The Girl with the Occupied Eyes

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2024 Duration: 8 mins.

Synopsis: Once upon a time, there was a little girl who, even when out and about, was always distracted. Eyes fixed on her phone, she didn’t notice the world around her or anyone who wanted to play with her. What could be done to “disoccupy” her eyes?

Credits:

Direction: André Carrilho

Writers: André Carrilho

Production: Hemi Fortes, Filipe Araújo

Animation: André Carrilho, Luís Vital, João Silva

Music: Nuno Costa

Sound: Pedro Carvalho, Sara Godinho, Rui Pereira

Distribution: Blablabla Media

Age Classification: M/6

Circle

Country: SOUTH KOREA Year: 2024 Duration: 7 mins.

Synopsis: The girl draws a circle on the ground. Passersby step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within. Once the girl returns and erases the circle, people start heading their way.

Credits:

Direction: Yumi Joung

Writers: JOUNG Yumi

Production: KIM Kihyun (Match Cut Inc.)

Animation: JOUNG Yumi, Park Youngeun

Music: /

Sound: GONG Taewon

Distribution: KIM Kihyun (Match Cut Inc.)

Age Classification: M/12

Lines

Country: GERMANY Year: 2024 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: An aggressive battle unfolds between red and dark blue. The borderlines between the colors vibrate with tension as they fight for their lives.

Credits:

Direction: Martin Schmidt

Writers: Martin Schmidt

Production: Raumkapsel GmbH

Animation: Martin Schmidt

Music: Thomas Höhl

Sound: Christian Wittmoser

Distribution: Raumkapsel GmbH

Age Classification: M/12

Body of a shadow

Country: COLOMBIA Year: 2024 Duration: 12 mins.

Synopsis: While still asleep a woman is dragged from her house by a huge black mass. She is taken to a meadow where she finds a group of different women and girls existing with the stillness and sporadic impulsiveness of a clan of cows that were never tamed. The woman spends the night imitating the bovine behavior of the group until dawn, when the group merges—also absorbing the woman—into a homogeneous body that is revealed to the viewer as the enormous black mass at the beginning. The mass moves back to town to take a new woman at nightfall.

Credits:

Direction: Andrea Muñoz

Writers: Andrea Muñoz, Stefany Jaramillo

Production: Stefany Jaramillo

Animation: Andrea Muñoz, Stefany Jaramillo

Music: Nicolás Gutiérrez

Sound: Nicolás Gutiérrez

Distribution: Refresh catalog Vol.5

Age Classification: M/12

Hello Summer

Country: SLOVAKIA , CZECHIA Year: 2024 Duration: 11 mins.

Synopsis: Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn’t as stellar as promised? What if your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently?

Credits:

Direction: Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová

Writers: Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová

Production: Martin Smatana, Studio Bororo

Animation: David Stumpf, Martin Smatana, Barbora Halirova, Ivan Strobl, Filip Diviak

Music: Aliaksandr Yasinski

Sound: Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet

Distribution: Lucia Dubravay Trautenberger, Bear With Me Distribution

Age Classification: M/6

The Long coming of the fire

Country: NORTH MACEDONIA Year: 2024 Duration: 5 mins.

Synopsis: In ‘The Long Coming of the Fire’, a short animation inspired by the poem of the same name by the poet Atso Shopov, the director of the film confronts his father's terminal illness and the transience of life. The film is mainly composed of animated MRI scans of the now late parent.

Credits:

Direction: Zharko Ivanov

Writers: Zharko Ivanov

Production: Zharko Ivanov, Flip Book Productions

Animation: Zharko Ivanov, Krste Gospodinovski, Goce Gospodinovski

Music: Goran Petrovski

Sound: Goran Petrovski

Distribution: Flip Book Productions

Age Classification: M/12

I died in Irpin

Country: CZECHIA , SLOVAKIA Year: 2024 Duration: 11 mins.

Synopsis: 24 February 2022. My boyfriend and I fled from Kyiv to Irpin. We spent 10 days in a blockaded city and managed to escape with the last evacuation convoy. Time passed but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.

Credits:

Direction: Anastasiia Falileieva

Writers: Anastasiia Falileieva

Production: Martin Vandas (MAURFILM), Juraj Krásnohorský (ARTICHOKE)

Animation: Anastasiia Falileieva

Music: Petr Marek

Sound: Petr Marek

Distribution: Alexandra Hroncová (CINEFILA Distribution)

Age Classification: M/12

Buckshot

Country: UNITED KINGDOM Year: 2024 Duration: 9 mins.

Synopsis: Tension boils over when a neighbour goes next door to borrow a saucepan.

Credits:

Direction: Trevor Hardy

Writers: Trevor Hardy

Production: Pigbird

Animation: Trevor Hardy

Music: Peter Davison

Sound: Trevor Hardy

Distribution: Pigbird

Age Classification: M/12

The Painting

Country: CANADA Year: 2024 Duration: 12 mins.

Synopsis: A short film made using pinscreen animation, ‘The Painting’ explores the 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria by Velázquez. Michèle Lemieux demonstrates incredible mastery of the pinscreen, playing with shadow and light to evoke the tragic fate of Mariana, who was married to her uncle at the age of 14. Both painful and tender, this experimental work is a poem of a film: a meditation on the brutality of institutionalized incest and art’s power to capture the soul.

Credits:

Direction: Michèle Lemieux

Writers: Michèle Lemieux

Production: Christine Noël, Julie Roy

Animation: Michèle Lemieux

Music: Robert Marcel Lepage

Sound: Catherine Van Der Donckt

Distribution: National Film Board of Canada

Age Classification: M/12