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International Competition 5
9. May, 12:00 - 16. May, 0:00
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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“Ghost Eye” wrestles through the fiery underbelly of society. Johnny Supro is a taxi-driving nobody struggling with pointlessness, booze, and insanity. He lives with Amber and Grace in chaos, codependency, and filth. Deep inside their madness there’s an unusual spark of beauty waiting to be discovered. One night Johnny listens to the insane story of a huge man with a bandaged arm. It’s going to be an intriguing ride.
A giant cruise ship is drifting through a dissolving world. Although the passengers seem to know that this ship is going down, nobody bothers anymore. Only when the engine starts to fade and the captain’s voice is breaking in the PA, a sense of panic arises. What to do when we have to say goodbye? Three children on board decide to do something nice.
A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master’s statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past. Being locked in a vicious circle there seems to be no exit.
Two sisters grow up in Vietnam and are separated by the consequences of the conflict between North and South. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Thao leaves her country with her uncle. Her barely older sister Sao Maï, stays with her parents. The separation lasts nearly 20 years during which the letters they exchange are their only link. They tell the story of their daily life, their memories, the war and its ghosts.
Literal and figurative worlds collide but only one can survive… You decide, do your idioms live or die?
A young woman offers a self-description that presents her life in the most glowing terms – telling us what we want to hear. The visual narrative tells a different story, illustrating with heart-rending power the weight of anxiety carried by this driven overachiever as she strives for happiness. “The Great Malaise“ portrays the thoughts and worries of a person who suffers from anxious unhappiness.
Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare. The oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in.
A shy, withdrawn boy has his heart on being in the school theater group, but the only role offered to him is that of a crab.
Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative and post narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.
A short humorous account of the future physical evolution of human beings.