From the Earth to the Moon, Angelos Spartalis (GREECE, 2013), 87'

Cut-out animation, Collage

The creation of the first Greek long animated film made for the cinema, began in the summer of 2008 and was completed in March 2013. Its duration is 96 minutes. Based on the homonymous book by Jules Verne ("De la Terre à la Lune", 1865), this film focuses mostly on the author's humorous yet scathing criticism of the bellicose worldwide, not failing to stress out their unparalleled bravery. It is a "handmade" film that winks to high aesthetics and vulgar laugh.



Maya the Bee – Movie, Alexs Stadermann (GERMANY/AUSTRALIA, 2013), 80'

2D computer animation

Curious little bee Maya and her friend Willy save their hive from the greedy queen's advisor and end the long-term hostility between bees and hornets.

Freshly hatched bee Maya is a little whirlwind and won't follow the rules of the hive. One of these rules is not to trust the hornets that live beyond the meadow. When the Royal Jelly is stolen, the hornets are suspected and Maya is thought to be their accomplice. No one believes that she's the innocent victim and no one will stand by her except for her good natured and best friend Willy.

After a long and eventful journey to the hornets hive Maya and Willy soon discover the true culprit and the two friends finally bond with the other residents of the opulent meadow.



The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead, Elliot Cowan (USA/ ROMANIA, 2013), 71'

2D computer animation

When their home is destroyed, Boxhead & Roundhead must head to the big city to battle red tape, rent, rats and the rat race to get it back.

Art and industry, friendship and foul play are all in the mix in this, the most stressful adventure of all.



Tito On Ice, Max Andersson & Helena Ahonen (SWEDEN/ GERMANY, 2013), 73' 30''

Live action, Puppet

To promote their book Bosnian Flat Dog, comics creators Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson decide to tour the former Yugoslavia with a mummified Marshal Tito in a fridge.

They encounter a number of artists, musicians, publishers and other characters populating the post-Yugoslav indie cultural scene. As the journey continues through increasingly improbable surroundings, the protagonists begin to question themselves and the reality they find themselves in.

Watching as border control checks turn into improvised snapshot sessions, admiring mutant iron-curtain Disney toys, buying souvenir grenade shell handicrafts and discovering sniper art in blown-out apartments, they find that truth may indeed be stranger than fiction.

A combination of stop-motion animation and documentary scenes, the film turns into a roller coaster ride through a parallel universe where all borders are crazily disintegrating, simultaneously tragic, poetic and bleakly funny.



Until Sbornia Do Us Part, Otto Guerra & Ennio Torresan Jr (BRAZIL, 2013), 85'

2D computer animation, 3D computer animation

What happens when the wall dividing a small country from the rest of the world falls accidentally? Quiet and stuck in time, the people of Sbornia is now hit by winds of modernity coming from the big city. Conflicts caused by a violent cultural clash mess the protagonists Pletskaya and Kraunu's lives - two well known Sbornians musicians. As result of a continental interference in the habits of Sbornia, some natives wake dormant old beliefs and start rescuing their own identity. The film is based on the musical play spectacle Tangos & Tragedies, created by Nico Gomez and Hique Nicolaiewsky which was presented on stages worldwide very successfully for the past 25 years.