2007
Fiction
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | DARK NIGHT
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Leon (Leonid) Prudovsky Director: Leon (Leonid) Prudovsky Producer: Rafael Katz Animator: n/a DOP: Sergey (Israel) Freedman Sound: Michael Goorevich Editor: Evgeny Ruman Production Designer: Ronen Avitan Synopsis: Two Israeli soldiers escape from Palestinian fighters. They take an Arabic couple hostage and hide in their house. The fighters are still searching for them and the hostage situation seems like a dead-end until suddenly the capturers and the captives find something in common. Will it bring to a solution? |
The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television (TAU) | Israel | 51 |
| 2-3 | ABEL'S BLACK DOG
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Details:TrailerLength: 30' Screenwriter: Mariana Čengel – Solčanská Director: Mariana Čengel – Solčanská Producer: Kristína Pružincová - Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava (Film and Television Faculty) Animator: n/a DOP: Peter Bencsík Sound: Matej Hlaváč Editor: Ondrej Azor Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Young Abel is a shy introvert living at the edge of a village. In order to protect his private life, he persuades the entire settlement he bought a large black dog. To make the illusion perfect, Abel regularly buys dog-food and nights howls instead of the animal. Unfortunately, one day Abel’s non-existent dog kills the neighbour’s geese. Soon, it will no longer be possible to tell the difference between reality and illusion, and Abel will have to pay for his myth… |
Academy of Performing Arts / Film and Television Faculty (VSMU) | Slovakia | 37 |
| 2-3 | FAIR TRADE
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Michael Dreher Director: Michael Dreher Producer: Thomas Klimer, Boris Jendreyko Animator: n/a DOP: Ian Blumers Sound: Udo Steinhauser Editor: Wolfgang Weigl Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The shortest distance and at the same time the most obvious gap between the so-called Third World Countries and Europe is the Straits of Gibraltar. “Fair trade” is one of the many stories that happen there every day. |
University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) | Germany | 37 |
| 4 | ISOLA
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Ravn Lanesskog Director: Andreas Jynge Producer: Anders Jynge Animator: n/a DOP: Ari Willey Sound: Gunn Tove Grønsberg Editor: Marianne Konstance Klemp Production Designer: Set design - Jack van Domburg Synopsis: Isola is a film about grief and soul-searching. About loneliness and partnership. About the hidden remainder. A process where the surviving party after a sudden, fatal accident scrutinizes their past life together in search of answers. |
The Norwegian Film School (NFS) | Norway | 35 |
| 5 | GAINING GROUND
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Fabian Wiemker Director: Marc Brummund Producer: Yildiz Özcan Animator: n/a DOP: Bettina Herzner Sound: Dominik Jim Oppon Editor: Ulf Albert, Magdolna Rokob Production Designer: Mari van Ep Synopsis: Andrej and his family have been living in Germany illegally for years. When Andrej’s son is old enough for school, he can’t hide any longer. Mischa’s future isa at stake. |
Hamburg Media School (HMS) | Germany | 29 |
| 6-7 | HOMEVIDEO
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Mikko Kuparinen Director: Mikko Kuparinen Producer: Mikko Kuparinen Animator: n/a DOP: Anssi Leino Sound: Mika Niinimaa Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The father has decided to leave his family the next morning. Before he leaves, he wants to tell his son something important. But the last evening home doesn’t quite go according to plans. |
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / ELO Film School Helsinki | Finland | 25 |
| 6-7 | THE REFUGE CITY
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Wojciech Kasperski Director: Wojciech Kasperski Producer: Remigiusz Zawadzki, Dawid Janicki Animator: n/a DOP: Michal Tywoniuk Sound: Leszek Freund Editor: Tymek Wiskirski Production Designer: Kamila Pściuk Synopsis: Lodz. The city of factories and hooligans. Tomek – a devoted fan of his football team – gives the world his ultimatum: either his team stays in the first league or he will mete out the justice himself: he will kill someone. The film is a sensational story about the true fans and ordinary hooligans. It is a story about friendship and violence. |
Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz (PWSFTViT) | Poland | 25 |
| 8-9 | SILENT NIGHT
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Details:TrailerLength: 28' Screenwriter: Josefin Johansson Director: Amanda Adolfsson Producer: Sandra Harms Animator: n/a DOP: Ragna Jorming Sound: Josef Tuulse Editor: Britta Norell Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Maja works as a tour guide in Egypt. Life is sweet but one day she suddenly witnesses a terror attack. In a state of shock, she goes back to her parents in Sweden. She wants to tell them about what has happened, but she can't. The meeting with her parents' Arabic lodger Jamal forces her to deal with her feelings. |
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) | Sweden | 23 |
| 8-9 | THIRTY YEARS
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Nicolás Lasnibat Director: Nicolás Lasnibat Producer: La Fémis Animator: n/a DOP: Louise Botkay-Courcier Sound: Gautier Isern Editor: Emmanuelle Joly Production Designer: Sebastien Haguenauer Synopsis: Thirty years after Pinochet’s takeover in Chile. Jorge comes back to his birthplace, Valparaiso, after a long exile in France. He comes to search an important part of his past and to find the traces of a country who prefers forget his old distress. |
La Fémis | France | 23 |
| 10 | THE SUBSTITUTE
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Talya Lavie, Oded Binun Director: Talya Lavie Producer: Gil Asheri Animator: n/a DOP: Jonathan Ofek Sound: n/a Editor: Effi Cohen Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Zohara is an Israeli soldier on an isolated military base who is about to get a much-anticipated transfer. Her hopes are shattered when her substituted appears to be suicidal. |
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School Jerusalem (JSFS) | Israel | 22 |
| 11-13 | AS INNOCENT AS I WAS
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Xiao Xiao Director: Xiao Xiao Producer: Youth Film Studio Animator: n/a DOP: Feng Feng Sound: Liu Jia Editor: Xiao Xiao Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Xiao Ton lives with his grandpa and grandma because his parents are working in a different city. Grandpa has slight senile dementia. Due to the illness, his grandpa sometimes eats his favourite. Xiao Tong understands this and forgives his grandpa until one day… |
Beijing Film Academy (BFA) | China | 21 |
| 11-13 | ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEA
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Patricia Eleane Ortega Director: Patricia Eleane Ortega Producer: Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television Animator: n/a DOP: Marina Dias Sound: Isabel Torres Editor: Meztli Suarez Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Ana and Jenny, girls who sell sweet stuffs in the Maracaibo flea market, endure the day together with the peddlers. Jenny who has had the need of trading sex for a couple of coins, trains Ana to face her first experience. |
International School of Film and TV (EICTV) | Cuba | 21 |
| 11-13 | THE 5:22
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Bernadette Demisay, from a short story by George Harrar Director: Bernadette Demisay Producer: Samantha Sanders, Claire Connelly Animator: n/a DOP: Pete Biagi Sound: Lou Mallozzi Editor: John Farbrother Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Mechanical Engineer Walter Mason retreats to this apartment each evening to work on his book of Impossible Objects. But a gust of wind reveals something surprising about the woman in the scarf he passes each day on the train from work. Searching for her, his familiar world becomes quite strange. |
Columbia College Chicago | United States | 21 |
| 14 | LOOK SHARP
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Amy Gebhardt Director: Amy Gebhardt Producer: Ben Commens Animator: n/a DOP: Andrew McLeod Sound: Tim Chaproniere Editor: Granaz Moussavi Production Designer: Natalie Beak Synopsis: After spending a drunken night together, Jo, a photographer, is compelled to capture the emotional truth beneath the rough exteriors of sharpie gang members, Darren and Jason. But to what lengths will she go in the name of art? Inspired by the art of Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus and Carol Jerrems, Look Sharp is a gripping one-scene psychological drama set in 1970s Melbourne. |
Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) | Australia | 20 |
| 15-16 | CHECK
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Details:TrailerLength: 3' Screenwriter: Vincent Kearney Director: Daniel Keane Producer: Robin Lochmann Animator: n/a DOP: Eoin McLoughlin Sound: Michael Edge Editor: JJ Rolfe Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A traveller goes through airport security… |
National Film School / Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) | Ireland | 18 |
| 15-16 | O
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Pieter-Jan Depue Director: Pieter-Jan Depue Producer: Liesje Patteet Animator: n/a DOP: Jonathan Wannyn Sound: Charo Calvo, Bram Celis Editor: Pieter Jonekheere Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The search for the last remaining drop of water symbolizes the return to purity, to pure emotions and amazement in a superficial era where life is dominated by fast-changing technology, where man has lost touch with nature. This both breathtaking and fragile visual poem was inspired by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer: “It’s not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line created by man. What attracts me is the free, sensual curve. Of curves is made all the Universe.” |
Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) | Belgium | 18 |
| 17-18 | ALMOST SIX FEET TOO DEEP
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Matevž Luzar Director: Matevž Luzar Producer: Jožica Blatnik Animator: n/a DOP: Simon Tanšek Sound: Juiij Zornik Editor: Matjaz Jankovic Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Janez and Marinka are counting days to her father’s death. They follow the priests’ advice to call Štefan, his son, to come and see him. Štefan has been involved in a far fetched argument with father and it is about time for them to make up. But Janez and Marinka know that they can not persuade Štefan to come home. The harvest is due and they do not know when it is father’s time to go, so they call Štefan and tell him that he is already dead – the doctor said he only has three more days. One day goes by, so does the next and Štefan arrives. But father is still breathing… |
University of Ljubljana / Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) | Slovenia | 17 |
| 17-18 | THE POSTMAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 9' Screenwriter: Adam Bostock Director: Adam Bostock Producer: Donna Molan Animator: n/a DOP: Josh Flavell Sound: Sarah Grimmer Editor: Adam Bostock Production Designer: Nadia Dusselberg Synopsis: An elderly postman lives alone and lonely following the death of his wife. An act of kindness towards a young boy opens up his life again through the game of chess. But when the boy moves away, the post takes on a new significance for the postman. |
VCA Film and Television | Australia | 17 |
| 19-20 | TANJU MIAH
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: n/a Director: Sadik Ahmed Producer: Sadik Ahmed Animator: n/a DOP: Sadik Ahmed Sound: Kieron Teather Editor: Michael Ho Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Somewhere in the wilderness of Bengal, a little boy awaits for the return of his mother. |
National FIlm and Television School (NFTS) | United Kingdom | 15 |
| 19-20 | THE SECRET IN THE WIND
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Yen-Ni, Wang Director: Yen-Ni, Wang Producer: Show-Yi, Lee Animator: n/a DOP: Hsin-Hua, Feng, Cheng-Ying, Lin Sound: Chen Guanyu, Huo Jeonggyo Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Chia’s favourite game is hide-and-seek. She used to play this game with Dad, and the winner got to make a wish. Everyday after school, Chia expects Dad to come home and bring her another goldfish as her Christmas gift…However, Dad is not coming back anymore… |
National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) | Taiwan | 15 |
| 21-22 | L.H.O.
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Details:TrailerLength: 3' Screenwriter: Kristof Kannegieβer, Sebastian Hocke Director: Jan Zabeil, Kristof Kannegieβer Producer: Knuth Sorgers Animator: n/a DOP: Jan Zabeil Sound: Uwe Bossenz Editor: Florian Miosge Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Texas, November 1963: an employee in a school-book directory. A rifle. An accident makes history… |
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Germany | 14 |
| 21-22 | PADAM...
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Jose Manuel Carrasco Director: Jose Manuel Carrasco Producer: Jaime Maellas Animator: n/a DOP: Victoria Rodriguez Sound: Oscar White, Jose Gonzalez Perea Editor: Patricia Lopez Pomares Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Pilar doesn’t want to be alone, so she decides to go to a dating agency and she gets a blind date. What she doesn’t know is that her date has different plans and they have nothing to do with hers. |
ECAM (The Madrid Film School) | Spain | 14 |
| 23 | ELALINI
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Tristan Holmes Director: Tristan Holmes Producer: Daniel Rumbak Animator: n/a DOP: Trevor Calverly Sound: Donovan Britz Editor: Tristan Holmes Production Designer: Karl du Preez Synopsis: Nomakaya, a disillusioned policewoman, haunted by the memory of a boy’s death, must decide between the city and her rural home when the protection of her own child is placed under threat. Her traditionalist father, now too weak to look after him, journeys the long distance to Johannesburg to convince her to return. It is through a broken and lost street child, Moses, that she is able to find the strength in herself to forgive, and resume her responsibilities as a mother. |
South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (AFDA) | South Africa | 13 |
| 24 | LITTLE WHITE FLOWERS
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Chris Messina Director: Chris Messina Producer: Michael Gunn Animator: n/a DOP: Rohan Chitrakar Sound: Andrea Schuster Editor: Chris Messina Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Haunted by the death of a young woman, a man flees the city for the country, only to soon discover his new surroundings may not provide the escape he is looking for. |
Boston University / Department of Film and Television | United States | 11 |
| 25-26 | FIG'S TREE STORY
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Julia Zakia Director: Julia Zakia Producer: Guilherme César Animator: n/a DOP: Heloisa Ururahy Sound: Guile Martins Editor: Alexandre Gomez Taina Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: “Fig’s tree story” is an old Brazilian tale about a little girl who begs for her widowed father to marry the neighbour. He marries and their life begin to change. |
University of São Paulo / School of Communications and Arts / Department of Film, Radio and Television (USP) | Brazil | 10 |
| 25-26 | ROMKA-97
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Anastasia Lobkovski Director: Anastasia Lobkovski Producer: Jenni Ranta, Ilkka Rautio, Anastasia Lobkovski Animator: n/a DOP: Jaakko Slotte Sound: Rauli Roininen Editor: Antti Hirsiano Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Romka-97 is a short film about a 9-year old Romka and his best friend Dinka. The story is placed in Saint Petersburg, Russia and is based on childhood memories of Anastasia Lobkovski. Romka-97 is a story about a survival, friendship and first love. |
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TUNI), Degree Programme in Media | Finland | 10 |
| 27-29 | AN OPEN DOOR
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Details:TrailerLength: 29' Screenwriter: Crystal Us Director: Crystal Us Producer: Crystal Us Animator: n/a DOP: Joshua Hess Sound: Jim Ridgley, Anton Haugabook Editor: Crystal Us Production Designer: Jean Lee Synopsis: Sabina and Joey are both lower middle class kids, abandoned by their parents, working as caterers at a run down country club. Sabina sells drugs in hopes of earning money for college. Joey hopes to get a raise, and thereby, Sabina’s love. When his efforts repeatedly end in failure, Joey comes to rely more and more on the cocaine that Sabina sells to bolster his flagging self-esteem – which ultimately costs Sabina the one true, secure thing in her life. |
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 9 |
| 27-29 | CHIMERAE
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: José Luis Valle Director: José Luis Valle Producer: Armando Casas Animator: n/a DOP: César Gutierrez Miranda Sound: Rodrigo Lira Editor: José Luis Valle Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A man to be executed asks for a miracle: he wants time to stop. The miracle occurs. Then he writes a story where he tries to elude death, but death catches up with him in real life and in fiction. |
National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM) | Mexico | 9 |
| 27-29 | MAMITAS
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Nicholas Ozeki Director: Nicholas Ozeki Producer: Adam Renehan Animator: n/a DOP: Andrew M. Davis (III) Sound: Marissa Mueller Editor: Melissa Brown Production Designer: Jenna Obelsky Synopsis: Jordan Juarez, a self-appointed Casanova, mentors his friend Christian in the arts of picking up hot “Mami chulas”. |
Chapman University / Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States | 9 |
| 30 | WINTERLONG
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Timo Kalevi Puukko Director: Timo Kalevi Puukko Producer: National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts – NATFA Animator: n/a DOP: Alexander Stanishev Sound: Delian Georgiev Editor: Timo Kalevi Puukko Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A family lives in a lonely house in an endless field, far from the civilisation. Strange illness affects and strikes down the family members one by one. There is no electricity, the phone doesn't work, the radio is silent. To the very fatal end, no one understands the reasons for all that has befelt them... |
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) | Bulgaria | 8 |
| 31 | [INSIDE]
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: David Delgado-Llavina, Arantxa Cuesta, Virginia Vaccaro Director: David Delgado-Llavina Producer: Josep Maria Rovira Animator: n/a DOP: Domènec Cosp Sound: Francesc Canals Editor: Liana Artigal Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A policeman opens a door. A woman gets inside the room. They lock her in. Time goes by. More steps. The door is opened again. The police drive Jon. Now he is locked. Like her. They both are (inside). And a big secret is with them. |
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) | Spain | 7 |
| 32-33 | BEANS
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Ivan Bukvic, Zoran Bukvic, Zoran Vasiljevic, Kosta Pesevski Director: Ivan Bukvic Producer: Faculty of Dramatic Arts – (FDU) Animator: n/a DOP: Ivan Spasojevic, Ana Jelic Sound: Milan Kovarbasic Editor: Milena Vasic Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A sniper in a war aims at the enemy’s solider and prepares to pull a trigger. At that very moment the solider starts eating beans with such gusto that the sniper feels sorry to stop him, i.e. to shoot him. The next day the sniper is being taken prisoner and gets to the same soldier’s hands. |
Faculty of Dramatic Arts | Serbia | 6 |
| 32-33 | GE & ZETA
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Details:TrailerLength: 16' Screenwriter: Gustavo Riet Director: Gustavo Riet Producer: Universidad del Cine Animator: Diego Mera DOP: Agustin Oroz Sound: Mercedes Tennina Editor: Paco Muniz, Gustavo Riet Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In a dark and tenebrous place. A prisoner and his guard share the oppression of a perverse system that tortures them. Kept in the same isolation, and risking their lives while doing so, they build a relationship through a story as the only way to escape the cruel reality. |
Universidad del Cine (UCINE) | Argentina | 6 |
| 34-37 | IN THE HEART OF ROME
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Details:TrailerLength: 27' Screenwriter: Francesco Costabile, Devor De Pascalis Director: Francesco Costabile Producer: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Animator: n/a DOP: Valentina Summa Sound: Valentino Gianni Editor: Stefano Mariotti Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The reminiscence of a night spent walking the streets of the eternal city, following the steps of two young men: Vlad a street kid from eastern Europe and Cosimo the new boy in town. Both of them wander the city from side to side seeking redemption, deliverance, or maybe just a hideout. |
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) | Italy | 5 |
| 34-37 | SARAFAN
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Alexandra Strelyanaya Director: Alexandra Strelyanaya Producer: Vyacheslav Telnov Animator: n/a DOP: Alexandr Demyanenko Sound: Alexander Laneev Editor: Ivan Openshev Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: An evening before wedding. |
St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television (SPUFT) | Russia | 5 |
| 34-37 | THE ORPHANS
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Details:TrailerLength: 23' Screenwriter: Cy Kuckenbaker Director: Cy Kuckenbaker Producer: Cy Kuckenbaker Animator: n/a DOP: Cy Kuckenbaker, David Fenster Sound: Craig Smith Editor: Cy Kuckenbaker Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Romas and Ervinas receive a letter from Berlin; Mindaugas, their common friend has passed away. As they journey into Berlin, they reveal a secret from the past. |
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) | United States | 5 |
| 34-37 | TOGETHER
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Dénes Nagy Director: Dénes Nagy Producer: SzFE in cooproduction with Filmpartners Animator: n/a DOP: Tamás Dobos Sound: Robert Juhasz Editor: Dénes Nagy Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Alex, 17-year-old Russian boy is smuggled in a truck to Italy in hope of a better life. During their voyage they stop for a night halfway, in Budapest, Hungary. They are to spend the night in a suburban abandoned factory but Alex suddenly escapes. He wants to find his elder brother who has left home many years ago and supposed to be living in Budapest. The film is about the meeting of the two brothers after many years of being far away. |
University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest (SzFE) | Hungary | 5 |
| 38-40 | FIVE VARIATIONS
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Details:TrailerLength: 31' Screenwriter: Ilo Glonti Director: Ilo Glonti Producer: Gela Kandelaki Animator: n/a DOP: Ilo Glonti Sound: Madona Tevzadze Editor: Paata Shengelia, Elene Murjikneli, Angela Abshilava, Zurab Kvachakhia, Jumber Takalandze, Inga Kukuladze, Irakli Uridia, Orest Todua, Vadim Shubitidze, Shota Turkia Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The short film describes an episode of a family life. It narrates about relations and thoughts of five people who wish to escape from the monotony of everyday life, thoughts they can’t imagine living without each other. Personal attitude of family members towards the certain problem is observed by means of “Subjective Camera”. |
Theatre and Film Georgia State University (TAFU) | Georgia | 4 |
| 38-40 | RUST
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Ane Helga Lykka Director: Ane Helga Lykka Producer: Nicole Humbert Animator: n/a DOP: Trine Juul Dalsgaard Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: This is the story of a very special day in the long marriage of Ella and Henry Larsen. A film about the difficulties of growing old, and having to give up on some part of your earlier life. |
European Film College (EFC) | Denmark | 4 |
| 38-40 | THE INHABITANTS
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Raphael Balboni Director: Raphael Balboni Producer: Mediadiffusion Animator: n/a DOP: Jean-Francois Roudet Sound: Renaud Guillaumin Editor: Audrey Coeckelberghs Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Nicholas, administration employee, runs into a campsight settled on the end of an interrupted roadworks site. He must file in the “villagers” and tries to make them fill in a form. |
Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) | Belgium | 4 |
| 41-44 | PROPAGANDA TRIPLETS!
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Laura Litvinoff, Fernando Salem Director: Fernando Salem Producer: ENERC Animator: n/a DOP: Gergina Pretto Sound: Juan I. Bernardis Editor: Mercedes Oliveira Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Violeta, Rosa and Celeste, orphan triplets that have shared the same liquid environment from de maternal womb, are unbeatable champions in synchronized swimming. They have been sponsored by a small town Colonel that transformed them into the symbol of his political propaganda. Everything is arranged to participate in the Olympic Games, but Rosa falls in love. |
National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) | Argentina | 3 |
| 41-44 | THE TWINKLE IN MY EYES
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Details:TrailerLength: 11' Screenwriter: Allan Ribeiro Director: Allan Ribeiro Producer: UFF – Universidade Federal Fluminense Animator: n/a DOP: Pedro Faerstein Sound: Rodrigo Maia Editor: Allan Ribeiro Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In search of an amazing moment that make sense to keep on living. |
Universidade Federal Fluminense | Brazil | 3 |
| 41-44 | THE UNIVERSAL HANGING TOGETHER OF ALL THINGS
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Details:TrailerLength: 7' Screenwriter: Peter Huang Director: Peter Huang Producer: Erica Paiero, Karla Wanner Animator: n/a DOP: Radek Zurawiecki Sound: Tyler Whitham, Dashen Naidoo Editor: Krzysztof Pospieszynski Production Designer: Krzysztof Pospieszynski Synopsis: What goes around comes around in this light-hearted look at serendipity. |
Sheridan College | Canada | 3 |
| 41-44 | WASTED
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Hui Hok-man, Frank Director: Hui Hok-man, Frank Producer: Tang On-ki, Angel, Niki Choi Animator: n/a DOP: Wan Lok-san, Happy Sound: Chan Ying-wai, Soak Editor: Lee Kwok-wai, William Production Designer: Yuen Chow, Nicole Synopsis: Ma and Sze are buddies from the same school. Rebuked by Jaa, a tough guy from another class, Sze urges Ma to revenge for him. Meanwhile, Jaa and his gang continue to bully Ming, a weakling in the group, by stripping him naked in front of the class. Ma and Sze challenge Jaa and company to have a flight after school, but are so absorbed in playing mischievous tricks to the Headmaster’s office that they miss the appointment. At night, Jaa walks pass a foot-bridge and finds one of the teachers he dislikes most waiting for the bus under the bridge. Jaa picks up a stone and is ready to aim it at the teacher when suddenly someone appears behind film… |
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts / School of Film and Television (HKAPA) | Hong Kong | 3 |
| 45-46 | FILM FOR THE BOXED
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Bryn Chainey Director: Bryn Chainey Producer: Kathleen Barker Animator: n/a DOP: Benjamin Kilin Sound: Justin Kardi Editor: Daniel Minford Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Tobias, who was born with a television set for a head, inadvertently discovers the technological phenomenon of colour and embarks on a journey to revolutionise the future of television. |
Griffith Film School (GFS) | Australia | 2 |
| 45-46 | TANTO TIEMPO
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Julian Goyoaga Director: Julian Goyoaga Producer: Escuela de Cine - Julian Goyoaga Animator: n/a DOP: German Tejeira Sound: Julián Goyoaga, Germán Tejeira, Fernando Tornaría Editor: Rodrigo Cisneros Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: n/a |
Film School of Uruguay (ECU) | Uruguay | 2 |
| 47-53 | CONVERSATIONS
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Jonathan Ng Director: Tia Quah Producer: Justicia Phuang Animator: n/a DOP: Jude Chan Sound: Kwek Jun Xian Editor: Derrick Chew Production Designer: Kevin Ho Synopsis: Kang, an elderly man who stays alone in a worn out one room flat, writes to his son everyday but never gets a reply. Recovering from a stroke, he is assigned a young nurse named Xin to take care of him. One morning when Kang receives his son’s letter from Xin, his life takes a turn… |
Ngee Ann Polytechnic / School of Film & Media Studies | Singapore | 1 |
| 47-53 | CRICKET HEAD
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Tommy Nowell, Justin Nowell Director: Grant Greenberg Producer: Justin Nowell Animator: n/a DOP: Daniel Vecchione Sound: Larry Wineland Editor: Grant Greenberg Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A teacher, recently released from prison, tries to rekindle a romance with an ex-student. |
New York University (NYU) | United States | 1 |
| 47-53 | DEAR CARLOS ALBERTO
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Details:TrailerLength: 13' Screenwriter: Flávia Lombardi Director: Aurora Ribeiro Producer: Gil Gelpi Animator: n/a DOP: Flávia Lombardi Sound: Diana Meireles Editor: Frederico Costa, Alina Lopes, Hugo Sousa Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: She’s in the 7th grade, he’s in the 9th. Because of a dream she realizes that she cannot waist any more time, she has to declare her love for him. She leaves the class room and goes meet him in the courtyard. But going from fantasy to reality isn’t easy, so the task is postponed. What to do? |
Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) | Portugal | 1 |
| 47-53 | LATITUDE 2023
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Details:TrailerLength: 36' Screenwriter: Florence Guillermin Director: Florence Guillermin Producer: Michel Buhler Animator: n/a DOP: Denis Rollet, Florence Guillermin Sound: Nikolaï Mihaïlov Editor: Florence Guillermin Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Geneva, spring 2012. The city is paralysed. The objects, the buildings and the inhabitants disappear one after another. Robbery? Kidnapping? No explanation is really satisfying. Among the confused population, “they” are hunting for the responsible persons… |
Film Department/cinéma du réel - Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) | Switzerland | 1 |
| 47-53 | TELL ME WHAT YOU FEEL
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Details:TrailerLength: 24' Screenwriter: Iria Gómez Concheiro Director: Iria Gómez Concheiro Producer: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica Animator: n/a DOP: Iria Gómez Concheiro Sound: Gustavo Patino Editor: Iria Gómez Concheiro Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In the streets of Mexico’s city downtown, Micaela has been surprised by unlove. When she finds a new job, got also a new meting with love. |
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C. (CCC) | Mexico | 1 |
| 47-53 | TEMPORAL
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Details:TrailerLength: 22' Screenwriter: Maria Paz Fabrega Director: Maria Paz Fabrega Producer: Maria Paz Fabrega Animator: n/a DOP: Max Myers Sound: Julio Molina Editor: Andreas Ksoll Production Designer: Daniela Munoz Synopsis: Laura and Tanya are left behind when their classmates go off to college. There's not much going on in their small rural village, but they have plenty to think about; Tanya is about to have a baby and Laura doesn't know what to do with her life. They become friends because there's nobody else around, and spend together the last summer before growing up. |
London Film School (LFS) | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 47-53 | UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL!
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Details:TrailerLength: 17' Screenwriter: Hanne Phlypo Director: Hanne Phlypo Producer: INSAS-Atelier de Réalisation Animator: n/a DOP: Sophie Lahaye Sound: Laurent Geuning Editor: Bruno Tracq Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In a Walloon village, a night game organized by Flemish scouts goes wrong up to frightening points without the characters getting to know how it all happened. The children, immersed in this world, go through this conflict without understanding the ins and outs of it all. |
INSAS | Belgium | 1 |
| 54-66 | FOOTTIT THE CLOWN
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Details:TrailerLength: 10' Screenwriter: Victor Fajnzylber Director: Victor Fajnzylber Producer: Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français Animator: n/a DOP: Aly Yeguneh Sound: Pierre Bastien Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Conceived in a silent film style, this story is a tribute to Georges Foottit (1864 - 1921), the most popular clown at the beginning of the XXth century. The memory of his public brings him back to life, but the Death, his partner in eternity, wants to put him again where he belongs. |
CLCF | France | 0 |
| 54-66 | GAMES OF THE NIGHT
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Details:TrailerLength: 26' Screenwriter: Isaac A. Okoh Director: Isaac A. Okoh Producer: NAFTI Animator: n/a DOP: Joseph Otabil Sound: Joseph Loggosu Editor: Mercy Sefakor Dzahene Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Duku’s parents are enticed by a fake ngo into giving her away for a better life in the city. Duku finds herself in a brothel. She struggles to free herself and to find her way back to her village. |
National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) | Ghana | 0 |
| 54-66 | GUARDIAN OF THE NIGHT
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Details:TrailerLength: 21' Screenwriter: Tyrone Casteel Director: Tom Cole Producer: Gille Klabin, Ian Bucknole Animator: n/a DOP: Kenneth Roeising Sound: Kyle Holford Editor: James Chapman Production Designer: Achim Ebeid Synopsis: For Andrew, a security guard in small town USA, the nights are spent reading Plato and sharing doughnuts with his best friend, a blow up doll. That is, until Velma comes along… |
Westminster Film BA / University of Westminster (WFS) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 54-66 | ILL FIGURE
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Raphaël Lambert; Romain Winkler Director: Raphaël Lambert; Romain Winkler Producer: ESAV Animator: n/a DOP: Sacha Baset-Chercot Sound: Pierre-Olivier Boulant Editor: Raphaël Lambert; Romain Winkler Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Autobiography of a dead plastic model who though he was a real man. He narrates his thirty years of tragic existence, insisting on his ordeals. |
ENSAV | France | 0 |
| 54-66 | INHERITANCE
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Details:TrailerLength: 25' Screenwriter: Hanna Aartolahti, Aarno snellman-Junna Director: Hanna Aartolahti Producer: Erkki Perkiömäki Animator: n/a DOP: Kaisa Heikkinen Sound: Reija Jouhtimaki Editor: Suvi Valkonen Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Inheritance tells about an event that unites three generations. Grandfather Antti can’t manage by himself any longer, and his relatives find it overwhelmingly difficult to take care of him. |
Lahti University of Applied Sciences | Finland | 0 |
| 54-66 | MY LITTLE BOY
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Matthias vom Schemm, Christine Hütter Director: Matthias vom Schemm Producer: Nima Kianzad Animator: n/a DOP: Jan Klügel Sound: Peter Aufderhaar Editor: Iris Schneider Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: In 1934 according to German Law love between men is illegal. When photographer Erich falls in love with Wolfgang, a member of the storm (SA), they have to be very secretive about it. But the SA is coming closer. |
international film school cologne (ifs) | Germany | 0 |
| 54-66 | NOT PERSIMMON NOR TOMATO
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Details:TrailerLength: 14' Screenwriter: Sara Haidar Director: Sara Haidar Producer: IESAV – Mr. Paul Mattar Animator: n/a DOP: Sara Haidar Sound: Hayssam Atmeb Editor: Sara Haidar Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: The 9 years old twin sisters are dreaming about the same young lady who just look like them wearing dotted dress and striped socks. Meanwhile, the young lady is looking at a past that she regrets where she sees a very conniving twin sister. It’s confusion between dreams, a dream inside another one, a circle that never stops, until… |
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV) | Lebanon | 0 |
| 54-66 | ODE TO JOY
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Details:TrailerLength: 4' Screenwriter: Costas Chrysanthou Director: Costas Chrysanthou Producer: Isabelle Stead Animator: n/a DOP: Adam Conlon Sound: Maria Valente, Emilie O'Conner Editor: n/a Production Designer: Rosy Anamaria Lbrani Synopsis: Music provides a message of hope in a moment of human despair. |
Northern Film School / Leeds Beckett University (NFS/LBU) | United Kingdom | 0 |
| 54-66 | THE CARESS OF THE CREATURE
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Details:TrailerLength: 19' Screenwriter: Stewart McAlpine Director: Stewart McAlpine Producer: Eric Leong Animator: n/a DOP: Chia Yi Lin Sound: S. Mcalpine, S.B. Shapiro Editor: Sarah Beth Shapiro Production Designer: Faith Kakulu Synopsis: A construction foreman swimming in Lake Habagappee is tickled by a sea creature in a tender, yet masculine manner, causing man to wonder, “Is the creature gay?”. After another worker is captured by the creature, the foreman sets off to kill the creature. |
Florida State University / College of Motion Picture Arts (FSU) | United States | 0 |
| 54-66 | THE SUNSET SKY
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Details:TrailerLength: 20' Screenwriter: Olivier Bernier Director: Olivier Bernier Producer: Kevin Junke Animator: n/a DOP: Mark Koenig Sound: Cory Allen, Andrew Wallace Editor: Olivier Bernier Production Designer: Illyse Singer Synopsis: Jennifer and her autistic brother Charlie are stranded after they crash their car on a barren country road. Tired of running from the law and frustrated by Charlie. Jennifer is faced with the decision of weather to continue caring for her brother or leave him behind. She leaves him. |
School of Visual Arts | United States | 0 |
| 54-66 | TIMBRE
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Details:TrailerLength: 12' Screenwriter: Joëlle Desjardin Paquette Director: Joëlle Desjardin Paquette Producer: Paul Tana Animator: n/a DOP: Mathieu Blanchette Sound: Thierry Bourgault d'Amico Editor: Joanne Codère Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Timbre is a tale. A touching love tale, tragic and absurd at the same time. It tells the crazy story of Vadim and Sophie. He, a young immigrant living in Montréal, is madly in love with her, a beautiful Franco-Manitoban. Almost two months have past since the last time Vadim and Sophie saw each other. In a frenetic love impulse, Vadim decides to meet his lover using the most uncommon way. |
University of Québec Montréal / School of Media (UQAM) | Canada | 0 |
| 54-66 | WEIRDO
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Details:TrailerLength: 18' Screenwriter: Katsunari Aoki Director: Katsunari Aoki Producer: Katsunari Aoki Animator: n/a DOP: Hiroki Aoki Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: Henako is a girl who likes to walk looking down. She has a goldfish. One day, the goldfish had been a strange disease and had been swimming upside down. Henako see the world from a different angle when the fish have died. Henako have other goldfish, this fish name is choutengan, wich have eyes in the top of fish face. |
Nihon University | Japan | 0 |
| 54-66 | WHO GUARDS THE GUARDIANS
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Details:TrailerLength: 15' Screenwriter: Milan Miljković, Goran Stanković Director: Goran Stanković Producer: Miša Milošević Animator: n/a DOP: Dragan Vildović Sound: Jakov Munizaba Editor: Marija Jacimovic Production Designer: n/a Synopsis: A solider travelling inside an army truck headed towards the battlefield, inspired by the happenings surrounding him, begins to have flashbacks of his early childhood. His biography and circumstances that had brought him to his current situation are pictured through those flashbacks. The main idea of the feature is to try and open some social issues to the global situation concerning human war. |
BK Art Academy, Belgrade | Serbia | 0 |
Documentary
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | CYPRIEN, I AND THE OTHERS
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Details:Length: 34'Screenwriter: Jean-Baptiste Dumont Director: Jean-Baptiste Dumont Producer: Saint-Lukas Hogeschool Brussel Animator: n/a DOP: Jean-Baptiste Dumont Sound: n/a Editor: Jean-Baptiste Dumont Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Cyprien has asked Jean-Baptiste, the filmmaker, to be his best man at his marriage. The thing is, Cyprien is homophobic, and he doesn’t know his best friend/best man is gay… |
LUCA School of Arts (LUCA) | Belgium | 17 |
| 2-3 | CROSS YOUR EYES AND KEEP THEM WIDE
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Details:Length: 23'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Ben Wu Producer: Ben Wu Animator: n/a DOP: Ben Wu, Jasmin Gordon Sound: Revere La Noue, Nick Davila, Leigh Lacobucci Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film is a portrait of the artists with developmental disabilities that work at Creativity Explored, a non-profit art centre in San Francisco. Through their own words, the artists discuss their methods and work, as well as the difficulties they face outside, and the strength of the community they’ve formed among themselves and the staff within the studio walls. |
Stanford University | United States | 13 |
| 2-3 | THE WAY IT IS
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Elizabeth Rocha Salgado Director: Elizabeth Rocha Salgado Producer: Frieder Wallis Animator: n/a DOP: Coen Stroeve Sound: Gijs Stollman Editor: Faye de Wilde Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Documentary about a typical Dutch farmer and his environment. Inspired by Rembrandt’s paintings the filmmaker observes the farmer through the four seasons of a year. Innovative in form and touching by the way to tell a story, this film shows the day to day of the personage in his most intimate moments. |
Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) | Netherlands | 13 |
| 4 | WE ARE THE FAITHFUL
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Michael Koch Producer: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Academy of Media Arts) Animator: n/a DOP: Andrea Gsell, Michael Koch Sound: Nica Giuliani Editor: Michael Koch Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The Swiss football team FC Basel’s crowd animator gives his all for the team: he decides what music to play at matches and choreographs the fans to peak performance. It’s all about the energy and emotion he transmits to the fans. Or is it rather the game itself that the fans follow? |
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) | Germany | 12 |
| 5 | I'LL KILL YA!
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Details:Length: 30'Screenwriter: Nikola Straśek Director: Nikola Straśek Producer: Antoaneta Kuijsanović, Vanja Marin Animator: n/a DOP: Tomislav Mareković Sound: n/a Editor: Vanja Marin Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: Three friends are talking about killing a drug dealer over fifty ecstasies. Each of them has his own version of the tragic incident. |
Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb (ADU) | Croatia | 9 |
| 6 | DUST
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Details:Length: 29'Screenwriter: Caterina Carone Director: Caterina Carone Producer: Georg Zeller Animator: n/a DOP: Melanie Brugger Sound: Caterina Carone, Melanie Brugger Editor: Julia Wiegand Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A second-hand shop and its owner: between the observation of the shop’s daily reality and the dialogues between director and protagonist, the story of the particular dealer Beppe in his loved world of old things, is told. Questions on his childhood, love, on his passions, encourage Beppe to reveal – slightly – the peculiarities of his world. |
ZeLIG - School for Documentary, Television and New Media | Italy | 5 |
| 7 | GOING HOME
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Details:Length: 20'Director: Hung P. Nguyen Producer: Hung P. Nguyen Animator: n/a DOP: Hung P. Nguyen Sound: n/a Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: In Going home, the filmmaker chronicles his father’s departure for permanent monastic life in rural California, set against his mother’s haunting remembrance of the Nguyen family’s harrowing escape from war-torn Vietnam in 1982. What begins as an evening of reflection and storytelling is suddenly transformed into an intense family drama. |
Loyola Marymount University / School of Film and Television (LMU) | United States | 4 |
| 8 | SECRETS
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Details:Length: 15'Screenwriter: n/a Director: Nadia Tan Producer: Nadia Tan Animator: Sonya Tan, Alexandra Tan DOP: Maya Bankovic, Jared Raab, Chuck Taylor, Grant Wood, Lindsay Mackay, Dusty Mancinelli, Nadia Tan Sound: Tim Pytlik Editor: Nadia Tan Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: “Secrets” is a collection of anonymous audio recordings of real secrets illustrated through both concrete and abstract images. |
York University Department of Film - Fine Arts | Canada | 3 |
| 9 | SEAL
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Details:Length: 9'Screenwriter: Miia Tervo Director: Miia Tervo Producer: Outi Hyytinen Animator: n/a DOP: Hanneriina Moisseinen, Matti Aikio Sound: Yrjo Saarinen Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: A young woman explains why she travelled all the way to the other side of the world, with only a tiny plastic seal, a tooth brush and pair of knickers in her suitcase. |
Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) Arts Academy / Degree Programme in Film and Media | Finland | 0 |
Animation
| Place | Title | School | Country | Points |
| 1 | THE HANDWINGED
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Details:Length: 7'Screenwriter: Vadim Oborvalov Director: Vadim Oborvalov Producer: VGIK Animation: Vadim Oborvalov DOP: Sergey Ovcharenko Sound: Sergey Ovcharenko Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: The film is a philosophical parable. Sophisticated graphics on the music of F. Schubert makes us understand the polarity of the world existence. |
Russian State University of Сinematography n.a. S.Gerasimov VGIK | Russia | 12 |
| 2 | LUMEN
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Details:Length: 4'Screenwriter: Wilian Salvador Santos Director: Wilian Salvador Santos Producer: FTC/Escola de Belas artes da UFMG Animation: Wilian Salvador, Mateus Di Mambro DOP: Wilian Salvador Santos, Mateus di Mambro Sound: Jalver Bethônico Editor: n/a Production Designer : n/a Synopsis: An inventor in trouble has tried to solve some problems. Finally, he finds a solution, but the consequences of his choice weigh heavily on his destiny. |
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | Brazil | 10 |
| 3 | THE PERIL TREE
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Details:Length: 6'Screenwriter: Sara Schmidt Director: Sara Schmidt Producer: Howard Ng, Jeff Kaldma Animation: Kate Mior DOP: Eric Oh Sound: jepp Editor: n/a Production Designer : Naz Goshtashpour Synopsis: In this stunning stop-motion film, a young girl’s idyllic world is shattered forever when she falls prey to a dark, seductive force. Through a combination of surreal, dreamy visuals and a haunting soundscape, The Peril Tree is an allegorical tale of sexual abuse and the scaring of the spirit. |
Toronto Metropolitan University | Canada | 0 |
