Director David Doutel and Vasco Sá
Synopsis
A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun. Young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.
Director: David Doutel and Vasco Sá
Writer: David Doutel and Vasco Sá
Producer:
Agnė Adomėnė / Rodrigo Areias / David Doutel and Vasco Sá
Country of Origin: Portugal
Runtime: 14 minutes
Production year : 2022
David Doutel and Vasco Sá started co-directing animation films 12 years ago. Since then, they have presented 4 short films and are currently working on their first animated feature film. They are co-founders of BAP – Animation Studio, where they work as directors and producers.
Biography
Director Sofia El Khyari
Synopsis
In a mysterious forest, a woman is slowly lured into a nostalgic daydream as she observes butterflies.
Born in 1992, in Casablanca
Biography
Nationality: Moroccan
Sofia El Khyari grew up in Casablanca. She moved to Paris to study cultural management, and learned animation by herself. She
directed her first short film and then obtained a Master’s degree in animation at the Royal College of Art in London where she explored
her fascination for textures and animated calligraphy.
Technical information
Animation technique: watercolor and ink drawings
Running time: 9 min
Process: colour
Screened on: DCP (2K), ProRes (2K), H264 (1080p)
Sound: 5.1 (DCP), stereo
Frame: 1:85, 16/9 letterbox (H264)
Speed: 24 fps
Language: Arabic (Moroccan dialect)
Subtitles: French, English, Portuguese
Elena Madrid
Synopsis
The strict traffic policewoman Rita loves control and order in her workplace. That’s why she has drawn up a rigid, rectangular road network, through which she directs the drivers with precise instructions.
But as more and more cars find their way into her narrow network and it soon threatens to burst, Rita loses control in the traffic.
Director: Elena Madrid
Writer: Elena Madrid
Producer : Lina Geissmann
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Runtime: 4 minutes 10 seconds
Production year : 2022
1969
Biography
Born in Uzwil (SG) Switzerland.
1989 – 1992
Training as graphic designer.
1993 – 1998
Study of Fine Art at HSLU in Luzern.
2003
Art and Studio Grant in Krakow (PL) – Animation and Production for the film animated short Der Kussdieb
2007
Studio Grant in Barcelona (ES) – Story Development for the film Wenn der Wind dreht
2010 – 2015
Seminars for Story Development, Character Design in the field of Animation.
Since 2000
Work as a freelance animation film maker, illustrator and art director at the studio fragola design, Zürich Switzerland.
Eleonora Berra
Synopsis
Three beings pave the floor of a cave with gemstones that they are collecting. When a part of the cave’s ceiling collapses because of an accident, the three see each other for the first time in daylight and realize that parts of their skin sparkles. However, one of them doesn’t sparkle. This difference will impact the group and lead to a conflict between the three.
Writer: Eleonora Berra
Director: Eleonora Berra
Producer : Elena Pedrazzoli
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Runtime: 8 minutes
Production year : 2022
I enjoy working with unusual materials and techniques to transport audiences to surreal worlds. I’ve co-directed the stop motion short film Partition (2011) with Delia Hess and Shami Lang. It was screened over thirty film festivals worldwide and won the ANIMA+LAB award for best animated film at the international short film festival SediciCorto. It also won the first prize at the Athens Animfest. My second stop motion film Effort (2012) was selected for numerous festivals, including Clermont Ferrand. This film was awarded the Prix Taurus Studio à l’Innovation at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival. After completing a Master in Game Design in parallel with my work as a research assistant at the Zurich University of the Arts, I decided to make a new film: Mosaic.
Biography
Ahmad Saleh
Synopsis
The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night has to trick her into sleeping to save her soul.
Director: Ahmad Saleh
Writer: Ahmad Saleh
Producer: Fabian Driehorst
Country of Origin: Palestine
Production year : 2021
Runtime: 16 minutes
Ahmad Saleh is a Palestinian/German writer and director. His first film, HOUSE, 2012 won a second place in the German Short Film Award and his second film, AYNY, 2016 won an Academy Award. Recently he finished his third short film, NIGHT and is developing his first feature.
Biography
Jack James Parry
Synopsis
The Object of Life is an animated investigation that probes through metaphors. It is an exploration of the philosophy of identity and the nature of objectification. Is it enough to think of the world as just objects? Maybe there is another way.
Director: Jack James Parry
Writer: Jack James Parry
Producer : Jack James Parry
Country of Origin: Australia
Runtime: 3 minutes
Production year: 2022
Jack Parry is a Melbourne based Australian animation director of short philosophical films. His films visually engage with the synergy of music and image giving the viewer a delightful intertwined synesthetic experience.
Biography
Jack is the director of Parry Animation Studios in Melbourne, Australia where he and Marianna make short films that rejoice in the delight of philosophy, animation and music.
Miriam Muraca
Synopsis
Moomie’s first animated short film tells the story a young girl’s nightmare trip into the social networks’ world. How many likes do we need to log out, once we’ve logged in?
Director: Miriam Muraca
Writer: Miriam Muraca
Producer: Miriam Muraca
Country of Origin: Italy
Runtime: 1 minute 25 seconds
Production year : 2022
Director: Miriam Muraca
Writer: Miriam Muraca
Producer: Miriam Muraca
Country of Origin: Italy
Runtime: 1 minute 25 seconds
Production year : 2022
Miriam Muraca (aka Moomie) was born in Bolzano in 1994, from a German mother and an Italian father, therefore she is fluent in German and Italian. Drawing is like breathing for her, she began at the age of three. She graduated at DAMS ((Drama, Art and Music Studies) at the University of Bologna with a thesis on Japanese Anime. During covid quarantine she focused on digital arts and co-founded an illustrated webzine of short stories. She works as an illustrator, actress and she is developing her passion for digital arts and animation. Phonetrip is her first short animated film, made with a frame by frame technique.
Biography
Gabrielle Mouret
Synopsis
Someone wake up somewhere and his carried away by his daily life.
Writer: Gabrielle Mouret
Director: Gabrielle Mouret
Producer: Gabrielle Mouret
Country of Origin: France
Runtime: 6 minutes
Production year : 2021
Gabrielle Mouret is a 27-year-old artist living near Paris, evolving in the world of drawing and animated cinema.
Biography
In 2018, she joins the Institut Supérieur Couleur Image Design, and graduates in animation film studies. She then discovers a new way of practicing her art which completely transforms her vision of drawing. She directed a short graduation film, Trait calme, exploring the act of waking up in the morning, in a poetic way.
Living in Montreuil since November 2021, she’s been working on various projects as a graphic designer and 2D animator. She is also interested in storyboarding, directing, drawing and writing for the new short film project.
Mariana Guerreiro Ferreira and Eudald Rojas Lluís
Synopsis
Antonio is stuck to his routine. During the night, he works in a recycling plant and during the day stays with his family with whom he doesn’t really get along. One day, while working, he discovers that he can begin to make decisions about his life and change it to his will.
Writer: Eudald Rojas Lluís, Elisa Albanelli, Lucía Gutiérrez Rico
Writer: Eudald Rojas Lluís, Elisa Albanelli, Lucía Gutiérrez Rico
Director: Mariana Guerreiro Ferreira and Eudald Rojas Lluís
Producer: Mariana Guerreiro Ferreira , Valeria Salinas Yábar
Country of Origin: Spain
Runtime: 8 minutes
Production year: 2021
Antoine Antabi
Synopsis
Midyan decides to run away from his war-torn home. He packs his bag with objects that remind him of his loved ones and embarks on a journey into the unknown. Soon he is starving and resorts to eating the objects he has packed. The effects are monstrous yet they give him the strength to carry on through the scorching desert. Eventually, he arrives half-dead on the other shore of the sea and eats the most precious of his objects: a family portrait. This gives him the strength to finish his journey.
Director: Antoine Antabi
Writer: Antoine Antabi
Producer: Jasper Wiedhöft and Laure Dahout
Country of Origin: Germany / Syria
Runtime: 9 minutes 35 seconds
Production year : 2021
Antoine Antabi was born in Damascus in 1983 and graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Damascus. He finished his studies in 2006 with a degree in stop-motion animation. His first stop-motion film SILENT THOUGHTS premiered at the Damascus International Film Festival and won the bronze award for short film competition. After leaving Syria, he has lived in Dubai and Lebanon. Since 2019 he lives in Leipzig, Germany, and works as a graphic designer and photographer, while developing stop-motion projects at the same time.
Biography
Sander Joon
Synopsis
Father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, a boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director’s childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
Writer: Sander Joon
Director: Sander Joon
Producer: Erik Heinsalu and Aurelia Aasa
Country of Origin: Estonia
Runtime: 15 minutes
Production Year : 2022
Sander Joon uses animation to create surreal worlds with a dash of humour. His films have previously travelled to festivals such as Annecy, DOK Leipzig, Ottawa, Go Short, Stuttgart, Fredrikstad, Kaboom, Supertoon, Animateka and GLAS. He has attended the Open Workshop artist residency in Viborg twice and is now teaching animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where he has received a master’s degree in animation. Besides films he has animated a music video for Tommy Cash, participated in a popular commercial for Rick and Morty and has been a VJ to numerous events. Sander also worked as a 2D artist for the multi-awarded film The Old Man Movie (2019). His previous short Sounds Good (2018) won awards from Stuttgart, Fredrikstad, SUPERTOON and PÖFF Shorts.
Biography
Eleni Xoupa
Synopsis
Lien Mourlen a peaceful and kind lady, receives a letter and heads to the shore to see the ship coming. Unfortunately, a sudden storm does not allow ships to arrive and Lien, disappointed, leave the letter to slip from her hand.
Writer: Eleni Xoupa
Director: Eleni Xoupa
Producer : Christos Ntantos
Country of Origin: Greece
Runtime: 7
Production Year : 2021
Born in 1981 and raise in Thessaloniki a city in Greece. She studied for two years Graphic Design and then 3d animation and multimedia productions where she got her Bachelor degree from Middlesex University in 2007. Since then she is a tutor in a college of arts in Thessaloniki teaching in undergraduate
Biography
courses in animation. Her teaching experience include illustration, graphic design, 3d architectural visualization e.t.c. Also she was teaching for three years in a primary school stop motion were with her students participate in a national contest and got the first prize with the animation short ‘animated circles’. More than a decade she works as a freelancer creating motion graphics and short animations. From 2019 studies in Edinburgh University in the Master course in Digital Media Design.
Ayie Ibrahim
Synopsis
The Pillar of Strength is a narrative storytelling about the people in the Borneo archipelago who adhere to the belief of their ancestors that the God of War, ‘Sengalang Burong,’ who comes from heaven as a respected and dignified god, who has a spiritual energy that is considered to be an intermediary between human life, animals and nature.
Biography
yie Ibrahim is currently holding a number of positions including as Producer, Animation Director and animator at his own Creatvtoon Studio and as a senior lecturer for drawing & animation at University Technology Mara, Malaysia since 2009. He also work as Toon Boom instructor & Online Trainer under Toon Boom Inc. Canada.