ANIMATION FESTIVAL
20.–23.5.2021 ONLINE

International competition 7: Humour

Tales from the heaven, exercise instructions and wings. This screening is available around the world. This screening is suitable for adults only. Duration of screening 63 minutes. Buy your tickets here.

Selection Process

Director: Carla Pereira
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration:3 min
Year: 2021
Country: Spain

A cat goes to a job interview where his aptitudes are assessed by three mice. As the interview progresses, the situation starts getting more and more awkward for everyone involved.

AWKWARD

Director: Nata Metlukh
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 4 min
Year: 2020
Country: USA

A day full of socially awkward moments.

Hot and Tasty

Director: Laura Jayne Hodkin
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 4 min
Year: 2019
Country: UK

Two drunk friends accidentally walk into a crime scene.

The Wings

Director: Riho Unt
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 12 min
Year: 2020
Country: Estonia

An eccentric inventor Jaan is about to fulfil his dreams of flying high in the sky when the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance luminary, joins him in his aspirations.

Tales from the Multiverse

Director: Peter Smith
Technique: 3D
Duration: 7 min
Year: 2020
Country: Denmark

God is a single parent and amateur programmer. He’s working on project ‘Earth’ but never seems to get a break from the kids. One day though, he
finally gets a breakthrough.

Curious World of Animals

Directors: Dante Zaballa & Osian Efnisien
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 4 min
Year: 2020
Country: United States, UK, Argentine

Take a glimpse at the natural world which surrounds us in this groundbreaking documentary, produced and realized by Dante Zaballa and Osian Efnisien.

Salmon Men

Directors: Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger & Joel Hofmann
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 6 min
Year: 2020
Country: Switzerland

The salmon want to reproduce. While the salmon men are swimming upstream in a testosterone-driven race, the women at the source of the river indulge themselves in a fertility dance.

My Exercise

Director: Atsushi Wada
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 2 min
Year: 2020
Country: Japan

A boy is doing an exercise with his dog.

Cage Match

Director: Bryan Lee
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 9 min
Year: 2019
Country: USA

A businessman enters the elevator for another day at work…

Night Shift

Director: Linda Stūre
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2019
Country: Latvia

The nightly ritual of a security guard – a game of Tetris – is interrupted by unexpected technical issues. One of the surveillance cameras breaks down, and the game sets its own rules.

Mascot

Director: Leeha KIM
Technique: 3D
Duration: 6 min
Year: 2019
Country: South Korea

The fox who wants to be a mascot for the city goes to a mascot training academy. He lives in a very tiny house and works many part-time jobs.

Touch

Director: Sofja Gorelova
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  3 min
Year: 2020
Country: Estonia

“You” are trying to get in touch with “your inner self”, but it turns out you speak different languages and turns on the mode of self-destruction.