The Leaf of the Poplar, Irini Vianelli (USA, 2015), 3’ 48”

Drawing on paper

A leaf surrenders to the wind; a man yields to the waves, while Greek soundness quivers in the air. A short animation inspired by the poem with the same title by Giorgos Seferis. 

Young Again, Ioanna Varsou (GREECE, 2014), 1’

2D computer animation, Drawing on paper

Young Again is a short film about the futile battle against time. An old woman views a picture of her younger self and tries to remedy the marks that the passage of time has brought upon her appearance. By the end of the film she has sadly remained in a dreamlike state where she has achieved what she set out to do, but every viewer knows that her reality is far from the truth.



The Blessing Beggar, Yang Yi (TAIWAN, 2015), 5’ 26”

 Cut-out animation

Maria, a beggar girl, is almost starving to death because she didn't get any apple from sisters' giving everyday. In deep desperation, she comes an appetite to eat a rat on the roadside. She is struggling to eat it or not...





Chhaya, Debanjan Nandy (UK, 2015), 10’

 2D and 3D computer animation, Live action, Paint-on-glass

An old man trapped in a mundane senior center living by the memory of his beloved wife as his own shadow. But as his past sets in threatening his present, Prakash finds himself before a difficult decision:  a mesmerizing but, unreal dream or life itself?  



Dust with Flour, Annelise Williams (USA, 2014), 3’ 47”

2D computer animation

An old woman mistakes her husband's ashes for flour. He comes back from the oven to experience life again.



Wood, Joost Jordens (NETHERLANDS, 2014), 3’ 43” 

3D computer animation

Hout (Wood) tells the story of a retired woodcrafter living his remaining days in a snow coated forest, fulfilling his passion: constructing wooden animals.



The Life-Givers, Angela De Vito (USA, 2014), 6’ 38”

2D computer animation

In the caves below the earth are housed thousands of candles, each representing a human life. Life-Givers light the candles, signifying the birth of a child, while Death snuffs out the flame when the person’s time on earth has ended.  "The Life-Givers” follows the story of a young apprentice “life-giver” who struggles with the idea that life must one day come to an end. However, she learns that Death is not as final as it appears to be…



Connected, Manuela Buske (GERMANY, 2014), 4’ 45”

2D and 3D computer animation, Pixilation

There is a world made out of strings. Nobody knows about it, but everybody is connected to them. One woman finds it out and has to make her conclusions.



Armenian Papers, Ornella Macchia (BELGIUM, 2015), 6’ 34”

2Dcomputer animation, Internet software, Live action, Pixilation, Sand animation 

At the market of Yerevan , in Armenia, a merchant invites us to share his fruits and his history...



Blindly, Joanne van der Weg (NETHERLANDS, 2014), 2’ 20”

2D computer animation

What does a blind person see what i don't see. The animation is a short trip as how a blind person would make it.



Eidolozän, Paul Brenner (GERMANY, 2015), 4’ 15”

Photos

Eidolocene is a geologic chronical epoche in the far future. The Eidolocene research project is exploring the life of humanity in a world decisively influenced by a omnipresent digital environment. During thousands of years this virtual World even affected the human evolution. Due to the immovability of human species there is no more physical interaction between them, even the procreation process is fully virtualized.



The Whyers, Lora D'Addazio (BELGIUM, 2015), 7’ 15”

2D computer animation, Photos

The Whyers meet at a party – bored by atmosphere, they decide to go on the streets where they belong. On the front stairs of a church, a prophetic hobo who warns them of an imminent terrorist attack. Will they save Europe – and stop being bored ?



None of That, Anna Hinds Paddock, Isabela Littger, Kriti Kaur (USA, 2015), 4’ 10”

3D computer animation

A museum guard is on night patrol when he finds that someone has censored the museum's nude artwork. Soon after he goes to find who it is, only to find that the culprit is a tiny mysterious nun.



Operation Rising Tusk, Benjamin Brand, Johannes Engelhardt, Markus Eschrich, Johannes Lumer, Julius Rosen, Alexander Ochs (GERMANY, 2015), 5’ 20” 15

3D computer animation

The USA decides to start 'Operation Rising Tusk', a space program aiming to send an elephant into space, to challenge the USSR. Soon a wild elephant is on the journey to the final frontier, where he has to face the professional space-dog Laika.



Two Friends, Natalia Chernysheva (FRANCE, 2014), 4’ 02”

2D computer animation

Even the best of friends can have trouble understanding each other when they are from two different worlds.



Morse, Daniel Vidal (CHILE, 2014), 5’ 43” 

2D computer animation

A single mother must face confusion and fear in her own house after a weird figure starts appearing on her daughter's drawings.