Specials
Bottle
Kirsten Lepore, USA 2010, 5´25´´
Animated on location at a beach, in the snow, and underwater, this stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle.
SPONCHOI Pispochoi
Ikue Sugidono / Nishio Miyako, JP 2010, 6´07´´
A giant parasite, SPONCHOI Pispochoi, comes to a peaceful community of insects. How do they break away from it?
Sound Of Life
Shiho Hirayama, JP 2010, 5´25´´
How do household noises influence our body? Our daily life has its own kind of music.
Teatriños: Homenaxe Ao Mineral Do Repolo / Little Theatres: Homage To The Mineral Of Cabbage
Stephanie Dudley, CA 2010, 4´45´´
The film is based on a poem by Erín Mouré, Little Theatres, looking between the tiny cracks for the beauty and subtleties that often go unnoticed. A film about a simple vegetable, with many layers.
Aldebora
Olga Komosko, IS 2011, 4´
A trip to a forgotten land.
Protozoa
Anita Kwiatkowska-Naqvi, PL 2010, 5´35´´
Looking through a microscope we enter a strange world where things are not quite what they seem to be.
The Days Of Rage
Silvia De Gennaro, IT 2011, 2´15´´
About the recent civil unrest in northern Africa and internet-driven uprisings against regimes in general. Animation mixed with footage from Al Jazeera.
Victory
Guusje Kaayk, NL 2010, 1´40´´
A dancer is fighting with the eternal enemy of mankind: gravity.
Mulher Sombra / Shadow Woman
Joana Imaginário, PO 2011, 7´39´´
A woman haunted by the wind: while walking, she begins to disappear until only her shadow is left.
Free To Be Me
Michaela Čopíková / Veronika Obertová, SK 2011, 4´06´´
Listen to trees and follow raccoons!
Entschubladen / Role Playing Games
Amrei Andrasch, DE 2011, 1´23´´
In this spot Alex adopts familiar and unfamiliar roles. Alex is a modular rag doll that can choose its sex characteristics at will.
Dwa Kroki Za… / Two Steps Behind…
Paulina Majda, PL 2010, 8´23´´
A boy decides to leave his cottage and travels to a strange town that fascinates him. Strange experiences and relationships await him there.
Perspective
Monika Rohner, UK/CH 2010, 4´06´´
A girl follows the moon to escape the concrete jungle she's living in. In her dreams her alter ego, a small girl with a radio, explores a fantastic, colorful land without shadows.
Aplauz / Applause
Irena Paunović, SB 2011, 1´40´´
A crowd clapping, falling into trance and expressing collective happiness.