Competition 7

THE LOST PAINTING / Ο Χαμένος Πίνακας 01:02
Greece 2022
Directed by: Thodoris Sarafis
Screenplay: Christos Christofis
Animation: Thodoris Sarafis
Technique: Digital 2D Animation
Music: Christos Maragoudakis
Production/School: Thodoris Sarafis
Dialogue language: Modern Greek (1453-)


What is art? How is it valued? How is it presented? Can nothing be art? And if yes... can I buy it? It would make a great dinner table conversation! The neighbours would be sooo jealous!!!




A DREAM OF HIMERA / Un sogno di Himera 04:54
Italy 2022
Directed by: Gianfrancesco Iacono
Screenplay: Gianfrancesco Iacono
Animation: Gianfrancesco Iacono
Technique: 2D Digital
Music: Alessandro Arrigo
Production/School: Gianfrancesco Iacono
Dialogue language: Italian
Subtitles language: English


Sicily. A wizard roams the desolate plain where the ancient Greek colony of Himera once stood. The man’s power brings life to the Greek spirits for a short time. An illusion of beauty against the devastation of a territory carried out by contemporary society.



WEEKLY PLANNER 04:01
United Kingdom 2021
Directed by: Heidi Sarah Stokes
Screenplay: Heidi Sarah Stokes
Animation: 2D animation
Technique: hand - drawn / collage
Music: pond5.com
Production/School: Heidi Sarah Stokes
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English / French


'Weekly Planner' explores a need to celebrate the everyday, in all its simplicity and complexity.



ONCE UPON A SCAVENGER HUNT 03:16
United Kingdom 2021
Directed by: Alexandra Eleni Lappa
Screenplay: Alexandra Eleni Lappa
Animation: Alexandra Eleni Lappa
Technique: Digital 2D Animation
Music: Emma Jackson
Production/School: Bath Spa University
Dialogue language: English


Two friends, Juno and Harlem, set off on a long adventure to collect the first item for the scavenger hunt they are taking part in. They travel for hours through deep valleys and vast forests, encountering magnificent places they have never visited before. Upon arrival at their first destination, they are greeted by an unexpected individual followed by an even more confusing addition to their party.



THE PILLAR OF STRENGTH 07:32
Malaysia 2021
Directed by: Ayie Ibrahim
Screenplay: Ayie Ibrahim
Animation: Ayie Ibrahim
Technique: 2D digital hand drawn
Music: Andrew Bong
Production/School: Ayie Ibrahim
Dialogue language: Non dialogue


When human beings value the life of nature, where they respect and learn from it, then it can strengthen the loving relationship between nature and human. The Pillar of Strength is a narrative storytelling about the people in the Borneo archipelago who adhere to the belief of their ancestors that the God of War, 'Sengalang Burong,' who comes from heaven as a respected and dignified god, who has a spiritual energy that is considered to be an intermediary between human life, animals and nature. Revolves around a warrior son of the Iban tribe on the island of Borneo where his father is a respected warrior who adheres to the ancestral beliefs of his ancestors.




SHALL WE TALK? 05:00
Russia 2020
Directed by: Katya Mikheeva
Screenplay: Anastasia Patlay
Animation: Katya Mikheeva
Technique: 2D
Music: Alexey Prosvirnin
Production/School: Illuminator (producer Pavel Loparev)
Dialogue language: Russian
Subtitles language: English


Polina is a bisexual Russian girl. This short film documents her coming out to a family.




ONCE I PASSED 10:00
Germany 2022
Directed by: Martin Gerigk
Screenplay: Martin Gerigk
Animation: Martin Gerigk
Technique: Martin Gerigk
Music: Martin Gerigk
Production/School: Martin Gerigk
Dialogue language: English


Walt Whitman is one of the most important poets in American literature. His main work, Leaves of Grass, was written over a period of forty years, and describes human nature, society, and the natural world, both physically and philosophically. Many have speculated about Whitman's private life, to this day. Whitman never wrote publicly about his personal relationships. In 1860, he published his poem "Once I Passed Through a Populous City", an aphoristic account of a romantic relationship with an unknown woman. In 1925, the original handwritten copy of the poem was discovered, in which Whitman writes, however, not about a woman but about an affair with a man in an anonymous city, which may have been his first physical experience of love. Whitman did not dare to publish the original version of his poem, because of the social prejudices of his time. To this day, only the altered version is printed in most anthologies. "Once I passed" is dedicated, on the one hand, to the obviously autobiographical context with all its personal drama, and on the other hand to the content of the poem itself, the profoundly quiet, yet powerful story of two lovers.



HAVEN 06:02
USA 2022
Directed by: Peter Whittenberger
Screenplay: Peter Whittenberger
Animation: Peter Whittenberger
Technique: 2D and 3D animation
Music: Peter Whittenberger
Production/School: Peter Whittenberger


Inspired by the Truckee River Basin of the Sierra Nevadas, Haven explores the competition for resources and the responsibility of balance in natural habitats. The work reflects the impact of overpopulation and a desire to live in competing habitats, destroying the homes of all species.