Selected from 60 graduate showreels and almost 30 countries this is a look at the best student work and first professional films from all around the world – the first step on the animation ladder for these talented filmmakers, and the first time their wild and wonderful imaginations have been unleashed. Best of the Next Programme 1 screens just before this one at 7pm. You can buy tickets for both screenings for just £12 + booking fee.
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Brow on the Windowpanes like those who keep Vigil on Sorrow (Clelia Nguyen, France)
The expectation of otherness can lead to self-doubt.
3min, 2017
You Rise the Water Unfolds (Robin Vouters, France)
An ode to women in sensations and in dreams.
3min, 2017
Fish (Arthur Sotto, France)
A geometric and poetic evocation of water in all its forms.
3min, 2017
Even When We Sleep (Camille Monnier, France)
The warm and knowing daily life of an old woman and her cat.
3min, 2017
Liberty (Jon Boutin, France)
“And for the want of a word, I renew my life, for I was born to know you, to name you. Liberty.”
3min, 2017
The Curve of Your Eyes Encircles My Heart (Nicolas Rolland, France)
The first love of a little boy during summer camp.
3min, 2017
The Cat (Johanna Huck, France)
A man, a cat. Which one will tame the other?
3min, 2017
Woman in Love (Lea Krawczyk, France)
A sumptuous poem about love – vibrating with sweetness and fragility.
3min, 2017
Lively Air (Pierre Grillere, France)
A parable on the path of love.
3min, 2017
Poilus (Guillaume Auberval, Léa Dozoul, Simon Gomez, Timothé Hek, Hugo Lagrange, Antoine Laroye & David Lashcari, France)
In the French trenches calm reigns but a whistling signal is given and the attack begins.
5min, 2016
The Moment (Karis Oh, USA)
An artist gets to learn the importance of things unseen as she gets to draw a strangers’ portrait.
2min, 2016
20 (Chu-Ying Chiang & Hsin Lo, Taiwan)
We are all hedgehogs and inseparable from lust.
6min, 2016
Another Space (Hsiao-Chieh Tung, Taiwan)
A girl, her goldfish and the search for truth.
4min, 2016
Chilli (Martina Mikusova, Slovakia)
Passion and aggression are primal instincts that sit rooted in all of us.
8min, 2017
Flying Putzi (Ido Behar, Israel)
Putzi wants to rise above his handicap to fly in the sky with his only friend Pepi, a turkey.
6min, 2016
Kastaars (Jasmine Elsen, Belgium)
Seeing and being seen, hiding in your own world.
6min, 2016
Limites (Giulia Landi, Italy/France)
A girl, tired of her urban routine, decides to follow her dream of an alternative life in the mountains
6min, 2016
Penelope (Heta Jaalinoja, Estonia)
The doorbell rings. Penelope wakes up. But everything’s a mess.
4min, 2016
We Are the Immigrants (Catalina Matamoros Puerto, USA)
A poetic portrayal of the hardships experienced by a small group of immigrants as they attempt to cross the border illegally.
6min, 2016
