Young Animation 1 (rep.)

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

Untamed (Untamed)

Regie Director: Juliette Viger / Dänemark / 06/2015 / 00:07:37 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: The Animation Workshop

Sally, an introverted 15-year-old girl, tries to tame her wolf father who has lost himself in wilderness.

Number 1 Mr. Honest (Number 1 Mr. Honest)

Regie Director: Hyuncheol JO / Südkorea / 01/2016 / 00:07:23 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: KIAFA[AniSEED]

A crooked politician is stuck in the elevator when nature suddenly calls. He is trapped with the cleaning woman whom he usually ignores.

Grounded (Grounded)

Regie Director: Lucas Durkheim / Frankreich / 06/2016 / 00:04:10 min. / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Sève Films

A young soldier without experience is sent to a surveillance post, in the middle of the desert.

Penelope (Penelope)

Regie Director: Heta Jäälinoja / Finnland / 06/2016 / 00:04:20 min. / Produktion Production: Estonian Academy Of Arts

The doorbell rings. But everything’s a mess. Penelope forgot about it…

Shine (Shine)

Regie Director: Alexander Dietrich, Johannes Flick / Deutschland / 10/2016 / 00:04:13 min. / Produktion Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

Two male, glowing creatures start a fight over trying to impress a female. Each one of them wants to win her over by giving a better light show than his competitor. They are on fire… until one gets burned!

The Alan Dimension (The Alan Dimension)

Regie Director: Jac Clinch / Großbritannien / 05/2016 / 00:08:47 min. / Verleih Distribution:

Alan Brown uses divine powers of precognition to foresee the fate of mankind… and breakfast. Meanwhile, Wendy has had enough of being married to ‘the next step in cognitive evolution’.

LA TABLE (THE TABLE)

Regie Director: Eugène Boitsov / Frankreich / 07/2016 / 00:04:15 min. / Produktion Production: La Poudrière – Ecole du Film d´Animation

A woodworker with a perfectionist streak is obsessed by the idea of creating the perfect object.

Rubik (Rubik)

Regie Director: Xenia Smirnov / Deutschland / 04/2016 / 00:03:50 min. / Produktion Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf / Weltvertrieb World Sales: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

It’s a normal day in a communal apartment. Someone is reading, someone else ironing. A child runs down a corridor. But then suddenly the room quakes, everything changes and life is turned upside down.

AYNY (My SECOND EYE)

Regie Director: Ahmad Saleh / Deutschland, Jordanien, Palästina / 06/2016 / 00:10:40 min. / Verleih Distribution:

A cruel war has taken two brothers’ home. Their mother protects them and is anxious about something could happen to them. But the boys chase their dream to play a music instrument, they’ve fallen in love with. A beautiful Oud. They collect scrap metal to earn money and must find out that their mother’s fear was for a good reason. But as strong birds will always fly, the two boys become one to overcome their trauma.

Le Monde appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tard (The Late Bird Gets the World)

Regie Director: Giovanni Anthony, Thibaut Denise, Benjamin Guillon, Quentin Laurent / Frankreich / 09/2016 / 00:05:00 min. / Produktion Production: Ecole Georges Méliès

A comet tores towards the earth. Unfortunately one guy slept through the evacuation of humanity. Now he has to find a way of not getting flame-grilled.

Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw) (Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw))

Regie Director: Renee Zhan / USA / 04/2016 / 00:11:25 min.

„Flap flap flap“ – A large bird and a small boy cohabit in an unhappy relationship, trapped by four walls and a mutual dependency. The fragile balance of their existence is shattered by an eggs-citing new arrival.

SEITE A (SIDE A)

Regie Director: Anita Becker, Felicia Bergstöm, Christoph Büttner, Pavel Chernish, Solveig Hoppe, Fabián Marcel Salgado Rivadeneira, Jan Schmitz / Deutschland / 11/2016 / 00:01:39 min. / Produktion Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

A vivid and fast animation, directly drawn onto vinyls by seven different students. It is cut to soundsamples from various extraordinary treasures of a record collection.

Hot Dog Hands (Hot Dog Hands)

Regie Director: Matt Reynolds / USA / 10/2016 / 00:06:40 min.

This woman can’t stop growing fingers.

Happy End (Happy End)

Regie Director: Jan Saska / Tschechien / 11/2015 / 00:05:43 min. / Produktion Production: FAMU

A black comedy about death with a happy ending. A splendid chain of unlikely encounters. Hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy and a corpse.