfolded by space that is in a state of constant flux, endlessly emerging and disappearing, the author too fluctuates with it.
Suruaika
Romania, 2022, 09:10
Director: Vlad Ilicevici, Radu C Pop
Script: Vlad Ilicevici
Production: Workshop Studio
Contact: vlad.ilicevici@gmail.com
Kipu is a luxury chauffeur in a dark city, where the streets are full of cars and black cats. After he accidentally runs over the entire family of a little cat called Suruaika, Kipu adopts her and does all he can to keep her safe. As Kipu’s love for Suruaika grows, so does her body, and the streets become more and more crowded with black cats, new victims for countless little tragedies.
Borders
Serbia, 2022, 03:18
Director: Lazar Predrag Bačkonja
Script: Lazar Predrag Bačkonja
Contact: plpbackonja@gmail.com
An animated film about the creation and disappearance of borders.
REPUBLIKA
Croatia, 2023, 11:15
Director: Antonia Begušić
Script: Antonia Begušić
Animation: Pavao Stanojević, Mislav Tomašinjak, Antonia Begušić
Music: Hrvoje Štefotić
Production: Zagreb Film
Contact: sanja.borcic@zagrebfilm.hr
- Well, Adeimantus, has our state now grown to its full size?
- Perhaps.
- Then, where in it shall we find justice or injustice? If they have come in with one of the elements we have been considering, can you say with which one?
- I have no idea, Socrates; unless it be somewhere in peoples dealings with one another. “
(Republic, Plato)
Living Wage
Serbia, 2022, 08:21
Director: Olga Dimitrijević, Bojana Tamindžija, Vladimir Simović
Script: Olga Dimitrijević
Animation: Dana Vukajlović
Music: Stefan Milojković
Production: Bojana Tamindžija, Vladimir Simović
Contact: vladimir@cpe.org.rs
A working woman, confronted with the reality of poverty and unfair working conditions in the global fashion industry, seeks justice.
Our Love is Immortal
Turkey, 2023, 03:32
Director: Ender Yildizhan
Script: Ender Yildizhan, Ozan Akyol, Erman Çağlar
Contact: enderyildizhn@gmail.com
A little boy worries about his parents' relationship in a dystopian future. When his father sings to him a song about what he and his mother have accomplished in this world and how they survived, the little boy's self-confidence will be restored.
Short Stories
North Macedonia, 2022, 10:08
Director: Goce Ilievski
Script: Goce Ilievski
Animation: Goce Ilievski
Contact: goce_i@hotmail.com
Short Stories, is an experimental short animated movie consisting of short intuitive animated stories linked together in a fantastic composition. The animations are drawn frame by frame in a traditional manner, with retro and rubber hose animation aesthetics.
Unspoken
Serbia, 2022, 01:00
Director: Milica Denković
Script: Milica Denković
Animation: Milica Denković
Contact: milica.denkovic@gmail.com
Unspoken is a stop-motion animation video poetry work about distance, thoughts, and travel. Trying to combine unsaid (in terms of text and white space) with minimalistic and abstract geometric visuals. The film is inspired by suprematism, abstract art, Fluxus, haiku, and Hemmingway’s writing practices.
Pink Mountain
Greece, 2022, 08:25
Director: Thomas Künstler
Script: Thomas Künstler, Glykeria Patramani
Animation: Phaedra Derizioti, Thomas Künstler
Music: Yiannis Pothos
Production: StudioBauhaus
Contact: tommy@kunstler.it
What can a humble florist in love do to win the heart of a Pasha's bride? An ancient Ottoman fairy tale tells the story of a forbidden love, made of patience, silence and the help of a heron.
Saturation
Croatia, 2022, 09:46
Director: Lucija Bužančić
Script: Lucija Bužančić
Animation: Marko Belić, Lucija Bužančić, Katarina Jukić
Production: Zagreb Film
Contact: sanja.borcic@zagrebfilm.hr
Something grew out of the cracks and walls and occupied all the empty spaces in a little Mediterranean city. This short film is about the gentrification of a place that has recently become a real archeological site thanks to severe touristification.
The Legend of Goldhorn
Slovenia, 2022, 13:35
Director: Lea Vučko
Animation: Lea Vučko
Music: Janez Dovc
Production: Octopics Production
Contact: octopicsinfo@gmail.com
A hunter heads out to the mountains to mend his broken heart. On his way, he can’t escape the visions of his lover who left him. As he loses his mind, his dark side comes to life. The shadow guides him to hunt the mythical Goldhorn and ultimately leads him to his demise.
