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International Competition 1
5. May, 12:00 - 16. May, 0:00
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The International Competition (IC) is the beating heart of the festival. The best of current animated shorts from around the world are shown in this section. Films are humorous, contemplative, creative, or critical.
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![Jestem tutaj](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/9B3373D5-F12D-A94B-B405-B24E3D22A22E.jpg)
An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he’s doing his best to relieve her suffering, which is getting worse day by day. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work in the hospital and family life. Everyone has a different view on how to properly care for the sick. Often there are arguments about this.
![Jung & Restless](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/71F128B2-3B2B-2243-850E-3104B4A401C2.jpg)
“Jung & Restless“ explores the mythopoetic realm through lush mandalas and dream images that hint at hidden trauma. “Life is a short pause between two mysteries.” – C.G. Jung
![Obervogelgesang](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/D4D0AFD4-8CE8-524C-97C3-E7B4736791A0.jpg)
A teenager is confronted with a fresh rightwing extremist graffiti in the train and thus also with a grimace of her homeland.
![hideous henk](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/587CE1E2-08FB-5741-AE45-D99DFDA3C3C5.jpg)
Henk, an ugly and angry Chihuahua, is overexcited when he finally gets adopted. When it turns out his new boss only wants to use him to get more instagram followers, Henk tries desperately to escape. But every attempt he makes to escape only makes him more popular …
![Conversations with a Whale](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/2A3252C3-DA49-4F35-B4F4-AA946D8E665C.jpg)
A story of one filmmaker, who is trying to absorb rejection after rejection until finally, a beautiful fig tree nourished by the presumable failure bears sweet fruits. Created directly under the camera lens, using various analogue animation techniques, “Conversations with a Whale” is a love letter to artists, their art and its audience.
![Maalbeek](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/131769FE-2C91-2245-8ECC-07DA7A161BDF.jpg)
Sabine is looking for a missing image: a day that has left its mark forever and that everyone remembers but her. But maybe this absence is what allows her to move on with her life?
![Pearl Diver](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/3F1A70FE-931B-654B-B445-6243BC66DAE1.jpg)
Three couples are facing different challenges: a middle aged hedgehog falls in love with a balloon, but finds it difficult to maintain his grooming routine. A couple of arctic lovers are experiencing a coldness between them, and two naive oysters are impatiently waiting to be on the same schedule.
![Beseder](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/D3159F2E-6BC9-084B-858C-CF3DF71A7710.jpg)
“It’s hard to think it’s gonna be good, much easier to think it’s gonna be bad.” A song in waltz rhythm is combined with absurd animated loops to express a feeling of concern and uncertainty about the future.
![Candela](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/79B289DB-FEE1-0F4A-96F6-DB5A858496C5.jpg)
Mrs. Candela spends the last days of her life in a dying suburb of a big city.
![A la Mode](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/82893C81-FB07-6E42-A89C-3B67D5F1967D.jpg)
In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a queen and her court must always keep up with the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will consume them: the Ridicule. But with the arrival of a disarmingly natural cowboy, this nation of fashion victims laughs, and a simple question arises: what if the Ridicule isn’t what we think?