Competition 1 Aug. 18 (thu)

They almost made it.

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

Once upon a time, there was a foal in a big forest whose shadows make stripes on him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two friends, a caterpillar and a tadpole, grow up in two different environments.

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.

Herman is a rat who lives alone in his messy apartment. One day a very tidy cat decides to move in.

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.

"I have dreamed of you so much that you loose your reality..." A film about the Horizon and his impossible love.

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.

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.

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.