Competition 2

For Ray 04:03
United Kingdom 2016
Directed by: Heidi Stokes
Animation: 2d animation
Technique: Hand drawn and digitally edited
Music: pond5.com
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English


'For Ray' is a celebration of Human kindness, and pays homage to how small acts of kindness can make a profound difference in a persons life. In a world that is increasingly becoming more and more politically volatile these reminders become ever more potent and important.




Homegrown 09:20
United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Quentin Haberham
Screenplay: Quentin Haberham, Tim Fraser
Animation: Quentin Haberham
Technique: Stop motion
Music: Lindsay Wright
Production/School: National Film and Television School
Dialogue language: None
Subtitles language: None


Francis raises his son like he cultivates his plants, shielded from harm, comfortable inside. However when the boy outgrows his father's protective confines, Francis must face an uncomfortable truth.




Playing House / Evcilik 03:24
Turkey 2017
Directed by: Cenk Köksal - Özgül Gürbüz
Screenplay: Cenk Koksal - Ozgul Gurbuz
Animation: Bora Şahin - Mervenur Ülcan - Güneş Göçmen - Seçkin Yalın
Technique: 3D Computer
Music: Matthias Steiner
Production/School: Independent
Dialogue language: Turkish
Subtitles language: English

A little girl is playing house by herself. She makes food out of toys and sets the table. When a little boy comes in, she greets him with joy. But things get darker as they keep pretending.


Why Use Animation? 01:39
USA 2015
Directed by: Jo Meuris
Animation: Jo Meuris
Technique: Hand-drawn Animation

A short promotional video for Nevada State College's Instructional Technology animation services.



My Favorite Forehead 03:19
United States of America 2017
Directed by: John Akre
Animation: John Akre
Technique: stop motion, 2d computer
Music: Marty Brueggemann


A frustrating love affair.



Social Animals 04:41
United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: David Moss
Dialogue language: English


A series of short, humorous animations, exploring the use of animal caricatural depictions to portray aspects of modern Britain through satire, irony and visual puns. Interviews were conducted, as well as including news media extracts for the audio. This was then the template to which the characters and scenarios crafted to fit Topics will include the relatable societal subjects, of: Politics, Europe and Ultra-Nationalism, as well as more playful observations, such as social media and fast food.




Macabre 20:00
Portugal 2015
Directed by: Jerónimo Rocha, João Miguel Real


K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...



Lemon Tree / Limoeiro 05:00
Portugal 2016
Directed by: Joana Silva




Tailor 09:47
Brazil 2017
Directed by: Calí dos Anjos
Screenplay: Calí dos Anjos e Debora Guimarães
Animation: Raissa Laban
Technique: Rotoscoping
Music: Natalia Carrera
Production/School: Bia Medeiros; Suma Filmes
Dialogue language: Portuguese
Subtitles language: English


TAILOR is a transgender cartoonist that shares in his web page other trans people's experiences and their challenges in society.



Salary Serf 02:46
USA 2017
Directed by: Baya Bae
Technique: 3D animation
Production/School: School of Visual Arts
Dialogue language: English


Salary Serf is a short, 3D motion graphics animation about a chameleon named BAYA who works at a huge pharmaceutical company called PAIN. What looks like a model corporation on the outside, is pretty much an employee's? torture chamber on the inside. Here the more misery you can withstand, the more money and honor you?ll receive. Caught in this degrading system, BAYA eventually makes his exit into a sometimes mystical, moral, psychological landscape before he reaches the end of his anti-hero?s journey.




Sand 04:48
Netherlands 2017
Directed by: Arjan Brentjes
Screenplay: Arjan Brentjes
Animation: Arjan Brentjes
Technique: 3d and 2d cgi
Music: Arjan Brentjes
Production/School: Arjan Brentjes
Dialogue language: English


You get up at five, eat your vitamins, take some water with your coffee, work for a few hours, eat your omegas and flavonoids, work a little more, get some exercise and then take a shower. But don?t bother trying to wash the sand out of your hair.




Between Sand and Tides 04:17
United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Rui Fan Wang
Screenplay: Rui Fan Wang
Animation: Rui Fan Wang
Technique: Stopmotion Puppet
Music: Gedminte Samsonaite
Production/School: Royal College of Art
Dialogue language: English


When all life is drained and vacuumed, all that?s left is sand. For a very long time, I was sand and I was drowned. An exhausted girl travels across an endless desert to look for new hope, while trying to deal with her erratic tempered anteater.




Stories About Him / 關於他的故事 12:46
Taiwan 2017
Directed by: Yung Shiuan Yang
Screenplay: Yung Shiuan Yang
Animation: Yung Shiuan Yang, Chih Ying Ku, Chiou Lan Liu
Technique: draw on paper, paint on glass, object, clay, 2D computer
Music: Yoon Kim, Po Chung Lin
Production/School: Yung Shiuan Yang
Dialogue language: Chinese
Subtitles language: English


One day I asked my aunts and uncles about my grandpa while they were playing Mahjong. I asked them what does grandpa look like? Where did he come from? How was his childhood? What had he been through? The stories they told me amazed me. But are these all real? Who is he?



The adventure of the afternoon / 那個午後的冒險 07:45
Taiwan 2016
Directed by: Vance Yang, Stella Huang
Screenplay: Jimmy Liao, Vance Yang
Animation: Zhi-Wei Lin, Guang-Rong Zhou, Gui-Mei Zhang, Lou-Lou Lin, Hong-Yu Zhuang, Ming-Zheng Guo, Shu-Mei Su, Li-Jun Liu, Jia-Qi Lai
Technique: 2d paper, 3d computer
Music: Chien Chi Chen
Production/School: Yusan Lee, Chun Wei Hsieh
Dialogue language: n/a
Subtitles language: n/a


In a beautiful afternoon, a little boy meets an unexpected friend, with whom he starts an adventure journey.



Parade 04:00
Netherlands 2015
Directed by: Digna van der Put
Animation: Digna van der Put
Technique: 2D
Music: Alex Debicki
Production/School: Ton Crone
Dialogue language: No dialogues
Subtitles language: No subtitles


Six fanfare flute players explore the landscape of the uniform. A journey that does not go unscathed.



Tabook / Taboek 02:47
Netherlands 2016
Directed by: Dario van Vree
Screenplay: Dario van Vree
Animation: Tom Mourik, Michael Sewnarain, Bonnie Mier
Technique: 2D computer animation
Music: Nik Phelps
Production/School: Tünde Vollenbroek
Dialogue language: No dialogues
Subtitles language: No subtitles

While browsing the bookstore 19-year-old Gwen is unexpectedly drawn to a volume of kinky erotica, earning her disapproving glares from the other customers. Will Gwen follow her deepest desires or will she let her embarrassment restrain her?