International competition 5: Eeeevil

Director: Varya Yakovleva
Technique: Cut-out animation
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
Year: 2020
Country: Russia

Anna lives in comfortable loneliness until she becomes the object of aggressive lust of a neighbor from the window opposite. Violence breaks into her life.

Director: Svetlana Razguliaeva
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 11 min 23 sec
Year: 2020
Country: Russia

In the rural Siberia, where there is only an airfield and a disco in the village club of all the entertainment, the city goat arrives to work. In a small village, she immediately attracts the attention of men, but the Goat herself can not [more…]

Director: Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma
Technique: 2D drawn animation, cut out
Duration: 13 min 22 sec
Year: 2021
Country: USA

As a pregnant myrmecologist increasingly becomes obsessed with the ant queen of her research colony, the lines between the ant and human experience blur.

Director: Malte Stein
Technique: 2D drawn animation, cut out
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Germany

Haunted by a little thing, a man gets driven to the edge.

Director: Hugo Covarrubias
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 15 min 54 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Chile

Based on true events, Bestia explores the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveals a grim fracture of her mind and of the country.

Director: Joe Cappa
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 10 min
Year: 2020
Country: USA

A rescue pup discovers that its new home is haunted by the family’s deceased pets in this mind-bending horror.

Director: Josh O’Caoimh & Mikai Geronimo
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 10 min
Year: 2021
Country: Ireland

The antagonist of a dark opera becomes increasingly unsettled following the unlikely return of the former lead actor.

Director: Joe Hsieh
Technique: 2D drawn animation, cut-out
Duration: 20 min
Year: 2020
Country: Taiwan

On a late-night commuter bus, a necklace was stolen. This was followed by a tragic and fatal road accident, and a series of intriguing turn of events which revealed love, hatred, and vengeance. The film climaxes as the bus went ablaze, burning and glittering against [more…]