ANIMATION FESTIVAL/ 15.-18.10.2020/ HELSINKI

Kids

Kids+5 Fri 16.10.

Kids+9 Fri 16.10.

Kids+12 Sat 17.10.

Flowing through Wonder

Director: Joanna Lurie
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  14 min
Year: 2018
Country: France
Age limit: +12

It’s time for the villagers to start their journey. They cross the perilous water in nutshells, with their loved ones to their final destination… where the blue sky and the blue ocean meet up.
When do we leave the world of the living?

Split Ends

Director: Nofar Alfasi
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  6 min 22 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Israel
Age limit: +12

Two sisters with an unusual Connection, but despite that unique bond they are very different from each other. how will their relationship endure?

Lost eye

Director: Sarah Pannekoek
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  2 min 11 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Nederland
Age limit: +12

Wanda is riding her horse, when suddenly the horses eye gets stolen by a flock of birds! She travels through a strange world and meets amazing creatures. Will she find the missing eye and return safely back home? Lost Eye is an [more…]

Teofrastus

Director: Sergei Kibus
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  15 min
Year: 2019
Country: Estonia
Age limi: +12

A tale of freedom and compassion, set in the 1980s Soviet Estonia, as experienced by a cat and recounted by its owner. Cat Teofrastus lives a homeless life at a train station. One day, he is offered a home by a family living in a nearby [more…]

The Incredible Wardrobegadget of Dr. Stein

Director: Gabriela Plackova
Technique: 3D
Duration:  14 min 56 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Czech
Age limit: +12

When professor Stein’s dog dies in an accident, he’s ready to do whatever it takes to get him back. He builds an incredible life-reviving machine but instead of a cute pup a hideous monster comes out of it. How can the monster prove that [more…]

Cat Lake City

Director: Antje Heyn
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  6 min 40 sec
Country: Saksa
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +5

Sometimes it takes a while to figure out the best way to share stuff.

Fussel

Director: Alex Berweck
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  5 min
Country: Germany
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +5

The Last Day of Autumn

Director: Marjolaine Perreten
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  7 min 20 sec
Country: Switzerland
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: S

Forest animals secretly collect abandoned bike parts with the intention of building vehicles that fit their size. A great race is preparing. The last day of Autumn’s race.

Eaten

Director: Mohsen Rezapour
Technique: 3D
Duration:  12 min 40 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Iran
Age limit: +12

In a mysterious unknown planet, a rabbit-like creature is eaten; but that’s not the end of the story.

Little Big Bear

Director: Sarah Schulz
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Country: Germany
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +9

Sam’s dream

Director: Nolwenn Roberts
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  7 min
Country: France
Language: no dialoguq
Age limit: S

A tale of a little mouse who, one fine spring morning, decides to make his dream come true. It’s a rather crazy dream for a little mouse to have: he wants to fly with the swallows.

A Lynx in the town

Director: Nina Bisiarina
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  6 min 48 sec
Age limit: +5

A curious lynx, attracted by the neighboring city lights, leaves the forest behind. The animal has a lot of fun in the city, until it falls asleep in the middle of a parking lot. In the early morning, the amazed inhabitants discover this [more…]

Muedra

Director: Cesar Linga
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 7 min
Country: Germany
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +9

Life can arise anywhere, nature behave strangely and days can last for minutes. Although everything is familiar to us, nothing is what it seems in this place. The cycle of life seen from a different point of view.

Family Bonds

Director: Maria Schmidt
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 7 min
Country: Germany
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +9

The young fox Hugo lives a harmonic life with his geese parents until one day he discovers a frightening truth.

The Little Bang

Director: Jihyeon Bae
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  7 min
Country: South Korea
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +5

The Calves

Director: Bela Bulgakova
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 10 min 39 sec
Country: Germany
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +9

Tarina kahdesta vasikasta, jotka etsivät kadonnutta äitiään.

The Bird and the Whale

Director: Carol Freeman
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  5 min
Country: Ireland
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +9

The Bird and the Whale is a story about a young whale struggling to find his voice. After straying too far from his family to explore a shipwreck, he discovers it’s sole survivor, a caged songbird. Together they struggle to survive lost [more…]

No!

Director: Christian Kaufmann
Technique: 3D
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2019
Country: Germany
Age limit: +9

Overboard

Directors: Filip Pošiva and Barobora Valecká
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  12 min
Country: Czech
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +9

At first glance, Chameleon and Kiwi are a strange pair. But when an approaching storm sweeps away their roof, there is no room for differences: they must help each other board the boat about to set out from shore! The Ark [more…]

Musicanimals

Director: Stella Raith
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  2 min
Country: Germany
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +5

Attention au loup

Director: Julie Rembauville
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  1 min
Country: France
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +5

Once again The Little Red Riding Hood visits Grandma to bring her biscuits and jam. Only this time the wolf isn’t there.

Petite Etincelle

Director: Julie Rembauville
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  3 min
Country: France
Language: no dialogue
Age limit: +6

A Tiger with no Stripes

Director: Raul ‘Robin’ Morales Reyes
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  8 min 40 sec
Country: France, UK
Language: no dialoguq
Age limit: +6

A little tiger takes a long journey to find his stripes.