Since 2006, the Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) has been going on tour with a selection of the best animated short films from the previous Festival and can be seen worldwide with the programmes “Best of International Competition”, “Best of Tricks for Kids” and, since 2020, the “Trickstar Nature Award”.
Diverse and creative, experimental, entertaining, and political is the selection of the best animated short films of ITFS 2022. Alongside themes such as sustainability in films like “Pig” or “Sprite Fright”, personal dramas (“To the Last Drop”, “Steakhouse”) and issues of violence and power (“The Immoral”, “BusLine35A”, “Tio”) play an important role this year.
The Grand Prix winner of ITFS22, “Bestia” by Hugo Covarrubias from Chile, is also an excellent example of how a complex historical portrait of a dark period – the military dictatorship of Chile from 1973 – 1990 – can be represented on film using a special stop-motion technique. However, not only does the programme impressively show dark sides of our present and past, but it also offers poetic, playful and abstract films that interpret fairy tales in a new feminist way (“Deep Water”) or create new visual worlds with the help of AI (“HYSTERISIS”).
Suki // France 2021 // 6:25 // 2D / 3D computer // Production: Utopi, Arte France, Pictanovo // World sales: Manifest
In a deafening noise of chainsaws, loggers happily humming while they cut down trees to be used as decor for a fashion show. A contemporary cartoon satire, in the form of a burlesque action musical tragicomedy, leads us into a delirious whirlwind of chain reactions as chaotic as they are grotesque.
Elena Felici // Denmark 2021 // 5:50 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Anja Perl, Michelle Nardone // Production: The Animation Workshop – VIA University College // World sales: Miyu Distribution
One city bus, three passengers and a situation in the back seat they can’t cope with.
Simon Schnellmann // Germany 2021 // 5:46 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Simon Schnellmann // Production: abwerner // World sales: abwerner
In the rhythm of the dripping chemo, an IV-pole fights for the life of a cancer patient.
Juan Medina // Mexico 2021 // 12:35 // Puppet animation // Producer: Juan Medina // Production: OUTIK // World sales: IMCINE
On his first day of work as a miner, Martin, a cocky teenage boy will learn the importance of rituals and respect for ancestors.
Anna Dudko // Ukraine 2020 // 6:00 // 2D / 3D computer,
animated objects // Producer: Kseniya Yefanova, Mariya Sapatova // Production: Svit Neznaiky, Studio Chervonyi Sobaka // World sales: Studio Chervonyi Sobaka
A lonely chubby mermaid is keen on peeking at people through the water pipelines using magic. One day she falls in love with a man and, blinded by passion, comes into his apartment to satisfy her burning desires.
Ekin Koca // France 2021 // 4:13 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Annick Teninge // Production: La Poudrière // World sales: L’Agence du Court Métrage
The guest of a restaurant collapses. The other guests, except for one, are
in a state of shock.
Hugo Covarrubias // Chile 2021 // 15:54 // Puppet animation, other techniques // Producer: Tevo Díaz // Production: Trebol 3 Producciones // World sales: Miyu Distribution
Based on true events the film explores the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveal a grim fracture of her mind and of the country
Yoriko Mizushiri // France, Japan 2021 // 5:47 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Nobuaki Doi, Pierre Baussaron // Production: New Deer, Miyu Production // World sales: Miyu Distribution
Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born.
Špela Čadež // France, Germany, Slovenia 2021 // 9:34 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Tina Smrekar, Špela Čadež // Production: Finta Film, framefloor.film and tv design, Fabian&Fred, RTV Slovenija,
Miyu Production // Distribution: KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg // World sales: Miyu Distribution
The steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc’s stomach is rumbling. But Liza’s co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?
Robert Seidel // Germany 2021 // 5:13 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Robert Seidel
“Hysteresis” intimately weaves a transformative fabric between Seidels’ projections of drawings and the vigorous choreography of queer performer Tsuki. Using machine learning to mediate these lagged re-presentations, the film intentionally corrupts the AI’s strategies to unveil a frenetic, delicate, flamboyant visual language of the hysteria and hysteresis in this moment.
Matthew Luhn // Netherlands 2021 // 10:29 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Francesco Siddi // Production: Blender Studio // World sales: Blender Studio
When a group of rowdy teenage kids trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.
Jorn Leeuwerink // Netherlands 2022 // 8:17 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Tünde Vollenbroek // Production: Studio Pupil, The Animation Workshop – VIA University College // World sales: SND Films, Kaboom Distribution
A group of animals hook up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing is automated… How long can that last?
The programme presents a selection of the six most beautiful short films of the Tricks for Kids competition that were met with enthusiastic reception by both young and older ITFS 2022 audience onsite in the cinema and online in the ITFS media library. The topics and stories are varied and powerful, entertaining, and thought-provoking.
We follow the memories of a small bridge to earlier times, accompany a farmer, his cow and a strange blue lion across the world in search of a new home, feel touched by a grandmother’s caring love for her granddaughter, take part in a troll girl’s fight against people’s hostility because of her otherness, with a twinkle in the eye watch a camel’s confrontation with a ball machine and experience how a musician’s love for his instrument gives him the strength to overcome obstacles and find happiness.
Discovery, accepting the unfamiliar, having courage and standing up for each other are the themes of these great and extraordinary films. The film selection incorporated the ratings of the ITFS Children’s Jury and the new Tricks for Kids Audience Award.
The films have no dialogue and are recommended for children aged 5 years and older.
Klym Klymchuk // Ukraine 2020 // 4:00 // 2D / 3D computer, object animation, clay animation, puppet animation // Producer: Ganna Polonichenko // Production: Novatorfilm // World sales: Novatorfilm
Once upon a time there was a small bridge near a small town. Since then, much has changed, but the bridge remembers the old days and can tell us about them.
Zoia Trofimoa // France 2021 // 18:11 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Guine Galina, Vladimir Gassiev // Production: Imaka Films, Studio Ptchela // World sales: Imaka Films
A lonely farmer takes in a kitten in distress which one day grows into a big blue lion. But the villagers are afraid and suspicious of this scary-looking stranger and chase it away. So the farmer puts his house on a cart, along with the lion and his cow, and leaves. The farmer and his animals travel around the world to find a place to put their house.
Anders Beer, Pierre-Hugues Dallaire // Canada 2021 // 1:26 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Don Kennedy, Sébastien Moreau // Production: Rodeo Animation // World sales: Prends ça court!
ITCHY is a simple-minded but charismatic camel. As he absent-mindedly wanders through the desert, Itchy is stunned by a tennis ball to the muzzle. Faced with a strangely antagonistic tennis ball machine, Itchy must defend himself in an epic showdown that can only end one way!
Filip Diviak // Belarus, Czech Republic 2021 // 14:33 // Drawn on paper, 2D computer // Producer: Lukáš Gregor // Production: Tomáš Baťa University Zlín // World sales: Miyu Distribution
A homeless musician was kicked out of the city after the queen saw his face. Although the guards destroyed his instrument, he didn’t lose the motivation to fix it.
Miguel Anaya // Mexico 2021 // 10:45 // Puppet animation // Producer: Carolina Pavia // Production: PBA Producciones // World sales: IMCINE
Little Maria has been left in her grandmother’s care. While Maria spends her time crafting, her grandmother, who has become ill, has the urge to teach her the little trades that can help her fend for herself when she is gone. Their relationship becomes more tense, until her grandmother remembers a secret that she has kept since childhood …
Kay Carmichael // South Africa 2021 // 8:36 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Dianne Makings, Anthony Silverstone // Production: Triggerfish Animation Studios, Giantslayer Studios // World sales: Triggerfish
Animation Studios
A troll girl is found as a baby by a nun on the steps of a monastery and raised by her in a human village on the edge of a dark, mysterious forest. Growing up, she fights her own fears and the fears of the villagers to protect her mother and liberate them both.
The films highlight the topics of climate protection, biodiversity, the environment, and sustainability in visually powerful and sharp-witted animations and encourage critical contemplation in both humorous and serious ways. In the winning film “Pig”, director Jorn Leeuwerink reflects on the climate crisis with black humour and a tragic-comic tone. He succeeds in wrapping a threatening issue in playful-looking images and presenting it in the form of a seemingly harmless fable.
In “Mondo Domino”, filmmaker Suki, inspired by slapstick comedies and the cartoons of Tex Avery, reveals in unbridled rhythmic images and delirious colours all the madness of the human species, which over-exploits, over-consumes and lives in a world that goes to hell unchecked.
The Award is sponsored by Verband Region Stuttgart
Seung-wook (Noah) Jang // South Korea 2021 // 6:06 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Hye Jung Eun // World sales: KIAFA – Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association, AniSEED
It is just another ordinary day – until the house begins filling up with water.
Andrea Schneider, Anja Sidler, Delia Hess // Switzerland 2021 // 4:11 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Papierboot Collective // Production: Papierboot Collective // World sales: Delia Hess
Instead of a military site, the association “Emmen am See” wants to create a local recreation area with a lake. The film creates its own colourful vision of the lake.
Emir Aytemür // Turkey 2021 // 4:02 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Emir Aytemür // Production: Maltepe University // World sales: Emir Aytemür
The sun shines, ice melts
A polar bear on its own
A child cries out ah!
The haiku is the core of the film. Haiku is a traditional form
of Japanese art poetry.
Ana Stefaniak, Ignatz Johnson Higham // United Kingdom 2021 // 5:39 // 2D computer // Producer: Dougal Macqueen // Production: The Royal Society, OOF Animation // World sales: The Royal Society
Biodiversity is under intense pressure from human activity worldwide. David Attenborough explains why biodiversity is so important to humans, how biodiversity loss is impacting our world and how there is still time to change direction – if we act now.
Matthew Luhn // Netherlands 2021 // 10:29 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Francesco Siddi // Production: Blender Studio // World sales: Blender Studio
When a group of rowdy teenage kids trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.
Andreea Ciora, Camille Burles, Chloé Viala, Clara Mesplé, Lou Fraleu, Manon Lambert // France 2021 // 4:41 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Franck Petitta // Production: École Georges Méliès // World sales: Mikhal Bak
Piqued by her curiosity, a little cow gets caught up in the mechanics of a destructive giant.
Chenglin Xie // China, USA 2021 // 6:55 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Chenglin Xie, Michelle Yu Du // World sales: SND Films, Kaboom Distribution
You are what you eat. In a world where people start to look like the thing they eat the most of, you can take this quite literally.
Suki // France 2021 // 6:25 // 2D / 3D computer // Produkcion: Utopi, Arte France, Pictanovo // World sales: Manifest
In a deafening noise of chainsaws, loggers are happily humming while they cut down trees to be used as decor for a fashion show. A contemporary cartoon satire, in the form of a burlesque action musical tragicomedy, leads us into a delirious whirlwind of chain reactions as chaotic as they are grotesque.
Leoluna Robert-Tourneur // Belgium, France 2021 // 6:30 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Viviane Vanfleteren // Production: Vivi Film // World sales: Miyu Distribution
In the heart of a dark forest, while hunting, two silhouettes meet, attract and repel each other in an explosive bridal parade. “Hold Me Tight” is a bittersweet romance.
Assaf Benharouch // Israel 2021 // 5:45 // Frame by frame, cut out
animation // Producer: Lynn Polyak // Production: Studio Poink
This film aims to introduce a new and revolutionary approach in agriculture named “Holistic Regenerative Agriculture”. It is one of the most promising ways to deal with the ecological crisis we are witnessing around the globe but it is not well known to the public among farmers, ranchers and consumers.
Carlos Salgado // Spain 2021 // 8:00 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Alfonso Casado, Carlos Salgado, Rubén Fernández // Production: User T38, Monocromo, Meh, Lamae // World sales: User T38
At the edge of the galaxy, a space explorer picks up a plant on a mysterious planet, but his return journey will put his determination to the test.
Rosalie Loncin // France 2021 // 6:30 // 2D / 3D computer, pixilation, other
animation techniques // Production: Rosalie Loncin // World sales: Rosalie Loncin
In the distant future, a community living in a desert universe remembers with melancholy the time when there were still trees, insects, birds.
Jorn Leeuwerink // Netherlands 2022 // 8:17 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Tünde Vollenbroek // Production: Studio Pupil, The Animation Workshop – VIA University College // Weltvertrieb: SND Films, Kaboom Distribution
A group of animals hook up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing – the useful and the useless – is automated… How long can that last?
Diverse and creative, experimental, entertaining, and political is the selection of the best animated short films of ITFS 2022. Alongside themes such as sustainability in films like “Pig” or “Sprite Fright”, personal dramas (“To the Last Drop”, “Steakhouse”) and issues of violence and power (“The Immoral”, “BusLine35A”, “Tio”) play an important role this year.
The Grand Prix winner of ITFS22, “Bestia” by Hugo Covarrubias from Chile, is also an excellent example of how a complex historical portrait of a dark period – the military dictatorship of Chile from 1973 – 1990 – can be represented on film using a special stop-motion technique. However, not only does the programme impressively show dark sides of our present and past, but it also offers poetic, playful and abstract films that interpret fairy tales in a new feminist way (“Deep Water”) or create new visual worlds with the help of AI (“HYSTERISIS”).
Suki // France 2021 // 6:25 // 2D / 3D computer // Production: Utopi, Arte France, Pictanovo // World sales: Manifest
In a deafening noise of chainsaws, loggers happily humming while they cut down trees to be used as decor for a fashion show. A contemporary cartoon satire, in the form of a burlesque action musical tragicomedy, leads us into a delirious whirlwind of chain reactions as chaotic as they are grotesque.
Elena Felici // Denmark 2021 // 5:50 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Anja Perl, Michelle Nardone // Production: The Animation Workshop – VIA University College // World sales: Miyu Distribution
One city bus, three passengers and a situation in the back seat they can’t cope with.
Simon Schnellmann // Germany 2021 // 5:46 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Simon Schnellmann // Production: abwerner // World sales: abwerner
In the rhythm of the dripping chemo, an IV-pole fights for the life of a cancer patient.
Juan Medina // Mexico 2021 // 12:35 // Puppet animation // Producer: Juan Medina // Production: OUTIK // World sales: IMCINE
On his first day of work as a miner, Martin, a cocky teenage boy will learn the importance of rituals and respect for ancestors.
Anna Dudko // Ukraine 2020 // 6:00 // 2D / 3D computer,
animated objects // Producer: Kseniya Yefanova, Mariya Sapatova // Production: Svit Neznaiky, Studio Chervonyi Sobaka // World sales: Studio Chervonyi Sobaka
A lonely chubby mermaid is keen on peeking at people through the water pipelines using magic. One day she falls in love with a man and, blinded by passion, comes into his apartment to satisfy her burning desires.
Ekin Koca // France 2021 // 4:13 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Annick Teninge // Production: La Poudrière // World sales: L’Agence du Court Métrage
The guest of a restaurant collapses. The other guests, except for one, are
in a state of shock.
Hugo Covarrubias // Chile 2021 // 15:54 // Puppet animation, other techniques // Producer: Tevo Díaz // Production: Trebol 3 Producciones // World sales: Miyu Distribution
Based on true events the film explores the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile. Her relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations reveal a grim fracture of her mind and of the country
Yoriko Mizushiri // France, Japan 2021 // 5:47 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Nobuaki Doi, Pierre Baussaron // Production: New Deer, Miyu Production // World sales: Miyu Distribution
Living things, artificial things, geometry shapes, and lines. When these different things encounter, a new direction is born.
Špela Čadež // France, Germany, Slovenia 2021 // 9:34 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Tina Smrekar, Špela Čadež // Production: Finta Film, framefloor.film and tv design, Fabian&Fred, RTV Slovenija,
Miyu Production // Distribution: KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg // World sales: Miyu Distribution
The steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc’s stomach is rumbling. But Liza’s co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?
Robert Seidel // Germany 2021 // 5:13 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Robert Seidel
“Hysteresis” intimately weaves a transformative fabric between Seidels’ projections of drawings and the vigorous choreography of queer performer Tsuki. Using machine learning to mediate these lagged re-presentations, the film intentionally corrupts the AI’s strategies to unveil a frenetic, delicate, flamboyant visual language of the hysteria and hysteresis in this moment.
Matthew Luhn // Netherlands 2021 // 10:29 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Francesco Siddi // Production: Blender Studio // World sales: Blender Studio
When a group of rowdy teenage kids trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.
Jorn Leeuwerink // Netherlands 2022 // 8:17 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Tünde Vollenbroek // Production: Studio Pupil, The Animation Workshop – VIA University College // World sales: SND Films, Kaboom Distribution
A group of animals hook up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing is automated… How long can that last?
The programme presents a selection of the six most beautiful short films of the Tricks for Kids competition that were met with enthusiastic reception by both young and older ITFS 2022 audience onsite in the cinema and online in the ITFS media library. The topics and stories are varied and powerful, entertaining, and thought-provoking.
We follow the memories of a small bridge to earlier times, accompany a farmer, his cow and a strange blue lion across the world in search of a new home, feel touched by a grandmother’s caring love for her granddaughter, take part in a troll girl’s fight against people’s hostility because of her otherness, with a twinkle in the eye watch a camel’s confrontation with a ball machine and experience how a musician’s love for his instrument gives him the strength to overcome obstacles and find happiness.
Discovery, accepting the unfamiliar, having courage and standing up for each other are the themes of these great and extraordinary films. The film selection incorporated the ratings of the ITFS Children’s Jury and the new Tricks for Kids Audience Award.
The films have no dialogue and are recommended for children aged 5 years and older.
Klym Klymchuk // Ukraine 2020 // 4:00 // 2D / 3D computer, object animation, clay animation, puppet animation // Producer: Ganna Polonichenko // Production: Novatorfilm // World sales: Novatorfilm
Once upon a time there was a small bridge near a small town. Since then, much has changed, but the bridge remembers the old days and can tell us about them.
Zoia Trofimoa // France 2021 // 18:11 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Guine Galina, Vladimir Gassiev // Production: Imaka Films, Studio Ptchela // World sales: Imaka Films
A lonely farmer takes in a kitten in distress which one day grows into a big blue lion. But the villagers are afraid and suspicious of this scary-looking stranger and chase it away. So the farmer puts his house on a cart, along with the lion and his cow, and leaves. The farmer and his animals travel around the world to find a place to put their house.
Anders Beer, Pierre-Hugues Dallaire // Canada 2021 // 1:26 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Don Kennedy, Sébastien Moreau // Production: Rodeo Animation // World sales: Prends ça court!
ITCHY is a simple-minded but charismatic camel. As he absent-mindedly wanders through the desert, Itchy is stunned by a tennis ball to the muzzle. Faced with a strangely antagonistic tennis ball machine, Itchy must defend himself in an epic showdown that can only end one way!
Filip Diviak // Belarus, Czech Republic 2021 // 14:33 // Drawn on paper, 2D computer // Producer: Lukáš Gregor // Production: Tomáš Baťa University Zlín // World sales: Miyu Distribution
A homeless musician was kicked out of the city after the queen saw his face. Although the guards destroyed his instrument, he didn’t lose the motivation to fix it.
Miguel Anaya // Mexico 2021 // 10:45 // Puppet animation // Producer: Carolina Pavia // Production: PBA Producciones // World sales: IMCINE
Little Maria has been left in her grandmother’s care. While Maria spends her time crafting, her grandmother, who has become ill, has the urge to teach her the little trades that can help her fend for herself when she is gone. Their relationship becomes more tense, until her grandmother remembers a secret that she has kept since childhood …
Kay Carmichael // South Africa 2021 // 8:36 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Dianne Makings, Anthony Silverstone // Production: Triggerfish Animation Studios, Giantslayer Studios // World sales: Triggerfish
Animation Studios
A troll girl is found as a baby by a nun on the steps of a monastery and raised by her in a human village on the edge of a dark, mysterious forest. Growing up, she fights her own fears and the fears of the villagers to protect her mother and liberate them both.
The films highlight the topics of climate protection, biodiversity, the environment, and sustainability in visually powerful and sharp-witted animations and encourage critical contemplation in both humorous and serious ways. In the winning film “Pig”, director Jorn Leeuwerink reflects on the climate crisis with black humour and a tragic-comic tone. He succeeds in wrapping a threatening issue in playful-looking images and presenting it in the form of a seemingly harmless fable.
In “Mondo Domino”, filmmaker Suki, inspired by slapstick comedies and the cartoons of Tex Avery, reveals in unbridled rhythmic images and delirious colours all the madness of the human species, which over-exploits, over-consumes and lives in a world that goes to hell unchecked.
The Award is sponsored by Verband Region Stuttgart
Seung-wook (Noah) Jang // South Korea 2021 // 6:06 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Hye Jung Eun // World sales: KIAFA – Korean Independent Animation Filmmakers Association, AniSEED
It is just another ordinary day – until the house begins filling up with water.
Andrea Schneider, Anja Sidler, Delia Hess // Switzerland 2021 // 4:11 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Papierboot Collective // Production: Papierboot Collective // World sales: Delia Hess
Instead of a military site, the association “Emmen am See” wants to create a local recreation area with a lake. The film creates its own colourful vision of the lake.
Emir Aytemür // Turkey 2021 // 4:02 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Emir Aytemür // Production: Maltepe University // World sales: Emir Aytemür
The sun shines, ice melts
A polar bear on its own
A child cries out ah!
The haiku is the core of the film. Haiku is a traditional form
of Japanese art poetry.
Ana Stefaniak, Ignatz Johnson Higham // United Kingdom 2021 // 5:39 // 2D computer // Producer: Dougal Macqueen // Production: The Royal Society, OOF Animation // World sales: The Royal Society
Biodiversity is under intense pressure from human activity worldwide. David Attenborough explains why biodiversity is so important to humans, how biodiversity loss is impacting our world and how there is still time to change direction – if we act now.
Matthew Luhn // Netherlands 2021 // 10:29 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Francesco Siddi // Production: Blender Studio // World sales: Blender Studio
When a group of rowdy teenage kids trek into an isolated forest, they discover peaceful mushroom creatures that turn out to be an unexpected force of nature.
Andreea Ciora, Camille Burles, Chloé Viala, Clara Mesplé, Lou Fraleu, Manon Lambert // France 2021 // 4:41 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Franck Petitta // Production: École Georges Méliès // World sales: Mikhal Bak
Piqued by her curiosity, a little cow gets caught up in the mechanics of a destructive giant.
Chenglin Xie // China, USA 2021 // 6:55 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Chenglin Xie, Michelle Yu Du // World sales: SND Films, Kaboom Distribution
You are what you eat. In a world where people start to look like the thing they eat the most of, you can take this quite literally.
Suki // France 2021 // 6:25 // 2D / 3D computer // Produkcion: Utopi, Arte France, Pictanovo // World sales: Manifest
In a deafening noise of chainsaws, loggers are happily humming while they cut down trees to be used as decor for a fashion show. A contemporary cartoon satire, in the form of a burlesque action musical tragicomedy, leads us into a delirious whirlwind of chain reactions as chaotic as they are grotesque.
Leoluna Robert-Tourneur // Belgium, France 2021 // 6:30 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Viviane Vanfleteren // Production: Vivi Film // World sales: Miyu Distribution
In the heart of a dark forest, while hunting, two silhouettes meet, attract and repel each other in an explosive bridal parade. “Hold Me Tight” is a bittersweet romance.
Assaf Benharouch // Israel 2021 // 5:45 // Frame by frame, cut out
animation // Producer: Lynn Polyak // Production: Studio Poink
This film aims to introduce a new and revolutionary approach in agriculture named “Holistic Regenerative Agriculture”. It is one of the most promising ways to deal with the ecological crisis we are witnessing around the globe but it is not well known to the public among farmers, ranchers and consumers.
Carlos Salgado // Spain 2021 // 8:00 // 2D / 3D computer // Producer: Alfonso Casado, Carlos Salgado, Rubén Fernández // Production: User T38, Monocromo, Meh, Lamae // World sales: User T38
At the edge of the galaxy, a space explorer picks up a plant on a mysterious planet, but his return journey will put his determination to the test.
Rosalie Loncin // France 2021 // 6:30 // 2D / 3D computer, pixilation, other
animation techniques // Production: Rosalie Loncin // World sales: Rosalie Loncin
In the distant future, a community living in a desert universe remembers with melancholy the time when there were still trees, insects, birds.
Jorn Leeuwerink // Netherlands 2022 // 8:17 // 2D / 3D computer, cel animation // Producer: Tünde Vollenbroek // Production: Studio Pupil, The Animation Workshop – VIA University College // Weltvertrieb: SND Films, Kaboom Distribution
A group of animals hook up a power grid to the socket-shaped snout of one big, sleeping pig. The animals use the pig’s energy for simple things at first, but soon they render themselves dependent on a city where every single thing – the useful and the useless – is automated… How long can that last?
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