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.