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Cure

Documentary Film
Canada,
Ethiopia,
Germany
2015
20 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Sarah Noa Bozenhardt
Director
Sarah Noa Bozenhardt
Music
Fasika Abebe, Aster Assefa
Cinematographer
Bernarda Cornejo Pinto
Editor
Sarah Noa Bozenhardt
Sound
Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Bernarda Cornejo Pinto
An extremely tender portrait of Aster, a blind young mother who lives with her little daughter in a shared home for single mothers in Ethiopia. Her low singing about love and little mice pervades the film like a seeing person’s dream. The little girl is still called Bethi, but Aster wants to change her name to Medanit: the Amharic word for cure. The child leads her from darkness to light. She is her mother’s eye.

Matthias Heeder

Deyzangeroo

Animated Film
Canada
2017
4 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Maral Mohammadian
Director
Ehsan Gharib
Music
Habib Meftah Boushehri
Sound
Olivier Calvert
In the colonial port of Bushehr, the horror of an imminent eternal lunar eclipse was met with a special ritual, the Deyzangeroo. Between the starry skies, the black waves and the dark coast a rhythmic chanting unleashed forces which multiplied to re-capture the light. Ehsan Gharib uses the expressive force of painting on glass, interval photography and mirror tricks – set to the mystic music of Habib Meftah Boushehri.

Nadja Rademacher



Golden Dove for best animated short film in the International Competition Short Documentary and Animated Film

International Competition Short Film 2016
I Am Here Eoin Duffy

Cosmic noise, a quivering baseline. Frank is gliding through the philosophical universe of his thoughts. Emotions flare up, images and language stumble, everything piles up in a deluge of feelings...

I Am Here

Animated Film
Canada
2016
5 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Shirley Vercruysse, Michael Fukushima
Director
Eoin Duffy
Music
MENALON
Animation
Eoin Duffy, Henrique Barone
Script
Eoin Duffy
Sound
John Black
Cosmic noise, a quivering baseline. Frank is gliding through the philosophical universe of his thoughts. Emotions flare up, images and language stumble, everything piles up in a deluge of feelings... and crashes on the anti-poetic ground of the reality of the norm. In stunning and minimalist design, Eoin Duffy paints the powerful portrait of a lonely, special soul who “sometimes outlived the stars”.

André Eckardt


Nominated for mephisto 97.6 Audience Award

I Don’t Feel Anything Anymore

Animated Film
Belgium,
Canada
2017
10 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
William Henne, Delphine Cousin, Delphine Renard, Marc Bertrand
Director
Noémie Marsily, Carl Roosens
Music
Pierre Yves Drapeau
Animation
Noémie Marsily, Carl Roosens
The couple live high above the city in the basket of a crane. The woman fire fighter and the magician share the small joys and worries of life in their intimate life together. The world is still as it should be up here. Or is it? Similarities with escapist tendencies when dealing with the chaos of our riotous world are bound to be purely coincidental in this animated satire. The dynamic lines of the drawings are reinforced by a strong soundtrack by Canadian soprano Natalie Choquette.

Nadja Rademacher

Manivald

Animated Film
Canada,
Croatia,
Estonia
2017
13 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić, Jelena Popović
Director
Chintis Lundgren
Music
Terence Dunn
Editor
Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić, Jelena Popović
Animation
Chintis Lundgren
Script
Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić
Sound
Pierre Yves Drapeau
Manivald (fox, 33) lives under his draconian, slightly weird mother’s thumb. His repressed behaviour takes a turn when the washing machine breaks down. That is, takes a turn when Toomas the plumber (wolf, sexy) appears with his “deluxe tools”. Candy-pink romance, tough drama and depth psychology, packaged with delicate comedy and a remarkable sense of timing by Chintis Lundgren.

André Eckardt
International Competition Short Film 2016
Red of the Yew Tree Marie-Hélène Turcotte

The girl takes the gun from the wall. Her mother’s daughter goes hunting. Images merge into each other – an undulating meadow becomes a flowing river becomes a rough mountain landscape.

Red of the Yew Tree

Animated Film
Canada
2016
12 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Felix Dufour-Laperrière and Nicoas Dufour-Laperrière
Director
Marie-Hélène Turcotte
Music
Nicolas Bernier
Editor
Felix Dufour-Laperrière
Animation
Marie-Hélène Turcotte
Script
Marie-Hélène Turcotte and Daniel Canty
Sound
Olivier Calvert
The girl takes the gun from the wall. Her mother’s daughter goes hunting. Images merge into each other – an undulating meadow becomes a flowing river becomes a rough mountain landscape. The female yew tree bears red fruit in autumn; it is a symbol of eternity. Marie-Hélène Turcotte’s remarkably compelling style of drawing and her lyrical animation are concrete and enchanted, tender and brutal.

André Eckardt


Nominated for mephisto 97.6 Audience Award

Sonámbulo – The Sleepwalker

Animated Film
Canada
2015
5 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Theodore Ushev, Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Dominique Noujeim
Director
Theodore Ushev
Music
Nikola Gruev, Kottarashky
Editor
Theodore Ushev
Animation
Theodore Ushev
Script
Theodore Ushev
Sound
Olivier Calvert
A free interpretation of the poem “Romance Sonámbulo” by Federico García Lorca. The “gipsyness” of Kottarashky’s music and the hypnotic choreography add to the poetic layers of colour and form. Ushev’s personal aesthetics, reminiscent of Miró here, takes us on a surreal trip to the guts of early twentieth-century modern art in Spain and to some of Lorca’s basic symbolic elements: water, air, mirrors, moon, the colour black and the female.

Victor Orozco

The Clitoris

Animadoc
Canada
2016
3 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Lori Malépart-Traversy
Director
Lori Malépart-Traversy
Music
Eliazer Kramer
Cinematographer
Lori Malépart-Traversy
Editor
Lori Malépart-Traversy
Animation
Lori Malépart-Traversy
Script
Lori Malépart-Traversy
Sound
Lori Malépart-Traversy, Vanessa Zaurrini
The story of a sensitive, stubborn creature whose discovery some men liked to argue about, while others declared it an enemy. Lori Malépart-Traversy’s charming and refreshingly mellow “sex education film” presents naked historical facts and buries false myths about the only human organ that exists exclusively to give pleasure.

André Eckardt

The Sisters’ Bedroom

Animated Film
Canada
2018
7 minutes
Subtitles: 
_without dialogue / subtitles

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Producer
Claire Brognez
Director
Claire Brognez
Music
Pierre Yves Drapeau
Cinematographer
Claire Brognez
Editor
Catherine Legault
Animation
Claire Brognez
Script
Claire Brognez
Sound
Pierre Yves Drapeau
Abandoning yourself to your dreams, closing the curtains and being alone at last. The sibling hidden under the bed is mainly interested in the secretly hoarded chocolate, while the older sister has her first sexual fantasies. And what is this mysterious red ribbon? An animation with delicate figures that seem to be made of porcelain which creates a sensual mood whose innocence live action film can never achieve.

Saskia Walker