Competition 4

Muedra 09:00
Spain 2019
Directed by: Cesar Díaz Meléndez
Screenplay: César Díaz Meléndez
Animation: César Díaz Meléndez
Technique: stop motion
Music: César Díaz Meléndez
Production/School: Mizunonaka
Dialogue language: without
Subtitles language: without


Life can arise anywhere, nature behaves strangely and days can last for minutes. Although everything is familiar to us, nothing is what it seems in this place. The cycle of life seen from a different perspective.




Butterfly & Mouse / Пеперуда и Мишка 14:19
Bulgaria 2019
Directed by: Mira Yankova
Screenplay: Mira Yankova
Animation: Mira Yankova
Technique: hand-drawn traditional animation
Music: Mihail Iossifov
Production/School: Roumen Barrosov
Dialogue language: no dialogue


People often say, “This one has a lion’s heart, and that one – a rabbit’s”. Some hide lions in their chests, other ones – rabbits, yet others – mice. There are also those who wouldn’t dare face their inner spirit animal. What could happen to someone so very afraid of seeing what he carries within. A short jazzy film about the fears that obstruct man's way to himself and to others.




Exposed 02:55
Taiwan 2019
Directed by: YaLin Yu
Screenplay: YaLin Yu
Production/School: YaLin Yu

Joyce, a girl who got cancer and become bald is afraid of facing her friend because of her appearance, so her imaginary wig monster friend is trying to help her out.



#21xoxo 09:51
Belgium 2019
Directed by: Sine Özbilge
Screenplay: Sine Özbilge
Production/School: Lunanime (Annemie Degryse)
Dialogue language: English


21XOXO is a surreal and humorous reflection on the 21th century youth. The story is about a girl and her online search for love in times of social media, speed dating, cyberlove, hipster culture and post-net attitudes. The protagonist takes us on a journey through a colorful and bizarre imaginary world filled with absurd, surreal and metamorphic scenes.




Legend Of Ancient Borneo 08:43
Malaysia 2019
Directed by: Geoffrey Sinn Chun Hou
Screenplay: Geoffrey Sinn Chun Hou
Technique: 2D Frame by Frame Animation
Music: Ronald Ng
Production/School: Geoffrey Sinn Chun Hou
Dialogue language: Kadazan
Subtitles language: English


Four warriors of a village in ancient Borneo were going after a gang of reptiles savages who ravaged their village and took the village's sacred dragon skull, but they soon found out the truth behind their village's prosperity and the untold history of the dragon skull.




Balance 03:38
Singapore 2018
Directed by: Raymond Limantara Sutisna
Screenplay: Raymond Limantara Sutisna
Animation: Raymond Limantara Sutisna; Liao Zhibin; Tracy Quek Kai Ning
Technique: 2D Animation; Cel Animation
Music: Andrew Scott Bell
Production/School: Nanyang Technological University
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: no dialogue


“There isn’t enough room for the both of us.” Two painters battle out what space they have to paint in their own style.



Voyels Hunt / La Chasse aux voyelles 02:16
Canada 2019
Directed by: Hélène Matte
Screenplay: Paul Zumthor
Dialogue language: French


What remains to be said? Through an interdisciplinary approach, ZumTrobaR gives substance to the poetry of Paul Zumthor (1915-1995). Here, a cartoon updates the sextine's form where swirl the "great common places that move" that are love, death and birth.




Om Nom Nom… 03:17
Japan 2019
Directed by: Minato Matsuda, Haruna Ueno, Tomoko Taiga
Screenplay: Team Amam Gokkun
Animation: Puppet animation
Technique: puppets, cutout drawings, multi-plane camera
Music: Kazuhito Yamaide
Production/School: Team Amam Gokkun
Dialogue language: English (no dialogue)


One day, a hungry dinosaur came across a weird jumping egg in the forest. He swallowed it, and then felt some strange rumblings in his tummy. Well, well, well... This stop-motion animation is essentially a funny short story for kids, but its fanciful visual images may also attract adults. The unique imagery of the dinosaur’s internal organs and nature have been created with a multi-plane camera, by combining fluffy flat puppets (a boy, a dinosaur, and other creatures) with carefully composed pastel drawings.



Calls for Archie 04:35
USA 2019
Directed by: Zach Christy
Screenplay: Zach Christy
Animation: Zach Christy
Technique: 2d/3d
Music: Kirk Pearson of Dogbotic
Production/School: Zach Christy Design
Dialogue language: English


A man gets mysterious calls for years and tries to understand why.



Transconscience / Transconsciencia 11:56
Spain 2019
Directed by: Angel Pascual
Screenplay: Angel Pascual
Animation: Angel Pascual
Technique: Angel Pascual
Music: Ulises Pistolo/ Roser Talents
Production/School: Angel Pascual
Dialogue language: No dialogue
Subtitles language: No subtitles


When consciousness and consciousness merge.



The Spirit Seam 14:52
USA 2019
Directed by: Ashley Gerst
Screenplay: Ashley Gerst
Animation: Ashley Gerst, Adam Momsen, Morgan Taylor
Technique: mixed media: 3D, 2D, and stop motion animation
Production/School: n/a
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: n/a


The Spirit Seam is a short animated film about a little girl, Pollywog, and her Pap-Paw. Located in an Appalachain coal-mining town in the 1950s, the film takes the audience through the daily life of both characters. At the start of the film, the characters eat breakfast together and then travel to their respective locations- Pollywog is dropped off at school, and Pap-Paw clocks into work at the Hiraethsburg coal mine. Throughout the film they experience the simple pleasures of rural Appalachian life: catching fireflies, fishing, catching frogs, and birthdays. Pap-Paw and Pollywog's bond is incredibly strong. In fact, they are inseparable until illness threatens to fracture their small family. This film is an homage to Gerst's maternal side and their origins working in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It is a piece rooted not only in family roots and origin, but in grief over the loss of family members as well. The Spirit Seam combines a mixture of animation mediums. The characters have been 3D modeled and animated in Audodesk Maya while the elemental effects are created in the 2D Animation software Toonboom Harmony. The sets are created physically, and are created in a variety of ways: 3D printing, embroidery, felted yarn, and sculptural techniques.



Berebé 07:40
Brazil 2019
Directed by: Antonio Sergio Spagnol
Screenplay: Antonio Sergio Spagnol
Production/School: ANTONIO SERGIO SPAGNOL
Dialogue language: Portuguese


A young man who is tormented by his mother, decides to kill her




Perpetuate 04:34
USA 2019
Directed by: Stephan Larson
Screenplay: Stephan Larson
Animation: Stephan Larson
Technique: 3D animation
Music: Stephan Larson
Dialogue language: None


A short animation about life, birth, nature and industry.



A Double Life 02:43
Netherlands 2018
Directed by: Studio Job, Joris & Marieke
Screenplay: Studio Job, Joris & Marieke
Production/School: Studio Job, Joris & Marieke

A deliciously dark comedy about a husband and wife whose different ideas of gender conformity lead to an unexpected confrontation.


At First Sight 16:10
Netherlands 2018
Directed by: Sjaak Rood
Screenplay: Sjaak Rood
Animation: Sjaak Rood
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Music: Martin Fondse, Claudio Puntin, Jörg Brinkmann
Production/School: Paul de Heer
Dialogue language: none
Subtitles language: none

A man and a woman drive straight towards one another. They hit the breaks just in time and come to a standstill, facing each other. They're both too stubborn to give way to the other. A life story begins.