Our festival-within-a-festival…
We received graduation reels from more than 60 animation and film schools around the world. From these we selected the best and came up with two international programmes and 25 films. Here you have a brilliant window into the future of animation. Find out about International Student Festival – Programme 1
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Passer Passer (Louis Morton, USA)
A glorious city symphony celebrates the hidden world of background noise.
USC School of Cinematic Arts
3’00 2013
Animal (Benoit Dulac, Laura Foglino, Julien Jude, Oriane Mulleras-Elatmari, Benoit Viogeas & Danyang Wang, France)
An improbable jailbreak turns the tables on the one time cruel keeper of the key and unleashes an orgy of diverse retributions.
Supinfocom
5’29 2013
The Elephants Garden (Felix Colgrave, Australia)
A glimpse into a uniquely psychedelic Garden Of Eden – evolution’s (very) alternative universe.
RMIT
5’05 2013
Knots (Lisa Leudolph, Arzu Saglam & Lea Stirnimann, Switzerland)
Traversing the city, the view from the window goes from the banal to the bizarre to unbelievable and, finally, to the fully abstract. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
HSLU
5’31 2013
A Hedgehog’s Visit (Kariem Saleh, Germany)
Poor hedgehog. The long drive and a bad case of nerves is not the only obstacle he faces in trying to win the girl’s heart.
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
5’30 2013
Cold Heart (Ding Shiwei & He Liang, China)
In the midst of the night and the solitude of the woods, a car breakdown is the prelude to a terrifying conclusion.
Chinese Academy of the Arts
5’05 2013
Wild Wild Ham (Eri Kawaguchi, Japan)
A member of the volleyball club lies face up on the ground in rest time during practice, just breathing, overwhelmed by the feeling of the wind blowing through her toes.
Tokyo University of the Arts
5’00 2013
Fox Spirits (Hitomi Nakamura, Japan)
Some come by car or train, some walk. Here comes the annual gathering of fox spirits.
Tokyo University of the Arts
4’00 2013
The N Station (Po-Han Lee, Chun-Wei Kuo & Chung-Shiuan Lin, Taiwan)
Understanding how The N Station works requires patience and a passion for the miniscule mechanics of it all.
National Taiwan University Of Arts
6’21 2012
Spectators (Ross Hogg, UK)
Inverting the expected focus of a football match, an observational study of those on the periphery, revealing the diversity of character found among football spectators.
Glasgow School of Art
4’00 2013
Mythopolis (Alexandra Hetmerova, Czech Republic)
Even though they are legends, Medusa and the Minotaur have the same problems as all of us do.
FAMU
11’35, 2013
The Sine Wave (Neely Goniodsky, UK)
A journey through the ups and downs of life using the humble sine wave as guide, seer and surfboard.
Royal College of the Arts
4’30 2013