Junior Competition 1

Director: Julie Rembauville
Technique: Stop-motion, 2D drawn animation
Duration:5 min
Year: 2020
Country: France

Kiki the canary only knows his cage and the old lady who feeds him. He dreams of flying with the free birds from outside. When at last the door of the cage stays open, he escapes and discovers the big outside where it’s necessary to know [more…]

Director: Dace Rīdūze
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 14 min
Year: 2020
Contry: Latvia

Films main characters are 8 pea children who live in their green pea pod; the story tells how they are interacting with the world and its other inhabitants in the context of natural cycles and laws.

Director: Max Holicki
Technique: 3D
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2019
Country: Germany

In a world made of pizza, unpopular toppings have to fight for equality and respect. Three brave pineapple slices rebel against the discriminatory entry policy of a skate park in sunny Kasselfornia.

Directors: Ivan Stur & Javier I. Luna Crook
Technique: Puppet animation
Duration: 11 min
Year: 2019
Country: Argentine

12000 years ago in South America, a boy named Quma aspired to become a hunter. Experience the first steps in his spiritual awakening as a journey alone in the wild changed his perspective forever!

Directors: Ezequiel Torres & Pablo Roldan
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2020
Country: Argentine

Extreme global warming has left a little Penguin homeless. His friend the Whale goes out in search of a new home for the Penguin, but day after day, the heat prevents him from arriving in time with the solution.

Director: Daria Stolbetsova
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2019
Country: Russia

The heroine of the film runs in preparation for a marathon, but this is not a reason to remain indifferent to people!

Directors: Verena Fels & Marc Angele
Technique: 3D
Duration: 7 min
Year: 2020
Country: Germany

You fly with no seat! That’s the rule in the Turbobus. To get one is a hard day job for a young wolf on his turbo-journey to find real friendship.

Director: Sonja Rohleder
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration : 4 min
Year: 2019
Country: Germany

A slightly naïve paradise bird is going out of his way to attract a mate.

Director: Irina Tarasova
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 14 min
Year: 2019
Country: Belarus

Young mouseling, upon hearing the tale of a wonderful Granary full of seeds, where mice live without worries, leaves his home in the burrows to find this wondrous place…

Director: Joyce Zhang
Technique: Stop-motion, 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2020
Country: USA

An eye-opening journey about acceptance despite many tribulations. It is a somewhat relatable experience which gives 2020 a new meaning.