Love

by Alexander Dietrich, Johannes Flick

Two male, glowing creatures start a fight over trying to impress a female. Each one of them wants to win her over by giving a better light show than his competitor. “Shine”‘ is a visual love story showing the importance of healthy competition. The film shows that it is not always the strongest, fastest or most attractive that wins as sometimes it is the inner light that shines the brightest. The film brings a fresh perspective to the age-old story of men vying for the love of a beautiful woman, however in this instance, the men are two furry creatures who battle with the power of self-illumination. The battle to glow brightest is intense and the combat fierce. They are on fire… until one gets burned!

• Fantasy
• Romance

by Vlado Kristl, Ivo Vrbanić

Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous “Shagreen leather” that fulfills all wishes. In his new, luxurious life he wins the heart of wonderful Foedora. But with the power of the leather comes a rule: for every fulfilled wish it becomes shorter, and so does the life of its owner. Using the leather abundantly, Rafael soon spends his time.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Michaela Mihalyi, David Stumpf, Michaela Mihályi

An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.

• Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Drama

by Xu Yuan

The expression of emotional desire called love. Every person is an individual whose spirit and soul cannot be bound.

• Drama
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Kamila Sosnowska, Mirek Sosnowski, Kamila Grzybowska-Sosnowska & others

A story about a very dangerous infatuation. An animated music video made for the band SAME SUKI. The song’s lyrics is an adaptation of the old Polish folk song On a Sunday at Dawn.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Experimental

by Rosa Fisher

The film explores themes of masculinity, and also speculates how the cultural practice of sending children to boarding school has politically shaped the UK.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Experimental

by Raphaël Jouzeau

Gaspard is still very much in love with Leïla. They meet in a crowded bar a month after she left him. The conversation turns awry and Gaspard seeks refuge under the tablecloth, away from prying eyes and closer to his memories.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Zdenko Gašparović

The fauna of the megalopolis, the jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels and bars, the effect of the bars in the fog, the swaying ears of corn, the swaying of men hanging from the gallows, the ripple of water – seen by the eye of the animator…

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

Rosamund Pike, the voice for Moominmamma, and Taron Egerton, the voice for Moomintroll, tell Moomin.com what it’s like to give a voice to a character with such a strong, loving fanbase, and why they think so many people love the Moomin stories and the philosophy behind them.

• Fantasy
• Family
• Making of

by Georges Schwizgebel

While on an airplane, a traveller’s spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romance exuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.

• Drama
• Romance
• Experimental

by Yuval Nathan, Marev Nathan

A visual interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s poem. The video sets in a fragile organic world in which flowers and creatures wobble between life and death, between blooming and wuthering.

• Experimental
• Music Videos
• Non-narrative

by Matvey Rezanov

Thought to be Inspired by Joni Mitchell’s relationship with Graham Nash, ‘River’ describes a relationship breakup during Christmas time.

• Drama
• Music Videos
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Violeta Fellay

The Starboard City RIOT5 roller derby team face off against their heated rivals in a decisive match, but something goes terribly wrong…

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Action
• Musical

by Nicholas D’Agostino

In a side street hotel, on a night of searing neon and screaming sirens, two tender souls share old wounds.

• Drama
• Tragedy

by Romane Granger

Richie, a joyful drinker, talks about the 2014 new year’s eve he spent at the hospital. Between piping malfunctions and other scatophilic problems, he evokes his love for his daughter, his relationship to death and his desire for descent.

• Drama
• Tragicomedy
• Experimental

by Dušan Vukotić

A film about an unhappy man who catches his wife with a lover. He leaves to buy a gun, while plotting to kill the wife and the lover. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

• Drama
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Romance
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

Austrian animation director and media-artist Reinhold Bidner is working in the fields of animation, media art and games. In his Masterclass Encounters & Inbetweens, Reinhold talks about and discuss his artistic animated experiments in between various disciplines, formats and techniques. He will also present images and video excerpts. The session was moderated by Animatricks Creative Director Hämid Shajarian.

• Documentary
• Making of

by Marie-Hélène Turcotte

Red of the Yew Tree is the crossing of a feminine and universal imagination, an odyssey inked in fine point. A pheasant hunt is the occasion of a voyage that is at once delicate and mightily evocative, under the breath of maternal love and the transmission of a shared feminine condition. It is a vast intimate adventure unfolds, as equivocal as it is precise, through an intuitive hunt and a recovered collective memory.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Ana Horvat

Adopted girl is telling us a story about how families come to be. But sometimes that can be different – as she tells us in a story about her own, special family.

• Drama
• Family

by Ashkan Rahgozar

• Drama
• Sci-Fi
• Tragedy
• Music Videos