International competition 7: Humour

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.

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

A day full of socially awkward moments.

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

Two drunk friends accidentally walk into a crime scene.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A boy is doing an exercise with his dog.

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

A businessman enters the elevator for another day at work…

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.

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.

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.