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Boriya

Bori, a 7-year-old girl, is bored at the daily routine in countryside. Everyone is busy except her because it’s busy farming season. She is looking for someone to play with, but life is not what she thought it would be.

Director
MIN Sung Ah graduated from The Korean National University of Arts (KNUA) in animation in 2007. After many experiences in South Korea in the animation sector, she moved to France in 2017 and now lives in Bordeaux. Boriya is her fifth short film.

Contact: vianney@yummy-films.com

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Something Witchy

Two young witches that everything divides decide to study magic in the North. When they discover they have to live together, the situation becomes explosive!

Director
After studying 2D animation in France and working as a background layout artist, Arielle Demilecamps moved to Norway to learn stop motion and immediately fell in love with the technique. Something Witchy is her Master graduation film.

Contact: arielledemilecamps@gmail.com

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Merry Grandmas

Mascha is desperate to go to a wild New Year’s Eve party, but instead, her parents take her to see her grandmother, who has invited her friends over. This gorgeous animated film pays homage to the lust for life and rebellious streak of older women everywhere.

Director
Born in 1982 in Yerevan. Natalia graduated from the Arts school named after H. Danielyan and Department of Philosophy in Yerevan State University. She attended the faculty of easel graphics in Saint Petersburg Institute of Decorative-Applied Arts. Starting from 2004 works in Peterburg as animator and director. Her films “My Childhood Mystery Tree” and “Chinti” participated in many festivals and received prizes all over the world

Contact: sholud1@gmail.com

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Mathilda and the Spare Head

This is a story about a girl who wants to be the smartest person in the world. When all the things she’s learned can no longer fit in one head, her mother buys her a backup one. Two heads are better than one but Matilda soon becomes confused which head should she wear at what time and loses the second head shortly after. It is uncertain what would happen if not for a ball that accidentally flows in through her window. It changes Matilda forever.

Director
Ignas Meilūnas (b. 1985) graduated from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University with BA in Computer Engineering in 2008. He has worked with O. Koršunovas and G. Varnas’ theater troupes as a sound designer and video projection operator. Since 2011, Ignas started working as a freelance 3D and stop-motion animator and director. His debut short animation/fiction film “Woods” has won the Lithuanian Film Academy Award for Best Animation of 2015 and short animation „Mr. Night Has A Day Off“ was selected to more than 50 film festivals. 

Contact: distribution@miyu.fr

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Lazare fait bien les choses

Lazare Roubichet is an awkward soccer player. To tell the truth, he doesn’t know how to play at all. He’s playing for the PAF, a mediocre club. It’s the championship’s final. Lazare is called to start at the beginning of the second half. What nobody knows at that moment is that Lazare will be a game-changer.

Director
Thomas is a French-American animation director graduated at Animation School “Atelier de Sévres”. He co-directed the short film “Le 12 coups du midi” together with Camille Sallan, Ambre Decruyenaere, Cécile Despretz, Luc Armanet and Lucie Andouche.

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Fête de famille

Today is a great day, Marvin will finally  meet  his girlfriend’s family. He will discover a gallery of characters each more eccentric than the other, in front Sarah amazed. An exchange of points of view which will disentangle a few family tensions.

Directors
Amandine Maygnan, Annie Carrel, Elisa Curau, Kévin Cadars, Nicolas Roland, Pauline Obin, Théophile Calloix  study Animation at ESMA – Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques and they worked as a team to make this short film in 3D animation.

Contact: l.colas@ecolescreatives.com

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Dahu

Lou and Julie became friends in a summercamp. Together, they decided to go hunting the legendary Dahu but the two friends eventually split. Julie gives up the hunt in the grip of teenage daydreams,while Lou immerses herself body and soul in this quest.

Director
Born and raised in Marseille (France), Mona started telling stories through animation cinema. After two years learning the basics of animation in the South of France she went to Belgium to integrate the production workshop of La Cambre.  She is currently studying animation at Gobelins’s school (Paris) for one semester. Through her films she narrates about childhood, transformation, chimeras and the passage to adulthood. Through all the stories she creates there is always a link to the mysterious universe of forest. She combines different graphic techniques with a pronounced taste for traditional techniques.

Contact: mona.schnerb@gmail.com