Anilogue 2017 - Short Film Competition 'C'

Director:

Amalimbo (Juan Pablo Libossart, SE, 15')

Amalimbo is the story of TIPUANA, a five year-old girl who experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to ”the other side” in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently dead father. It is a short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined future.

Lupus (Carlos Gomez Salamanca, FR, 10')

In December 2011, a night watchman is killed by a pack of more than 20 stray dogs that were roaming the streets of Bosa, an area of Bogota’s suburbs. Around this tragic news item is built an animated short film on notions of body, savagery and territories.

Bye-Bye, Mom (Tina Orosz, HU, 6')

This story takes place in a town, where people give their own bodyparts to their loved ones as farewell gifts. As the pain of goodbye grows fainter, people are ready to surrender smaller and smaller bits of themselves. The main character is a girl who goes to the train station to see her mother off. This is where her story begins: now she has to get used to living on her own...

9 ways to draw a person (Sasha Svirsky, RU, 6')

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

Wednesday with Goddard (Nicolas Menard, UK, 4')

A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.

In a Nutshell (Fabio Friedli, CH, 5')

From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell.

Hedgehog's Home (Eva Cvijanovic, HR, 10')

"In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff.
Based on the classic story by Branko Copic, Hedgehog’s Home is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home."

Alternative walk (Ivan Maximov, RU, 5')

Mom is very enthusiastically talking to a friend. She doesn’t see her baby climbing out from the pram, taking a walk through the park and discreetly returning.

Ugly (Nikita Diakur, DE, 11')

An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’.

We're Human, After All (Jan Míka, CZ, 17')

During a harsh winter, the hare must face the freezing cold, hunger and the dangers of hunters and other animals. One day he finds out what a good, comfortable and safe life rabbits lead.

Anilogue 2017 Programme