ANIMATION FESTIVAL/ 15.-18.10.2020/ HELSINKI

International Competition 4

Friday 16.10. 6.30pm., Bio Rex
Duration 86 min

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It’s Wet!

Directors: Nan Huang ja Alexis Godard
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  7 min 19 sec
Year: 2018
Country: France

A narcissistic woman lives without worrying about the world around her. It is by pushing the limits of her selfesteem that she has to find a solution to the malfunctions she has caused.

The Redness of Red

Director: Emily Downe
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  3 min
Year: 2018
Country: UK

What does it mean to be conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially intelligent? Can machines really see?

Crossfire

Director: Ekin Koca
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  7 min 05 sec
Year: 2019
Country: France

Morning

Director: Vojtech Domlatil
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  3 min 33 sec
Year: 2019
Country:  Czech

Morning. Coffee. Breakfast. Shower. And then? Trip outside? Or trip inside? Breathing meditation in form of linear full animation.

Grilled

Director: Stanislas Le Stang
Technique: 3D
Duration:  8 min 16 sec
Year: 2019
Country: France

Lenny, a 3d character, runs into a self tanning cream advertisement. He develops a bug and gets thrown into a dump of buggyobjects. Through his mourning, begins an initiatory journey leading Lenny to meet himself

Purpleboy

Director: Alexandre Siqueira
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  14 min
Year: 2019
Country: Portugal, France, Belgium

Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition [more…]

KIDS

Director: Michael Frei
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  9 min
Year: 2019
Country: Switzerland

An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal?

Intermission Expedition

Director: Wiep Teeuwisse
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  8 min 21 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Nederland

During a sunny holiday, a flock of tourists struggle to let go of their busy city lives, and the absence of daily tasks leaves them lost in an uncomfortable and frightening place. Once they learn to slow down, they may find some beauty in the [more…]

Acid rain

Director: Tomek Popakul
Technique: 3D
Duration:  26 min
Year: 2019
Country: Poland

Somewhere in the Eastern Europe. Young runs away from her depressing hometown. Her early enthusiasm about the hitch-hike falls when she finds herself in the city outskirts in the middle of the night. At the bridge she meets a figure balancing unsafely on the guardrail. That’s how she meets [more…]