Category: Official Competition 1

Tropical heat in the forest on Zinzinie is stifling. A fly can hardly breathe. She’s seeking for a place where she could rest and escape the unbearable temperatures. The jungle where she lives is full of all sort of exotic plants, making it looks like heaven. Unfortunately, she is in danger in this environment, her being the bait of these plants. When she finally succeeds in landing on a plant, BAM, she is crushed by a hand.

Director
Cloé  was able to perform “Zinzin” during her studies at the Estienne school of Paris. She likes the grotesque and cartoonish aspect of animation. She finds great pleasure in drawing atmospheres, sets and characters.

Contact: festival@miyu.fr

A modern day love story, at the right time but in the wrong place.

Director
Ada Güvenir was born in 1997 in Izmir, Turkey as the first fruit of a psychiatrist and an artist. She spent her childhood playing in her mother’s studio and analysing her mind. In 2014, she moved to Belgium and in 2020 completed her Masters degree in Audiovisual Arts in KASK Gent. In her universe, she combines her personal life struggles with a sense of humour.

Contact: adaguvenir@hotmail.com  

An ageing witch needs a baby for a spell to make her young again but when she brings home an infant princess things don’t go to plan…

Director
Evgenia Golubeva is an award winning animation director, character designer and screenwriter of Russian origin living in the UK. She studied at the Film and TV University in St. Petersburg. Since graduating Evgenia has written and directed a number of award-winning short films which have been screened internationally at film festivals. Evgenia writes screenplays for kids TV shows like “Hey Duggee”, “Digby Dragon” and “Becca’s Bunch”. Also she illustrates books for children.

Contact: jane.golubeva@gmail.com

High above, the small bird enjoys the flowers of its maple tree. A mysterious humming that needs to be fathomed sends him on a journey into a magical world of flowers. Of course, the fiery red fox is soon on the little bird’s heels. Trailed by bad luck the fox makes acquaintance with the hard-working bees. The final encounter with the beehive results into a rather unpleasant surprise for the troublemaker.

Director
Born in Berlin, Germany in 1981, she graduated in audiovisual communication from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and then took a master’s degree in design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland, majoring in animation.

Contact: mail@lenalena.org

Everything has spirit, from sunrise to sunset, from the side to the universe, the living and the inanimate in all parts of the world are greeting each other.

Director
Born in 1994, graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts, she’s a picture books illustrator and animation director.

Contact: 985695456@qq.com

Percy Cat is looking forward to a relaxing day in CAT LAKE CITY – the cats´ vacation paradise. But the place is not as expected. Not even the spot on the towel is as safe as he thought …

Direcrtor
Antje Heyn is a Berlin based animation director and illustrator. Her work is inspired by daily observations of urban living and culture as well as nature and animals. Besides setting her heart on creating characters and bringing them to life she teaches animation at universities as well as art academies and is running the Protoplanet Studio.

Contact: • info@protoplanet-studio.de

Home is Beehind is a 2D animated film about a tiny bee exploring the big, big world. It’s a story about leaving home to explore the world and travel beyond the horizon far beyond anything that’s familiar. It’s a story about wanderlust and overcoming obstacles to reach your goals, and the boundless curiosity that drives one to explore and seek out new experiences and places.

Director
Linde van Dijk is an animator/illustrator from Tilburg, the Netherlands, with a love for handdrawn 2D animation and richly coloured, detailed worlds; films to take you away to new worlds and different perspectives that we might not see in daily life all that often. Linde has a bachelor degree in animation from AKV Sint Joost in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, and a master degree with honours from the Master Institute of Visual Cultures.

Contact: lindevandijk@hotmail.com

A short film about sharing…

Director
Rich Webber is a Bafta Award winning freelance animation creative and Director. Working in animation for over 25 years. He is the Creator/Director of Aardman Animations Dc Nation shorts for Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network and Creator/Director of Purple and Brown for Nickelodeon, director of Shaun the Sheep episodes Series 1 & 2 for Aardman Animations as well as commercials and various other animation projects including Creature Comforts for David Attenborough’s 90th birthday. He is also a voice actor voicing such characters as Shirley in Shaun the Sheep as well as Ubo, in Farmageddon, Purple in Purple and Brown and Grub up in Nick Parks Early Man animated feature.

Contact: richwebber@hotmail.co.uk