AWARDS
Dolls Don't Cry
A man and a woman are involved in the production of an animated film. He animates by night, she makes and repairs the accessories during the day. Behind the scene, a woman is waiting for her entrance.
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Director : Frédérick Tremblay
Frédérick Tremblay directs short animated puppet films using a unique handkraft technique and improvising the stories directly in front of the camera. Le Tiroir et le corbeau and Blanche fraise are some of his recent works.
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Director : Frédérick Tremblay
Point
A skillfully manufactured, quiet but powerful meta fiim, a true independent production, which shows us the everyday struggle of the lonesome animator with his creation. The film takes us deeper and deeper into a monotone world, which captivates the viewer from the first to the last frame.
Self-Honest Me
One day the protagonist watches a movie with friends. She finds the film to be boring and reveals her discontent, but somehow nobody agrees with her.
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Director : Kazuki Sekiguchi
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1991. Graduated from Tama Art University in 2016. As of 2017, studying at the Department of Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media.
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Director : Kazuki Sekiguchi
Point
Many people suffered from the peer pressure. Regardless of age and young man, they feel the sin to say something different from the others. This film deals with this topic in a straight forwarded way. A “pretty” character design makes them anonymous and ironically tells a “disease” that infects people living in this era. This is not a drama with a social topic. This is a cry from a heart. The anger explodes and burns the soul. Then the Infinite loneliness. Even if the road is not visible, one should head to somewhere. This film is a struggle itself.
Ugly
Inspired by the story ‘Ugly the Cat’ found on an inspirational website, Ugly is a broken simulated short film about a Native American chief and an ugly cat trying to find peace in a twisted neighborhood.
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Director : Nikita Diakur
Nikita Diakur is a Russian-born film maker based in Mainz, Germany. He studied Animation at the Royal College of Art in London, where he produced “Fly on the Window” that went on to screen at numerous international film festivals.He is now making short films influenced by rominent internet stories and animated via the process of computer simulation.
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Director : Nikita Diakur
Point
This unconventionally animated film joyfully struggles with gravity. Eventually everything falls into place, or not.
Hedgehog's Home
In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff. Exquisitely directed by Eva Cvijanović and based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić, a writer from the former Yugoslavia, Hedgehog’s Home is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home.
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Director : Eva Cvijanović
Eva Cvijanović is an animator and filmmaker focused on the storytelling potential of environments and character. Since graduating from Concordia University, she has produced and directed two independent films (Seasick, 2013, and Once Upon a Many Time, 2010) and was part of the NFB’s Hothouse program (The Kiss, 2011). Drawn to the immersive power of the tangible, Eva works with felted wool, watercolour and pastels while being equally fluent in digital media. Eva’s experience ranges from working on documentary and puppet films to videogames and more. Her latest venture is Hedgehog’s Home, an NFB/Bonobostudio stop-motion short film based on a famous Balkan tale.
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Director : Eva Cvijanović
Point
This woolen stop-motion animated film allegory adapted by a classical book published in Yugoslavia the early 1950’, is a warm and universal tale for young and old. It tells a story about caring for your natural habitat and not falling into the disease of mass consumerism. All the elements in the film - animation, scenography, photography, music and sound, editing - are brought to a masterful execution.
Everything
Everything is an interactive experience where everything you see is a thing you can be, from animals to planets to galaxies and beyond. Everything is a procedural, AI-driven simulation of the systems of nature, seen from the points of view of everything in the universe. Everything is narrated by the late great British American philosopher Alan Watts (1915-1973).
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Director : David OReilly
David OReilly (b. Ireland, 1985) is a filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles. Creator of the influential short films ‘Please Say Something’ and ‘The External World’, his animation work has won numerous awards and been the subject of several international retrospectives. He has lectured at Pixar, Harvard, Yale, USC, CalArts and at many other conferences and festivals around the world. He has written for Adventure Time & South Park, and created fictional video games in Spike Jonze’s Academy Award winning film ‘Her’.
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Director : David OReilly
Point
Thank you for jazzing up our universe.
Negative Space
My dad taught me how to pack.
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Director : Max PORTER & Ru KUWAHATA
Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata are a filmmaking duo based in Baltimore, USA. Collaborating for over a decade as “Tiny Inventions”, they have directed short films, TV commercials, music videos and comics. Produced by Ikki Films and Manuel Cam Studio in France, “Negative Space” is their fourth professional film.
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Director : Max PORTER & Ru KUWAHATA
Point
This Jury’s Special Award goes to the creators of a film that showed us a father and son's connection through ordinary objects by an extraordinary talented way.
Airport
In a modern day airport, the flow of passengers is broken by sudden irregularities. Security forces try to get to the cause of the disruption, the atmosphere turns menacing at the slightest anomaly. Tragedy and panic are always just one step away. The film explores the borders between the right to freedom of movement and the restrictions national security requirements put on society.
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Director : Michaela Müller
Michaela Müller was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She graduated with an MA in Animation and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia and holds a diploma as drawing and crafts teacher from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Müller’s multiple awarded animated film, Miramare (2009), made its international premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and has been screened at more than 100 international film festivals, winning 18 awards. Michaela explores the connections between paint and film, encompassing short animated films, installations and collaborations in a theatrical context such as opera and performance projects.
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Director : Michaela Müller
Point
Theme and style are ultimately connected. The technique and color used in this work bring us to feel a tension in addition to silent solitude and loneliness. The work is filled with poetic beauty.
Orogenesis
A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.
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Director : Boris Labbé
After obtaining a DNAP (Diplôme national d’arts plastiques – the equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree) at l’Ecole supérieure d’art et de céramique of Tarbes, Boris Labbé continued his studies at l’EMCA of Angoulême (Ecole des métiers du cinéma d’animation). At l’EMCA, he produced Kyrielle for his final film project, which was in 2012 awarded the Special Jury’s prize for Graduation Films at the Festival international du film d’animation in Annecy. Simultaneously, he developed an artistic work that is both visual and plastic. He spent a year at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. His latest short film Rhizome (2015), produced by Sacrebleu Productions, has been awarded by the Grand Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo and the Goden Nica Animation at Festival Ars Electronica in Linz.
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Director : Boris Labbé
Point
First of all, I must say this film inspired and even beaten me as an artist before being a member of the jury. It departs from the point where the so-called narrative is eliminated but makes us glimpses the possibility of what can be called "plastic drama", in a highly pure way. This approach to weld micro and macro together reminded me of "Structural Film" of the 1980s but in this work, this rigid structure itself bear rich "poetry", which is very contemporary. This film is “animation” in In the etymological spirit: "breath of life”.
Tamaki Roy "The State of Things"
Movie for Tamaki ROY’s “Koto no Shidai.” "Words turn into music / And it returns to sound, then melts in time and place / Time and place, which spin the story"
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Director : Ryo Orikasa
Born in Ibaraki, Japan, 1986. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate school of Film and New Media, Department of Animation, 2011. Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, Emerging Artist Oversea Study Grant recipient, Canada (La Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal), Japanese Government, 2015-2016. "Datum point" (2015) received several awards include the Ōfuji Noburō Award, The Mainichi Film Awards 2015, the Golden Zagreb Award, Animafest Zagreb 2016, New Chitose Airport Award, New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2016. Lives and works in Ibaraki, Japan.
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Director : Ryo Orikasa
Negative Space
My dad taught me how to pack.
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Director : Max PORTER & Ru KUWAHATA
Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata are a filmmaking duo based in Baltimore, USA. Collaborating for over a decade as “Tiny Inventions”, they have directed short films, TV commercials, music videos and comics. Produced by Ikki Films and Manuel Cam Studio in France, “Negative Space” is their fourth professional film.
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Director : Max PORTER & Ru KUWAHATA
Hedgehog's Home
In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff. Exquisitely directed by Eva Cvijanović and based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić, a writer from the former Yugoslavia, Hedgehog’s Home is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home.
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Director : Eva Cvijanović
Eva Cvijanović is an animator and filmmaker focused on the storytelling potential of environments and character. Since graduating from Concordia University, she has produced and directed two independent films (Seasick, 2013, and Once Upon a Many Time, 2010) and was part of the NFB’s Hothouse program (The Kiss, 2011). Drawn to the immersive power of the tangible, Eva works with felted wool, watercolour and pastels while being equally fluent in digital media. Eva’s experience ranges from working on documentary and puppet films to videogames and more. Her latest venture is Hedgehog’s Home, an NFB/Bonobostudio stop-motion short film based on a famous Balkan tale.
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Director : Eva Cvijanović
The Pear
The animation short,The Pear, is adapted from a story of the same title from Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio by Pu Songlin. An aphorism by Lao-tzu, “Excessive hoarding always leads to heavy loss”, is what truly lies behind the story. A taoist priest felt thirsty and begged a countryman for one of the pears he was selling. The latter refused. Then the priest cast a spell, poured a pip into the soil, and finally turned it into a pear tree. All its fruits were given away to the crowd, when the priest asked for nothing and left the countryman astonished by the fact that all that had been given away were his own pears and the tree was made from the handles of his barrow.
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Director : TONGREKO, WANGYIHAO
2016 groduated from The China Academy Of Art animation major.
is our graduate film. me and my partner wangyihao spend 6months to finish it. We draw more than4000pagies with watercolour. The story is adapted from the strange story by PUSONGLING
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Director : TONGREKO, WANGYIHAO
Echo Chamber
Cy Twombly, Roland Barthes, what are they doing? This is a journal about seductions and sufferings of the text.
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Director : Ryo Orikasa
Born in Ibaraki, Japan, 1986. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate school of Film and New Media, Department of Animation, 2011. Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, Emerging Artist Oversea Study Grant recipient, Canada (La Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal), Japanese Government, 2015-2016. "Datum point" (2015) received several awards include the Ōfuji Noburō Award, The Mainichi Film Awards 2015, the Golden Zagreb Award, Animafest Zagreb 2016, New Chitose Airport Award, New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2016. Lives and works in Ibaraki, Japan.
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Director : Ryo Orikasa
here AND there
Here and there, there and here. One early summer day, trivial incidents occur in three landscapes.
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Director : Komitsu
Born in 1993. Graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Graphic Design in 2016. As of 2017, studying at the Department of Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media.
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Director : Komitsu
Pivot
The history of this city has been led by the development of factories. The chimney is the pivot around which the city revolves.
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Director : Maki Satake
Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1980.Lives in Sapporo, Japan. Completed from The Hokkaido University of Education Sapporo. Chiefly, making animation that uses the photograph. I'm searching for the world in the interstice of the record and the memories. Principal Award : ""The Vision of Contemporary Art 2016"" Prize for Excellence, ""25. Stuttgarter Filmwinter"" Norman 2012, ""ASK? Image Festival competition 2009"" Grand Prize etc. Main works : ""Pictorial Family History"" 2015 video installation, ""Rremains"" 2010 video, ""vestige of life"",2009 video etc.
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Director : Maki Satake
Land without Evil
Throughout history people have always been searching for a perfect place. This shortfilm, based on Guaraní mythology (Tierra sin mal), offers another point of view on paradise: what if the real paradise is inside us and lies in the harmony and unity of everything alive?
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Director : Katalin Egely
I graduated in 2013 from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary. My studies focused on animation, but lately my interests include documentary filmmaking. I find the spontaneity and teamwork involved with creating documentaries exciting. Also I enjoy changing the "speaking" role to the "listening" role. Animated documentary films are especially interesting because with animation it is possible to express the more subjective parts of a narrative. My focus is primarily on making music videos, credits and animated scenes for movies. I work with local clients as well as clients abroad.
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Director : Katalin Egely
Lovestreams
A story of net-cross’d lovers.
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Director : Sean Buckelew
Sean Buckelew is an award-winning animator who received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His professional work includes directing a sequence for the Zac Efron film "We Are Your Friends" and working as a storyboard artist and animator on the Davis Guggenheim documentary "He Named Me Malala". He is also a member of the online collective Late Night Work Club, and has worked with clients including MTV, Arctic Monkeys, VH1, Adult Swim,Toonami and on Chris Sullivan's award-winning feature "Consuming Spirits", in addition to screening his own work at the Slamdance Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, and others. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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Director : Sean Buckelew
We’re Human, After All
During a harsh winter, the hare must face the freezing cold, hunger and the dangers of hunters and other animals. One day he finds out what a good, comfortable and safe life rabbits lead.
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Director : Jan Míka
The graduate of a bachelor degree at FAMU in Prague (directing) and the graduate of a master degree at FAMO in Pisek (visual effects and classic animation). Under the brand Filmofon he produces shorts, commercials and promo videos. He focuses mainly on animated and combined films.
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Director : Jan Míka
Bulse
Visualization of the sound and voice. Music video for Bulse by satomimagae.
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Director : Akihito Nonoue
I digest everything that is happening to me and make paintings. Little things form me and my life. I eat bread or rice this morning, how many days I have not taken a bath, the Five Mini becomes new, the comfort of the spring breeze and the everyday feelings, shocking happiness and misfortune...these are the important factors of the life so life is a painting as it is. Sometimes I observe myself haunted. I want to draw as if I breathed in. I would like to specialize in visuals and clean the meanings and messages that are naughty. If you can face the changing feeling, you can make a record of every second, rather than write a diary.
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Director : Akihito Nonoue
The Last Eye
Nature is witness to the thriving life of 3 species dwelling in its soil, sky and waters in equilibrium. This ecosystem goes adrift when its most insignificant members find, by chance, a way to rebel…
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Director : Xavier Ducry
Xavier Ducry, born in 1980 in Fribourg (CH), practice digital art since its beginning, Bachelor in Science (Biology) in 2005, first animation movie « The Atomic Carousel » in 2011 (special mention 1 at Fantoche Animation Film Festival 2011, diverse selections), documentary « El Reciclaje de Colores » en 2012, The Last Eye in 2016.
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Director : Xavier Ducry
The Sled
The little squirrel finds something he has never seen.
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Director : Olesya Shchukina
Olesya Shchukina is a Russian animation filmmaker and illustrator based in France. She studied at St Petersburg State University of Cinema and TV (2009) and La Poudrière animation school (2012).
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Director : Olesya Shchukina
Rainbow
This romantic comedy animated movie set in an imaginary Island of Rainbow portrays the growth of an ocean blue-skinned hero "Rainbow", his ordinary girlfriend "Kimsooni", and their attractive partner "Aurora". All the way through the various episodes, they tell us “Wherever you go, whatever you do, whoever you are, YOU ARE SPECIAL ENOUGH JUST BY BEING YOU”
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Director : KANG Heekyung
1983 Born in Kunsan, South Korea 2013 Graduated from Korea National University of Arts of Animation She is working at Studio march as an animation director.
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Director : KANG Heekyung
