Year

2018

1–20 of 267 films

  • Comme des garcons

    2018 Adults 1 min

    by Ilan Rubin

    Beauty Papers Magazine X Comme Des Garçons X

    • Abstract
    • Non-narrative
  • Tory Burch “Happy Times!”

    2018 All audiences 1 min

    by Jen Campbell Studio, Lena Greene

    A playful animated commercial celebrating the joy of fashion and self-expression through vibrant illustrations, whimsical characters, and colorful visual storytelling inspired by the Tory Burch brand.

    • Non-narrative
  • by Priit and Olga Pärn

    Meet Priit & Olga Pärn, directors of 'Life Without Gabriela Ferri' (2008), 'Divers in the Rain' (2009) and 'Pilots on the Way Home' (2014). Interview in English.

    • Film about animation
  • by Nick Park

    Go behind the scenes with the real people that voiced your favourite Creature Comforts characters. Nick Park’s Creature Comforts took the classic documentary style and applied it to the lives of wild animals and pets, matching a cast of clay characters with human voices to charming effect. Originating from Nick’s 1989 Academy Award®-winning short film, Creature Comforts was unique for using unscripted vox-pop interviews with the British public in a stop motion series that has become an Aardman classic.

    • Film about animation
  • Life on the CAPS: Parts 1&2

    2018 Adults 41 min

    by Meriem Bennani

    Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona acts as our guide though the CAPS, an island refugee camp in a future where teleportation has replaced airplanes.

    • Drama
  • AnimatekaPRO: In Person – Réka Bucsi

    2018 All audiences 41 min

    by Réka Bucsi

    Réka Bucsi (1988) is an independent animation filmmaker from Hungary. She earned her BFA and MFA at the animation department of the Moholy­-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. Her graduation film Symphony no. 42 was shortlisted for an Oscar in 2014. Her films were screened in official shorts competition programmes at Berlinale, SXSW, Sundance, Annecy, and won over 50 international awards. In 2013/2014 she attended Animation Sans Frontiéres (ASF), a European animation production workshop.

  • by Péter Vácz, Joseph Wallace

    Acclaimed animation directors Péter Vácz and Joseph Wallace led an intensive four day stop motion workshop as part of the PRIMANIMA World Festival of First Animations in Budapest (Oct. 2017). Twelve international participants joined the directors to learn the practice and theory around their methodologies of creating cinematic puppet animation from simple materials.

    • Film about animation
  • Aragne: Sign of Vermillion

    2018 Adults 74 min

    by Saku Sakamoto

    A residential building stands on the outskirts of town. A college girl named Rin has moved into one of the room in the building. One night, she sees a huge insect coming out of the arm of a woman. She goes to a library, and learnes that they are called “Spirit Bugs”, and have existed since ancient times. Rin attempts to unravel the mystery of the Spirit Bugs, but this is only the prelude to a new form of terror…..

  • On the way home

    2018 Late Adolescence (16-20 yrs) 2 min

    by Mizuki Kiyama

    The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

    • Non-narrative
  • You Are Overreacting

    2018 16+ 4 min

    by Karina Paciorkowska

    An animated take on woman’s place in contemporary world. Inspired by reality and the media.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • WOO-HOO!

    2018 Adults 7 min

    by David Stumpf

    Despite its title, this pixilated film portrays unsuccessful dating. The film’s main protagonist with a horse’s head uses an unconventional dating app reminiscent of old 8-bit games to help him find a soul mate. But even the best dating app cannot anticipate the reactions of the unicorns that we sometimes think we are.

  • Woman’s day

    2018 Adults 6 min

    by Evgeny Terpugov

    The unfortunate woman leaves her alcoholic partner, goes through snowstorm, no longer has the strength and falls under the snow. It will save women who are near sauna. They take her to her, and she loses the lost self-esteem and joy of life.

  • Wong, Bitter Gourd

    2018 16+ 4 min

    by Wong Weng Chon, WENG CHON WONG

    A story, between father and son, happened around the dining table in the kitchen.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Widdershins

    2018 16+ 11 min

    by Simon Biggs

    A pampered gentleman’s seamlessly automated life is thrown into chaos when he pursues a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • by The School of Life, Jenny Jokela

    Our age has a high esteem for parties. Yet some of us have a particular fear of them – which we’re made to feel very bad about, as if this was a sure sign of being an anti-social and unfriendly person. Far from it. As this film argues, truly sociable people tend to hate parties a lot.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
  • White Crow

    2018 7+ 9 min

    by Miran Miošić

    Little White Crow is gawked at and ridiculed by her flock for being different. But when pollution causes turbulent changes in their environment, it is the little White Crow who helps the flock find a better home.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
  • by Wanderson, Will Anderson

    I’m being serious now, Betty. Where is the butter?

    • Comedy
    • Experimental