Competition 4

I want to bounce! 03:40
United States 2022
Directed by: Shih Yin Lee
Screenplay: Shih Yin Lee
Production/School: Shih Yin Lee
Dialogue language: English


The pumpkin yearned to bounce like a ball, eager for the thrill of freedom and excitement that came with bouncing. With diligent practice, the pumpkin honed its technique time and time again. But the burning question remains: Did the pumpkin ultimately succeed in its pursuit of bouncing glory?




The Short Hand 04:08
Israel 2023
Directed by: Shimon Engel, Julia Scherer, Ofer Winter
Screenplay: Yehonatan Porat
Animation: Ofer Winter & Noa Reim Givon
Technique: 2D
Music: Yehonatan Porat
Production/School: Dov Abramson / Goozma Animation


While we are mostly aware of the long minute hand on the clock ticking on, the short hour hand really sneaks up on us.



Talisman 08:37
Greece 2023
Directed by: Rita Poutachidou
Screenplay: Mirek Obratil
Animation: "ANIMACT" team
Technique: live action animation
Music: "ANIMACT" team
Production/School: Drama Center "Poupoulo"
Dialogue language: Modern Greek (1453-)


A shy 12-year-old boy, Vrastislav feels lonely and his everyday life is full of misfortune. He barely makes friends until the day he meets his " alter ego" and everything changes.



Silent chirping of invisible Digits / Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer 10:11
Austria 2023
Directed by: Vera Sebert
Screenplay: Vera Sebert
Animation: Vera Sebert
Technique: Vera Sebert
Music: The
Production/School: Vera Sebert

Like a single film frame, insects flash for the fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again. In between their flickering body fragments, the film shows undefinable voids. What can be seen when familiar filters of vision and the narratives associated with them are missing?



Morning Shadows 12:13
Portugal 2023
Directed by: Rita Cruchinho Neves
Screenplay: Pedro Castro Neves
Animation: Rita Cruchinho Neves
Technique: Digital Animation
Music: Teho Teardo
Production/School: Modo Imago
Dialogue language: English

"I spend my life sitting, like an angel in the hands of a barber." Rimbaud Consider the association suggested by a barber shop between a razor blade and a pen, the brush of a painter and a barber, water, blood and ink. The way in which the main character experiences elemental things. The light travelling through space inhabits the body, its gestures, sensations and movement. The images – in this diary of lost things – represent loss and the healing of wounds. Morning Shadows tells the story of a unique life on its circular journey under the light of a brightening black sun.



Hinter-Land 13:02
Canada 2023
Directed by: Christopher Angus
Screenplay: Christopher Angus
Animation: Christopher Angus
Technique: 2D Digital. Using a Wacom Tablet.
Music: Paul Shrofel
Production/School: Attic Films
Dialogue language: English

A musical gardener ejects his hired hand, leading to things on his little planet going horribly astray.



Brixton Bustle 04:50
United Kingdom 2023
Directed by: Shaun Clark
Screenplay: Shaun Clark
Animation: Shaun Clark
Technique: Pixilation
Music: Angela Alhucema
Production/School: Flicker Mill


A journey through the energy, rhythm and culture of life in Brixton, a district of South London with an African-Caribbean soul.