World festival of first animations
October
16-19
2024
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Young Directors Competition 4

01 Children of the Bird

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Director(s)

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Júlia TUDISCO

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: Hungary

Production: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Length: 11' 30''

Category: Diploma film

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Synopsis

A fictional mythological movie about the birth and death of our planet. The movie shows things happening on the planet through the eyes of two naive god figures; a wild girl who has the power of creation, and a shy boy who has the power of destruction. This is a game between two equal parts to find harmony, which seems to work well until a new issue enters the story: the human race.

02 CLAWS

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Director(s)

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Nim LONGLEY

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: United Kingdom

Production: Kingston School of Art

Length: 01' 30''

Category: Diploma film

Synopsis

‘CLAWS’ is a short experimental and analog animation of a game of cat and bird.

03 Pear Garden

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Director(s)

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Shadab SHAYEGAN

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: Germany

Production: Film Academy Baden-Württemberg

Length: 07' 04''

Category: Student film

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Synopsis

Six years old Lily visits her grandmother after grandma had a mastectomy and doesn’t have breasts anymore. At night, Lily finds out that the shadow of grandma has the breasts, Lily follows her and tries to get the breasts back for her grandma.

04 Recordari

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Director(s)

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Carolina CRUZ

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: Chile

Production: Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg

Length: 10' 00''

Category: Diploma film

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Synopsis

Santiago, Chile, 1985. Camila and Paula, both 7 years old, are neighbors and best friends. Living amidst sweetness and bitterness, their lives, along with those of their families and their neighborhood, are shaped by the horrors of Pinochet's military dictatorship.

05 The Clay

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Director(s)

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Viktória ROMHÁNYI

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: Hungary

Production: Budapest Metropolitan University

Length: 03' 45''

Category: Graduation film

Synopsis

People around us can shape us, can mould us like clay, and they make us what we are.

06 Sweeter Is the Night

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Director(s)

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Fabienne WAGENAAR

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: France

Production: JPL Films

Length: 18' 25''

Category: First film

Synopsis

In the 60s, at a time of independence in West Africa, a young French officer is commissioned to find a missing missionary priest. An investigation amid mistrust and indifference, silence and prejudice, that takes the officer far from the light of the shores, where day and night merge.

07 There Are People in the Forest

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Director(s)

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Szymon RUCZYNSKI

Film info

Year of production: 2023

Country of production: Poland

Production: Polish National Film School in Lodz

Length: 09' 53''

Category: Student film

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Synopsis

A lonely man limps down the road. A truck drives up to him. Several armed men jump out of it. They capture the limping man and transport him to the forest. The only witnesses of the scene are people from a nearby village. Since 2021, situations like these are commonplace on the Polish-Belarussian border. An animated documentary whose creator happens to live in a town by the border.

08 49 385

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Director(s)

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Helena STANCZYK

Film info

Year of production: 2023

Country of production: Poland

Production: Polish National Film School in Lodz

Length: 08' 00''

Category: Student film

Synopsis

War is not only about great battles, more about everyday skirmishes of millions of people affected by it. With extraordinary distance and humor, Grandma Zosia talks about the difficulties of wartime and camp reality she experienced as a young girl. Animated documentary based on voice recordings of the director's family meeting.

09 Racist Journal

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Director(s)

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Elena OTTAVI

Film info

Year of production: 2024

Country of production: Switzerland

Production: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Length: 04' 31''

Category: Student film

Synopsis

Andrea’s voice guides us through a stream of consciousness, insinuating that we are all racists, Andrea first. While listening to the words, the audience is visually led through an ordinary day in life from turning off the alarm clock to lying down again at night. Does a racist lead a life like mine, yours, or anyone else’s?

10 The Deer

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Director(s)

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Baran SEDIGHIAN

Film info

Year of production: 2023

Country of production: Netherlands

Production: St. Joost School of Art & Design

Length: 04' 42''

Category: Student film

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Synopsis

There is a herd of deer living in the forest. The hunters attack them and one of them is injured. After a while, the wounded deer gets better and wants to go back to his old life, but he realizes that there is no going back, he has changed. The deer starts to migrate so that he can know his new self.