Competition 8

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE 08:15
USA 2021
Directed by: Shih Yin Lee
Screenplay: Shih Yin Lee
Animation: Shih Yin Lee
Technique: 3D animation by Shih Yin Lee
Music: edit by Shih Yin Lee
Production/School: Touro University
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English


This was a sunny day, the ants were busy and working hard. Suddenly, there was a huge shadow blocking the sun. The ants were shocked: What blocked the sun? Some ants said there was a legend about humans that were greater than ants. The ants were scared and discussed a lot. Is there a kind of life called "human" in the world?



VACCINES NOW / Vacina hê - ëhmelë këtalokmapotëi 03:23
Brazil 2021
Directed by: Ruth Takiya
Screenplay: Cecília de Santarém
Animation: Eduardo Paiva, Ruth Takiya
Technique: stopmotiom, cut out paper
Music: Ulukue Elemi
Production/School: INSTITUTE IEPÉ
Dialogue language: Wayana
Subtitles language: english


Film produced by the ORG IEPÉ https://institutoiepe.org.br/about-us/ for the Wayana community located in the state of Para, Brazil. Axiae Wayana, community representative, warns of the importance of everyone taking the second dose of the vaccine against covid 19.



PLACE TO PLACE 01:35
Puerto Rico 2021
Directed by: Natasha Cánepa
Screenplay: Natasha Cánepa
Animation: Natasha Cánepa
Technique: Digital 2D Animation
Music: Danny Dice
Production/School: Natasha Cánepa Animation Studios
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English


A text from a lonely traveler pushes a group of friends from faraway places to reunite



BETWEEN WINGS AND SWINGS 03:20
Canada 2022
Directed by: Yuyang Yan
Screenplay: Yuyang Yan
Animation: Yuyang Yan
Technique: 3D Animation
Music: Rowin Roberts
Production/School: Sheridan College
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese


Through an unexpected turn of events, a young girl must learn to let go.



THE BEHOLDER 01:20
United Kingdom 2020
Directed by: Shaun Clark
Screenplay: Shaun Clark
Animation: Shaun Clark
Technique: Pixilation
Music: Adam Price
Production/School: Flicker Mill
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English


The eye is the window to the soul. That is why it terrifies us.




THE MAGIC OF THE MOLARS 03:56
USA 2022
Directed by: John Akre
Screenplay: John Akre
Animation: John Akre
Technique: cut-outs
Music: Andy McCormick
Production/School: Sloppy Films
Dialogue language: none
Subtitles language: none

Two wand-bearing molars save the rest of the teeth from the terrors of decay and destruction.



AUTOPOIESIS 04:29
Greece 2021
Directed by: Dimitris Agathopoulos
Screenplay: DIMITRIS AGATHOPOULOS
Animation: Dimitris Agathopoulos
Technique: 3D / Generative Art
Music: Generative samples / Sound design by Dim
Production/School: (My studio)
Dialogue language: No dialogues
Subtitles language: No subs


The “autopoiesis” project is an experimental approach that combines 3D Art with AI-Generated Art to create images of a "cosmic metaphor" that functions as a closed network of production processes, transformation, and destruction of optical elements, inherent in a perpetual cycle of life and death. Visual elements give birth to geometries and shapes forming a continuum that is interwoven with a sound composition based on algorithmic sound patterns, samples, and musique concrète.



THERE WAS ONCE 08:06
Greece 2022
Directed by: Sofia Papachristou
Screenplay: Sofia Papachristou
Animation: Sofia Papachristou
Technique: Sofia Papachristou, Thomas Muller
Music: Marios Stofalis
Production/School: A&GFilms Media Entertainment LTD, Greek Film Center
Dialogue language: no dialogue
Subtitles language: no subtitles


There was once a donkey that no one needed anymore, a dog that was the disgrace of his master, a cat who had no hope for the future and a rooster that lost everything. They met, joined forces and took their lives into their own hands.



OUTSIDE THE LINES: A PAPER DOLL BURLESQUE 05:30
USA 2022
Directed by: Hannah Givens
Screenplay: Hannah Givens and Amethyst Ace Burlesque
Animation: Jeremy Speed Schwartz
Technique: Cut-out stop motion
Music: Scott Joplin
Production/School: Center for Puppetry Arts


A swinging free-for-all that leaves nothing to the imagination! These ladies have guile, style, and a smile! Follies! Comedy! Dances! Four acts designed to excite, amuse, and titillate you!



OF THE WAITNG / Dell'Attesa 03:49
Italy 2022
Directed by: Adriano Vessichelli
Screenplay: Adriano Vessichelli
Animation: Adriano Vessichelli- Alfonso Pontillo
Technique: 2D digital - 3D- Hand drawn
Music: Marco Messina - Sacha Ricci
Production/School: Adriano Vessichelli


A journey within the ruins of memory.



DUCK LAKE 02:21
Bulgaria 2022
Directed by: Katrin Ignatova
Screenplay: Katrin Ignatova
Production/School: Katrin Ignatova
Dialogue language: English


When Miss Swan, the star of "Swan Lake," gets too drunk to go on stage, her ambitious stage manager Miss Duck does everything she can in order to save the show.



ABSTRART 22 04:20
Spain 2022
Directed by: Luis Carlos Rodríguez
Screenplay: Luis Carlos Rodríguez
Animation: Luis Carlos Rodríguez
Technique: Digital
Music: Jean Luc Berthelot
Production/School: bellasart.es
Dialogue language: No Dialogue


Abstrart is part of an audiovisual artistic research project that tries to transfer expressive and emotional concepts to the screen with moving images and, therefore, intentionally lacks formal, narrative and structural aspects. Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence or a chance accident in the production process.