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Movie Official competition 3

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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Movie Official competition 5

WhateverTree

Screen addiction. Species at risk. Whatever! A dead tree goes viral, attracting wildlife, a nature lover and a crowd of online followers. Animated entirely outside, “WhateverTree” examines our connection to nature in the age of social media, screens, and selfies.

Director
Isaac King is an award-winning animation filmmaker and artist from Canada. Directing commercials and short films for 20 years, his work spans drawing, stop-motion, cutout and outdoor animation techniques. Using handcrafted and digital media, he focusses on environmental and social issues with humour and warmth. His films have screened worldwide, winning numerous awards including the Annecy Audience Prize.

Contact: isaacjayking@gmail.com

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Movie Official competition 5

Song Sparrow

A Group of refugees tries to reach themselves to a safe country in search for a better life. They pay a smuggler to convey them across the boarders in a fridge truck. However, the freezing temperature of the truck turns their hopes for a better future into a fierce struggle for survival.

Director
Farzaneh Omidvarnia was born in Iran. Graduated from University of Tehran, faculty of Fine Arts, she received a PhD in Design in 2015 from Technical University of Denmark. Following her graduation, she began to focus on creation of fabric sculptures and writing short stories. Her artworks soon appeared in several art exhibitions in Europe and Iran, and she published her first collection of short stories in 2016. In 2017, she directed and produced her first animated short film, “To Be”. The movie was acclaimed internationally and won prizes in different festivals. Her second film is “Song Sparrow” (2019), World Première at Galway Film Fleadh and selected at Flickers’ Rhode Island Int. Film Festival and Giffoni Film Festival. She is now based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Contact: distribuzionezenmovie@gmail.com

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Movie Official competition 5

Sogni al campo

A boy looks for his cat along a river. He will not find it. He’s about to die, and has moved away from everything to find intimacy. The child arrives at the doors of time, where the dead disappear, and the living let them go. The child is afraid, he enters a forest of symbols and memories. He grows up. His illusions of children dissolve and mingle with the landscape.

Director
Born in Pesaro in 1979, Magda Guidi studied for 5 years at the Art Institute of Urbino (“Scuola del libro”), and for 2 years in the course specialized in animation cinema. She is an animated film director and illustrator.

Contact: distribution@miyu.fr

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Movie Official competition 5

Précieux

Julie can’t fit into her school. The arrival of Emile, an autistic child, will change the game…

Director
Paul Mas obtained an Assistant Director Diploma at the EMCA animation school of Angouleme (France) with his graduation film “Children”. He lives and works in Paris, and makes stop motion short films.

Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.com

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Movie Official competition 2

Sauve qui pneu

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

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Movie Official competition 4

Montagne

Three teenagers spend the weekend together in the great outdoors. Everything comes together for two days of fun. But the bad atmosphere sets in. The bad weather is brewing. Words betray thoughts. One of them insists on climbing a summit.

Director
Born in 1989, Louise Cailliez discovers the technical aspects of Animation Cinema during her training at ESAAT where sh directed her first film Indians. After a year spent at the ENSAD, she joined the Poudrière school where she continues to explore various animation ans storytelling techniques. He gradution flm « Team spirit » receives the DLE Award at the Tokyo nime Awards in 2014.

Contact: creation@novanima.com

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Movie Official competition 4

Megamall

In a world of escalators, figures pursue their desire to consume in a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room, where it joins the playing group. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a chips-mad dog. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.

Director
After attending the preparatory course at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU), I studied 2D Animation at HSLU. I’m a member of the VJ-collective Teichprojektion and since 2020 I’m part of the sound design collective Noisy Neighbours.

Contact: mikhal.bak@gmail.com

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Movie Official competition 4

Love Quest

Lea, a 15 years old schoolgirl is in love with Felix, a boy her age. They are the same party, but she does not dare to talk to him, therefore Felix left with Julia. But she is offered a second chance, she can go back in time and change her destiny.

Director
Cécile Despretz is an Atelier Supérieur d’Animation of Paris student since 2016. She directed two short films during her scolarship who were selected by the National Film Festival.

Contact:distribution@miyu.fr

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Movie Official competition 4

L’infinito

Animation inspired by the poem “The Infinite” by Giacomo Leopardi.

Director
Simone Massi was born in Pergola (Italy) in the month of May. As a fiercely independent animator, he has conceived and realized a dozen small animation films that have been shown in 60 Countries on 5 Continents and have collected over 250 awards.

Contact: nuvole@simonemassi.it