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
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
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
