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Abandoned Village

Mitovebuli sofeli
Mariam Kapanadze
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Georgia
2020
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

At first there’s nothing but clouds. A cock crows, sheep bells ring, a herd of cows begins to move. The sounds seem to come from another age. When the morning mist clears, we recognize the outlines of an abandoned village. Decayed huts, broken fences, crooked roofs. The film looks like an oil painting, a still life painted in sometimes delicate, sometimes broad brushstrokes, bathed in different lights with the shifting times of day and changing its mood.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Mariam Kapanadze
Editor
Elene Murjikneli
Producer
Mariam Kandelaki, Tsotne Kalandadze
Sound
Beso Kacharava
Animation
Elene Murjikneli
Creative Producer
Gela Kandelaki
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Abyssal

Abisal
Alejandro Alonso
International Competition Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Cuba,
France
2021
30 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
French, English

A ship scrapyard in western Cuba. The observing camera follows Raudel and his colleagues who work in what seems like a hermetically sealed microcosm. A homing pigeon strays into the place; the workers contemplate it silently as they smoke. Sometimes they talk about their dreams. Shots are focussed in turns on their bodies and their surroundings. Rhythmic, artfully crafted and authentically produced sounds accompany precise and lucid images, without aestheticizing the harshness of their work.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Alejandro Alonso
Script
Lisandra López Fabé, Alejandro Alonso
Cinematographer
Alejandro Alonso
Editor
Emmanuel Peña
Producer
Boris Prieto, Alejandro Alonso, Oderay Ponce de León
Sound
Glenda Martínez Cabrera, Velia Díaz de Villalvilla, Alejandro Pérez
Score
Pepe Gavilondo
World Sales
Boris Prieto
Funder
Norwegian Fund for Cuban Cinema, CNC / Aide aux cinémas du monde
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Documentary (International Competition Short Film)
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Ain’t No Time for Women

Y’a pas d’heure pour les femmes
Sarra El Abed
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Canada
2020
19 minutes
Arabic,
French
Subtitles: 
English

The hairdressing salon “Saïda” is a space where people speak openly, laugh and argue. The subject rarely is hair. In the run-up to the presidential elections in Tunisia the shop turns into a political arena where the women – young or old, conservative or with a modern outlook – indulge in discussions about the pros and cons of the candidates. Their clever and witty statements reflect a young democracy with all its rifts and fault lines.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Sarra El Abed
Cinematographer
Catherine Lefebvre
Editor
Jordan Choinière
Producer
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Sound
Ilyaa Ghafouri
Score
Ilyaa Ghafouri
World Sales
Pierre Brouillette-Hamelin
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Alice’s Four Stories

Les quatre récits d’Alice
Myriam Jacob-Allard
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Canada
2019
5 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

Testimony versus “prosthetic memory”: The director dubs the sound recordings of her grandmother, collected over a period of ten years, in which the old lady recaps her encounter with a tornado as a child, in front of a green screen. While the details of her memories change through repeated narration over time, the found footage from feature and disaster films, weather reports and landscape images suggests a mediatised participation in the events.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Script
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Cinematographer
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Editor
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Producer
Myriam Jacob-Allard
Sound
Bruno Bélanger, Claire Jacob, Myriam Jacob-Allard
Narrator
Alice Gervais
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Anxious Body

Fuan na karada
Yoriko Mizushiri
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
France,
Japan
2021
6 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Tszzzzidd – skin and adhesive tape separate slowly, almost lasciviously. From a sober physical point of view, forces between molecular bonds are being overcome. Yoriko Mizushiri composes brief, highly sensual variations on pain and pleasure based on this phenomenon. Restrained, calm and scalpel-sharp, she creates two-dimensional drawn animations in subdued colours, accompanied by cool electronic sounds that explode in one’s head only to scatter into the anxious but curious body.

André Eckardt

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Director
Yoriko Mizushiri
Producer
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Nobuaki Doi / New Deer
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
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Armat

Armat
Élodie Dermange
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Switzerland
2022
11 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English

A young Swiss woman searches for her Armenian roots. Various lovingly animated drawers of the simultaneously accumulating family archive open. This very personal examination of collective traumas of post-migrant communities finds images and words for racism and the difficulties of talking about feelings with male family members. Its leitmotif is a wardrobe roaming through night-blue landscapes which – despite the cracks – holds everything and everyone together.

Samuel Döring

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Director
Élodie Dermange
Cinematographer
Élodie Dermange
Editor
Aurélie Sprenger
Producer
Nicolas Burlet
Sound
Jérôme Vittoz
Score
Sam Shalabi
Animation
Élodie Dermange, Sofia El Rhyari, Yaeka Tabara
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
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Asho

Documentary Film
Iran
2019
30 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Maryam Najafi
Director
Jafar Najafi
Music
Amir Shahabi
Cinematographer
Ahmad Babadi
Editor
Huda Arshad Riahi
Sound
Saeid Bahrami
Asho knows not only how to deal with goats, he also knows about films. He tries to see at least one a day. His favourite director is Tim Burton. Always on the road (Asho means “eagle”), the Iranian shepherd’s son dreams of being an actor. By his side: his cousin and future wife Pari. Pari thinks that if Asho becomes a star, then so should she. But they both have been for a long time: This is their behind-the-scenes.

Carolin Weidner



Awarded with an Honorable Mention in the International Competition Short Animated and Documentary Film.

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Bad Mood

Malumore
Loris Giuseppe Nese
International Competition Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Italy
2020
12 minutes
Italian
Subtitles: 
English

Between coming and going time feels leaden – a half-life in the light and dark contrasts of a linocut. The narrating voice’s mother cares for seniors in their homes for five euros an hour. At their bedsides the ticking clock counts down the working day, caught between the frightening sounds of the heavy breathing that comes with impending death and the roar of promises made by television. The dying are mother’s livelihood.

André Eckardt

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Director
Loris Giuseppe Nese
Script
Loris Giuseppe Nese
Cinematographer
Loris Giuseppe Nese
Editor
Chiara Marotta, Chiara Marotta
Producer
Chiara Marotta, Loris Giuseppe Nese
Sound
Davide Maresca
Score
Davide Maresca
Animation
Loris Giuseppe Nese
Winner of: Mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
International Competition Short Film 2022
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Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage
Iiti Yli-Harja
A wild stop motion animadoc trip through the glittering dreams of an astronaut who gathers all his courage to show himself to the world as he is. Set course for star date LGBTQAI+.
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Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage

Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage
Iiti Yli-Harja
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Finland
2022
15 minutes
Finnish
Subtitles: 
English

A marvellously wild stop motion animadoc trip to unknown worlds, in which 18-year-old astronaut Fatu sets himself a challenge that’s as nerve-racking to him as a lunar expedition. He wants to go shopping at the supermarket – for the first time as he sees himself: in full glam make-up. How will his family with their Kosovar roots react to these new coordinates? Will his self-perception and the others’ perception clash? Set course for star date LGBTQAI+.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Iiti Yli-Harja
Script
Iiti Yli-Harja
Cinematographer
Iiti Yli-Harja
Editor
Otto Heikola
Producer
Valtteri Munkki, Mikko Heino
Sound
Ville-Matti Koskiniemi
Score
Iiti Yli-Harja, Ville-Matti Koskiniemi
Animation
Iiti Yli-Harja
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Pekka Härkönen
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
International Competition Short Film 2021
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Crumbs of Life
Katarzyna Miechowicz
This wild, imaginative thriller in analogue cut-out technique – in the best Polish animation film tradition of the Łódź Film School – offers plenty of room for interpretation.
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Crumbs of Life

Okruszki życia
Katarzyna Miechowicz
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Poland
2020
7 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Spitting ponies, a cursed TV reporter and a hairy giant who is lovingly combed by his brunette girlfriend while she develops inexplicable fears about her own foot. This will later literally be shot off – the foot, not the boyfriend! A faceless man is also there – acting in alliance with the ponies. This colourful, ominous animated thriller made in analogue cut-out technique addresses states of anxiety, masochistic fights and media criticism. Perhaps.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Katarzyna Miechowicz
Script
Katarzyna Miechowicz
Cinematographer
Katarzyna Miechowicz
Editor
Piotr Baryła
Producer
Agata Golanska
Sound
Piotr Baryła
Score
Anna Obara
Animation
Katarzyna Miechowicz
World Sales
Maciej Reguła
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Deep in Time’s Crevasse

Au fond de la crevasse des temps
Romulus Balazs
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
France
2020
29 minutes
French,
Romanian
Subtitles: 
English

How can we visualise the past without perceiving it too much as a historical fact? This film uses a clever combination of archival material and oral history to bring memories of a transgenerative trauma and the associated pain to the surface. What seems to be the past becomes visible in countless points of contact with the present. It’s a simple, touching treatment of the incomprehensible consequences of a historical crime.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Romulus Balazs
Producer
Romulus Balazs
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Dog-Apartment

Koerkorter
Priit Tender
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Estonia
2022
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
English

Driven by the barking of the voracious rented apartment, an aged ballet dancer makes his way through a permanently rain-drenched wasteland to his monotonous job. The protagonist makes graceful movements to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and seems briefly fulfilled. But the audience? Pearls before cows! Priit Tender’s caustic, surreal stop motion animation is a free association inspired by a poem by Andres Ehin about a grueling, gluttonous daily routine that’s gone to the dogs.

Samuel Döring

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Director
Priit Tender
Script
Priit Tender
Cinematographer
Ragnar Neljandi
Editor
Priit Tender
Producer
Kerdi Oengo
Sound
Gabriel Solis
Score
Neoton Familia, Ion Suruceanu
Animation
Marili Sokk, Egert Kesa
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
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E14

E14
Peiman Zekavat
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
UK
2020
19 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

What did the Corona lockdown look like from a window in the residential towers of posh East London in the spring of 2020? The reflective two-week observation shows serious shifts in the everyday coordinate system of a privileged urban population at an immediate level. Meanwhile, the vacant apartments in the district, which were deliberately caused by speculation, represent a warning sign for the future of investor-friendly urban spaces.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Peiman Zekavat
Producer
Sanam Jehanfard
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There Is

Es Gibt
Lena Ditte Nissen
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Germany,
Greece
2020
16 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

A virtuoso filmic reflection on automatisms in art and an encounter with Margaret Raspé on a Greek island, where the artist and filmmaker spends part of the year. Considered to be a pioneer of feminist German film, “I know where I am” is how she sums up her feeling on the island. Orientation in space, control and letting go are all central categories in her artistic practice.

Annina Wettstein

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Director
Lena Ditte Nissen
Cinematographer
Lena Ditte Nissen
Editor
Lena Ditte Nissen
Producer
Lena Ditte Nissen
Sound
Kerstin Neuwirth
Score
Margaret Raspé
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Everyday Is Like Sunday

Todos los días domingos
Alberto Dexeus
International Competition Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
Spain
2021
15 minutes
Spanish,
Catalan
Subtitles: 
English

Thoughts, sometimes just numbers, reach us from offscreen almost like music, like a mantra or a prayer. What we see are circular fragments from familiar spaces: a mirror, a magnifying glass. A day like any other day: without medication, or perhaps better with? A film like the investigation of an uncertainty principle: do we really see better with a magnifying glass? A face scratched out of the family album: the gap is draped with flowers and cut-out pictures of clothes and finally filled again by a drawing.

Borjana Gaković

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Director
Alberto Dexeus
Cinematographer
Alberto Dexeus
Editor
Alberto Dexeus
Producer
Bernat Manzano, Miguel Ángel Blanca, Montse Pujol Solà
Sound
Iban R. Gabarró
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Favorite Daughter

Favorite Daughter
Dana Reilly
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
USA
2022
20 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Take: three generations of women in Covid lockdown in New York, enough white wine, vodka and time to talk about the really important issues. Dana Reilly makes the best of the pandemic restrictions and films what happens when her mother Janet and 90-year-old grandmother Sylvia decide to move in together. The result is a funny and at the same time lovingly raw tribute to two strong personalities, their not uncomplicated closeness and completely different worlds.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Dana Reilly
Cinematographer
Dana Reilly, Janet Isa
Editor
Keith Maitland
Producer
Dana Reilly
Sound
Dana Reilly
Score
Maya Dunietz