In a Time Warp

Country: GERMANY Year: 2023 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: In this animated music video we go on a journey into the past and future where we encounter metamorphosing figures living in endless loops.

Credits:

Direction: Anh Tú Nguyen

Animation: Anh Tú Nguyen

Music: Shuteen Erdenebaatar

Overloaded

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 6 mins.

Sinopsys: Manuelina has trouble processing the world around her, but when her girlfriend invites her on a date to the park, she decides to face her anxieties! In the park, Manuelina's fears manifest themselves in peculiar ways - will she be able to overcome them?

Credits:

Direction: Carlos Costa

Writers: Carlos Costa / Gaspar Morado

Production: Carlos Costa

Animation: Carlos Costa

Music: Rafael Lacerda

Sound: Rafael Lacerda

Paumo D'amour

Country: FRANCE Year: 2023 Duration: 6 mins.

Sinopsys: Instead of giving his wife the attention she deserves, Dédé sends all his love to his vegetable garden. One day, all his delicious tomatoes mysteriously disappear.

Credits:

Direction: Ian Halley, Nathan Hermouet, Luka Croisez, Laurène Vaubourdolle, Jade Van De Veire

Writers: Ian Halley

Production: Philippe Meis (Supinfocom Rubika)

Animation: Ian Halley, Laurène Vaubourdolle, Jade Van De Veire

Music: Samuel Marot-Saféris

Sound: Simon Jouteau

Distribution: Patrick De Carvalho (Je Regarde)

Bubbles

Country: CHINA Year: 2023 Duration: 8 mins.

Sinopsys: On an ordinary evening, while waiting for her mother to leave work, Baobao unexpectedly discovers that everyone on the street is wearing a bubble of different sizes. Her mother comes home very late that day, and she also has a bubble. The mother can't relax or take the time to respond to Baobao, and the pressure she took all day long turns into huge bubbles that fill her body. Baobao makes many attempts to break the bubble but end up in failure. Finally, she leans sadly against her mother and gives her a hug through the huge bubble. At this moment, the bubble gradually dissipates and becomes smaller and smaller. The two brake the barrier of the bubble and hug each other. Bubbles with a warm embrace: boo!

Credits:

Direction: Lezhi Xiao

Writers: Xiao Lezhi, Lin Qianyu

Production: Xiao Lezhi, Lin Qianyu

Animation: Guo Xinyu, Xiao Lezhi, Lin Qianyu

Music: Ya Mao

Sound: Zhouyao Jingyi, Guo Yunlin, Wang Zikang

Distribution: Communication University of China

Your Dad

Country: HUNGARY Year: 2023 Duration: 16 mins.

Sinopsys: Miklós’ young adult life is a failure. After an accident, he finds himself in purgatory, where his father, who had died earlier, is waiting to accompany him to God. With his narcissistic father, the journey is punishment.

Credits:

Direction: Anita Kühnel Szabó

Writers: Anita KÜHNEL SZABÓ

Production: József FÜLÖP

Sound: József ISZLAI

Distribution: Magyar Nemzeti Filmintézet

Night Train

Country: SOUTH KOREA Year: 2023 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: A dreamy night train magically appears to the young girl who missed her grandfather.

Credits:

Direction: Seungmin HAN, Eunji BAE

Writers: HAN Seungmin

Production: HAN Seungmin

Animation: HAN Seungmin, Bae Eunji, KANG Sooa, KIM Gahyun, MAENG Minjung, JOO Youngwoo, LEE Haerim, JEONG Yoojin, LEE Nayeon, LEE Jiwon, LEE Jinhee, CHO Seoyeon, CHOI Soyoung, LEE Jihye, HAN Subin

Music: ChouChou

Sound: INNERBIT SOUND

Distribution: KIAFA AniSEED

See

Country: BRAZIL, FINLAND, BELGIUM, PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: The story of mother and daughter drifting apart. Water is where they have the connection and disconnection. The water of the womb and the seawater. The mother cannot enter the sea and the daughter wants to go to the deep.

Credits:

Direction: Julia Nicolescu

Writers: Julia de Macedo Nicolescu

Production: Re:anima European Joint Master in Animation

Animation: Julia de Macedo Nicolescu, Helena Coelho, Toni Soares, Rebeca Nigri

Music: Yann Lemos

Sound: Yann Lemos

Distribution: Julia de Macedo Nicolescu

Minus Plus Multiply

Country: UNITED KINGDOM Year: 2023 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: With containers as a motif and a metaphor for a safe place, the story surrounds the protagonist's self-searching and healing journey, exploring the relationship between emotion and space. The film attempts to construct a poetic narrative and psychological self-portraits through experimentation in 2D animation, stop motion and sound. It reflects sensibility, fragility, and fragmentation of identity by applying pottery and clay.

Credits:

Direction: Chu-Chieh Lee

Writers: Chu-Chieh Lee

Animation: Chu-Chieh Lee, Qian Shih

Music: Eleanor Fineston-Robertson

Sound: Arzu Saglam, Rebecca Glover, Keith Partridge, Gibran Farrah

The Eastern Rain

Country: ESTONIA Year: 2023 Duration: 9 mins.

Sinopsys: If the rain were to fall indoors, but never outdoors ...then where do we begin to look for shelter? A place said to give refuge from bad weather or a danger. Outside the fence, the bell remains calling, and if we are not there, then perhaps it's only a sound that rings out inside of it’s own mourning. I spoke to me, he to he, she to she, the ground spoke to the ground, the trees to the tree. Meanwhile inside, the familiarity of that well met rain continues to be falling..

Credits:

Direction: Milly Yencken

Writers: Milly Yencken

Production: Estonian Academy of Arts

Animation: Milly Yencken

Sound: Bruno Quast

Distribution: Estonian Academy of Arts

Pentola

Country: ITALY Year: 2022 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: “It’s not so easy to be a hero. But you, Pentola, you are my superhero.”

Credits:

Direction: Leo Černic

Writers: Leo ČERNIC

Production: CSC - CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA - SCUOLA NAZIONALE DI CINEMA

Animation: Leo ČERNIC

Music: Amos CAPPUCCIO

Sound: Amos CAPPUCCIO

Distribution: Miyu Distribution