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Young Animation 3
8. May, 12:00 - 16. May, 0:00
The Young Animation Competition (YA) shows selected animated short films made by students of international film and art schools. Young animation artists from different countries tell touching stories, create fantastic worlds and open new perspectives.
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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.
A huge sailor gets an autumn leaf from a small girl. It reminds him of his home. How long has he not been there? He hurries to meet his old parents, but what is he going to find there?
A dog gets abandoned on the side of the road. Attached to a street light, he stays alone until the day he meets a young astronaut wannabe and a professional cyclist who keeps on trying to beat her highest score.
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 High school student’s best friend is pregnant.
In a constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for tenderness. And to lose.
An emotionally haunting and visually beautiful experience, “Ciervo“ tells the story of a young girl who holds violence, submission, and independence in an uneasy balance as one morphs into the other.
“Where’s My Stress Ball“ is a music-synchronised piece created during the coronavirus pandemic. Though created during a tough time under quarantine, the film abstracts the stressfulness into something playful and positive by picturing lively balls in and out of frames, and in dashes of colour.
Old bandit Bird Murray is retiring. He starts to wander, looking for a place to rest. But his arch enemy Mr. Sunshine tries to stop him in his tracks.
A family lives an ordinary day. When the mother goes away for a moment, chaos starts to settle.
In the shop of a chocolate factory, four rabbits trade their kind look for bandanas and gangster style golden chains. They leave to deliver a ransom to their boss.
A family is about to spend the afternoon on the beach to watch the fireworks of August 15th. But everything gets complicated when Bruno goes to grab the beach chair that his wife Sandrine has forgotten in the car: holidays don’t erase your little daily problems…
In a world of escalators, figures consume in a given rhythm. One of them is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a chips-mad dog. When the dog is also sucked in, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.
In the park, everybody is walking their dogs, except the gardener, who doesn’t have one.