Competition 8

The Vast Landscape 11:00
Croatia 2014
Directed by: Lea Vidakovic
Screenplay: Lea Vidakovic
Animation: Lea Vidakovic
Technique: Stop motion, animated objects, puppets, clay animation, etc
Music: Yoerik Roevens
Production/School: Drasko Ivezic


A fox hunter and a porcelain shopkeeper lady, the scientist brothers, a seal, a boy and a music box. Six characters in their rooms filled with traces of longing, separated by a vast and bleak landscape. Four stories on love, contemplation and (self)destruction.



A Love Story 07:04
United Kingdom 2016
Directed by: Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara
Screenplay: Elena Ruscombe-King, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara
Animation: Anushka Naanayakkara, Iván Sarrión Soria
Technique: Stop Motion
Music: Victor Hugo Fumagalli
Production/School: Khaled Gad


A powerful tale of love faced with darkness.



Patata Day 04:05
Germany 2016
Directed by: Peter Böving
Screenplay: Peter Böving
Animation: Peter Böving
Technique: Mixed media
Music: Peter Böving
Dialogue language: English


This cinematic parable tells the story of five people in a diner who spin a yarn about potato dishes. In the next scene, funny animated potatoes appear. The audience cheerfully follows the film but understands that a highly topical issue is served with the potatoes on the plate. 



Reflecting Black 06:56
Germany 2016
Directed by: Jan Utecht
Screenplay: Jan Utecht
Animation: Jan Utecht
Technique: Oil on glass, reflection motion
Music: Penning Frischkorn, John Higgins, Jan Utecht
Production/School: Filmuniversität Babelsberg "Konrand Wolf"


Up on a bald mountain an old hag climbs into a magic cauldron. By using the power of her ancient craft she wants to make use of the cauldron as a fountain of youth, but instead of herself her juvenile doubleganger climbs out, and confronts the witch with her worst demon.



Spotlight 02:54
France 2016
Directed by: Otalia Causse
Screenplay: Otalia Causse
Animation: Otalia Causse
Technique: 2D computer
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns, Bobby day
Production/School: Supinfocom


On stage, a pianist and a violinist interpret the Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns. In the heights of the theater, the lighting guy is languishing behind a giant console which only activates two buttons. He decided to speak through an unexpected light show.



The Little Gray Wolfy: The Winter Story 06:00
Norway 2016
Directed by: Natalia Malykhina
Screenplay: Natalia Malykhina
Animation: Natalia Malykhina
Technique: 2D computer
Music: Mattis Sørum
Production/School: Natalia Malykhina (UlvenFilm)
Dialogue language: English, Norwegian, Russian


This story happened in winter one day, Wandering home was a wolf that was gray…. It would seem, that nothing interesting could happen to The Little Gray Wolfy in a boring sleeping winter forest. A world around is white, silent and cold, and poor little Wolfy feels lonely and hungry...



Mittashane 05:05
USA 2016
Directed by: Jeremy Speed Schwartz
Screenplay: Jeremy Speed Schwartz
Animation: Ashley Adams, Nicole Barber, Ben Ceci, Brian Chu, Alex Ciolek,
Technique: Mixed media
Music: Castro House
Dialogue language: Japanese (lyrics)


The corporate fish see only what is directly in front of them. They review all the data and build a giant spherical robot for unknown purposes. Accompanied by a troop of dancing bunnies, a singing capricorn and a psychedelic guitar player, they launch the robot into the sky, where it devours the sun. 'Mittashane' is a collaboration between Digital Media and Animation Students at Alfred State College and Tokyo-based band Castro House.



Night Terror 05:59
USA 2016
Directed by: Parker & Jarrod Chatham
Technique: Puppet Stop motion
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns, Frederic Chopin
Dialogue language: English


After the deaths of her beloved husband and horse following the Great War, a widow must come into terms with her tragedy.