Competition 11

CERBERUS 03:18
United Kingdom 2022
Directed by: Erin Rose Wilson
Screenplay: Erin Rose Wilson
Animation: Erin Rose Wilson
Technique: 2D Toonboom Harmony
Music: Fesliyan Studios
Production/School: UCLan
Dialogue language: N/A
Subtitles language: N/A


When a man named Ollie decides to adopt a little black dog, he can't wait for life with his new best friend to begin. However, not all is as it seems. Cerberus is a story about friendship, separation, and change - both positive and negative.




THE WAKING DREAM 15:49
USA 2022
Directed by: Jody Zellen
Screenplay: n/a
Animation: Jody Zellen
Technique: Flash
Music: Jonathan Zalben
Production/School: n/a
Dialogue language: n/a
Subtitles language: n/a


"The Waking Dream" is an animation that features simple shapes and stick figures that when seen together form a larger narrative about the trials and tribulations of life. "The Waking Dream" looks forward and back. It is a low tech realization of a high tech world. The animation explores the relationship of an imagined past and future, taking into consideration the years of the pandemic and the effects of isolation.



DEHBARAFTAB VILLAGE 08:02
Iran 2022
Directed by: Ziba Arzhang
Screenplay: Ziba Arzhang
Animation: Ziba Arzhang
Technique: 2d animation
Music: Ali Alidosti
Production/School: Yasouj office youth cinema association
Dialogue language: Pershian
Subtitles language: English


An old woman reviews her son's life from his birthday to his child's wedding dayWe are accompanied by the real life of the old woman's son from birth to his wedding day. The poacher changes the situation.




THE BLIND WRITER / L’écrivain aveugle 10:00
Greece 2021
Directed by: Georges Sifianos
Screenplay: Georges Sifianos
Animation: Georges Sifianos
Technique: Pencil on paper (Blindfolded animation)
Music: Gustave Carpène
Production/School: Georges Sifianos
Dialogue language: French
Subtitles language: English


The drawings of this film were made blindfolded, that is, without looking at them while drawing but using only tactile cues. This constraint deconstructs the individual drawings, which are then assembled into a whole in the viewer's mind. The film gropes along like a blind man. This reflects the writer’s perplexity, who questions dogmas and certainties. Faced with the complexity of the world, eternal questions concerning the relationships among people, political and metaphysical questions arise: - Who created the universe? - God. - And who created God? Faced with ready-made ideological answers, the writer admits his helplessness, his blindness is more metaphorical than real. What does “see” mean? Does what we see, the appearance, reflect reality? The viewer is called to provide his/her own answer. S/he is the one who will have to decide, as his perception does, by assembling the disparate lines of the drawings in order to make them meaningful. In a world where communication has acquired special significance, where images and views are constructed on order, how can one discern what is substantial? Is the candy edible or its colorful wrapping? The orange or its peel? Paradoxically, the answer is not as simple as it appears.




THE SMILE 16:00
Netherlands 2022
Directed by: Erik van Schaaik
Screenplay: Erik van Schaaik
Animation: Serhio Lara Jeminez, Timothée Crabbé, Erik van Schaaik
Technique: Stop-motion animation
Music: Erik van Schaaik
Production/School: Pedri Animation, Beast Animation, Erik van Schaaik productions
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English, Spanish, Dutch


When a world-famous film star is accused of eating his female co-stars, his career goes down the drain. That wipes the smile off his face!




FATHER-MY HERO 03:25
USA 2022
Directed by: Shih Yin Lee
Screenplay: Shih Yin Lee
Animation: Shih Yin Lee
Technique: Shih Yin Lee
Music: edit by Shih Yin Lee
Production/School: Touro University
Dialogue language: English


Who always gives you the courage to overcome all difficulties in this world?