Animation Around Europe: New Portuguese Animation – Student / Workshop Category

(In)Dividual

During a medical exam, a young girl dreams that she’s inside her mind. Dragged by her antagonist (the prompter of her seizures) into an identity-warpping quest, she explores the different sections of her personality – unusual spaces full of surreal metaphors. Only when she ceases questioning who she is, may she realise that the cause for
her misfortune had always been on the palm of her hand.

BEATRIZ BAGULHO
Portugal, United Kingdom 2019, 4:50 Min.
Traditional Animation, 2D Digital
Production: University of the West of England, Centro de Inovação da Mouraria, Associação Douda Correria

Sundown

A traditional dance troupe prepares for the opening of the Summer Solstice Festival. The group is scheduled to take the stage in a few minutes, but one member is missing.

ANA MONIZ, CAMILLE LETOUZE, JULIETTE BROCAL, SHE RUITAO E ZOU SHANSHAN
France 2020, 5:10 Min.
2D Computer
Animation: Camille Letouze, Ana Moniz, She Ruitao, Zou Shanshan
Producer: Moira Marguin
Production: Gobelins – L’Ecole de L’Image

Nestor

Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.

JOAO GONZALEZ
Portugal, United Kingdom 2019, 6:00 Min.
2D Computer
Screenplay: Joao Gonzalez
Camera: Joao Gonzalez
Animation: Joao Gonzalez
Music: Joao Gonzalez, Miguel Teixeira
Sound: Joao Gonzalez, Ed Rousseau
Producer: Joao Gonzalez

Dente D’ Leao

A chat between three friends, who feel trapped by the standards of society, but who want to fight for their dreams and what they believe, because nobody will do it for them.

CATARINA ABRANTES, MARIYA TOMA, MIGUEL HENRIQUES
Portugal 2020, 3:53 Min.
2D Computer, 3D Computer
Production: Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Rachado

During Estado Novo, António Tereso is encarcerated and the only way for him to escape with his comrades is to turn his back on his political party and gain trust of the prison guards. Working as a prision mechanic, Tereso finds out a bulletproof Chrystler that belonged to Salazar, becoming the key to his escape.

ANA RODRIGUES, ANTÓNIO LUCAS, JOAO MONTEIRO, RITA BRANCO
Portugal 2020, 3:10 Min.
2D Computer, Stop Motion
Production: Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Mother Trude

A story of a young and witty girl that doesn’t do what others tell her to. That personality often puts her in uncomfortable situations, but who knows, maybe there’s someone who likes that wittiness.

TIAGO SILVA
Portugal 2020, 1:13 Min.
2D Computer
Screenplay: Tiago Silva
Camera: Tiago Silva
Editor: Tiago Silva
Animation: Tiago Silva
Visual Effects: Tiago Silva
Music: Tiago Silva
Sound: Tiago Silva
Producer: Tiago Silva

Being Uncanny

The birth of a being occurs in a space through a genuine and innocent movement. During the action, this space becomes complex and confusing, bringing different individuals together. Some are deformed by lines and light, others look real. Simplicity turns into complexity, plain images into catastrophes. Faces expand and become concepts and ideas. Imagination becomes vision.

FILIPA ALVES, MARIA BARBOSA
Portugal 2019, 7:08 Min.
Drawing, Cutout Animation, Pixilation
Production: Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa

As Aventuras Do Gajo No Espaço

(The Space Dude’s Adventures)

The incompetent Space Dude and his insolent assistant Diana crash into an unknown planet. What will happen? Will they find new lifeforms? Will they lose their sanity in these new frontiers? Or will they be lost forever in the immensity of Outerspace? See and discover!

AFONSO PELAYO
Portugal 2020, 4:31 Min.
2D Computer
Production: Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis

Creature Of Habit

Azelea’s first day at work and her obsession: workaholism. Her endless desire to work takes her to exhaustion. After a nervous breakdown and the encounter with her past self, Azeleia learns to take things more calmly.

BEATRIZ NUNES SILVA
Portugal 2020, 4:00 Min.
2D Computer, Frame-by-Frame
Production: Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis

Realidades (Realities)

This film is located between reality, fiction, dream and real life… As simple as conversation…

PAULO D’ALVA
Portugal 2020, 0:55 Min.
2D Computer, Cutout Animation

O Tempo Escondido No Corpo De Uma

(Time Hidden In The Body Of One School)

A school looks inside itself and discovers that all small and fantastic things that it has inside is nothing more than a breath of time.

FERNANDO SARAIVA
Portugal 2020, 11:18 Min.
Stop Motion, Cutout Animation, Live

O Guardiao Do Papel

(The Paper Keeper)

A lovestruck cardboard robot is the caretaker of a cardboard world. In an attempt to get a mouth to win over his crush, he goes to the hospital. But a plastic intruder seizes the opportunity and contaminates his paradise.

JOAO CATÓLICO
Portugal 2019, 4:44 Min.
Stop Motion, Cutout Animation

100 Palavras (Words)

Nothing to say.

ABI FEIJÓ 
Portugal 2020, 2:11 Min.
Stop Motion

Um Dia Muito Agitado (A Troubled Day)

After all, is it raining or is it sunny?

ABI FEIJÓ 
Portugal 2020, 2:25 Min.
Stop Trick

Cerco-Me De Histórias (Surrounded By Stories)

Real stories of daily life told by children and young people in the “cerco” neighborhood of Porto.

ANTÓNIO PINTO, PAULO D’ALVA 
Portugal 2020, 9:12 Min.
Cutout Animation, 2D Computer