International Competition 4: Nature

Director: Aline Höchli
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 11 min
Year: 2019
Country: Switzerland

Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of life in the city of insects. When a financial crisis hits, the industrious bees only see one solution. Droll imagery and a jaunty soundtrack converge in this clever modern parable.

Director: Daphna Awadish
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  3 min
Year: 2019
Country: Israel

Amit discovered the sea in a diving course and fell in love. The quiet, the water, the calmness, nature- it all came together and the sea returned that love to him. Based on a poem by Zelda.

Directors: Kalp Sanghvi & Upamanyu Bhattacharyya
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  11 min
Year: 2019
Country: India

In a version of Kolkata, India rendered unliveable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.

Director: Simone Giampaolo
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  6 min
Year: 2020
Country: Switzerland

Only a Child is an omnibus animation short that gives shape and colour to Severn Suzuki’s original speech at the UN Summit in Rio (1992): a child’s desperate call to action for our planet’s future.

Director: Agnès Patron
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  14 min
Year: 2019
Country: France

That very night houses will burn. Men and women will tremble. Hordes of children will come together and howl as they dance alone on the ashes like wild bears.

Directors: Ivana Bosnjak & Thomas Johnson
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:  12 min
Year: 2019
Country: Croatia

A film about a young woman’s connection with the life force of nature.

Director: Aleta Rajič
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  10 min
Year: 2019
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Woman-Doe, a living sculpture trapped in urban spaces of boredom, melancholia and utopian museums where she works and entertains herself by acting human .

Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Technique: Puppet animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2019
Country: Sweden

A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo without animals, a snail measures his blood pressure at the doctor, in the CERN laboratory something has gone terribly wrong. Six moments from our age, like memories of the world we leave behind.

Director: Emily Downe
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2019
Country: UK

A short animated film which questions the ideal worlds of a perfectionistic culture. Exploring research through storytelling, the film is based in a fantasy jungle that acts as a portal for idealised worlds to become external.

Director: Natasza Cetner
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 9 min
Year: 2019
Country: UK, Poland

A true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who hopelessly fell in love with a concrete statue.

Director: Maria Saveleva
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2020
Country: Estonia

It’s more than just feathers or a number of fingers… Mr Notakiwi wants to join the community. Is society ready to accept the other and his song..?

Director: Ollie Magee
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2020
Country: UK

A film behind a horse. Obscuring the narrative. My act of self-destruction.

Director: Felippe Steffens
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 7 min
Year: 2020
Country: Brazil

An astronaut spends his days at the International Space Station waiting for a return.