International competition 6: Humorous

Director: Saverio Madis Santostasi
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 9 min 18 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Estonia

In “Flat ’n’ Round” we are introduced to a peculiar parallel universe where everybody in the world has been divided between two competing physical forms and fanatical ideologies – flat and round. What happens when you launch a flat-earther into orbit? Is the Earth [more…]

Director: Ronni Shalev
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 7 min 48 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Israel

It’s the hottest day of the year and Jerusalem is being devoured by a scorching heatwave! In the city center, three flatmates live in blissful ignorance under the cool caress of their air conditioner.

Director: Martinus Klemet
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 6 min 45 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Estonia

Face Recognition failure – Deadbeat Igor-503 evades the cops detectors during a night of wild drinking.

Director: Kristjan Holm
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 10 min 10 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Estonia

Camera is following the events that happened after two kids find a box of matches and decide to boil an egg.

Director: Thomas Costa Freté
Tecnique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Sweden

“The Power of Love” is a short, intense and fantastic tale of how the love between two individuals can make the time stand still and even conquer death.

Director: Felix Colgrave
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 8 min 30 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Austria

A little story about the backyard critters you might see in Tasmania, and the things they might be doing.

Director: Gottfried Mentor
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2021
Country: Germany

A town is driven mad. The city of Stuttgart fights back with heavy action against its traffic chaos. With far reaching consequences. Other cities might follow the signal…

Director: Capucine Gougelet
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 9 min 15 sec
Year: 2020
Country: France

Museum rules are simple : don’t run, don’t touch, don’t shout and never disobey.

Director: Katarzyna Miechowicz
Technique: Cut-out, stop-motion
Duration: 6 min 35 sec
Year: 2020
Country: Poland

Absurd adventures of three people inhabitating small town by the sea – Una, experiencing peculiar anxiety about her own foot; G., cursed by a plump pony, and mysterious Faceless Man.

Director: Noah Erni
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Switzerland

Due to global warming a young polar bear has to leave her home in summer 2031 and moves to Zurich. Together with all other animals she tries to make a living until she suddenly has an idea, that will change the world for ever.

Directors: Lara Perren & Anna Lena Springin
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Year: 2021
Country: Switzerland

Ava enters the Sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and [more…]

Director: Adithi Krishnadas
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 11 min 49 sec
Year: 2021
Country: India

The ever-vibrant Mr. P. N. K Panicker has several shockers up his sleeve. He takes the viewer along a moonlit stroll and paints a quirky picture of the supernatural encounters he has had.

Director: Júlia Farkas
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Year: 2021
Country: USA, Hungary

Big Crunch is a completely spontaneous, freely associative visual mindfuck, morphs and zooms fuse the various situations into a single, continuous scene.