Competition 1 Aug. 18 (thu)

01
Piano

  • 2015/10'23"
  • Country:Estonia
  • Directed by: Kaspar Jancis (Eesti Joonisfilm)
  • Produced/Distributed by: Kalev Tamm (Eesti Joonisfilm)
They almost made it.

02
AGE OF OBSCURE

  • 2015/3'45"
  • Country:Japan
  • Directed/Produced by: Mirai Mizue, Onohana
  • Music by: Twoth / Shinichi Suda
  • Distributed by: CaRTe bLaNChe
A shapeless, vague body
A huge, boundless universe
Successive memories of cell
Soaked into the earth
We
Within obscurity, crumble away
Within obscurity, take a shape

03
The Zebra

  • 2015/2'59"
  • Country:France
  • Directed by: Viviane Boyer-Araujo
  • Produced by: Delphine Maury (Tant Mieux Prod)
  • Distributed by: Annabel Sebag (Autour de Minuit)
  • © TANT MIEUX PROD
Once upon a time, there was a foal in a big forest whose shadows make stripes on him.

04
Lili

  • 2016/10'18"
  • Country:Israel
  • Directed by: Hani Dombe, Tom Kouris
  • Produced/Distributed by: Hani Dombe
Lili refuses to let go of her childhood fights a sandstorm that threatens to take it away. In the heart of the storm she rediscovers the joy of childhood, but forced to choose between illusion and reality.

05
About a Mother

  • 2015/7'19"
  • Country:Russia
  • Directed by: Dina Velikovskaya (School-Studio "SHAR")
  • Produced by: Lyubov Gaidukova (School-Studio "SHAR")
  • Distributed by: Anna Ostalskaya (School-Studio "SHAR")
This story is about a mother who has given so much that it looks like she has nothing left... but the life opens up the new opportunities.

06
Satie's "Parade"

  • 2016/14'11"
  • Country:Japan
  • Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Koji Yamamura (Yamamura Animation, Inc.)
  • © Yamamura Animation
A Parade for 3 managers & 4 performers. Mixing quotes from French composer Erik Satie's essays with the music Parade, this is an animated re-creation of realist ballet images going beyond reality.

07
BORDERLINES

  • 2015/4'53"
  • Country:Czech Rep.
  • Directed by: Hana Nováková
  • Produced by: FILM AND TV SCHOOL OF ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PRAGUE
  • Distributed by: FILM AND TV SCHOOL OF ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PRAGUE
The allegory about people and the borders of their world. The film tells the story of how a simple cause can spin spiral of strifes which is not easy to stop. However, it is not impossible.

08
Tanzonk

  • 2015/9'20"
  • Country:Russia
  • Directed by: Sasha Svirsky
  • Produced/Distributed by: Nadezhda Svirskaia
A story about a soldier who fights in a global war between robots and humanity. Once he was injured, then robot-woman helped him to get well. They fall in love but humanity as well as robots don't want to accept this love.

09
Two Friends

  • 2014/4'04"
  • Country:France
  • Directed by: Natalia Chernysheva (La Poudrière)
  • Produced/Distibuted by: Annick Teninge (La Poudrière)
  • © La Poudrière 2015
Two friends, a caterpillar and a tadpole, grow up in two different environments.

10
Jukai

  • 2016/9'19"
  • Country:France
  • Directed by: Gabrielle Lissot (Autour de Minuit)
  • Produced/Distributed by: Nicolas Schmerkin (Autour de Minuit)
  • © Autour de Minuit / Gabrielle Lissot
A young woman follows a trail of colored threads that leads deep into a thick dark forest, untangling them as she goes, hoping to find the answers to her lingering fears.

11
Life with Herman H. Rott

  • 2015/11'06"
  • Country:Estonia / Croatia / Denmark
  • Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Chintis Lundgren (Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio)
Herman is a rat who lives alone in his messy apartment. One day a very tidy cat decides to move in.

12
Cowboyland

  • 2015/4'45"
  • Country:Slovakia
  • Directed by: David Stumpf (FTF VSMU Academy of Performing Arts)
  • Produced/Distributed by: FTF VSMU Academy of Performing Arts
  • © VSMU
According to the rules of the Wild West, thieves must be punished. But when the sheriff's horse breaks, there is no-one to ever-see rule-keeping.

13
I have dreamed of you so much

  • 2015/2'59"
  • Country:France
  • Directed by: Emma Vakarelova
  • Produced by: Delphine Maury (Tant Mieux Prod)
  • Distributed by: Annabel Sebag (Autour de Minuit)
  • © TANT MIEUX PROD
"I have dreamed of you so much that you loose your reality..." A film about the Horizon and his impossible love.

14
The master

  • 2015/17'38"
  • Country:Estonia
  • Directed by: Riho Unt (OÜ Nukufilm)
  • Produced by: Kerdi Oengo and Andrus Raudsalu (OÜ Nukufilm)
  • Distributed by: Kerdi Oengo (OÜ Nukufilm)
A dog Popi and a monkey Huhuu are waiting for their Master to come home who is just one day not coming any more... From this particular day there starts their mutual life.

15
THE PLUME

  • 2016/9'08"
  • Country:China
  • Directed by: Ying Huang (Beijing Film Academy)
  • Produced/Distributed by: Song Qiang (China Research Institute of Film Science & Technology)
THE PLUME is China's first 4K3D stereoscopic painting art film. Using the 3D animation software and visual effects tools, this film shows the traditional Chinese painting of flowers and elaborate-style painting, with hyper-realistic texture and image featuring landscape painting, accompanied by national musical instrument and orchestra mutual fusion.

16
The Sleepwalker

  • 2015/4'19"
  • Country:Canada
  • Directed by: Theodore Ushev
  • Produced by: Theodore Ushev (9311-8990 Quebec Inc. / Les Productions Unité centrale)
  • Distributed by: Vanja Andrijevic (Bonobostudio)
  • © 9311-8990 Quebec Inc. / Les Productions Unité centrale
With the shade around her waist
she dreams on her balcony.
[...]
Under the gypsy moon,
all things are watching her
and she can not see them.

A surrealist journey through colors and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonambulo by Federico Garcia Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.