Competition 6

The art of reducing noise 04:07
United Kingdom 2018
Directed by: Heidi Stokes
Screenplay: Heidi Stokes
Animation: YES
Technique: 2D/ HAND DRAWN
Music: pond5.com /
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English


In our turbulent times, silence seems like a necessary escape. 'The art of reducing noise' evaluates this concept looking in-particular at one important figure in history who used this in an astonishing way to evaluate the world we live in.




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France 2018
Directed by: Marin Martinie
Animation: Marin Martinie
Technique: 2D
Music: Gustave Carpene
Production/School: EnsAD
Dialogue language: English, French, German


What is exactly the fundamental tension between still picture and motion picture ? Pictures are somehow informations : they converge, get ordered and eventually become unreadable.




Idiot 18:30
Slovakia 2018
Directed by: Dušan Davidov
Screenplay: Dušan Davidov
Animation: Martin Kolčak
Technique: 3D/2D animation
Music: Ján Kovalčin
Production/School: Dušan Davidov
Dialogue language: English


The “Smiling Man”, our hero is, in fact, an “Idiot”. The topic of altruism, when a hero helps also at the cost of not being understood, and his help may be considered annoying, is as eternal as mankind itself. Our story does not take place in aristocratic chambers but rather in an office. The “Smiling Man” is a small officer in a small town who lives 150 years later than the prince (the prince Myshkin). While F. Dostoyevsky depicted altruism in human relationships, our hero lives to work. For him, work is everything, it is something like breathing. Work is his second nature, he doesn’t realise the fact that he is abused by his colleagues, he helps because everybody wants him to help; because he is asked for help. While the topic of Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” was altruism, our key topic is the misuse of altruism and its perception as a weakness. The “Smiling Man” slaves for all of them, not only at work, but also at home; without any claim to be paid, without any appreciation from his colleagues or family. He lives the life he considers correct. When a stupid boss unjustly fires him, he is not angry with him. Not even when the boss runs down to the street to give him the food box he has left behind in the office. The “Smiling Man” perceives it as the boss´s favour. He sees a human being in his boss. It would never occur to him, not even in his dreams, that he brought it to him just to prevent him from entering the office any more. Even if it came into his mind, he would never believe it, because he’s a nice guy; he is an “Idiot”.




Bolero17 14:10
Russia 2018
Directed by: Garry Bardin
Screenplay: Garry Bardin
Production/School: Garry Bardin
Dialogue language: Russian


The thesis "people are always right" is not always true. It happens that the majority is mistaken. Fortunately, there are always people who break out of the general row, white crows, who are then called heroes. It is to them that humanity owes its progress. About this movie. To the music of M. Ravel "Bolero" this story will be told, as well as the finale will be figuratively close to M. Chagall's painting "Lovers."



Soma 09:05
Slovenia 2019
Directed by: Sandra Jovanovska
Screenplay: Sandra Jovanovska, Ivan Antic
Animation: Sandra Jovanovska
Technique: stop-motion
Music: Ivan Antic
Production/School: Bostjan Potokar
Dialogue language: English


Situated in a strange, trashy universe, the story revolves around two people; a taxidermist and a butcher. The butcher gets the taxidermist hooked on his drugs, which he offers as an alleged cure for the taxidermist's sneezing. The taxidermist becomes a junkie and gives away his forgotten love to the butcher in exchange for more drugs. After realizing what he did, he goes to take what belongs to him, but the path ahead is a one way journey.




Twelve Minutes of Rain 05:58
Italy 2019
Directed by: Fabio Teriaca, Juan Pablo Etcheverry
Music: SERGIO CAMMARIERE
Production/School: FABIO TERIACA


the protagonist returns to the places of his childhood and approaching the tree given to him by his father relives his adolescence .. and how in an instant he is hit by the memories that characterize his existence




Stopgap in Stop Motion 04:40
United Kingdom 2017
Directed by: Stephen Featherstone
Screenplay: Stephen Featherstone
Animation: Stephen Featherstone
Technique: Cut out / replacement / stop motion
Music: Dougie Evans
Production/School: Stephen Featherstone
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: n/a


Photographs of performers in an inclusive dance company come to life. The individual artists dance out of the photos and across table tops until the whole company meet and perform in unison. Combining live action, cut out and stop motion animation techniques, Stopgap in Stop Motion was commissioned as a promotional film for Stopgap Dance Company.




You Have Probably Never Heard of Hornita Calypso 03:57
USA 2019
Directed by: Tala Schlossberg
Screenplay: Tala Schlossberg
Production/School: Tala Schlossberg
Dialogue language: English

In an unrealized search for meaning, a set of characters trudge through the mundane. This piece was created along the way.


Goop Pursuit 05:45
USA 2019
Directed by: Benjamin Osterweil-Artson
Screenplay: Benjamin Osterweil-Artson
Animation: Benjamin Osterweil-Artson
Technique: Michael Kuroda
Music: Devon Ryle
Production/School: Christian Hyatt
Dialogue language: N/A
Subtitles language: N/A

When a vulnerable slug realizes he wields an eldritch power, he becomes what he fears most.


Derezon 03:40
Turkey 2019
Directed by: Nesli Doğan, Sezgin Öztürk
Screenplay: Nesli Doğan
Animation: Samet Yarar
Music: Ozan Kurtuluş
Production/School: Sezgin Öztürk


Mira is a little girl who in deep jungle. She crushes a tiny blue bird with her hands in gaily and passes the jungle. Then the giant corn cob that can be flying – takes the little girl to the fantastic farm. When she throws a bale of hay to the heads of the cows – golden points increase madly. Does Mira play this extreme and dangerous farm game or live?



And yet we're not super heroes 12:45
Belgium 2019
Directed by: Lia Bertels
Screenplay: Lia Bertels
Production/School: Thierry Zamparutti, serge Kestemont, Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Jeanne Thibord, Sidonie Garnie
Dialogue language: English, French


It takes time to grow up. And sometimes you even wonder if it’s really worth it… Then the children move slowly, at their own pace, the time to tame the world that awaits them. On the way, they ask questions and invent answers using their overflowing imagination. Carried by the voices of these little philosophers, the film depicts the journey of the imagination of childhood in the form of an animated road movie, populated by extraordinary créatures. A Cadillac trip during which these magnificent vagabonds share their unique experiences on the transition to the real world of adults. A journey full of surprises, doubts and joy.




Bythos 04:55
Italy 2019
Directed by: Denis Ripamonti and Maria Noemi Grandi
Screenplay: Maria Matilde Fondi, Maria Noemi Grandi, Denis Ripamonti, Francesco Tomba and Claudia Vanacore
Animation: Maria Noemi Grandi (stop-motion animation), Denis Ripamonti (chroma key compositing)
Technique: Papercut stop-motion animation
Music: Marta Zibani
Production/School: Denis Ripamonti, Maria Noemi Grandi and IULM University

Bythos, the god of the sea depths. Bythos, the dark abyss. Two kids are cheerfully playing on the seashore. The sudden fall of the ball into the sea transforms the atmosphere of bucolic harmony in a palingenetic experience, dreamlike by the look, but with the real consistency of a deep truth.



The Ride 09:00
Korea 2019
Directed by: Huh Hyunjung
Animation: Huh Hyunjung
Music: Joyul
Dialogue language: English


The animation was produced in 2019 based on the book . The narratives made by reflection and refraction of lights are slowly flowing and sparkling while running along the riverside.




Clap-Stamp 02:30
Korea 2019
Directed by: Eunmi Kang
Animation: Eunmi Kang
Technique: 2D Digital
Music: Sang-Yoon Lee
Production/School: Eunmi Kang

Hand prints and foot prints come together to create illusions of rhythmical frames.


Creative Evolution / 創造的進化 05:00
Japan 2019
Directed by: Song Yungsung
Animation: SONG Yungsung
Technique: hand-drawn
Music: SATO Ayako
Production/School: ICE BUTTER


The ideas of the film is based on the words from “Creative Evolution” by Bergson. The creative worlds of Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Delaunay and so many artists are connected each other and finally create new story of evolution of life. Where do I come from? What am I? Where am I going? Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Life keeps traveling across the universe.