ANIMATION FESTIVAL/ 15.-18.10.2020/ HELSINKI

International competition 1

Duration 96 min

Ticket Thu 15.10.

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Ticket Sat 17.10.

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Sweet Sweat

Director: Jung Hyun Kim
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  6 min 13 sec
Year: 2018
Country: Estonia

The Spirits of Cairn

Director: Shinobu Soejima
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  7 min 7 sec
Year: 2018
Country: Japan

Gathered from their resting place in the sand, the bird heads bound toward hollow cavities in the wall. A festival-nominated, multi-award winning puppet animation inspired by Asian folklore and religious motifs.

WAAAH

Director: Sawako Kabuki
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  1 min 15 sec
Year: 2018
Country: Japan

Synchronized the irritation of the baby’s cries and the frustration I have ever experienced. Everyone was born while crying and grew crying.
I grew up to be an adult, but I strongly want to be a baby again.

Adorable

Director: Cheng-Hsu Chung
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  6 min
Year: 2018
Country: UK

A journey of a queer person where he explores his sexuality and the queer community; the film illustrates an observation of the modern queer society and fantasies toward the freedom of gender fluidity. This work is to reflect the real situation of the community where discriminations, [more…]

My Little Goat

Director: Tomoki Misato
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  13 min
Year: 2019
Country: Japan

The mother goat rescues her little goats from the wolf’s belly. Bus she can’t find Toruku, her eldest son! Where is Toruku?!

MIMI

Director: Lisa Fukaya
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  4 min
Yeaer: 2018
Counry: Denmark

MIMI has a pimple for the first time. She is afraid of being different from other girls and is uncomfortable around those who are different from herself. Because of this, she begins to mimic other girls around her.

Sister

Director: Siqi Song
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  8 min
Year: 2018
Country: China, United States

Daughter

Duration: Daria Kashcheeva
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  15 min
Year: 2019
Country:  Czech

The bond between a father and a daughter is imperiled by matters that go unspoken and hurts that are slow to heal.

Memorable

Director: Bruno Collet
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  8 min 16 sec
Year: 2019
Country: France

Recently, Louis, painter is experiencing strange events. His world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furnitures, objects, people lose their realism. They are destructuring, sometimes disintegrating …

Cadavre exquis

Directors: Stephanie Lansaque and Francois Leroy
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  12 min 50 sec
Year: 2018
Country: France

‘Cadavre exquis’ invites to a visual, acoustic and odorous ballad through the wandering of a one eyed dog. In the maze of Old Hanoi narrow streets, daily life and legend mingle on the syncopated rhythm of Hat Xam, the Vietnamese blues.

Splash

Director: SHEN Jie
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  9 min
Year: 2019
Country: China

The splash of water is like a bomb, about to break the tranquility of the pool.

Castle

Director: Ryotaro Miyajima
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2019
Country: Japan

During the period of the ‘Provinces at war’, many lives were lost. A castle architect discovers the possible role of a tea room as a place for warriors to regain humanity.