Category: Official competition 4

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

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

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

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

A young woman learns that soon she will have to move from the blockhouse flat she lives in. After receiving the upsetting news from the owner of the flat she is overwhelmed with emotions. Her teardrop of farewell grows into a concrete monolith. When the drop hits the ground a surreal panorama of the blockhouse area, she used to call home,  unfolds…

Director
She was born and grew up in Budapest and fell in love with drawing and filmmaking in her late teens. She was admitted to MOME’s animation department in 2013 where she finished her BA degree then continued her studies on the MA programme. During her studies she spent an Erasmus semester in Turku, Finland at TUAS’s animation department. Besides developing her film ideas she works as a freelancer animation artist. Bye Little Block! (2020) is her graduation film. 

Contact: festival@mome.hu 

An animator tries to make sense of a failed relationship.

Director
Will Anderson is a BAFTA winning writer/director from the Scottish Highlands. Will’s first short film ‘The Making of Longbird’ won over 30 awards internationally at film festivals & received a British Academy Award for Short Animation in 2013. Since then he has written and directed other shorts including BAFTA nominated ‘Monkey Love Experiments’ with co-director, Ainslie Henderson, BAFTA nominated ‘Have Heart’, and is currently in production on a hybrid documentary feature project. Will also works as a freelance designer & animator working on film, television & interactive projects.

Contact: distribution@miyu.fr