Competition 17

Broken Tiaras #501 ("Meet The LadyBugs", ep. 1, season 5) 07:06
USA 2016
Directed by: Dorothy Wallace
Screenplay: Dorothy Wallace
Animation: Dorothy Wallace
Technique: 2D, Cut-outs
Music: Dorothy Wallace
Production/School: Dorothy Wallace
Dialogue language: English


The LadyBugs save little girls from a televised beauty pageant in "Broken Tiaras"



My Stuffed Granny 10:00
United Kingdom 2014
Directed by: Effie Pappa
Screenplay: Effie Pappa
Animation: Effie Pappa
Technique: Stop frame, Puppets
Music: Dave Pearce
Production/School: National Film & School TV
Dialogue language: English


Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more?



The Smile 06:36
Iran 2014
Directed by: Sonia Hashemi
Screenplay: Sonia Hashemi, Reihane Pasandide
Animation: Sonia Hashemi, Reihane Pasandide
Technique: 2D computer, stop motion
Music: Hamed Younesi
Production/School: Sepehr Art University


The story is about a little girl who is suffering from cancer. The little girl weaves carpet and through a woven crane in the carpet she will enter the fantasy world of the carpet. With the help of the Origami crane she will pass the seasons and through this journey she will find happiness and be able to grant happiness to the others.



Albert - The most exciting thing 03:33
Germany 2016
Directed by: Eva Münnich
Screenplay: Eva Münnich
Animation: Eva Münnich, Robin Keast
Technique: 2D After Effects
Music: Albert
Dialogue language: English


Clip for the band Albert. Simon and Felix find themself set back into victorain times, trying to escape an slime alien that transforms everybody into monsters.



Kitsune 01:00
Spain 2016
Directed by: Guillermo P. Bosch
Screenplay: Guillermo P. Bosch
Animation: Guillermo P. Bosch
Technique: 2D, rotoscoping and digital painting
Music: Ramón Pérez Laspeñas
Production/School: Guillermo P. Bosch


Kitsune ("Spirit of the fox" in japanese) is an experimental animation materialized through a matryoshka game. 



Wormhole 12:28
Finland 2016
Directed by: Turun Anikistit
Screenplay: Turun Anikistit
Animation: Samppa Kukkonen, Antti Laakso, Joni Männistö
Technique: 2D computer
Music: Tero-Petri Suovanen
Production/School: Jupe Louhelainen / Twisted Films & Kimmo Sillanmikko / Turun Anikistit
Dialogue language: German
Subtitles language: English


Vienna 1914. Otto finds a wormhole into another dimension. It drives his mental health and relationship with Emma into ruins. They both end up seeking help from Freud's couch.



Selfie 02:04
Greece 2016
Directed by: Mara Geroyiannaki, Asimenia Kardamaki, Antonis Krassoudakis, Demetra Lymperi
Screenplay: Mara Geroyiannaki, Asimenia Kardamaki, Antonis Krassoudakis, Demetra Lymperi
Animation: Mara Geroyiannaki, Asimenia Kardamaki, Antonis Krassoudakis, Demetra Lymperi
Technique: Mixed media
Music: Kevin MacLeod (Isolated), Podington Bear (Happy Ending)
Production/School: Chania Animation Workhsop


What can happen when we take selfie photographies?