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International Competition 2
6. 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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![Monachopsis](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/80111051-10E4-9948-8A35-503E5D41760E.jpg)
Debbie, a young woman, struggles with the feeling of being disconnected from the people around her. Until she meets Sofie with whom she bonds (too) strongly.
![Wochenbett](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/7C8E1899-1F49-42F2-A8B9-85EDD9F57BC8.jpg)
„Postpartum“ describes the chaotic phase in life of a new mother. Pumped up with hormones and lacking sleep, this intense time has burned deep into the protagonist’s heart. This film is an honest and very personal insight into the world of an overwhelmed mother, who seriously thought that parental leave would become a sort of sabbatical.
![MULM](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/FC9BA42B-3F94-C348-AC37-7A3E90D35D9B.jpg)
N. tries to communicate with a star. In this work he is disturbed by the neighbour’s cat, which he has to look after.
![Toonekurg](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/1B17CC69-37A5-B444-B693-06CAE660F035.jpg)
While smoking on the balcony, Citizen Stork is struck by a moment of clarity, in which he realises that he is not a person, but rather a bird. At the same time, a man and a woman are eating lunch. When a cuckoo jumps out of the clock, the man leaves the apartment in a hurry. The woman and the stork meet …
![Psie Pole](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/21C79352-A9BD-3C4B-84B8-43C2A4D05391.jpg)
Animals try to survive, locked in a flat with a decomposing corpse of their owner. In this difficult situation one of the dogs finds out that love for its owner is stronger than animal instinct.
![Folie douce, folie dure](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/EB72B334-88F9-BF4B-A9B0-6AA5277B06DD.jpg)
This walk in the daily life of several psychiatric institutions, allows us to meet extraordinary people who let us enter their privacy.
![Suspensão](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/2BDD26FC-5420-B242-96DD-7F959C987DFF.jpg)
A sad, restrained man lying in his empty room’s bed. Hesitates, ponders hypotheses in a cycle without deciding. He’s stuck. In the exhaustion, every anguish equals one another. Another man sitting by the window: looks at him and at the street. The man almost decides – and they return to themselves and to the city, the time and the movement.
![ALTÖTTING](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/CCC3CE24-AF95-AB4B-80EA-F58C3243B2B9.jpg)
“You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting.“ Mesmerizing, haunting, and deeply personal, “Altötting“ is a coming-of-age story about love, faith, mortality, and shattered illusions.
![My Exercise](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/83C34168-D1C8-6C44-8A30-40250A5F3DBC.jpg)
A boy is doing an exercise with his dog.
![Empty Places](../../../wp-content/uploads/events/2021/9B4192D8-8694-F34C-8EA2-2320009D21C1.jpg)
Completed before the global lockdown, “Empty Places“ is an ode to the melancholy of machines.