Young Animation 3

The Young Animation Competition (YA) shows selected animated short films made by students of international film and art schools. Young animation artists from 24 countries tell touching stories, create fantastic worlds and open new perspectives.

Regrets (Regrets)

Regie Director: Petra Stipetic / Deutschland / 12/2017 / 00:02:16 min.

A short movie about regretting decisions.

Ouřek (The Spellbound)

Regie Director: Martin Kukal / Tschechien / 11/2016 / 00:07:04 min. / Produktion Production: Tomas Bata University in Zlin

Attempt to rescue the evil eyed goat.

True North (True North)

Regie Director: George Bowler / Großbritannien / / 00:08:35 min.

On the long journey home, a fisherman comes upon the wreckage of a ship and rescues a small boy that he finds asleep in a barrel. As a mysterious storm descends he senses the arrival of a sinister presence.

The Kiss (The Kiss)

Regie Director: Nia Syazwani / Singapur / 05/2017 / 00:02:33 min.

“The Kiss” is a heart-warming animated short. In the film, a couple gets (rudely) interrupted before they can meet for a kiss. This happens repeatedly despite them being in different places, such as the park, on the train, and even in the middle of the ocean. Will they ever get to kiss?

Vulkánsziget (Volcano Island)

Regie Director: Anna Katalin Lovrity / Ungarn / 01/2017 / 00:09:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Hungarian National Film Fund

Somewhere, on an oceanic island, the forces of nature are still at work as in primeval times. A young, naive female tiger lives there in harmony with herself and nature. When her awakening femininity is noticed by an older male tiger, the young tigress is getting more and more scared by his heated approach.

Hybrids (Hybrids)

Regie Director: Florian Brauch, Matthieu Pujol, Kim Tailhades, Yohan Thireau, Romain Thirion / Frankreich / 06/2017 / 00:06:22 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: YUMMY FILMS

When marine wildlife has to adapt to the pollution surrounding it, the rules of survival change…

Can you hear me? (Can you hear me?)

Regie Director: Yu-Hsin Chuang / Taiwan / 04/2017 / 00:04:09 min.

May used to have a good relationship with her brother Jackson, but everything has changed lately. After a smartphone appeared, May gradually has been ignored by her brother. Can May use her clever head to figure out an idea to attract her brother’s attention again?

The starry night (The starry night)

Regie Director: Jonghoon Lee / Südkorea / 01/2017 / 00:09:05 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: KIAFA[AniSEED]

In the starry night an old man and his dog Black go on a journey to the island which was the old man’s home. The old man and Black meet a beautiful woman when they arrive at a silent beach.

Ghost House (Ghost House)

Regie Director: Seung-ah Kim / Südkorea / 01/2017 / 00:06:03 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales:

I have a tendency to avoid things that I don’t want to see. Somehow my home has been haunted before I even knew it.

Love Me, Fear Me (Love Me, Fear Me)

Regie Director: Veronica Solomon / Deutschland / 11/2017 / 00:06:10 min. / Produktion Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

“What would you be willing to do for them to love you?””Love me, Fear me” is a danced out metaphor about the roles we play and the shapes we take, about the stages we chose, the audience we try to impress and the price of acceptance.

Hundred Miles Red (Hundred Miles Red)

Regie Director: Liying Huang, Jiawen Shen, Wu Zheng / China / 07/2017 / 00:07:25 min.

The dark night lasts. With lights in their hands and red silk on their body, a crowd of women stand quietly under the gate. Their gazes are afar into the mist, as they await their returning lovers. All men left for war to protect the country, and today is the day to return. As dawn breaks, the city wakes to the thump of hooves…

Diep (Deep)

Regie Director: Michelle Verhoeks / Niederlande / 06/2017 / 00:04:10 min.

“Deep“ shows an inner journey of a woman. In a surrealistic ocean she explores her sexuality. Her body is an expression of the soul that reveals and merges in the poetic surroundings.

Un día en el parque (A day in the park)

Regie Director: Diego Porral / Spanien / 05/2017 / 00:02:55 min.

A monologue by a grandfather who explains to his grandkid how things used to be… or maybe how they are now.

L’Homme Aux Oiseaux (The Man With Birds)

Regie Director: Quentin Marquault / Frankreich / 07/2017 / 00:04:30 min.

The inhabitants of a mountain village cut off by the snow await the arrival of the Man with birds – the sign that winter is over.