Catch the moon
Following his robbery, a man finds himself forced to board into a little grandma’s car to escape the police through the colorful streets of Cuba.
Directors
Amaury Bretnacher, Chloé Carrere, Théo Huguet, Leia Jutteau, Louis Martin, Charlie Pradeau et Mingrui Zhuang study Animation at ESMA – Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques and they worked as a team to make this short film.
Contact: l.colas@ecolescreatives.com
Slugs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of life in the city of insects. When a financial crisis hits, the industrious bees only see one solution…
Director
Aline decided at the age of four that she would spend her time telling stories later on in life. She learned the craft of animated story-telling at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, finishing in mid-2015.
Contact: info@squareeyesfilm.com
In Lisbon, a german married couple is about to get aboard the legendary n°28 tramway, but how should you ract when the brakes let go and embark you on a vertiginous race… with a baby on board.
Directors
Otalia Caussé, Geoffroy Collin, Louise Grardel, Antoine Marchand, Robin Merle and Fabien Meyran have graduated from Supinfocom Rubika school (Valenciennes, France) with a Master in digital director. In 2019, they co-directed the short film “o28”.
Contact: patrick2carvalho@gmail.com
A boy is doing an exercise with his dog.
Director
Born in 1980. Graduated from Osaka kyoiku University, Image Forum Institute of Moving image and Tokyo University of the Arts. Began to create the short animation works in self-study from 2002. He likes making comfortable movements and he’s always thinking about the Japanese traditional concept called “Ma”, the tension produced between movements. APig’s Eye (2010) won the Best Film at Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, and Silver Jabberwocky at Etiuda and Anima. The Mechanism of Spring (2010) premiered at the Venice Film Festival and The Great Rabbit (2012) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Autumn from Antonio Vivaldi “The Four Seasons” (2018) won Japan Grand Prix. Solo Exhibition My Marsh has held in Yokohama Museum of Art in 2017 and in Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in 2018. New game My Exercise (2020) was released in 2020 summer and new short film Bird in the Peninsula is work in progress.
Contact: nd@newdeer.net
Huge sailor gets an autumn leaf from a small girl. It reminds him of his home. How long he hasn´t been there? He runs to meet his old parents. What will he find there?
Director
Aliona was born in Russia and grew up in Belarus. She studied animation in the Czech Republic and stayed there. Both of her student films are about homesickness. Somehow. Aliona loves colors. Her goal is to make enjoyable films. Her dream is to create educational and funny series for children about recycling garbage and composting.
Contact: distribution@miyu.fr
Escape velocity: the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from the gravitational influence of a massive body, without ever falling back. An astronaut awakens in an abandoned cave of a strange planet. An interstellar vagabond, so to say. A light path leads him to the surface, where he looks at his compass and heads for his spaceship. He keeps glancing back, treading nervously, looking afraid. He has been chased by a creature for a long time, and his only way to break free is to escape this curious planet.
Director
Tamás Rebák is a hungarian visual storyteller from Budapest, obsessed with sadness and melancholy.
Contact: rebaktomi@gmail.com
Concrete Jungle is a short animated film dealing with children’s imagination and its boundlessness. When a neighbor drilling to the wall, who knows what the child is chasing at the sound he does not know and cannot classify.
Director
Marie Urbánková, 1995, Prague. First she studied scenography at the SUPŠ. Then, she continued her studies at the Prague UMPRUM, majoring in film and television graphics, where she is currently continuing her master’s degree. She illustrates and collaborates with Raketa magazine, illustrated three books, and others are in the process!
Contact: alexandra.hroncova@famu.cz
The ninety-year-old Arturo is used to being alone and his days pass as a pensioner. One day a newspaper that advertises cameras comes into his hands. The seagull that he chose as a subject, however, seems to have a completely different idea about perfect photography.
Director
Luca works as 3d artist at Light and Color studio, in Rome. He comes from architecture, desing and history of arts studies. He worked in several animated projects like Buonanotte (shortmovie), Youtopia ( feature film), Giù dal Nido( Tv animated series) and other commercial videos for italian companies. “Arturo e il gabbiano” it’s his first project as Producer and Director, a full CGI animated movie, made in Blender.
Contact: premierefilmdistribution@gmail.com
A curious lynx, attracted by the neighboring city lights, leaves the forest behind. The animal has a lot of fun in the city, until it falls asleep in the middle of a parking lot. In the early morning, the amazed inhabitants discover this strange animal covered in snow.
Director
Graduated from the Ural Academy of Architecture in Yekaterinburg, Department of Animation. She creates short animated films and also makes animations for documentaries and music videos, sharing her skills with other directors.
Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.com
