Hand-drawn Animation

by Davor Medurečan, Davor Međurečan

The story of a man who is wishing for a feeling of freedom. A man is in a dungeon and as the only way out into freedom he sees artistic expression, dancing, acting and painting, but when he stops, the artist finds himself in the dungeon again, til one day a girl knocks on his door. We realise it is his daughter who wants to walk with him, and that the man is not in a real dungeon, but an ordinary room. He takes the daughter’s hand and they step out into the sunny nature, free and happy. His daughter saved him from his personal dungeon.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Marcin Podolec

A portrait of a father, whose adult children live their own lives far away from him. Director follows his every daily routine at the swimming pool, at work, at home and – first of all – he explores his emotions.

• Drama
• Documentary
• Experimental

by Jack O’Shea

Two burglars discover a mysterious treasure in the pocket of a woman’s fuchsia coat. Anybody who wears the coat is given access to an infinite source of wealth. The only drawback is that they are not allowed to show the coat to anybody else. This is why the more cunning of the two crooks forces his assistant to wear the coat in disguise, so that he can spend the riches.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Daria Bedok, Daria Dedok

Structured as a series of vignettes drawn in stark black and white, and to a soundtrack of mournful jazz, the film is a set of confessions anchored in fear, confusion, numbness, and anxiety.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Sasha Svirsky

Nine short and unexpected stories that tell us how a person can be depicted. By mixing abstraction, collage and drawing animation, the author invites us into a spontaneous and unsystematic research of the potential of animation and leads us into the world of irrepressible imagination.

• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Lucija Oroz

Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Ross Hogg

Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector. Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.

• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Victor Orozco Ramirez

My grandmother was convinced that the only animal that made the same mistake twice is the human being. An essay short film about my very own Internet, a parallel world where memory loss, errors, surveillance and addiction smear everything and everyone.

by Philip Scott Johnson

This animation was created in April 2007 using a program called Abrosoft Fantamorph. The cost at the time was 30 US dollars. My thought at the time was rather than creating simple humorous morphs, that were common at the time, why not instead create an artistic film that loops multiple animations together and tells the story of art over time.

• Non-narrative
• Experimental

by Various directors

The Global Animation Community unites in solidarity with Gaza to form AC4PAL. AC4Pal was created to support the work of Haneen Koraz, an animator based in Gaza who has been running animation workshops with displaced children and women across the region. The project “To Gaza with Love: A Global Anijam” brings together 329 short films from over 50 countries, created by animators, students, and studios in a collective act of solidarity with the people of Gaza.

• Drama
• Family

by Sarah Koppel

A new animated micro-short film by Sara Koppel. An explicit rush adventure into a gender fluid-persons zone of desires where lust & responsibility is constantly dividing & demanding needs.

by Kateřina Karhánková

This is a story about three kids who find a mysterious bone and their journey in trying to find the creature, that the bone belong to.

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Family

by Flóra Anna Buda

Alice lives at her parents’ place at the age of 27 with no private life or a relationship. It takes a bicycle accident and a short coma to make her realize that it’s time to move out.

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

by Gilles Cuvelier

Pedro has found a new job. A kind of strange one, but these days, he can’t afford to be fussy. It’s a real chance! Anyway, he’s never been the kind of getting cold feet…

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy

by Danijel Žeželj

Everything is grey. The sun has not risen for years. A legend circles the city: paint the sun a thousand times and it will rise again.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Vuk Jevremović

Three masters of football… They can perform wonders during the match and score impossible goals… but what happens in their heads when they are about to take penalty kicks?

by Paula Konjušić

A young man experiences other people’s lives and emotions. Unable to find his own self, he visits a psychiatrist who immediately diagnoses the problem. It can be resolved in ten steps, with the help of a cassette player. As the metronome sounds the start of the treatment, the patient is launched deep into his own subconscious.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy