Socks for the Star

Country: RUSSIA Year: 2023 Duration: 10 mins.

Sinopsys: Dancing in cold space is dangerous, but close-knit friendship will keep you strong.

Credits:

Direction: Olga Titova

Writers: Olga Titova, Mikhail Aldashin based on the fairy tale of the same name by O. Titova.

Production: Boris Mashkovtsev

Animation: Evgeny Kadimsky

Music: Evgeny Kadimsky

Sound: Evgeny Kadimsky

Distribution: SMF animation studio

Anacleto, the balloon

Country: BRAZIL Year: 2023 Duration: 12 mins.

Sinopsys: Some balloons are very colorful. Some attend parties and sing happy birthday. Some balloons work with clowns. Others deflate and shrink. Anacleto the balloon likes to scare.

Credits:

Direction: Carol Sakura, Walkir Fernandes

Writers: Carol Sakura

Production: Anne Lise Ale; E. M. Z. Camargo; Antonio Eder; Walkir Fernandes

Animation: Bruno Sandes; Daniel Suzuki; Daniel Santana; Fernanda Mamede; Heloá Michelin; Thiago Do Carmo; Guilherme Guidetti; Angélica Botini; Júlio Moreira; Karina Monteiro; Lucas Bicalho; Emanuel Rocha

Music: Vadeco Schettini

Sound: Vadeco Schettini

Distribution: E. M. Z. Camargo

Summer Rain

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2023 Duration: 5 mins.

Sinopsys: Quincy, an imaginative young girl, spends a peaceful childhood with her parents. However, when her mother falls ill, Quincy has to cope with the changes in her everyday life. She doesn‘t quite grasp the situation and even after the her mother‘s death, as she is confronted with her father‘s grief, she doesn‘t stop seeing the world through her naïve and childlike eyes.

Credits:

Direction: Marlene Low, Julia Krummenacher, Johanna Kern

Writers: Marlene Low

Production: Production: HSLU Design & Kunst / BA Animation Jürgen Haas, Co-production: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF, Gabriela Bloch-Steinmann

Animation: Marlene Low, Julia Krummenacher, Johanna Kern, Luwam Ghebrehiwet

Music: Reina Burkhalter

Sound: Sounddesign: Noah Lüthi, Jérémie Itty, Emanuel Strehler

Distribution: HSLU Design & Kunst / BA Animation, contact: Chantal Molleur

Feathers and whispers

Country: FRANCE Year: 2023 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: Once upon a time, there was a sound, / A nursery rhyme that danced all around. / It'll stay in your head, make your fingers sway, / Tralala, it's a tune that'll brighten your day. / The crow, oh the crow, so clever and wise, / Embraced our honks and bustling cries. / Can we, too, learn to embrace and adore, / A "croak croak" that echoes, now and evermore?

Credits:

Direction: Hélène Ducrocq

Writers: Hélène Ducrocq

Production: Pierre Dron

Animation: Hélène Ducrocq

Music: Aëla Gourvennec

Sound: Maurizio Chiavaro

Distribution: Pierre Dron

Town Hall Square

Country: GERMANY Year: 2023 Duration: 9 mins.

Sinopsys: Bernard works behind the windows of a ticket booth at the Town Hall Square subway station and is waiting for something he seems to have forgotten. One day, however, a little tiger shows up and turns Bernard's orderly life upside down.

Credits:

Direction: Christian Kaufmann

Writers: Christian Kaufmann

Production: Paulina Larson

Animation: Vanessa Schneider, Laura Staab, Yannick Stark, Felicitas Schmelz, Christian Kaufmann

Music: Tobias Wieduwilt

Sound: Thomas Rother

Distribution: Fabian Driehorst

The Mystery of Missing Socks

Country: ESTONIA Year: 2023 Duration: 20 mins.

Sinopsys: Little Pille goes to find her father’s missing socks under the bed, to a fantastical world of forgotten things. There she finds that dad’s socks have laid an egg! Now Pille must protect the socks from danger until the tiny egg can hatch.

Credits:

Direction: Oskar Lehemaa

Writers: Oskar Lehemaa

Production: Kristel Toldsepp

Animation: Nukufilm

Music: Rihards Zalupe

Sound: Matis Rei

Distribution: Kristel Toldsepp