III
Marta Pajek (Animoon)
Poland, 2018, digital, 12'
Man and Woman meet in a waiting room and immediately get closer to each other. They commence a game that gradually gets more and more ferocious. Their faces resemble masks while shapes slowly lose their integrity. Bodies are formed like clay, embracing each other until the limits of impossibility.
Sounds Good
Sander Joon (Estonian Academy of Arts/The Animation Workshop/Bop!)
Estonia, Denmark, 2018, digital, 9'45"
Boom operator on a journey, trying to record the sound of mushrooms.
Ceva
Paul Mureşan (Safe Frame/Maur Film)
Romania, Czech Republic, 2018, digital, 8'50"
Everything avoidable during one’s lifetime might later become the building blocks of the afterlife. Here, fears have to be faced and journeys to be taken alongside one’s shadow.
Not My Type
Gerd Gockell (Schattenkabientt/Anigraf)
Switzerland, Germany, 2017, digital, 3'01"
An experimental animation about the history of typography, print media and a mosquito experiencing Shakespeare's most famous quote.
Animateur
Alexander Gratzer (Alexander Gratzer/MOME)
Austria, Hungary, 2017, digital, 4'03"
Animateur gives us a closer look at a small paradisiacal poolworld in the middle of a desert and raises the question: What does an Animateur do if there is nobody who wants to be animated?
The Juggler
Skirmanta Jakaitė (Art Shot/Tripode Productions/Perspective Films)
Lithuania, France, 2018, digital, 11'05"
The other side of life – the scary, unknown side we never fully grasp, but we know is there, somewhere near, so close.
Образец Б16 / Form B16
Ivan Ivanovski (Veda Film)
Macedonia, 2018, digital, 8'05"
Form B16 is a film about a man who gets the smallest piece of the pie. Stuck in a bureaucratic labyrinth, our hero goes through a number of absurd situations, and following the already established and predestined steps, he manages to end up at the beginning.
Colaholic
Marcin Podolec (Yellow Tapir Films)
Poland, 2018, digital, 11'
A documentary, a romantic comedy, and a memoir of a person who drinks way too much soda.