Best of the Fest Award: The Burden (Niki Lindroth Von Bahr, Sweden)
A motel, a self-service restaurant, a call centre and a supermarket on the motorway are the setting for this apocalyptic musical. The songs tell of freedom, of the empty promises of the consumer world, and of the desire for an existence without worry.
14min, 2017
Best British Film Award: Six God Alphabet Peter (Peter Millard, UK)
Please wake up Peter. Please wake up. You need to learn your alphabet now Peter.
7min, 2016
Audience Vote: Art For Lawyers (Rory Waudby-Tolley)
Corporate art is a strange concept and definitely when seen through the eyes of RWT.
9min, 2017
Best Abstract Film Award: Strange Fish (Steven Subotnick, USA)
A meditation on blind evolution.
4min, 2017
Judges’ Special Mention (Abstract) to: Attraction (Emily Scaife, UK)
Urges in the undergrowth, erupting fungal fantasies, bursting botanicals. The dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe.
4min, 2017
Audience Vote: Attraction (Emily Scaife, UK)
Urges in the undergrowth, erupting fungal fantasies, bursting botanicals. The dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe.
4min, 2017
Best Sound Design Award: The Absence of Eddy Table (Fredric Vogel) Directed by Rune Spaans
Lost in a dark forest, Eddy Table stumbles upon a mysterious girl and dangerous parasites. He should escape, but something keeps him from leaving.
12min, 2016
Best Use of 3D Award: Song of A Toad (Kariem Saleh, Germany)
A stressed out human carries an old choleric toad on his head.
7min, 2016
Best Childrens’ Film Award (Amazing Animations: 0-7 year-olds): The Pocket Man (Ana Chubinidze, France/Georgia/Switzerland)
A little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend – an old blind man. Music makes them happy.
7min, 2017
Audience Vote: The Pocket Man (Ana Chubinidze, France/Georgia/Switzerland)
Best Childrens’ Film Award (Marvellous Animations: 8-15 year-olds): The Shrapnel (Dmitry Ivanov, Russia)
A soldier, wounded at war, returns home to his mother.
4min, 2016
Audience Vote: Heads Together (Job Joris & Marieke, Netherlands)
Three friends exchange heads by accident and are forced to adapt to each others life.
21min, 2017
Jury Special Awards
World of Tomorrow Episode 2 ‘The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts’ (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
Following on from Episode 1, this follow-up is an epic voyage inward, a dizzying spin down the rabbit hole of the human subconsciousness. Emily Prime is back to remind us that kids are the only people who can really live in the moment, the only people who aren’t too busy looking forward or thinking back. Blisteringly funny and deeply touching. A bonafide classic.
23min, 2017
The Escape (Jaroslaw Konopka, Poland)
Suffering, trauma and devastation. A mother and son are balancing on the verge between life and death, trying to save themselves and the world that they remember.
15min, 2017
Have Heart (Will Anderson, UK)
A looping GIF has an existential crisis.
12min, 2017
Jury Honorable Mentions
Lovestreams (Sean Buckelew, USA)
An ode to a lost age of internet love.
10min, 2017
Manivald (Chintis Lundgren, Canada/Croatia/Estonia)
A hot young plumber breaks into the harmonious life of Manivald and his retired mother.
13min, 2016
Summers Puke is Winters Delight (Sawako Kabuki, Japan)
Painful events become memories over time. This deliriously explicit film is truly demented, but with a serious core buried deep within its delightful insanity.
3min, 2016
Voting for International Competition Programme 1 – From Absurd to Zany
Judges’ Vote: Wednesday with Goddard (Nicolas Menard, UK)
A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.
4min, 2017
Audience Vote: Catherine (Britt Raes, Belgium)
The life story of a sweet young girl who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.
12min, 2016
Voting for International Competition Programme 2 – Being Human
Judges’ AND Audience Vote: Negative Space (Ru Kawahata & Max Porter, France)
My Dad taught me how to pack.
5min, 2017
Voting for International Competition Programme 3 – Looking For Answers
Judges’ AND Audience Vote: Wicked Girl (Ayce Kartal, France/Turkey)
An 8 year-old Turkish girl endowed with an exuberant imagination recalls the happy days spent in her grandparents’ village until dark and terrifying memories slowly rise to the surface.
8min, 2016
Voting for International Competition Programme 4 – Playing with Emotion
Judges’ Vote: 69 Sec (Laura Nicolas, Belgium)
A depiction of love as geometric shape. Stylish, sexy.
2min, 2016
Audience Vote: Link (Robert Loebel, Germany)
Two characters are linked by their hair, influencing each other by every move they make.
7min, 2017
Voting for International Competition Programme 5 – Long Shorts
Judges’ AND Audience Vote: The Burden (Niki Lindroth Von Bahr, Sweden)
A motel, a self-service restaurant, a call centre and a supermarket on the motorway are the setting for this apocalyptic musical. The songs tell of freedom, of the empty promises of the consumer world, and of the desire for an existence without worry.
14min, 2017
Voting for International Competition Programme 6 – Below the Surface
Judges’ Vote: Little Girl (Steven Subotnick, USA)
A little girl rides her bike.
3min, 2016
Audience Vote: Among the Black Waves (Anna Budanova, Russia)
An ancient northern legend – a hunter, a seal-girl and the souls of the drowned. The sea holds many untold secrets.
11min, 2017
International Competition Programme 7 – Into the Dark
Judges’ Vote: The Absence of Eddy Table (Rune Spaans, Norway)
Lost in a dark forest, Eddy Table stumbles upon a mysterious girl and dangerous parasites. He should escape, but something keeps him from leaving.
12min, 2016
Audience Vote: Garden Party (Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Theophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon & Lucas Navarro, France)
In a deserted mansion, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts.
7min, 2016
International Competition Programme 8 – Animated Documentaries
Judges’ Vote AND Audience Vote: Surprise (Paulo Patricio, Portugal)
A three-year-old girl is recovering from kidney cancer. She talks openly with her Mum.
9min, 2016
