Young Animation 3

The Young Animation Competition (YA) shows selected animated short films made by students of international film and art schools. Young animation artistes from 19 countries tell touching stories, create fantastic worlds and open new perspectives

Tough (Tough)

Regie Director: Jennifer Zheng / Großbritannien / 06/2016 / 00:04:49 min.

Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.

Pêche-en-l’Air #1 (Sky fisher #1)

Regie Director: Michael Dupre / Frankreich / 06/2016 / 00:03:11 min. / Produktion Production: Ecole Emile Cohl

A Serie about the adventures of a man who is fishing some birds in the mountains.

Mellem Vaeggene (Between Walls)

Regie Director: Sara Holm / Dänemark / 11/2015 / 00:08:03 min.

An uninspired father is trapped between the walls trying to write a poem. More and more black crows fill up around him and his young daughter Mille. She is trying to discover her own creativity, but is affected by the crows.

Climbing (Climbing)

Regie Director: Alexander Malgin / Russland / 09/2016 / 00:02:38 min.

The story of a man who despite all the difficulties,confidently moving to its goal.

ANYU – ODER WIE STALIN SEINE NASE VERLOR (ANYU – OR HOW STALIN LOST HIS NOSE)

Regie Director: Lina Walde / Deutschland / 05/2016 / 00:07:30 min. / Verleih Distribution:

Anyu, which means mother in hungarian, is a story about the inner life of a refugee child. The Shortfilm is also an experimental approach how to visualize memories in its different layers and shapes and finding their counterpart in animation-technics and materials. Anyu is also a story based on interviews with real-exisiting persons.

Projection sur canapé (Projection on Sofa)

Regie Director: Violette Delvoye / Belgien / 10/2016 / 00:06:37 min. / Produktion Production: ENSAV – Atelier de Production de la Cambre

Movie night at home. At the end of the film, Lucie and Manu start a conversation about the idea of travelling. While smoking and drinking wine, they exchange their ideas, needs and expectations.

In One Drag (In One Drag)

Regie Director: Alireza Hashempour / Deutschland / 06/2016 / 00:03:05 min. / Produktion Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

It’s late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time… all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.

Cialo obce (Foreign Body)

Regie Director: Marta Magnuska / Polen / 09/2016 / 00:07:00 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Krakow Film Foundation

A foreign body lives its own life. You’re not able to get rid of it, it’s always with you, you need it. Caress that odd part of yours, don’t try to shave its long tousled fur. This is a story about something that’s considered to be strange at first but turns out to be the dearest thing to us. About the transformation of inside and outside.

Look at Me Only (Look at Me Only)

Regie Director: Tomoki Misato / Japan / 01/2016 / 00:07:30 min.

Having forgotten exciting feelings of the early days of the relationship, the main character drifts along petting his guinea pig. One day he meets a beauty of flower who appreciates the pet.

TWEET HEARTS (TWEET HEARTS)

Regie Director: Sandra Peise / Deutschland / 12/2016 / 00:01:25 min.

The little baby bird is hardly hatched when her parents start to vie with each other for her love and attention. By doing so, they come up with the craziest ideas with unex-­ pected consequences leading to some funny situations.

How Are You Today? (How Are You Today? )

Regie Director: Sophie Markatatos / Großbritannien / 06/2016 / 00:07:17 min.

In a fucked up world, two opposite characters meet.

La Parfumerie de Mr Pompone (La Parfumerie de Mr Pompone)

Regie Director: Axel de Lafforest, Camille Ferrari, Florian Ratte, Yoann Demettre, Tanguy Weyland – / Frankreich / 06/2016 / 00:06:45 min. / Produktion Production: Supinfocom Rubika / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Autour de Minuit

In his fantastic factory, the wonderful Mr Pompone creates the most extraordinary perfumes surrounded by an aura of tradition and prestige. But that would be forgetting small perfumers’ greatest threat, Mrs Pofine, who is about to steal all his secrets.

Kastaars (Kastaars)

Regie Director: Jasmine Elsen / Belgien / 09/2016 / 00:05:40 min.

What if your window is your view. Would you like it to be cleaned or would you cover it? Do you have a choice? Hidden in our own world, our own illusions about out there. ‘Kastaars’ is about seeing and being seen.

Balkon (Balcony)

Regie Director: David Dell’Edera / Ungarn / 12/2015 / 00:06:18 min. / Produktion Production: Umbrella Kreativ Muhely Kft.

Everyone does what they want to. The people in this movie are not sure what they want to do yet.

ARZENA VELENIFERA (ARZENA VELENIFERA)

Regie Director: Ludovica Ottaviani ,Anna Sireci, Maria Testa / Italien / 02/2016 / 00:05:05 min. / Produktion Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Piemonte Animation Dept.

In a ballroom, a woman, initially overwhelmed by an uncontrollable jealousy and then by a furious madness, kills all her annoying or unfaithful lovers, to the relentless beat of a tango. Inspired by the mysterious story of the serial killer Vera Renczi, the short mixes dance, black humor and style.