International competition 1

Director: Julia Orlik
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 9 min
Year: 2022
Country: Poland

A tale of a girl who studied animation and spent four years without a day of vacation.

Director: Tess Martin
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Year: 2023
Country: Netherlands

A photograph is a window into the past, but sometimes the border between the past and the present is not entirely clear. 

Director: Laura Gonçalves
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 11 min
Year: 2023
Country: Portugal

On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked for thirty years as a garbage man.

Director: Claudius Gentinetta
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 6 min
Year: 2023
Country: Switzerland

A metaphor for the double-entry bookkeeping we live by every day. We know about our own mortality and yet behave as if we live forever.

Director: João Gonzalez
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 14  min
Year: 2023
Country: Portugal

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce [more…]

Director: Anouk kilian-Debord
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 5 min 27 sek
Year: 2023
Country:  Belgium

Loïc, formerly worker in a gravel quarry, has lost all his memory after an accident. Ever since, he has cut himself off from the world. 

Director: Michael Bohnenstingl
Tehnique: 2D drawn animation, 3D
Duration: 17 min 54 sec
Year: 2023
Country:  Germany

Wannabe musical legend Slouch is pushed by his song-writing-demon Nuffti to deep dive into his darkest emotions, while his girlfriend Lisa is pregnant and wants him to transition into a harmonic family life…

Director: Calleen Koh Yee Lin
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 11 min
Year: 2021
Country: Singapore

To Kill the Birds & the Bees follows three initially separate stories of four average Singaporeans – a pair of young twins, a secondary school prefect and a conservative housewife – who each encounter a [more…]