ANIMATION FESTIVAL/ 15.-18.10.2020/ HELSINKI

International Competition 2

Duration 95 min

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Sweet Nights

Director: Lia Bertels
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  14 min
Year: 2018
Country: Belgium

All bears are supposed to hibernate. All except this one, with his eyes wide open.

Selfies

Director: Claudius Gentinetta
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  4 min
Year: 2018
Country: Switzerland

In a veritable firework display of digital selfportraits, hundreds
of quaint, embarrassing and dread-fully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

The Fall

Director: Boris Labbe
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  14 min 22 sec
Year: 2018
Country: France

As celestial beings descend to Earth vitiating its population, the world’s order unbalances. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven’s circles.

Coyote

Director: Lorenz Wunderle
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  10 min
Year: 2018
Country: Switzerland

A coyote loses his wife and children from an attack by wolves. Anguished from human emotions he’s trying to process the experience. Besides grief and delusion, evil takes up more and more space.

Fest

Director: Nikita Diakur
Technique: 3D
Duration:  3 min
Year: 2018
Country: Germany

Albiti

Director: Coral Oxman
Technique: 3D and 2D drawn animation
Duration:  3 min 20 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Israel

The film shows a relationship between a woman and the kitten living at her home. The film describes, at first, a warm familiar situation, that gradually becomes unusual. The irregularity aspires to bring discomfort and disturbances.

Squaring the circle

Director: Karolina Specht
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration  5 min
Year: 2018
Country: Poland

At first glance, it seems that SQUARE lives among chaos and endless changes. But next, we can notice that the systems in which he functions, are constantly repeated, introduce a routine. SQUARING THE CIRCLE is full of graphic metaphors, a semi-abstract story about an impossible feeling.

III

Director: Marta Pajek
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  12 min
Year: 2018
Country: Poland

„III” is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the same time. The film is the third part of the triptych “Impossible Figures and other stories”.

An eye for an eye

Director: Julia Płoch
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  17 min 17 sec
Year: 2018
Country: Puola

The film’s action takes place over a large lake, one of it’s banks is inhabited by frogs. They tell stories about the ancient God – huge Catfish, living on the other side of the waters. In the movie we follow the fate of two characters: [more…]

Snow – salt

Directors: Noa Berman – Herzberg and Amit Cohen
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  2 min 58 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Israel

Once in a while my mom says: my heart yearns for the snowy Siberian Plains… and then she takes a ride to the Dead Sea…

Tamou

Director: Tzor Edery and Tom Prezman
Technique: Mixed media
Duration  10 min
Year: 2019
Country: Israel

Tamou, a lonely housewife, plunges into an internal exploration of gender and sexuality in 20th century Morocco. Surrounded by the prying eyes of a patriarchal society, her – his true identity as a trans man begins to unfold.