Malila

Country: GERMANY Year: 2023 Duration: 8 mins.

Sinopsys: During her vacation, Malila comes across a mysterious alley and soon finds herself in a fascinating carnival filled with fantastic figures. The lively atmosphere pulls her deeper and deeper into the event. But as she becomes suspicious of her surroundings, the illusion can't be sustained, and her newly discovered world turns against her.

Credits:

Direction: Arun Leander Boudodimos, Martina Spitzner

Writers: Martina Spitzner, Arun Leander

Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Animation: Martina Spitzner, Arun Leander

Music: Joschka Oßke, Arun Leander

Sound: Lambert Regel

Distribution: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

The Garden of Heart

Country: HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA Year: 2022 Duration: 11 mins.

Sinopsys: Dániel Juhász, a young aspiring painter with low self-esteem, is in his last round of interviews at the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts. While waiting for his interview, his demons appear to him in the form of garden pests.

Credits:

Direction: Olivér Hegyi

Writers: Olivér Hegyi

Production: Bella Szederkényi, Bálint Gelley, Juraj Krasnohorsky

Animation: Olivér Hegyi, Daniela Pardinas, Alla Prokopyshyna

Music: Olivér Hegyi

Sound: Péter Benjámin Lukács

Distribution: Bonobostudio

Saleeg

Country: SAUDI ARABIA Year: 2022 Duration: 10 mins.

Sinopsys: A lonely grandmother living in a neighborhood full of strangers must confront her stubbornly independent nature when she accidentally causes a pot of boiling rice to overflow, turning into a flood threatening her house.

Credits:

Direction: Afnan Bawyan

Writers: Afnan Bawyan

Production: Mariam Khayat and Afnan Bawyan

Animation: Manuel Rubio Najera

Music: Ghiya Rushidat

Sound: Jean-Louis Viroux and Jean-Stéphane Garbe

The World

Country: FRANCE Year: 2023 Duration: 3 mins.

Sinopsys: A little boy, accompanied by a chickadee, explores a great mystery: the friendship of the world.

Credits:

Direction: Baptiste Ratajski

Writers: Freely inspired by Frédéric Kiesel’s poem “The World”

Production: Delphine Maury

Animation: Baptiste Ratajski

Music: Julien Divisia, Pablo Pico, Yan Volsy

Sound: Julien Divisia, Pablo Pico, Yan Volsy

Distribution: Annabel Sebag

Our Pain

Country: JAPAN Year: 2022 Duration: 16 mins.

Sinopsys: Our common pain, although experienced individually and uniquely, is what connects us. It is the ambiguity and variety of our existence that allows us to imagine an infinity of variables, some of these alternatives may be malignant, and some benign.

Credits:

Direction: Shunsaku Hayashi

Writers: Shunsaku Hayashi

Production: Shunsaku Hayashi

Animation: Shunsaku Hayashi

Music: Makoto Itabashi

Sound: Makoto Itabashi

Distribution: Shunsaku Hayashi

I think my senses are talking to each other

Country: GERMANY Year: 2023 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: The moment we come into contact with the world through our senses, an interpretation arises in our brain, like a small image of our own that fills a white emptiness. The sensory perception functions here as a bridge between the supposed reality and the idea that arises in our heads. In this process of perception, recorded signals such as light and sound waves are encoded and decoded again. From these collected information a model is created in the brain. This film is an experimental examination of the process of translating our sensory impressions and the interconnectedness of the senses.

Credits:

Direction: Maksym Gontov

A TINY MAN

Country: FRANCE Year: 2022 Duration: 10 mins.

Sinopsys: Complexed by his wife's body, a man sneakily administers a mysterious serum supposed to make her lose weight quickly. But following a prank by his wife, it is he who swallows the beverage and starts to shrink visibly.

Credits:

Direction: Aude David, Mikaël Gaudin

Writers: Mikael Gaudin, Aude David

Production: Jérôme Blesson

Animation: Aude David, Augustin Guichot

Music: Wissam Hojeij

Sound: Pierre Oberkampf, Fred Bielle

Distribution: La Belle Affaire Productions

[S]

Country: UNITED KINGDOM, POLAND, BULGARIA Year: 2024 Duration: 13 mins.

Sinopsys: [S] is an artwork that exposes the lifespan of infinity. The film delves into an immersive loop of organic forms, reflecting on the entangled nature of life and art.

Credits:

Direction: Mario Radev

Writers: Mario Radev

Production: Mario Radev

Animation: Mario Radev, Pawel Walendowski

Music: Belle Chen

Sound: Toni Quiroga

Distribution: Mario Radev