Programme 4

1. STINKY IN THE DARK FOREST 10:52
Croatia 2022
Directed by: Sunčana Brkulj
Screenplay: Sunčana Brkulj
Animation: Sunčana Brkulj
Technique: 2D digital puppet
Music: Natko Stipanicev, Samuel Mahoney
Production/School: Adacemy of Fine Arts Zagreb
Dialogue language: -
Subtitles language: -



Stinky is born from a flower into the Dark Forest. He explores it, growing in the process. When he takes on the responsibility of caring for another creature, he must come to terms with the fact that there is more to the forest than just fun and whimsy.




2. ANIMAL / Dier 05:54
Netherlands 2021
Directed by: Damiët Anijs
Screenplay: Damiët Anijs
Animation: Sanna De Vries, Dana Alink
Technique: 2d Animation
Music: Door Arc
Production/School: HKU University of the Arts



“Dier” shows the complex relationship between humans and animals in a character who shifts between the two. Elements like affection, fear, control, similarity, power and objectification come forward in this multidimensional affair.




3. WHITE JEANS 04:04
Greece 2021
Directed by: Nikos Kolliniatis, Orestis Barsakis
Screenplay: Nikos Kolliniatis, Orestis Barsakis
Animation: Orestis Barsakis
Technique: mixed media
Production/School: University of the Aegean - Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering



An old man gets to know his own demons, as he travells through strange places in his mind.




4. COMBUSTIBLE 06:31
France 2021
Directed by: Louis Grossot, Quentin Maillet, Betty Natale, Benoit Brissiaud, Pierre Picquot
Screenplay: Louis Grossot, Quentin Maillet, Betty Natale, Benoit Brissiaud, Pierre Picquot
Animation: Louis Grossot
Technique: 3D Animation
Production/School: ECV



Gustave works at an isolated gas station, located at the side of a mountain. Bothered by his few clients and smothered by boredom, he struggles to keep facing reality.




5. CYDONIA 06:34
France 2021
Directed by: Florian Audisier Weishaar, Margaux Ulbrich, Vincent Moulinard, Lucas Kovacic
Screenplay: Florian Audisier Weishaar, Margaux Ulbrich, Vincent Moulinard, Lucas Kovacic
Technique: 2d Animation
Music: Jules Bucher, allias Mathilde Xo, Quentin Rougier
Production/School: ECV



In the near future, humanity is at the end of its resources. The last solution to preserve it? Digitize all humans in a gigantic computer server: Cydonia. A man carrying out this project will meet someone who will change his world and his ideals.




6. LE COLLECTIONNEUR DE LIBERTÉ 03:49
France 2021
Directed by: Auriane Chapot
Screenplay: Auriane Chapot
Animation: Auriane Chapot
Technique: 2d Animation
Music: Loyd Duarte
Production/School: ECV



An explorer was boasting about having captured ... liberty!




7. FOR PIECE OF RAGS 05:25
France 2021
Directed by: Sophie Walter / Martin Hauw / Oriane Lardeur / Aude Mahieux
Screenplay: Sophie Walter / Martin Hauw
Animation: Sophie Walter / Martin Hauw / Oriane Lardeur / Aude Mahieux
Technique: 3d Animation
Music: Lucas Beaugas
Production/School: ECV



At a bus stop, 3 dolls are waiting patiently for someone or something to arrive. One of them is dressed as a bus driver, the others, as simple inhabitants of the village. The whole bus shelter is covered with vegetation, boxes are overturned and the road is in bad shape. There is even moss on one of the dolls. The calm is master in this small strangely bucolic scene. When an old hand comes to give a cap to the bus driver.




8. COKELICOPS 04:36
France 2021
Directed by: Orianne Leparmentier, Loïc Guillou, Lambert Dothée, Felix Sikora, Elie Boudalier
Screenplay: Orianne Leparmentier, Loïc Guillou, Lambert Dothée, Felix Sikora, Elie Boudalier
Animation: Loïc Guillou, Lambert Dothé
Technique: 3d Computer Animated
Music: James Lebreton
Production/School: ECV
Dialogue language: French



During a closed-door meeting, three narcos discover a listening device installed in reverse, which reveals the presence of an undercover.




9. 'TIS TIME 01:50
Cyprus 2021
Directed by: Kalia Foinikaridou
Screenplay: Kalia Foinikaridou
Animation: Kalia Foinikaridou
Technique: Stop Motion
Music: Purple Planet
Production/School: Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts / Cyprus University of Technology



The mind can play tricks on us from time to time. What seems obvious might not be the case. Sometimes, people can be in a situation that they can’t avoid… Such inevitability is experienced by our protagonists. The only thing left to do is wait… Time will untangle this deceptive situation.    




10. THA MAGIK CHANGE 04:00
India 2021
Directed by: Monami Roy
Screenplay: Monami Roy
Animation: Monami Roy
Technique: 2d Animation
Production/School: National Institute of Design
Dialogue language: English



The film “Tha Magik Change” is a step towards creating awareness about the pandemic-stricken apparel businesses (inclusive of tailors, thrift stores, recycling labels, upcycling labels). Revolving around the uneasy feeling of the happenings at the “katran ki dukaan”, where people are leaving, handing down the key to the last person to leave. It is a reflection of the lockdown and the effects on small scale businesses that lead to huge movement of people across the country due to the unavailability of living wages at the time of lockdown.