Competition 6

Gorgeous Girl 03:36
Canada 2023
Directed by: Eric LaBossiere, Riel Foidart
Screenplay: Eric LaBossiere, Joel Couture, Riel Foidart
Animation: Riel Foidart
Technique: Digital Illustration
Music: Hello Fiasco
Production/School: The Mailman's Children Inc
Dialogue language: English


A gorgeous girl catches the attention of a suitor while taking a stroll through a world of neon lights. Through his pursuits to earn her affection, they'll both learn that good looks aren't everything.



Daddy! 16:21
Hong Kong 2023
Directed by: Yikai Gao, Haochun Yang
Screenplay: Haochun Yang
Production/School: Yikai Gao, Haochun Yang


This animation is inspired by the experiences of some Chinese citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, which satirizes patriarchy and centralization: P's attitude towards his father changes as he grows up and discovers that his father has some dark secrets......




SymBionic 06:02
United States of America 2021
Directed by: Jack Tenbusch
Screenplay: Jack Tenbusch
Animation: Jack Tenbusch
Technique: 2D/Frame by Frame
Music: corru.works
Production/School: Columbia College Chicago
Dialogue language: English

After clipping her wing on a robotic facility antenna, a Songbird forms an unlikely symbiotic relationship with the robot she inadvertently creates.


& yet here we are... 04:25
United States of America 2023
Directed by: Andy Clay Huey
Screenplay: Andy Clay Huey
Animation: Andy Clay Huey, Lili Thomas-Brummè, Caleb Rizio
Technique: Stop Motion
Music: Cindy S. del Rosario
Production/School: Colorado Film School
Dialogue language: English

A lifetime passes through a couple as they sit on the deck of a ferry, holding each other in the sea breeze.


Purdee & Pals: Baby Bee's Boot 05:00
United Kingdom 2023
Directed by: David van Marten
Screenplay: David Burns
Animation: Robert Brown
Technique: 2D
Music: Anton Fauve
Production/School: David Burns
Dialogue language: English

In the wonderful world of Purdee and all her pals, Baby Bee, on his first day out with Daddy Bee, loses his boot. It takes Purdee and all her friends to help him find it. Richard Kinsey's wonderful characters include Waddles and Twaddles, the 2-headed caterpillar, Wiggledy, the skateboarding worm, Melvyn, the snail, and Hoppington, the tea-serving orchestra-conducting grasshopper.



Chaos 04:00
United Kingdom 2023
Directed by: Noemi Collins
Screenplay: Noemi Collins
Animation: Aoife Beniston, Noemi Collins, Bibiana Fillnerova, Dylan Greens, Maud Joseph, Abigail Koch, Emily Robertson
Technique: 2D Animation, digital
Music: Oliver Flaig
Production/School: University of Dundee
Dialogue language: English


‘Chaos’ tells the story of someone who lets a negative experience spiral into catastrophe. When she almost loses herself, can she rely on the universe to have her back? Can Chaos lead to good?



A Friend In Need 01:30
Greece 2023
Directed by: Chrysoula Kakavikou
Screenplay: Chrysoula Kakavikou
Animation: Chrysoula Kakavikou
Technique: Hand Drawn Animation
Music: Freesound.org
Production/School: AKTO Art & Design College
Dialogue language: -
Subtitles language: -


Maggie is very excited about her first day in the world. She happily flies into the forest where she was born, enjoying the beauty of nature around her. Suddenly, amidst all the beauty, she notices something strange. The roots of a tree have deep and numerous scratches. She decides to approach the roots in order to discover the sources of the scratches.




I Would Be a Musician / Byl bych muzikantem 11:16
Czech Republic 2023
Directed by: Dita Stuchlíková
Screenplay: Jana Mílková, Dita Stuchlíková
Animation: Dita Stuchlíková
Technique: Hand-drawn, coal
Music: Aleš Macenauer
Production/School: Dita Stuchlíková
Dialogue language: Czech


I Would Have Been a Musician tells the story of the life of a miner and his daughter against the backdrop of a catastrophic event in 1970 at the Paskov mine, part of the largest mining area in the Czech Republic. Using scraps of memories and archival work, it presents one of the many workers' lives that are often wrongly perceived as ordinary and mundane. Yet they are often full of thrilling stories and traumatic events. The film is created by absolute animation and drawn by hand using charcoal and crayons. It works with the memory not only of people, but also of places that carry traces of human stories.




Legend of the Cornpone Kid 16:20
United States of America 2023
Directed by: Charlie Walden
Screenplay: Charlie Walden
Animation: Charlie Walden
Technique: Adobe Creative Suite
Music: Javier Reyes
Production/School: Charlie Walden
Dialogue language: English

Rural Texas, 1914: the Old West is dying. the New West struggles to be born. Now is the time of Johnsons. A five-year-old boy and his father find themselves transformed forever by the winds of historical destiny. Based on the life of Lyndon B. Johnson (US President 1963-1969).