Young Directors Competition 4
01 Children of the Bird
Director(s)
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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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
Director(s)
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
Director(s)
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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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
Director(s)
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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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
Director(s)
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
Director(s)
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
Director(s)
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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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
Director(s)
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
Director(s)
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
Director(s)
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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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.