Competition 9

Monsters Dot Com 04:50
USA 2015
Directed by: Bruno Pieroni
Screenplay: Bruno Pieroni
Animation: Bruno Pieroni
Technique: 2D computer
Music: Comma Music
Dialogue language: English


An online job posting goes to the wrong place and some unexpected candidates show up.



Angry Youth 04:25
USA 2016
Directed by: Wang Xie
Screenplay: Wang Xie
Technique: 3D, mixed media
Music: Greg Dombrowsky
Production/School: John McIntosh


A brainwashed youth who has survived and witnessed the horrific tragedy caused by an alien invasion, decides to take revenge for his own kind. On the adventure of his retribution, he is faced with a dilemma. Should he pursue his blood lust and violence or spare his enemy?



Forest of Berries 03:49
USA 2016
Directed by: Nikol Alanna
Screenplay: Nikol Alanna
Animation: Nikol Alanna
Technique: 2D After Effects
Production/School: Alanna Nikol, John McIntosh


Alula constantly runs away from home to explore a forest nearby much to her father's chagrin. He drags her back home and orders her inside their house in a very authoritative matter. As her father guards the room of his daughter, she makes plans to escape. When she finally leaves something goes horribly awry and Alula's fate is changed forever.



Stop or Melt! 01:30
United Arab Emirates 2016
Directed by: Josep Calle, Danish Jalil K.
Screenplay: Josep Calle,Danish Jalil K.
Animation: Josep Calle, Danish Jalil K.
Technique: Clay animation
Production/School: Danish Jalil K. & Kaspafilms.Com
Dialogue language: English


Planet Earth is threatened by the global warming...



Winfried 04:00
Germany 2016
Directed by: Jana Lenhard, Christopher Vogt, Victoria Sandvoß
Screenplay: Jana Lenhard, Christopher Vogt, Victoria Sandvoß
Animation: Jana Lenhard, Christopher Vogt, Victoria Sandvoß
Technique: 2D
Music: The Underscore Orkestra. Com (Swing Gitane)
Production/School: Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg


Winfried has been unhappy since birth. First only little things annoy him. Later on even housing, people and events – nothing seems to meet his needs. The search for personal happiness becomes an odyssey.



Fish Tank 06:00
China 2016
Directed by: Haoge, Rebaca
Screenplay: Haoge, Rebaca
Animation: Haoge, Rebaca
Technique: 2D, Hand drawing, Mixed media
Music: Keju Luo, Chun Yang Yao
Production/School: Haoge, Rebaca
Dialogue language: Chinese, English


The movie demonstrates relations between a fish’s vision towards outside fishbowl and fish, and fishbowl images from people’s perspective. It is a concatenation of two stories. The first story is about the submergence of a governed planet, and the other one reveals the evolution and circulation of human consciousness. Every chapter is connected in series by unconsciously walks of birds, bears and human beings.



Expedition X 03:00
Armenia 2016
Directed by: Gohar khachatryan
Screenplay: Gohar Khachatryan
Animation: Eva Muradian, Gohar Khachatryan
Technique: 2D
Music: Aram Khachaturyan
Production/School: Gohar Khachatryan
Dialogue language: Armenian


Flowers remind us of the fairy tale, that is inside us, even if it is forgotten. When this flower opens, a moment is enough for the miracle. This film is about a vegetative grandmother who looks for new flowers. Suddenly she drops inside a flower, which looks ordinary from the first sight, here she finds a completely new world. Expedition is a road leading to new discoveries, and the outer word is not enough for revealing these new things, you should see them from inside.



The Big Clawed Monster 05:22
Brazil 2016
Directed by: Julia Vellutini
Screenplay: Jekuaguá Mirim
Technique: Puppets, Stop Motion
Production/School: Debora Ribeiro
Dialogue language: Portuguese


“The Big Clawed Monster” tells the story of Werá, a boy from the indigenous tribe Krukutu, in São Paulo. After stealing a feather from a magical owl on the day of his ritual to adulthood, he is transformed into the mythical creature “The Monster of Enormous Claws”. He must then return the stolen feather to the owl, in order to become a boy once again.



The last Tar 10:50
Iran 2016
Directed by: Yashin Nahani
Screenplay: Yashin Nahani
Animation: Yashin Nahani
Technique: 3D, 2D hand drawn
Music: Meysam Kazazi
Production/School: Hamid Modarresi


\”Tar\” is the oldest Iranian musical instrument. In this animation the romantic relationship between an old man and his \”tar\” has been pictured.