Lil Sherbet

Country: CHINA Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.

Sinopsys: My body is mine, but not all mine. It belongs to everyone who touched it, It’s a fountain for future lives that could exist, It’s a soft playground changing shapes at any moment, It’s an uncertainty that may collapse in a flash. It is like a memory pillow, always remembering the marks left by the last person who lied a finger on it, while slowly rebounding and forgetting. As something soft and warm, It is constantly squeezed, claimed, and demanded. It’s sometimes angry, but is always seen as a tease that can not cause harm.

Credits:

Direction: Xinhe Zhao

To the Moon and Back

Country: JAPAN, CHINA Year: 2023 Duration: 12 mins.

Sinopsys: Since I was born, the moon has circled the Earth 9,125 times. We all grew older with each orbit, but the moon never seems to age. A story about my grandma, her death, and my childhood.

Credits:

Direction: Shuqin Li

CREATOR

Country: BULGARIA Year: 2023 Duration: 5 mins.

Sinopsys: Based on the Chinese myth about Pangu and the creation of the world. Pangu's entire life is lonely, from his birth in the egg, to the separation of heaven and earth, to his metamorphosis into all living things, and finally his agonizing dissolution into worm-men. I chose this myth because it clearly defines the main theme (core) - creation. But despite the beauty in the creation of all living things, in this myth the main conflict for me is the torment of the creator and his self-sacrifice for his creation.

Credits:

Direction: Madlen Mario Zagorska

Writers: Madlen Zagorska

Production: Madlen Zagorska, New Bulgarian University, American Foundation for Bulgaria

Animation: Madlen Zagorska

Music: Joao Mutton

Sound: Joao Mutton

Distribution: Madlen Zagorska, New Bulgarian University, American Foundation for Bulgaria

it's just a whole

Country: GERMANY Year: 2023 Duration: 11 mins.

Sinopsys: She knew this day would come and the choice she’d have to make. But as it finally comes, Maya cannot wrap her head around it. A mole - it’s so small, so insignificant, just a mark... How can it be so hard to part from it? Can Maya ever feel whole again when a bit of her is taken away?

Credits:

Direction: Bianca Scali

Writers: Bianca Scali

Production: Paulina Larson

Animation: Bianca Scali, Shadab Shayegan

Music: Demian Martin

Sound: Vincent Egerter

Distribution: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

See you Champion!

Country: FRANCE Year: 2023 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: While his mother is out, Alexis looks inside a chest of drawers.

Credits:

Direction: Alexis Mouron

Dezkak

Country: IRAN Year: 2023 Duration: 11 mins.

Sinopsys: In the middle of nowhere, in a timeless place, there was a creature, nourishing and empowering himself by children's souls and body. A girl is destined to empower the creature and when she realizes that, she decides to run.

Credits:

Direction: Azad Maroufi

Production: Zahra ebrahimi

Animation: Azad Maroufi and Mir Saed Alvandi

Music: Saman Ramesh

Sound: Shahin payami

Distribution: DEFC (Documentary & Experimental Film Center)

Woodfish

Country: ITALY Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.

Sinopsys: Dottie is obsessed with accumulating objects of all kinds, sizes, shapes and colors. When a new object arrives at her door, she must do everything to find a place for it within the four walls of her home. But is there truly an empty space? This short film sheds light on the intricate topic of hoarding disorder, prompting viewers to reflect upon their own tendencies towards accumulation and consider the ways in which these habits may be impacting their lives.

Credits:

Direction: Virginia Ardizzone, Giorgio Avano, Giulia Brighenti, Stefano Villari

Writers: Virginia Ardizzone, Giorgio Avano, Giulia Brighenti, Stefano Villari

Animation: Virginia Ardizzone, Giorgio Avano, Giulia Brighenti, Stefano Villari

Music: Shulman Issar

Sound: Virginia Ardizzone, Giorgio Avano, Giulia Brighenti, Stefano Villari

Painkiller

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

Sinopsys: A young woman with chronic migraine experiences the shifting stages of an attack; Prodrome; Aura; Attack; Postdrome. ‘Painkiller’ does not aim to represent a singular migraine episode, but rather a formation of symptoms experienced over time during a multitude of episodes. Pain is represented with visual metaphors and the distortion of reality, effectively communicating the complex and varied experiences of living with a chronic condition over time. Each encounter with pain changes us as human beings, and with each migraine attack, she is reformed.

Credits:

Direction: Lleucu Non

Animation: Lleucu Non

Music: Lleucu Non

White on Black

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.

Sinopsys: A short black and white journey through the life of Ricardo, someone who sees fate putting his life on the right path.

Credits:

Direction: Deise Timas, João Cadima, Sara Silva

LOVE IS A COLOR!

Country: CROATIA Year: 2023 Duration: 8 mins.

Sinopsys: Love is a feeling that does not change in its essence throughout history. Of course, there are countless types of love, each specific in it's own way, but- people in modern times fail to find it because they don't look ahead. The world today is a virtual place and people fall in love with what is on the screen where the virtual world replaces reality. It's impossible to see the beauty if you're not looking even when „you're looking“-if your mind is elsewhere. A man and a woman, as the two protagonists of the story, meet in that cold and colorless world and come together through sporadic encounters that very quickly turn into a lovely dance of color.

Credits:

Direction: Nikolina Žapčić

Writers: Nikolina Zapcic

Production: Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Ozafin

Animation: Nikolina Zapcic

Music: Vjeran Salamon

Sound: Vjeran Salamon

Distribution: Martina Mestrovic, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb

Are you there Mr. Wolf?

Country: FRANCE Year: 2023 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: A little girl named Mischa lives in the suburbs of Moscow. She has just made a beautiful violin out of paper. She wants to play for the big monsters who live in the apartment. But the less they listen to her playing the violin, the more the Wolf dangerously prowls near her.

Credits:

Direction: Louise Laurent, Alizée Van de Valle, Emma Fessart, Jeanne Galland, Célina Lebon, Annouck François

Writers: Louise Laurent

Production: Philippe Meis (Supinfocom Rubika)

Animation: Louise Laurent, Alizée Van de Valle, Jeanne Galland

Music: Mathis Coopman

Sound: Louise Laurent

Distribution: Patrick De Carvalho (Je Regarde)