Competition
Call for Entries
International Selection Committee
International Jury
Selection
Competition
Competition1 8/21thu
Competition2 8/22fri
Competition3 8/23sat
Competition4 8/24sun
Winners
 

Competition4 August 24th, Sunday.


45
Non-euclidean geometry
screen 2013/11'14"
Country:Lithuania

Directed by: Skirmanta Jakaite, Solveiga Masteikaite
Produced/Distributed by: Jurate Samulionyte (Nerutina)

This is about the laws of love, which are as simple as one, two, three, when we are still in love, but incomprehensible and unexplainable once love retreats. About the logic of the heart, which has nothing in common with common logic, just like non-Euclidean geometry disproves and surpasses the Euclidean one.

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46
PLANETS AFTER PLANETS
screen 2013/4'03"
Country:France

Directed by: Titouan Bordeau
Produced/Distributed by: La Poudrière, École du film d'animation

Yvan, an astronaut on a solo drilling expedition, lands his spaceship on a new, seemingly uninhabited planet.

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47
The Thumb Cuff
screen 2013/5'59"
Country:China

Directed/Produced by: Bin Wang (Academy of arts&design Tsinghua University)


About a pair of homeless people. An old man lived alone with a boy. The boy to buy medicine for the sick old man got caught of stealing money.

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48
The Clockmakers
screen 2013/4'09"
Country:Canada

Directed by: Renaud Hallée (National Film Board of Canada)
Produced by: Marc Bertrand (National Film Board of Canada)
Distributed by: National Film Board of Canada
The Clockmakers travels inside a mysterious mechanism made up of revolving gearwheels, triangles and lines. In this whirling world, dozens of tiny gymnasts leap and somersault through the air, setting in motion hypnotic narrative and musical sequences. Young Renaud Hallée's film is a playful work of art that skillfully combines sounds and images, making it a treat for both eyes and ears.

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49
A Little Pond by the Great Wall
screen 2013/6'48"
Country:Russia/ China

Directed by: Dmitry Geller (Jilin Animation Institute)
Produced by: Liguo Zheng (Jilin Animation Institute)
Distributed by: Jilin Animation Institute
The story tells an artist working on the wall in a construction place which may make you think of your life.

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50
THE BIGGER PICTURE
screen 2014/7'17"
Country:U.K.

Directed by: Daisy Jacobs
Produced by: Chris Hees (National Film and Television School)
Distributed by: National Film and Television School
You want to put her in a home; you tell her; tell her now!' hisses one brother to the other. But mother won't go, and their own lives unravel as she clings on. life-size animated characters tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly parent.

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51
ANIMAL
screen 2013/5'22"
Country:France

Directed by: Benoit Dulac, Laura Foglino, Julien Jude, Oriane Mulleras El Atmani, Benoit Viougeas, Danyang Wang
Produced by: Isabelle Aubin (SUPINFOCOM ARLES)
Distributed by: Annabel Sebag (AUTOUR DE MINUIT)
In a dark underground complex where animals are stored for experiments, a sudden hope arises.

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52
The Soldier and the bird
screen 2013/12'38"
Country:Russia

Directed by: Valentin Telegin ("Pilot" Moscow Animation Studio)
Produced/Distributed by: Igor Gelashvili ("Pilot" Moscow Animation Studio)

Animated film based on Russian soldier fairy tales. It is a story about how smartness helps soldiers in different everyday and fairy situations. One little red-haired soldier conquered a robber, deceived a magician to get a magical bird and didn't disgrace himself in front of the governor...

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53
Choir Tour
screen 2012/5'13"
Country:Latvia

Directed by: Edmunds Jansons (Atom Art)
Produced/Distributed by: Sabine Andersone (Atom Art)

A world-famous boys' choir goes on a tour. In the hands of their severe conductor they are an obedient musical instrument. But left alone without supervision, they are just playful children. Once in Seoul the conductor is accidentally trapped in the elevator, and the boys are left alone.

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54
Gloria Victoria
screen 2013/6'55"
Country:Canada

Directed by: Theodore Ushev
Produced by: Marc Bertrand (National Film Board of Canada)
Distributed by: National Film Board of Canada
Theodore Ushevfocuses on the relationship between art and war in this animated film that takes us from Dresden to Guernica as it recycles elements of surrealism and cubism.

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55
No time for toes
screen 2013/7'56"
Country:Finland

Directed/Distributed by: Kari Pieskä (Turku arts academy)
Produced by: Eija Saarinen

How does a father do? A short film about eating, sleeping and brushing teeth.

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56
FADED FINERY
screen 2014/10'01"
Country:France

Directed by: Sonia Gerbeaud, Mathias de Panafieu
Produced/Distributed by: Pascaline Saillant (25 FILMS)

In a remote village, a little girl befriends a pack of coyotes. But the villagers brutally put an end to this relationship, unaware of the revolution that awaits.

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57
THE BLUE MARBLE
screen 2014/6'12"
Country:Canada

Directed by: Co Hoedeman
Produced by: Co Hoedeman, Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
Distributed by: David Chouinard (VIDEOGRAPHE)
The blue marble is a fictional story based on the reality of child soldiers. A young girl and the other students of her village school are brutally kidnapped by rebels and sent to training camps where they are trained to become ruthless killing machines as child soldiers. A story of oppression and hope.

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58
Baths
screen 2013/4'19"
Country:Poland

Directed by: Tomek Ducki
Produced by: Włodzimierz Matuszewski (Studio Miniatur Filmowych)
Distributed by: Zofia Ścisłowska (Krakow Film Foundation)
Two elderly swimmers meet at the baths for their ritual swimming. This time they are diving deeper than usual.

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59
Fugue for cello, trumpet and landscape
screen 2014/17'30"
Country:Poland

Directed/Produced/Distributed by: Jerzy Kucia (Jerzy Kucia Produkcja Filmow)


This film is a process of evoking retrospective events and releasing human emotions. Searching for and reconstructing certain attributes of the landscape and reliable strains of music serve to stir the memory and delve into its fluctuating depths. The reflective, emotional action of this film is in the poetic, associative filmic structure, which arises from the relationship between the music and the image.

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