INTERNATIONAL SHORT ANIMATED FILMS (Description)
SHORTS COMPETION 1
Thursday 2.4.09 / 17:30-18:45
01. TATTO, 4’
Albania 2008
Direction: Adrian Çene – Bertrand Shiakou
Script: Adrian Çene
Animation: Bertrand Shiakou
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Mixed
Production: A & B Animation Studio
This is a urban story between two personals that lives in different times...
02. LET IT BE / Ainsi soit-elle
France 2008
Direction: Fabrice de la Rosa
Script: Fabrice de la Rosa
Animation: Michael Journolleu
Technique: Cut out with computer
Music: Paul Mottram
Producer / Production: Lew Films Magiques
Dialogues: No
A young cleaning girl who does not like his physical appearance, found two artificial legs in a room of the hotel she works in. This find conduce her to use tricks to transform her appearance. She realizes that she is not alone to cheat and she decides to make a different choice.
03. HAJAR'S WEDDING, 8’
Iran 2008
Original title: Baroon Miad Jar Jar
Direction: Mahin Javaherian
Script: Based on folkloric poems
Animator: Niloofar Akrami
Technique: Cartoon( pastille on paper)- 2D Computer
Edition: Saeed PourEsmaeili
Narrator: Melika Hosseinzadeh
Composers: Abbas Dabirdanesh, Omid Fathollahi
Sound & Mix: Changiz Sayyad
Laboratory: Filmsaz Studio
Production Manager: Mohammad Toloo'
Executive Director: Mohammad- Reza Karimi-Saremi
Production Company: KANOON (Institute for the Intellectual
Development of Children & Young Adults)
A simple melodic narration with a poetic abstractive content relating Iranian culture, traditions, and customs especially depicting wedding ceremonies in a folkloric cultural frame.
04. RINDIN THE PUFFER, 8’
USA 2007
Director: Len Simon
Script: Len Simon
Animation supervisors: Sandro Cleuzo, Edison Concalves, Tobias Schwartz
Technique: 2D animation hand drawn
Narrator: English
Our story begins with RINDIN being the target of a joke, just for being different. However, when the bullies meet up with a hungry barracuda, RINDIN saves the day! RINDIN the Puffer, shows the importance of ‘being yourself’ while respecting individual differences in others.
05. CÃES MARINHEIROS, 6’ 30’
Portugal 2007
Direction: Joana Toste
Script: adapted from an original story from Herberto Helder
Animation: André Ferrão, André Marques, Joana Toste, Nuno Lacerda, Pedro Moura, Vitor Lopes.
Technique: Draw on paper
Music: José Peixoto
Production: Abi Feijó, António C. Valente
Dialogues: No
When a couple of dogs get a sailor to guard the park, they have to keep him at all costs. It has being necessary to keep away from the sea, suffering the consequences. And life goes on.
06. C’EST MÔA, 12'
France 2007
Direction: Georges Sifianos
Animation: Benjamin Botella, Eric Montchaud, Georges Sifianos
Music: Christophe Frionnet
Actors: Ulrike Koennecke-Bennett, Robert W. Bennett
Technique: Pixillation and puppets
Production: Sacrebleu Productions
This film is a choreography between two actors and two puppets, based on the Japanese puppet theatre Bunraku...
07. SONIC: NIGHT OF THE WEREHOG, 11’ 10’’
Japan 2008
Direction: Takashi Nakashima
Script: SEGA VE Animation Studio
Animation: SEGA VE Animation Studio
Technique: 3d animation
Music: Tetsuya Takahashi
Producer: Takeshi Itou
Production: SEGA VE Animation Studio
Dialogues: No
Our story begins one night of severe rain, as Sonic and Chip come by an old mansion. They take shelter there, waiting for the rain to stop. Whilst Sonic seems unphased by the creepy surroundings, Chip is scared out of its wits. The mansion is inhabited by three scary - yet sweet - ghosts who like to play tricks on innocent visitors: Lah, a cute and girlish ghost, likes to collect photographs of her terrified guests. The remaining two, Uh and Suh, compete for Lah's attention by taking photographs of their scare victims. Their scariness is the key to popularity in the realm ghosts. Uh and Suh are excited at the prospect of hunting their new and unusual guests, Sonic and Chip. Who will win the ultimate competition to Lah's heart?
08. CROSS STITCH KIT-Variations, 6’
Cyprus 2009
Direction: Konstantia Sofokleous
Script: Konstantia Sofokleous
Animation: Konstantia Sofokleous
Technique: 2d animation
Music: No
Producer: Konstantia Sofokleous
Dialogues: No
One of the variations of the ‘Cross Stitch Kit’ animation. An old children’ s stitch kit is the starting point for an animation improvisation created in total by animating the figures printed on the stitch fabric and the motifs printed on its package.
SHORTS COMPETION 2
Thursday 2.4.09 / 19:00-20:00
01. ONE THUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, 5' 45"
Iran 2008
Director: Hoda Masoudi
Script: Hoda Masoudi
Animation Supervisor: Hoda Masoudi
Technique: 2D Animation
Music: Ehsan Khezrlou
Producer: Hoda Masoudi
No dialogue! English subtitle
This cut-out adapted animation is about Arabian nights’ s book. The main tale of this… Book is narrated in new version
02. ROPES, 3’ 37’’
Canada 2009
Director: Farzin Farzaneh
Story: Farzin Farzaneh
Animation: Farzin Farzaneh
Technique: Drawings on paper/Watercolour Photoshop
Music: Farzin Farzaneh
Producer: Farzin Farzane
No dialogues
In a mountainous land, a local inhabitant notices an intricate rope construction tainting the landscape. He stumbles onto the opportunity to meet the culprits. The story unfolds in a twitchy world where everyone communicates in quirks and ticks.
03. THE COYOTE AND THE TORTOISE, 2’ 47’’
USA 2007
Director: Len Simon
Script: Len Simon
Animation supervisors: Len Simon, Edison Concalves
Technique: 2D animation hand drawn
No dialogue!
Based on the classic fable that recounts the race between a wise tortoise and an arrogant coyote, The Coyote and the Tortoise presents a tale of persistence and humility.
04. CRIME TIMES (4 episodes)
A. FASTFOOD, 1’ 36’’
India 2006
Director: Nassos Vakalis
Script: Nassos Vakalis
Animation Supervisor: Mayur Deshpande
Technique: 2D animation Flash
Music: Kostas Christides
Production Company: Future Thought Productions
Producer: Steven Kasper
No dialogue!
Shifty learns, always check your order before you leave the window.
B. MIDNIGHT LOVER, 1’ 39’’
India 2006
Director: Nassos Vakalis
Script: Nassos Vakalis
Animation Supervisor: Mayur Deshpande
Technique: 2D animation Flash
Music: Kostas Christides
Production Company: Future Thought Productions
Producer: Steven Kasper
No dialogue!
Our intrepid criminal (Shifty) does a second story job, but ends up caught with his pants down.
C. MONKEY BUSINESS, 2’ 07’’
India 2006
Director: Nassos Vakalis
Script: Nassos Vakalis
Animation Supervisor: Mayur Deshpande
2D animation Flash
Music: Kostas Christides
Production Company: Future Thought Productions
Producer: Steven Kasper
No dialogue!
Cute pets can attract attention, but not always get the results you want.
D. RED DYE, 1’ 39’’
India 2006
Director: Nassos Vakalis
Script: Nassos Vakalis
Animation Supervisor: Mayur Deshpande
2D animation Flash
Music: Kostas Christides
Production Company: Future Thought Productions
Producer: Steven Kasper
No dialogue!
Shifty finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
05. THAT DARN JESUS, 13’ 07’’
USA 2007
Director: Gary Hardwick
Script: Gary Hardwick
Animation Director: Nassos Vakalis
Technique: Digitally photographed and colored. 2D flash
Production company: HARD FILMS-FUTURE THOUGHT
Dialogues: Yes (English)
Set in Roman-occupied holy lands, TDJ is really about the trials of Jesus’ younger brother, James, who constantly lives in the shadow of you-know-who. James and Jesus have a sibling rivalry and it doesn’t take a genius to know who’s winning the battle. Jesus is bold and brash but underneath it all, he’s just a kid, albeit one who is destined for greatness.
06. THE STRESSFUL ADVENTURESOF BOXHEAD & ROUNDHEAD – BROTHERS IN ARMS, 4’ 23’’
USA 2008
Director: Elliot Cowan
Script: Elliot Cowan
Animation Supervisor: Elliot Cowan
Technique: 2D computer
Music: Matt Saxton & Tom Cianti
Production Company:
Producer: Elliot Cowan
Dialogue: No dialogue
Boxhead and Roundhead attempt to relax on a beautiful Sunday morning only to discover that it is not such an easy thing to do.
07. CLAIR DE LUNE, 4’ 21’’
Serbia 2007
Direction: Nebojša Petrović
Script: Nebojša Petrović
Animation: Nebojša Petrović
Music: Claude Debussy
Technique: pencil and oil pastel drawings on paper
Production Company: Academic Film Center
Dialogues: No dialogies
The film inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting “The Kiss“ is an impressionistic, ballet illustration made to Claude Debussy's composition “Clair de Lune“. Two lovers meet in the night and surrender to enchantment.
08. IN LIMBO, 3’ 50’’
Switzerland 2008
Direction: Michelle Ettlin
Script:
Michelle Ettlin
Animation:
Michelle Ettlin
Technique:
Music:
Simon Berz
Production: HSLU Lucerne
Dialogues: Yes
A train ride, an overheard conversation - a couple talks about their son. They are a bit concerned, because he seems to have lost touch with the ground. But as they talk, their journey takes a surprising turn.
09. PATIENCE OF THE MEMORY, 6’ 45’’
Germany / Spain 2008
Direction: Vuk Jevremovic
Script: Vuk Jevremovic
Animation: Vuk Jevremovic
Technique: Painted on canvas, aquarel on paper, 2d computer, fotos
Music: Xabi Erkizia
Production: Vuk Jevremovic
Dialogues: No
The memory of Dresden, The city which was most painted and most destroyed In a last century’s. A fictive painted documentary.
10. HEY, 3’ 49’’
Israel 2008
Director: Guy Ben-Shitrit
Script: Guy Ben-Shitrit
Head of Animation Team: Guy Ben-Shitrit
Art Directors: Eitan Weinshtock, Sherban
Technique: 3D, After Effects
Music: Eatliz
Model Artists: Paul "Jones" Wolf, Sherban, Rafi Ben Aharon, Daniel Shneor, Ben Shetrit
Animators: Talia Tsur, Tom Dor, Ron Golan, Guy Ben Shetrit, Oren Ben Tov
Technical Direction and Rigging: Matan Halberstadt, David Gidali, Yuval Nathan, Ben Shetrit
Executive Producer: Guy Ben-Shitrit
A little girl goes on a fantastical Sci-Fi journey with her gigantic pet toad in the music video for Eatliz bands "Hey".
11. MARIZA, 4’ 24’’
Greece 2008
Director: Contantine Krystallis
Script: Contantine Krystallis
Animation: Constantine Krystallis
Technique: 3D animation
Music: Mikes Theodorakis
Producer: Constantine Krystallis
Dialogues: No dialogues
When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep winding road of their Greek island, he finds Mariza to be one suborn ass. But the old man knows that no one can resist Zorba's dance.
12. WOMEN DANCE, 1’
USA 2008
Director: Daya B. Astor
Script: Daya B. Astor
Animation: Daya B. Astor
Technique: Stop-action
Music:
Producer: Daya B. Astor
No dialogue.
Women from around the world come together to share common experiences without words. They dance and then return to their homes with renewed strength.
13. MR HASINGERS HOMECOMING, 6’ 23’
Germany 2009
Director: Eva Becker
Script: Eva Becker
Animation: Eva Becker
Technique:
Music: Der Worst
Producer: Eva Becker
Dialogues: German
Subtitles: English
A cinematic crank about others bizarre places and peculiar inhabitants.
SHORTS COMPETION 3
Thursday 2.4.2009 / 21:15-22:15
01. AQUARIUM, 5’ 44’’
Turkey 2007
Direction: Denizcan Yüzgül
Script: Denizcan Yüzgül
Technique: 2D Computer
Editing: Denizcan Yüzgül, Michael Carrington
Music: Ahmet K. Bilgiç
Producer: Film School Zlin
Child, the only existence who can discover the meaning of 21st century “modern” life, cause he didn't forget yet.
02. THE ROARING TIDE
Australia 2008
Director: Laura Stitzel
Script: Laura Stitzel
Animation: : Laura Stitzel
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Ken White
Producer: Laura Stitzel
Dialogue: No
Despite being shipwrecked and stranded on a desert island, nothing can stop these 1920’s parties in full swing. A 2D animation based on art deco poster design.
03. FÜR MATHILDE, 7’
Germany 2008
Direction: Alla Churikova
Script: Heike Petzke
Animation: Alla Churikova
Technique: Mixed
Music: Masha Khotimski
Producer: Dmitri Popov
A seven-year-old girl in at a piano. Her exercise - black and white and boring as the ticking of the metronome. In her mind the girl escapes into the loud and colourful world of a big city. Concrete blocks, concrete mixers, building cranes. And a motionless crow. When the girl takes the half-dead bird into her hands, its heartbeat makes her realise the vividness a rhythm can have. Now the girl hurries back to the piano.
04. THE WELLOW ENVELOPE, 9’
Belgium 2008
Script and Direction: Delphine Hermans
First director assistant: Louise-Marie Colon
Animation: Delphine Hermans, Louise-Marie Colon, Ludovic Berardo
Original music: Garrett List
Voices: Donatienne de Coster, Laurent Caron
Saxophone, voice, piano: Anne Gennen
Soundtrack ad music mixing: Grégory Beaufays
Producer: Jean-Luc Slock
Production: Camera-etc - In partnership with Marc et Serge Umé (Digital Graphics)
Anna lives alone with her dog. One day, among the advertisements, she receives a big yellow envelope with a letter inside, suggesting to ordering her ideal man by catalogue…
05. TANGO LOLA, 6’ 20’’
Switzerland 2008
Direction: Izabela Rieben & Sami Ben Youssef
Script: Izabela Rieben
Animation: Frantisek Vasa
Technique: Clay animation
Music: Vincent Gillioz
Producer: Tarantula Switzerland Diane Duperret & Xavier Ruiz
Co-Producer: Izabela Rieben
Dialogues: English (subtitles)
Having won the lotto, Lola starts imagining her new life: travels around the world in a beautiful Cadillac, a boorish husband turning into a caring and romantic gentleman… Unless she decides to put an end - once and for all – to her relationship with that inattentive man and keep everything for herself. Except that the husband doesn't exactly have the same projects….
06. ARME SEELEN, 4’ 16’’
Switzerland 2008
Direction: Lynn Gerlach
Script: Lynn Gerlach
Animation: Lynn Gerlach
Technique: 2D Animation
Music: Christof Steinmann
Producer: Lucerne School of Art
Dialogues: No
A young shepherd leads his flock up to an alpine chalet in the middle of nowhere. One night something scary and mysterious rises from the glacier...
07. CLOCKWORLD, 1’
UK 2008
Direction: Chris Furby
Script: Chris Furby
Animation: Chris Furby
Technique: An Adobe After Effects Project from Digital photography
Audio: Ambient sound - clocks - flies etc.
Production: Chris Furby
Dialogues: Subtitles (English)
All the time there is in a world that is nothing but clocks. One of a series involving clocks and other objects that seek to give the inanimate the characteristics of living creatures.
08. BILL’S VISITORS, 8’
UK 2008
Direction: Simon Deshon
Script: Stewart Thomson
Cinematographer: Laura Bellingham Sargeant
Designer: Cara Brower
Technique: 2D Drawn Animation Compositing into 3D
Editor: Maya Maffioli
Composer: Kyile Earl
Producer: Innis Moore
Dialogues: No
Bill has an understanding with local teenage boys, that he will buy beer for them. However when Cowan takes along his friend Jim for the first time, something about Jim encourages Bill to reveal more of himself to the boys than he ever has before.
09. COCOON CHILD, 5’
Germany 2009
Direction: Sonja Rohleder
Script: Sonja Rohleder
Animation: Sonja Rohleder
Technique: cut out computer animation, 3d Maya, drawings, cellrepriting
Music: Stefan Maria Schneider, Nils Frahm
Production: Helga Loebel
Cocoon Child is a poetic film about the imaginary world of an autistic child and shows a moment when her inner and outer world connects.
10. HOMELAND, 6’ 25’’
Spain/Czech Republic 2009
Direction: Juan de Dios Marfil-Atienza
Script: Juan de Dios Marfil-Atienza
Animation: Juan de Dios Marfil-Atienza
Technique: 2D animation (hand drawing)
Music: Juan de Dios Marfil-Atienza
Production: Hanka Trestíková
Dialogues: Non
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
11. NO PLACE LIKE HOME, 6’ 10’’ (video clip)
The Netherlands
Direction: Rosto
Script: Rosto
Animation: Elte Hartland, Rosto
Technique: Mixed
Music: Thijs de Belker, Rosto
Producer: Autour de Minuit, Studio Rosto A.D.
Dialogues: No
There is no place like home. There in no place like Hell…
SHORT COMPETITION 4
Friday 3.4.2009 / 19:00-20:00
01. SOLITUDE PAST, 6’ 35’’
Sweden 2009
Direction: My Sandström
Script: My Sandström
Animation: My Sandström
Technique: Diagonalakademin
Music: Fröydis Dalö
Producer: My Sandström
Dialogues: No
Ingrid is the loneliest woman in the world. She feels sorry for herself and begrudges others their happiness. When she gets close to another person she can no longer deal with her emotions and is swallowed up by her longing.
02. ELFI AND THE DEATH, 7’ 10’’
Germany 2007
Direction: Karin Stöhr, Lars Fischer
Script: Karin Stöhr, Lars Fischer
Animation: Karin Stöhr
Technique: string puppets, computer, hand drawing
Music: Betty Mugler, Lars Fischer
Producer: Karin Stöhr, Lars Fischer
Dialogues: Yes (German)
Subtitles: English
The adventure of Elfi, furry friend and the Death. A beautiful and funny parable about the uniqueness of everyone.
03. L’UN DE LUNE, 7’ 10’’
Germany 2009
Direction: Helene Tragesser, Florian Grolig
Script: Helene Tragesser
Animation: Helene Tragesser
Technique: 3D animation, hand drawing
Music: Michael Tuttle
Producer / Production: Helene Tragesser
Dialogues: No
The moon cries white tears. Untainted beings attain the ground of a dark forest, they search for each other, but the experiences in this foreign world don’t leave them unaffected.
04. NADAL vs. ALLIEN, 2’ 31’’
Korea 2008
Direction: Tak Hoon Kim
Script: Dae Woong Choi, Youn Hui Hong
Animation Director: Joon Moon Kim
Technique: Clay animation, 3D Animation
Music: Tekn Kim
Producer(s): Hungkee Lee, Kyung Jin Kim
Dialogues: No
The tennis star Rafael Nadal plays tennis with an alien. Nadal knocks the alien down with playing soccer after he becomes Nadaltron (Nadal+Voltron), although the alien’s tricks and transformation to a monster goalkeeper. Then, Nadaltron transforms to a KIA car…
05. VAE SOLI / Woe to the one who is alone, 1’ 58’’
Croatia 2008
direction: Neva Ivanec & Filip Rozic
Script: R.B. / Neva Ivanec & Filip Rozic
Animation: Neva Ivanec (classic), Filip Rozic (2D computer animation)
Music: Filip Rozic, Jurica Jakic and Luka Ortolan
Producer: TRI RUKE
Dialogue: No
A story about mine fields told through memories of a man sitting on a destroyed planet which was once the home of beautiful butterflies.
06. UNDER THE RAINBOW, 9’ 44’’
Sweden 2008
Direction: Vendela Strömbeck
Script: : Vendela Strömbeck
Animation: Vendela Strömbeck
Music: Robin Rönnlund, My sellberg
Producer: Diagonal Akademin
Dialogue: Yes (swedish)
Subtitles: Yes (english)
One day, Ferdinand the spoilt prince gets a Princess, but she refuses to get for all of the characters of the chess-planet.
07. THE TILE-JAIL TOILET-TALE, 4’ 50’’
Portugal 2008
Director: João Rodrigues / Soetkin Verstegen
Script: João Rodrigues / Soetkin Verstegen
Technique: 2D animation/ Stop-motion
Music: none
Producer: Rodrigo Areias
Dialogue: none
A little girl wants to go to the toilet...
08. TOGHETHER, 7’
Bulgaria 2008
Direction: Kalina Decheva
Script: Kalina Decheva
Animation: Kalina Decheva
Technique: 3D animation
Music: Wesselin Karaatanasov
Producer: Marina film
Dialogues: No
A city. Night. In the darkness, a man lights a match. His shadow appears. Together they set off along the dark city streets led by the light.
09. LABYRINTH, 9’ 20’’
Iran 2007
Director: Omid Khoshnazar
Script: Mehdi Rajabi
Animation: Behzad Rajabi Pour
Technique: 3D computer animation
Music: Behrooz Shahamat
Producer: Saba Animation Center
Dialogues: No
One soldier, one mission, on minute… Failure=death! Let the game to play…
SHORT COMPETITION 5
Friday 3.4.2009 / 21:15-22:15
01. BUTTERFLY, 9’ 30’’
Albania 2007
Director: Stefan Taçi (STEFOS)
Script: Stefan Taçi
Animation: Stefan Taçi
Efect graphic: Arian Ramizi
Montage: Arian Ramizi, Redi Hoxhallari
Sound: Nikolin Minga
Technique: Drawing on paper & real fiction
Music: Mix from opera " Madama Butterfly"
Production Company: Macuprodaction & AA
Producer: Artan Maku
No dialogue!
A young painter girl, after a phone call, is going to meet her lover at their intimae meeting place. Film's history took place on Tirana, but the same action may happen everywhere in a world's country. Used the symbolic and poetry of the travelling concerned this butterfly-girl, we see and feel the typical atmosphere in a city, where beyond a local sense, we fill ever a little bit the global problematic round us.
02. CABARET KADNE, 4’ 50’’
Spain 2008
Direction: Marc Riba & Anna Solanas
Script: Marc Riba & Anna Solanas
Animation: Núria Riba
Technique: Puppet animation
Cinematography: Anna Molins
Music: Natàlia Miró do Nascimento
Editing: Sergi Martí
Visual effects: Àlex Villagrasa
Sound: Anna Solanas
Art direction: Marc Riba
Character design: Núria Riba
Dressmaker: Anna Ribera
Voices: Montse Basté & Pep Cruz
Production company: I+G stop motion
Distribution company: I+G stop motion
Version: No dialogues
Otto and Lola, two cabaret artists, fill their lives with their passion: acting.
03. THREE ANGELS , 3’ 40’’
Belarus 2007
Direction: Ylia Ruditskaya
Script: Ylia Ruditskaya
Animation: Ylia Ruditskaya – Natasha Chetkova
Technique: 2D computer cutout
Music: Ethno trio «Troitsa»
Production: Sergei Dmitrenko
A music video on the traditional Belarusian song "Try Yangaly" ("Three Angels"),
performed and produced by Belarusian ethno trio "Troitsa" (leader - Ivan Kirchuk).
A story of a never-ending journey of the human soul. A man cannot take everything he earned on the earth with him to heaven.
04. REFRANY / REFRAINS, 13'
Poland 2007
Director: Wiola Sowa
Script: Wiola Sowa
Animation: Wiola Sowa, Anna Pregler, Marek Pieniążek, Wojciech Sobczyk,
Painting: Marta Pajek, Maria Görlich, Joanna Rusinek, Przemysław Świda
Technique: 2D computer animation & Painting
Music Leszek Możdżer
Producer: Robert SOWA
Production: Association of Animation Experimental and Video Film Artist «Studio A»
Dialogues:
Women of three generations are joined by common bonds and feelings. Their memories make a tangle of concealed emotions, which repeat like a refrain. When the youngest woman reaches maturity the memories return with the letter her grand mother left her.
05. LAPSUS, 2’ 37’’
Argentina 2007
Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Screenwriter: Juan Pablo Zaramella
Technique: 2D Computer animation
Music:
Sound: Gustavo Cornillon
Producer: Silvina Cornillon
Dialogues: No
A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her animated world.
06. THE PINTER OF SKIES, 25’
Spain 2008
Director: Jorge Morais Valle
Script: Jorge Morais Valle
Animation: Jorge Morais Valle
Technique: 3D and paint on paper and animation into digital photos
Music and sound: Edson Fernand / Jorge Morais
Producer: Jorge Morais Valle
Dialogues: English
From the darkness of the lost cliffs, a crazy painter, marked by his past, and his faithful assistant try to find a solution against perpetual storms. Sea is destroying their home. A magic boiler and some tormented ghosts will help them to find the light.
07. A SHADOW IN THE SOUL, 10'
Portugal, 2007
Direction: Fernando Galrito, João Ramos
Script: Fernando Galrito, João Ramos
Photography: Fernando Galrito, João Ramos
Editing: Fernando Galrito, João Ramos
Music: João Cabaço
Animation: João Ramos and Timecode
Main Actors: Sandra Seixas, Tiago Figueiredo
Producer: Ânimo Leve
She passed. He sees her. He follows her... She meets someone’s… He doesn’t know what feel...
08. SPEEDY SAM, 8'
Portugal 2007
Direction: André Letria
Script: André Letria (adapted from a poem by José Jorge Letria)
Animation: Miguel Mota, Jónatas Barros
Sound: Paulo Curado
Music: Mário Delgado
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Zé Pimpão is a braggart who likes to show his car and his driving off to everyone, even himself. Oblivious of his own limitations, he thinks he’s immune to alcohol... until one day he is made to suffer the consequences of his stupidity.
Adaptation of a children's poem with the same title by José Jorge Letria and André Letria.
09. THROW ME TO THE RATS , 4' 34''
UK 2008
Director: Alasdair Brotherston
Script: Alasdair Brotherston & Jock Mooney
Animation: Alasdair Brotherston
Technique: Puppet Animation
Music: Tom Fun Orchestra
Producer: Shot on site
No dialogues
In a Victorian theatre of the grotesque, buxom kebab-guzzling ladies peer through opera glasses at the bizarre spectacle unfolding on stage. A chorus line of can-can dancers flash ratty mirk ins behind a choreographed group of horse heads twirling cocktail umbrellas. Above them a tight rope walkers teeters precariously as the audience awaits the main act – an incontinent cat.
SHORT COMPETITION 6
Saturday 4.4.2009 / 19:00-20:00
01. ELEPHANTS, 13’
U.K. 2008
Direction: Sally Pearce
Script: Sally Pearce
Animation: Sally Pearce
Technique: Paint on glass/live action.
Music: Kylie Eearl.
Production: Johnny Lewsley
Dialoges:
Synopsis: A little girl's boring grey world is turned upside down when her house becomes infested with Elephants.
02. A CHILD’S METAPHYSICS, 5’ 8’’
Japan 2007
Original Title: Kodomo no Keijijogaku
Director: Koji Yamamura
Script, Edit, Character Design, Animation & Background Drawing: Koji Yamamura
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Sound Design: Koji Kasamatsu
Producer: Koji Yamamura & Japan Arts Fund
Production Yamamura Animation
A child whose head is numerals, a child who winds his own face and has it under his arm. What was left is his identity, a child whose eyes are provided by fishes, a child who lies down on the floor and head-butts his identity, a child who cannot say anything because of a zipper across his mouth. He undoes the zipper but under it is another zipper... Ecology and philosophy of children with sadness and humor.
03. THE OLD, OLD, VERY OLD MAN, 6’ 38’’
UK 2007
Direction: Elizabeth Hobbs
Script: Elizabeth Hobbs
Animation: Elizabeth Hobbs
Style-technique: Ink on tile
Music: Tim Olden
Voice: Edward Fox
Producer: Kathrein Guenther
Production & Distribution: Moeglich Films, Spellbound Animation
Dialogues: Yes
In 1635, the 152 year old Thomas Parr was taken on a journey to meet King Charles I in London. A celebration of his longevity had fatal consequences.
04. WALTZ BRILLIANT, 3’ 15’’
Australia 2008
Direction: Wei Ning
Script: Wei Ning
Animation: Wei Ning
Technique: cel-animation techniques and computer softwares
Music: Frederic Shopin
Producer: Wei Ning
Dialogues: No
Wet ground, noisy traffic, flying ribbon, crowded street... all these unrelated elements were put together in a summer afternoon rain in the short animation Waltz Brilliant, where the rigid side of the city was getting organic and lyrical.
05. THE CABLE CAR / Die Seilbahn, 7’
Switzerland 2008
Direction: Claudius Gentinetta, Frank Braun
Script: Claudius Gentinetta
Technique: 3D Animation
Animation: Claudius Gentinetta, Cristina Altwegg
Music: Balz Bachmann
Production: Gentinettafilm
Schweizer Fernsehen
Dialogues: No
An elderly man is riding in a rusty, weather-beaten cable car suspended at an alarming altitude. The man treats himself to a sizeable portion of snuff. With the sneeze thereafter, the rickety cable car begins to sway precariously. One sneeze attack after the other ensues, however, creating a momentum which brings the gondola on the verge of bursting. Ruthlessly exposed to the rain and snow, the cable car ascends to increasingly abysmal heights. The man, however, remains undaunted by his fate. Armed with a roll of adhesive tape, he takes control of the situation and fabricates his own cabin.
06. HORN OK PLEASE, 9’
UK 2006
Direction: Joel Simon & Vaibhav Kumaresh
Script: Scott Boldt & Joel Simon
Animation: Joel Simon
Technique: 3D Claymation with CG Backgrounds
Music: Brian Irvine
Producer: Joel Simon
Dialogues: No
HORN OK PLEASE follows a momentous day in the life of an Indian Taxi Driver called Lucky. Lucky's ambition is to earn enough rupees to buy the air-conditioned taxi of his dreams.
07. TIN CAN HEART, 7’ 37’’
Australia 2008
Direction: Rod March
Script: Rod March
Animation: Rod March
Technique: 3D computer
Music: Karel Segers & Jesus Calderon
Producer: Karel Segers
Dialogues: No
On a deserted hot planetoid, a lonely robotic puppy tries to befriend an android visitor. His attempts at friendship are rebuffed until he is put a life and death choice. When the pup gives up his very own battery, his last hope comes from a within mysterious spherical chamber.
08. ATORMENTA, 1’ 07’’
Spain 2009
Direction: César Diaz Meléndez & Isabel Heredia
Script: César Diaz Meléndez & Isabel Heredia
Animation: César Diaz Meléndez
Technique: Sand and salt animation, Stop motion on glass
Music: No
Producer: César Diaz Meléndez & Isabel Heredia
Dialogues: No
She comes for you…your time is over.
09. TAKE IT EASY / NO CORRAS TANTO, 4’ 40’’
Spain 2008
Direction: César Díaz Meléndez
Script: César Díaz Meléndez
Animation: César Díaz Meléndez
Technique: Sandanimation, Stop motion on glass.
Music: El Combolinga
Producer: César Díaz Meléndez
Dialogues: Lyrics
You think you´re just a passenger and that nothing leaves its footprint.
Don´t forget that you are a message in a bottle.
Stop! Don´t run so fast…It´s yourself who you are searching for.
10. MY DEAR GRANDMA, 4’ 45”
The Netherlands 2008
Direction: Marta Abad Baly
Script: Marta Abad Baly
Technique: 2D animation, drawn on paper and computer (Anima/After Effects)
Producer: Netherlands Institute for Animation Film
Dialogues: No
In her dreams Dolores is an ordinary grandmother who enjoys her peace and quiet and her family. The reality however is quite different: she feels herself a slave to her family. Onde day it becomes too much for her and she decides to opt out for a better life.
SHORT COMPETITION 7
Saturday 4.4.2009 / 21:25-22:15
01. THE SWIMMING LESSON, 9’ 10’’
Belgium / The Netherlands / France 2008
Direction: Danny De Vent
Script: Danny De Vent
Technique: 2D computer (CelAction)
Producer: Lumière, Annemie Degryse, Belgium / Euroanima, Arnaud Demuynck, Belgium / Netherlands Institute for Animation Film, Ton Crone, The Netherlands.
Dialogues: No
A little boy steps in to a new world. The mother of the four-year-old Jonas brings him to his first swimming lesson. Jonas is scared and wants to go home. While trying to escape, he falls into the deep bath and nobody notices him. While floating on his swimming wings he has to try to rescue himself.
02. THE HEART OF AMOS KLEIN, 14’40”
Israel / France / Denmartk / The Netherlands 2008
Director(s): Uri Kranot, Michal Kranot
Script: Uri Kranot, Michal Kranot
Technique: stylized drawn animation incorporating manipulated live-action and archive footage
Production: TinDrum Animation, Michal Kranot, Israel.
Co-production: Le films de l'Arlequin, Dora Benousilio, France / IJssel Productions, Nynke Rusticus, The Netherlands / Arte France / Netherlands Institute for Animation Film, Ton Crone, The Netherlands.
Dialogues: No
During open heart surgery, suspended between life and death, senior army officer Amos Klein returns to significant events in his life that correspond to key moments in Israeli history. With unique style and sharp political insight, as some of you will remember from God on Our
Side, the Kranot duo is back with their latest animation.
03. JAZZED, 8’
Belgium 2008
Director: Anton Setola
Script: Anton Setola
Technique: 2D computer animation (TV Paint)
Production: Lumière, Annemie Degryse, Belgium / Euroanima, Arnaud Demuynck, Belgium / Netherlands Institute for Animation Film, Ton Crone, The Netherlands.
Dialogues: No
A man walks around aimlessly. He is confronted with his roots. Besides a massive hangover, it also gives him a big dose of insight. He is pushed to confront his most mysterious, profound and imperceptible emotions.
04. IN MEMORIAM PETER MANSFELD, 7’ 30’’
Hungary 2006
Direction: Zoltan Szilagyi Varga
Script: Zoltan Szilagyi Varga
Animation: Zoltan Szilagyi Varga & Nikolay Ivanof Neykov
Technique: coal drawing animation
Music: Lazlo Melis
Produced: Kecskemétfilm
Dialogues: Narration (Subtitles: En)
The film tells the story of 21st March, 1959: this was the morning when Peter Mansfeld sentenced to death at the age of 16 was executed, only a few days after his 18th birthday.
It is based on a real story.
05. MRS. G/PANÍ, 12´
Czech Republic 2007
Direction: Michal Zabka
Script: Michal Zabka
Animation: Alfons Mensdorff-Poully
Technique: puppet animation
Music: Jan P. Muchow
Producer: Anifilm Tomas Rychecky
Dialogues: No
Mrs. G is a puppet love story full of situations that can occur during the co-existence of a man and his unusual female life-partner.
06. SHE WHO MEASURES, 6’ 40’’
Croatia 2008
Direction: Veljko Popović
Script: Veljko Popović
Animation: Veljko Popović
Technique: 3d animation
Music: Hrvoje Štefotić
Production: Kegnes
An original criticism against the world marketing and mass media, in a very innovative conception and animation technique, which shows that the technological concept yet exists and still comes more aggressive.
07. JOHN AND KAREN, 3’ 30’’
UK 2007
Direction: Matthew Walker
Script: Matthew Walker
Animation: Matthew Walker
Technique: 2D animation
Sound Design, Recording and Mix – Oliver Davis, Tom Russell
Producer: Sarah Cox
Production Co-ordinator: Ben Lole
John the polar bear apologizes to Karen the penguin after an argument they had and then has some tea and a biscuit.
SHORT COMPETITION 8
Sunday 5.4.09 / 19:00-20:00
01. WANWAN’S DREAM, 6’ 34’’
China 2007
Direction: Zheng Nana
Script: Zheng Nana
Animation: Zheng Nana – Wang Wei
Technique: 2D Animation
Producer: Wu Xiaohua – Chang Hong
Dialogues: Yes (Chinese)
One day after school, the primary scholar Wanwan found a special egg on the way home, then came a series of interesting things about the egg, which reflected Wanwan’s children thinking.
02. THE LAST TRIP, 4’
Argentina 2007
Direction: Pablo Polledri
Script: Pablo Polledri
Animation: Pablo Polledri
Technique: 3D animation
Music: Graeme Revell- Fantomas
Producer: Pablo Polledri
Dialogues: No
The horror begins when a woman decides to give a lift to a person that she finds by the road. A suspense story that shows it is not advisable to travel along with strangers…
03. JAM, 2’ 40’’
Japan 2009
Direction: Mirai Mizue
Script: Mirai Mizue
Animation: Mirai Mizue
Technique: Digital animation
Music: Kai & Co
Producer: Mirai Mizue
Dialogues: No
The sound is piled up. And, the image is piled up. The screen is made chaotic before long.
04. FANTAISIE IN BUBBLEWRAP, 4’ 19’’
USA 2007
Direction: Arthur Metcalf
Script: Arthur Metcalf
Animation: Arthur Metcalf
Technique: animation/live action
Music: No
Producer:
Dialogues: No
A short, whimsical jaunt through the world of bubblewrap.
05. I CATCH HIM, 18’
Slovakia 2008
Direction: Boris Sima
Script: Boris Sima
Animation: Boris Sima
Technique: clay, digital animation
Music: Stano Paluch
Producer: Marian Varga
Dialogues: No
What all can happen during an ordinary school visit in museum. Hero - small boy experiences
big adventures due to his mischief but it wasn't change him anyway.
06. THE WEREPIG, 16’ 40’’
Spain 2008
Direction: SAM
Script: SAM
Animation: Julia Peguet, David Caballer, SAM
Technique: Stop-motion, Clay
Music: Ramon Guiner
Production Company: Ignacio Benedeti Cinema
Producer: Xose Zapata
Dialogues: English & Spanish
Two American tourists who want to go to Benidorm accidentally head for Galicia. Their lack of manners and hygiene get them kicked out, as luck would have it, into deserts of Castilla. Just when they lose heart, they are taken in by an affectionate elderly couple.
07. THE ROOF, 10’ 35’’
Iran 2008
Direction: Rouhollah Saadatmand
Script: Rouhollah Saadatmand
Animation: Rouhollah Saadatmand
Technique: 2d animation
Music: Saeed Shahram
Producer: Rouhollah & Shahram
Dialogues: Yes (Farsi)
Subtitles: English
A baby frog and a bay bat play on a roof. They face a balloon by chance and it changes the trend of their game.
SHORT COPMETITION 9
Sunday 5.4.09 / 21:15-22:15
01. BULB, 2’ 40’’
UK 2008
Direction: Alexandra Papagianni
Script: Alexandra Papagianni
Animation: Alexandra Papagianni
Technique: 2d animation
Music: Donnacha Dennehy
Producer: Alexandra Papagianni
Dialogues: No
The human brain in reaction: What are the processes that occur in order to make the human brain function.
02. BERNI’S DOOL, 11’ 03’’
France 2007
Direction: Yann Jouette
Script: Yann Jouette
Animation:
Technique: 3D animation
Music: Seal Phüric et Trionix
Producer: Dummy Productions
Dialogues: No
Berni, who works at a cat food factory, buys a woman in pieces imported from different Third World countries. Dullard Berni leads a humdrum life punching a time clock in a squalid cat food factory, until one night, he spots an ad on TV that might hold the key to all of his life's desires: his very own lifelike sex doll, available with or without the standard appendages.
03. LEFTOVERS, 6’ 03’’
Serbia 2007
Director: Igor Coric
Script: Igor Coric
Technique: 2D animation, 3D animation
Producer: Gama Entertainment Group
Dialogues: No
Life always goes on, on leftovers of lives that ended.
04. WHEN APPLES ROLL, 7’
Latvia 2009
Direction: Reinis Kalnaellis
Script: Andrejs Prigivevs, Mara Laima, Andris Akmentins
Animation: Andrejs Prigicevs, Laima Puntule
Technique: Drawing animation
Music: Karlis Lacis
Producer: Vilnis Kalnaellis
A cat in an antique wooden cabinet with his devoted friend Mouse. This Autumn, while the cat is picking up apples in the in the orchard at the edge of the old village, things turn out differently. All of a student a strange egg rolls into the orchard.
05. CHICKEN WANTS TO FLY, 10’
China 2007
Direction: Zeng Ygang
Script: Zeng Ygang
Animation: Zeng Ygang
Technique: 2D animation
Music: Li Bai
Producer: Jilin College of the Arts –Animation School
Dialogue: No
A freshly-bom chicken desires to fly free in the sky like birds and swallows, and takes it for granted that his wings can make him flying as theirs do. But no matter how much endeavor he puts in, there’s no sign of this expectation’s realizing… One night in the deep dream, somehow he flies, far across the lands over the sky, and many fantastic things comes out…
06. BEWARE OF BLACK DOG, 8’ 5’’
Australia 2008
Direction: Frank Candiloro
Script: Frank Candiloro
Animation: Frank Candiloro
Technique: 2D computer animation
Music: Mark Wolf
Production: Frank Candiloro
An ageing superhero struggles to overcome personal demons when he faces his old arch enemy in what may be his greatest battle yet.
07. CROSSING, 53’
China 2007
Direction: Li Xiang
Script: Li Xiang & Zhao Bo, Xiong Xiao
Animation: Li Xiang & Zhao Bo
Technique: 3D Animation
Music: Li Xiang & Zhao Bo
Producer: Jilin College of the Arts –Animation School
Dialogue: No
There was a robot an old blind man crossing the street. The robot was run down by a car as the result of neglecting traffic red light, while the comparatively weak old blind man had went across the street safely, as he complied with traffic regulation.
08. THE DRESS, 6’ 30’’
Estonia 2007
Direction: Mari-Liis Bassovskaja, Jelena Girlin
Script: Jelena Girlin, Mari-Liis Bassovskaja
Animation: Marili Sokk
Technique: Digital animation
Music: Malle Maltis
Producer: Arvo Nuut
Production: Nukufilm OÜ
Dialogues: No
A woman tries to remember the highlights of her life, or maybe dreams about them. Who is that woman, whose dress knows of a beautiful exciting life with kitchen utensils? We never see the woman herself, though we move along her body, or rather along her dress, since the dress and the body can be the same.
09. LOVESICK, 8’ 30’’
Germany - Slovenia 2007
Director: Špela Čadež
Script: Christina Zimmerman
Animation: Špela Čadež , Matej Lavrenčič, Oliver Thorm
Technique: Puppet animation
Music: Mateja Starič
Producer: KHM
Dialogues: No
Pain from the heart, never drying tears and turned around heads are difficult to treat, but fortunately not incurable…
