Dear all, Welcome to the 6th Thessaloniki Animation Festival! It has definitely been a hard period for everyone and we are very grateful that we have managed to pull through. In times like these, I feel that the world needs more art...and I believe that animation is a very unique and powerful medium, connecting people and speaking directly to their hearts. TAF’s mission has always been to bring fresh animation films for the Thessaloniki audience to enjoy, screened in great venues of the city, honouring artists from all over the world for their inspiration and technique. This year, however, our top priority is to remain safe during the global health crisis, therefore we are stepping up our game by going exclusively online, reaching out to international audiences. We are also very happy to introduce the very first Balkan Animation Forum (BAF), bringing artists from around the Balkan Region together, to present their work and creative ideas. TAF initially began as a project among friends, artists and animators, who were seeking to share their love and passion for animation. We founded this festival eager to acquaint the audience of Thessaloniki with this specific art form and make it an annual celebration. True to ourselves, six years later, those same friends -plus a couple more we made along the way- are here making this festival bigger, better and TAF-er every year! Best Regards, Dimitris Savvaidis

2 Dear all, While Vardaris (Βαρδάρης), a wind of change, makes its way through Thessaloniki, lets us foresee that a new season is coming. Thessaloniki Animation Festival has now set sail for new land of opportunities. I am more than happy to announce that despite the struggle all around the globe, TAF is not only making it, but it’s getting at the top of its game. In this first year of my new role as Artistic Director of the festival, we have achieved a lot. I’m really proud that the 6th edition of TAF is packed with high quality animated short films, from all over the world-allowing everyone to enjoy themselves, no matter their taste. We have also invited some of the most interesting people from the animation industry, to share their experience and case studies of their most successful projects, through online masterclass sessions. Last, but not least - the first edition of BAF (Balkan Animation Forum) is here, to showcase amazing projects from the Balkan region. We hope that this new initiative will bring a lot of new market opportunities for the Balkan animation studios. I would like to thank all the members of our TAF team and our volunteers, for their incredible hard work and on-going support. We wouldn’t make it without you. I do hope you are going to enjoy our time together this year and please stay tuned, as there is more to come in the next editions of Thessaloniki Animation Festival. Kindest Regards, Marcin J. Sobczak

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TAF // THE 6TH EDITION TAF is here for the 6th consecutive year and it’s TAFer than ever! As we try to stay positive and active during the global health crisis, we keep spreading awareness and sharing our love for the art of animation, by going online! We have selected the best 114 films among 2000 amazing entries that were submitted this year, and we have arranged them in 10 thematic blocks. Based on your interests, you may watch as many films as you like. The top three animated films will be granted the Golden Octopus (Grand Prize), Silver and Bronze Octopus, in the context of the TAF 6 - International Competition and will be awarded by our jury members, which consist of renowned artists and professionals from the animation industry. There will also be a Storytelling award and a Student award, for the best film in each category. Additionally, the best film relating toHuman Rights, will receive a special award by the Select Respect network. What’s more, this year we are introducing the TAF 6 - Balkan Competition and a Best Film award in this category, in honor of the Balkan region. But that’s not all. Going online gives us the opportunity to become as inclusive as possible, and TAF is all about bringing people together. So, for the very first time you will be able to vote for your favourite film and become part of the Audience Award. Apart from screenings, TAF hosts a range of events, seminars and masterclasses, and this year is no exception. During the festival, our special guests will perform webinars and lectures live, via Zoom (platform). Last, but definitely not least, we are very excited to introduce the very first Balkan Animation Forum (BAF), bringing together artists from all over the Balkan region. Remaining true to our spirit, there is no entrance fee for the screenings or the webinars, but there will be a limited number of virtual seats available, so stay tuned! Welcome to TAF 6! Let’s get TAF-er!

5 OUR VISION TAF - Thessaloniki Animation Festival was founded in 2015 by ADDART, with a vision to promote independent animation from around the globe and cultivate appreciation for this specific art form. Though it began as a local event, TAF has grown fast over the years, becoming an acclaimed international festival and cultural feature of the city of Thessaloniki. More than 2000 short animated films are being submitted every year and a selection of the best 100 is being screened during the festival, while competing to be awarded by an international jury. Workshops and masterclasses performed by experts of the animation industry, are an integral part of the festival, giving the audience an opportunity to extend their knowledge and be a part of the creative process. On the fun side, various happenings and parallel events are being held during the festival and through the year, keeping the community active and engaged. Above all, TAF is about inclusiveness, therefore human rights and equality are highly promoted in every edition of the festival. Having a growing audience of all ages and backgrounds, with the precious contribution of amazing artists from around the world, the TAF team will continue working hard and heartily to make this a unique experience for everyone to enjoy.

6 WE ADD ART ADDART was established in 2014, having as a backdrop the rich cultural fabric of Thessaloniki, as a non profit multi-arts organization. Its core mission is to add art to everyday life, as well as promote and support the growth of the creative industries and economies. From its outset, it was perceived as a hub of ideas and a springboard for artistic expression, based on the assumption that art and culture may catalyze change and act as agents of social and economic development.

Aside from TAF, Addart commissions, produces and presents compelling art content and projects on a local, national and transnational level. Operating on an interdisciplinary basis, at the intersection between art and technology, it brings together diverse ecosystems in order to deliver meaningful and engaging creative output, either in the form of film or documentary, animated shorts and TV series, comic book publications, gaming and new media concepts, cultural events and educational initiatives.

Open to thinkers and doers, as well as to a wide range of disciplines like the visual and digital arts, creative writing, film and audiovisual development, to name some, ADDART favors outside of the box thinking and experimentation by looking for the new within the established and by blending different art forms in unusual ways and manners. To achieve this, it works from the community up to unearth and enliven up and coming artists, while at the same time, it builds bridges with other European centers to enable synergies, cross-sectoral collaborations, artist mobility, circulation of works, knowledge transfer and audience development.

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THESSALONIKI Thessaloniki (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη, also familiarly known as Thessalonica or Salonica), is the second largest city in and the capital of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

Its nickname “Συμπρωτεύουσα” (Symprotévousa), literally “the co-capital”, is a reference to its historical status as the “Συμβασιλεύουσα” (Symvasilévousa) or “co-reigning” city of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, alongside Constantinople. Founded in 315BC by Cassander of Macedon, it became an important center during the Roman period and the second largest and wealthiest city of the Byzantine Empire.

Nowadays, Thessaloniki has become a modern metropolis, a major economic, industrial, commercial and political center of Greece and a major transportation hub for southeastern . The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is the largest university in Greece and the Balkans, with over 120.000 students, renowned for its Art School and its departments of Fine Arts, Theater, Music and Film Studies .

Counting 23 centuries of history, Thessaloniki is a home to many outstanding Byzantine monuments and unique open-air heritage sites, some of them recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage, as well as to many Roman, Ottoman and Sephardic Jewish structures. The city’s rich culture and history, along with its cosmopolitan character attracts people from around the world, making it a famous tourist all year long.

The city is also known for its vibrant cultural life and it is considered to be Greece’s cultural capital. It’s the base for the biggest film festival of Greece and a great number of short film festivals, comic conventions, music concerts, events and exhibitions.

9 MEET OUR GUESTS TAF is also about sharing the knowledge. Artists, creators & experts in different fields of the animation industry, honour us with their presence every year, while conducting a wide variety of interesting workshops and masterclasses, free for everyone. Some of the topics that we have already highlighted during the previous editions of the festival, were stop motion animation, 2d animation, voice acting, production design, script writing, character design, visual effects and animation and many more. This year is no exception. We have prepared for you several amazing masterclasses that will take place online (via Zoom). MARC DHRAMI // N O R M A A L Animation S tudio

Head of Business Development & International Sales at N O R M AA L Animation. Marc Dhrami started in animation in 1998 at the Studio Dargaud-Marina as Post-production Supervisor and then Head of Production. He joined Millimages in 2000 as Head of Studio later moving up to Head of Operations. He is recruited by Gaumont Animation as Head of Financing and Co-productions in 2011 and then takes on the role of Head of Operations for the Animation in , adding studio operations and productions to its co-production responsibilities. In 2017, He joined N O R M AA L as Head of Business Development & International Sales.

DENIS FRIEDMAN // Film Producer Denis Friedman has been involved in the production of feature films and feature animation for more than 15 years. His first production was KAENA, the Prophecy, the first full CGI feature film to be produced in Europe (released in France in 2002 and distributed in more than 20 countries all over the world). In 2005 Denis Friedman co-produced with Prima Linéa, Fear(s) of the dark, a landmark feature animation that will remain a reference in the field of adaptation of graphic novels to the world of animation. In 2007, Denis Friedman Productions joined the famous Japanese studio to co-develop and co-produce Yona Yona Penguin, the last feature from world acclaimed director (Metropolis, Captain Herlock). Released in 2010, the film has been selected in many festivals worldwide and was chosen by the Venice Mostra in 2009 as the closing movie of the Festival.

CARLOS GAXIOLA // DEMENTE Animation Studio Carlos Gaxiola is the CEO of DEMENTE Film Studio, in Mexico. Carlos is a designer with over 20 years experience in brand communications, advertising and product design. He has led projects for global brands in Mexico and abroad, including Cartoon Network, LazyTown, Disney and Discovery Networks. Carlos oversees all of Demente Studio’s projects, managing local and remote teams to deliver on our promise of high quality and cost effectiveness.

11 ALAN KEANE // HOT DROP FILMS Writer, Story Editor & Creative Producer, Alan Keane is a graduate of NUIG’s Heuston Film Schools MA in Screenwriting Program back in 2005. He was awarded the Pat Sheerhan Scholarship to UCLA’s professional screenwriting program. In the same year he did an internship on several feature projects in development, including Captain America. Many of the shows Alan has worked on have gone on to win and be nominated for Emmys, BAFTAs and even Royal Television Society awards, with Black Mirror being among them. Alan also was a Story Editor and co-Writer for Cartoon Networks much-lauded The Amazing World of Gumball. Recent shows Alan has both developed and was Head Writer on are Space Chickens in Space for Disney and the double Emmy nominated The Oddbods Show for ONE Animation. Alan has also co written a $50m feature film Miro’s Magical Opus due for cinematic release in 2022. Amongst other projects, Alan is currently working on an Oddbods feature film: Oddbods Lost in Time project for Netflix and is currently developing a big budget TV adaptation of a large Hollywood animated movie franchise, for 9 Story - Brown Bag Films. He also has projects in development with Cartoon Saloon and Sixteen South too. Alan Keane founded Hot Drop Films back in 2015 with Shane Perez. Collectively we have written, and edited over 400+ episodes of produced animation for studios and production companies all over the world.

PANAGIOTIS KYRIAKOULAKOS // Film Producer Dr Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos is Assistant Professor in at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean. He has extensive experience in Teaching and Digital Production activities both in Greece and France since 1987, including Expertise for the MEDIA Programme of the European Union. Dr Kyriakoulakos received the Grant of Excellence Research in Paris 2013 from the City of Paris to conduct research in Paris, in the context of HIST3D Research framework. Dr Kyriakoulakos received the title of Chevalier des Palmes Academiques by the French Ministry of Education (2014) for his commitment to the French-Greek Cooperation in the Sectors of Education and Culture. He currently serves as Vice President of ASIFA Hellas.

12 CHRISTIAN LLOYD // Actor Award winning actor, writer and photographer, Christian Lloyd’s select Film/TV acting credits include: Guest Starring as the God Argus in American Gods (Starz/Amazon), portraying one of the commanding architects of Gilead in the Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning The Handmaid’s Tale (MGM/Hulu), 11/22/63 (Hulu), The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) Mum’s the word (Hallmark), Repo Men (Universal), David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars (Focus Features) and playing John Hinckley Jr. in Oliver Stone’s The day Reagan was shot (Paramount/Showtime). Select theatre credits include: The heart of Robin Hood, Who Killed Snow White, Chicken Grease is Nasty Business, Amadeus, Platonov, Twelfth Night. As a writer, Christian has had plays performed in Toronto, California, and South Africa, having success with his short filmGetting Lucky, the feature filmMoments of Clarity and the never aired pilot What Would Trejo Do. Christian graduated from the University of Guelph, with an Honours Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics. He then completed the 3 year Professional Theatre Training Conservatory at Toronto’s acclaimed George Brown College. He is also a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography.

ILAN URROZ // FOLIASCOPE Ilan Urroz, studied biology and chemistry, after getting a bachelor’s degree in vegetal biology and wine. He also studied informatics, computer languages and infotainment. From Design agency to urban transportation engineering or government agencies in measurement or RFID, he decided in 2009 to develop his passion for animation as director of La Cartoucherie. Built by the city council of Valence (Drôme in France), La Cartoucherie it’s a center dedicated to animation studios. For 6 years Ilan had been developing the business of all the studios, bringing them on markets, making networking or innovative projects with more than 6M€ spend or building the extension of the center for 3M€. In 2015 he moved to Marseille (south of France) to manage the content cluster of all the south region, from Avignon, Aix, Marseille to Cannes and Nice. With more than 150 members in content industries, animation documentary, live action, TV broadcast, he develops networking, international partnerships and markets, such as Cannes, MIFA, Sunny Side, South by Southwest first French delegation in this US content forum. In 2018, with his experience in partnership, market and management. He buys with Nicolas FLORY his associate, the company founded by Pascal LE NÔTRE known as cofounder of Folimage.

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BAF // Balkan Animation Forum This year, TAF is introducing something new: the first Balkan Animation Forum - BAF! Eager to grow our community, encourage the exchange of ideas and prepare the ground for new collaborations, we have invited creators from all over the Balkan region to meet with experts from the animation industry and pitch their projects. Among many interesting entries we have chosen the best eight, that will attend a session on how to develop their pitching and presentation skills. The best project pitch will be granted the BAF - Best Pitch award and will receive a private mentoring session on script writing and film production, conducted by our special guests. The prize, also includes an “Oculus Quest” VR al-in-one headset. Defying all boundaries, the Balkan Animation Forum will be held online (via Zoom), giving anyone the chance to attend and participate.

15 BALCONADA

Director: Iva Tokmakchieva Producer: Vessela Dantcheva, Compote Collective Country: Bulgaria Time: 7 min / Non dialogue

“Balconada” is about one hot summer day in which personal activities, of mutually unknown characters, are intertwined. Nine characters are situated on small balconies facing the backyard. The characters are obsessed with their own aspirations and emotions and manifest their personalities through specific actions. Everyone’s day starts slowly and calmly. The characters prepare for the day. Everyone suggests something about themselves through little details without revealing the whole picture.

16 DREAM SPACE

Director & Writer: Vasil Bogdanov Country: Bulgaria Genre: Fantasy / Horror Time: 4.39 min / Non dialogue

Our Everyman experiences a dull, monotonous daily routine. Every night he collapses into bed and starts lucid dreaming. He finds some enjoyment in a beautiful fantasy world and is able to gain control over what is happening. Then his alarm clock brings him back to reality every morning. One night he enters sleep paralysis, and he is no longer in charge. A looming threat comes closer. What began as an escape has become terrifying. The short film uses visual storytelling, with no dialogue. It can be expanded into a more complex story with a therapist, Freudian jokes and humorous/ironic dialogue along the lines of Bojack Horseman, for example.

17 GREEK MYTHS THE ANTIHEROES

Director & Producer: Giannis & Konstantinos Andrias Country: Greece Genre: Fiction Time: 7 min 12 episodes

Greek myths, the antiheroes, is a 2D animated fiction TV series where the protagonists are the villains and antiheroes of Greek mythology. Every episode follows a different character in a new and original story, where he gets the chance to retell or sometimes relive the events of the Myth, but this time from his own perspective. Our protagonists have to confront their memories, their enemies and sometimes themselves. Each episode comes to a conclusion for our protagonists and leads them to a cathartic end.

18 HERCULES’ RESCUE

Director: (To be decided) Scriptwriter: Zvonko Naumovski Producer: Robert Naskov Companies: KINO OKO, FX3X, IDEA OK Country: Republic Of North Macedonia Genre: Drama Time: 100 min

Hercules’ Rescue story is based on a real event which happened in when the citizens lost their favourite ship. HERCULES, an old ship-crane and a hero among the locals, is anchored for repairs due to the heart attack of Peter, his captain, who’s the only family to Helen, his 14 years old granddaughter. Many birds and sea animals have created a community living on or around Hercules. The situation changes when a seagull named Captain, understands that Leopold, a middle-age oligarch who owns Hercules has decided to cut the ship into pieces and sell it as scrap metal. Helen, Captain and their friends will have to fight him.

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Director: Polyxeny Katsari & Matina Fykari Country: Greece Genre: Dark / Mistery Time: 8 min

Oscar is a boy who lives in an old Victorian mansion. One night, Oscar found, under his bed, an old dusty music box. As he was trying to reach for the box, big shadowy hands tried to stop him. Oscar managed to take and open it, making the hands disappear. The boy went into slumber listening to the song of the music box, when an ethereal sound woke him up. A woman calling his name. Oscar got up from the bed, following the mysterious voice. This led him to his dead mother’s portrait. It looked different. A vibrant green light was beaming through his mother’s key pendant. Her hands moved, showing him the old bookcase. Suddenly books start flying around and a strange green light shone bright from a heavy old dusty book.

20 MISFITS & BISCUITS

Director: Mladen Đukić Producer: AEON production ( Bosnia and Herzegovina) Country: Bosnia & Herzegovina Language: English Genre: Fiction Time: 11 min x 13 episodes

Four friends live together in Dragon’s castle and encounter various life challenges or problems that occur to them. Oh, and there’s a lot of cooking, beautiful smells, and some secret ingredients. Things might not be as they look at first glance, and that one should always look at the world with an open heart and without prejudices. That is something we ’re conveying all the time while helping kids develop, in a safe environment.

21 THE GOLDEN APPLE

Director: Dimitar Petrov Producer: Studio Zme Co-producer: Dandelooo (France) Country: Bulgaria/France Language: English Genre: Comedy / Adventure Time: 26 min x 13 episodes

Vee is a spirited teen who senses that her town is hiding a strange secret. Curious minds need to know the truth! Vee’s wish comes true thanks to the mystical Golden Apple, which returns the land and its people back to their magical selves of old. Sprites, sorcerers, and fantastical creatures all over the place! Oh, and Vee’s a half-human/half-storm spirit Coooool. But with all this whimsy comes a truly dark force which threatens to destroy everyone she loves. Not cool! With her childhood friends -- now a budding sprite and a scrawny warrior -- Vee embarks on a quest to save her world by uniting folkloric forces she never even used to believe in!

22 TRAVEL BAGS

Director: Fokion Xenos Producer: Isavella Alopoudi & Amanda Livanou Country: Greece Genre: Comedy Time: 5-7 min / One off episodes

In the summertime 8-year old Pauline travels from Paris to with her parents to visit her Greek side of the family. With her she always carries her favourite suitcase that has a tiny stowaway: Louis the Beetle. Louis is a middle-aged French beetle travelling to relax. Unfortunately this plan doesn’t always work as he meets a Greek hyperactive Ladybug kid named Jason. In their travels they develop a parent - child relationship. Every adventure they have starts with a small intro with the place Pauline and her parents travel to. Every small journey aims to reflect the differences in perspective between children and adults when they tour together. In each episode the dynamics will shift them, their surroundings and sometimes other local bug characters.

23 24 Anyone who has traveled to the Balkan region knows this: They share common history, cultural similarities, folk art, dances and traditions. But, what about animation? Let’s find out! Films all the way from the Adriatic to the Black Sea, bringing the Balkans even closer. ALONE CANDY CAN DREAM Necmettin Asma Mihai Mitrica Semiramis Mamata color, 3’25’’ // Turkey 2020 color, 9’16’’ // Romania 2020 color, 4’50’’ // Greece 2020

The world is changing rapidly. The A vulnerable boy works very hard A colourful trip technological developments, that we to escape from a stark reality. He have to keep up with, are affecting surrounds himself by a world of toys our daily life deeply. Technological and games but as the truth starts to transformation is influencing and emerge his refuge might turn out to transforming communication among be a trap. people, at most. Our communication needs, mediums, methods, tools, style, frequency are getting different day by day by technology. On the other hand, it is a fact that something is missing. The question is this: Do we really communicate? Or are we alone in this communication cacophony? This movie is exactly looking for the answer to the question.

26 MISTAKEN FREEDOM QUARANTINE RADIOVISION: ASTRONOMY Vasilis Hatzopoulos Dimitar Dimitrov Tamara Bogovac, Miloš Ivanović color, 0’54’’ // Greece 2019 b&w, 3’30’’ // Bulgaria 2020 color, 3’07’’ // Serbia 2020

A short animated story about freedom The film is about a person’s state of We meet a scientist from the field of mind, under a long quarantine. Astronomy and the interest that started in his early childhood. Halley’s Comet, as a motive, leads us into the bright past of the little boy, Tatomir, who plays marble taw games with his peers. In a fantastic way, through play and curiosity, he begins his journey to explore the Universe.

27 RADIOVISION: THE MEANING SKYLESS THE FEATHERS THAT SMELL Iva Ćirić, Miloš Ivanović Magdalena Stoilova OF THE SEA b&w, 3’04’’ // Serbia 2019 color, 5’25’’ // Bulgaria 2020 Žoel Kastelic color, 3’28’’ // Slovenia 2019 Through visual metaphors and the “I’m left with a piece of the horizon symbolic language of animation, the that the city tries to crush to hurt The story revolves around a cormorant film describes a philosophy on the me” (JLUCH). Skyless is a film about bird, who is a symbol of being split meaning in life. Inspired by an original looking to the past and tripping over the between two worlds. Just as people audio recording from 1982, a famous present. About someone who doesn’t can live between two worlds, so can Serbian novelist is searching for the know where to go when the world turns the cormorant, who is a bird living the answer to the question: “Is there a against them. And about finding hope life of a fish. Such life is not impossible, meaning in life and if there is, where when you bother to look up. but the cormorant still has to surface to is it…?” get some air and has to dry its wings.

28 THE PARROT LADY THE RED STRING WAR AND PEACE IN A Michalis Kalopaidis Alexandra Fuscas NUTSHELL color, 6’45’’ // Cyprus 2020 color, 5’21’’ // Romania 2019 Sandro Toth color, 1’05’’ // Croatia 2019 ‘The parrot lady’ is inspired by a true Dan is stuck in a routine working in story. The film works as an artistic a travel agency. One day, before his The year is 1812 and Napoleon has interpretation of a woman’s life who eyes appears a red string, following it invaded Russia, what will it take to chose to live on the streets with her will lead to an eye-opening discovery. stop him!? parrots, afraid of dying alone in her home.

29 The five senses are being stimulated: Dopamine, adrenaline and norepinephrine increase, leading to euphoria. Fulfilment, alertness and excitement result in intense heartbeat, dilated pupils and shaking. Serotonin now reduces the brain blood flow, causing cloudiness and decreased ability to concentrate. In a nutshell: Horny. ARTEMIS BEST ANIMAL VIDEOS CHADO Bárbara Cerro Katarzyna Miechowicz Dominica Harrison, Abigail Addison b&w, 1’04’’ // Argentina 2020 color, 6’27’’ // Poland 2020 color, 7’24’’ // United Kingdom 2020

The moon rules the tides, the moon Swan’s life is simple and quiet. During a long hot summer in the forest, lights us at night, the moon is our guide Everything turns upside down when Child is forced to grow up. First her as human beings. Without the moon we he meets a crazy cat named Tony. Dog becomes ill, then out of the blue lose the reference. The cycles of the her Mother returns with a new lover moon mark our lives, our rhythms. It is in tow. Child’s world is turned upside said that the moon is connected with down. A coming of age story, set in an the woman’s cycles. Like the cycles enchanted Russian wilderness. of the moon and plants, menstruation represents the regeneration of life. The moon is the feminine. Artemis is the Goddess of the Moon and is the name of the mission that will take the first woman to the Moon in 2024.

31 COCKPERA GNT INTERNAL AFFAIRS Kata Gugić, Vinko Brešan, Sara Hirner, Rosemary Vasquez-Brown David Sick Tomislav Buntak color, 4’01’’ // Australia 2020 color, 2’42’’ // Germany 2020 color, 4’34’’ // Croatia 2020 To Nikki’s surprise, she has thrush. When a guy fells in love at first sight, A short opera inspired by Aesop’s Who knew you weren’t meant to be an inner conflict sets in whether he fable The Fighting Cocks and the wet 24/7? While Tammy is busy being should hit on her or not. Eagle. caring and inclusive, Glenn makes it her mission to get thrush and reign true as Queen G again. It can’t be too hard - she wears exclusively activewear! How far will Glenn go to conquer the clique, and social media at large?

32 LUSHFULNESS NOX INSOMNIA PICK YOUR POISON Weronika Szyma Guy Charnaux Zoe Pham color, 5’39’’ // Poland 2020 color, 7’54’’ // Brazil 2020 color, 5’47’’ // United States 2020

When a girl meets her mirror reflection, A three-act epic about a seven-year old Two people fall madly in love until their unexpectedly her fears and insecurities boy who can’t sleep, thinking about his love bubble pops. Their minds speak about her body turn into a passionate issues. He hears something coming louder than their words. and free self exploration. Her fantasies from his parents’ room, some loud come to life. But there’s also a darker and disturbing noises. What could that side of this game. Is it possible to be? A story about childhood, sex and become united with your own self? insomnia.

33 SH_T HAPPENS SOMETHING ELSE WET+SOPY David Štumpf, Michaela Mihályi, Élodie Roy Cliona Noonan Ondřej Šejnoha color, 3’56’’ // Canada 2020 color, 4’02’’ // Ireland 2019 color, 13’08’’ // 2020 A young asexual woman is confronted A weather-tormented man who just The caretaker exhausted by everything, his to a hypersexual environment, that is wants to dry his underwear is forced to frustrated wife and one totally depressed promoting a unique model of intimacy use the local laundromat each evening. deer. Their mutual despair leads them to in which she doesn’t feel represented. absurd events, because... shit happens “Something Else” is an animated film all the time. about the emotional emptiness created by sexual normativity, an omnipresent concept in our contemporary world.

34 YESTERDAY I GREW A FRIEND Adrianna Matwiejczuk, Łódź Filmschool color, 6’13’’ // Poland 2020

In friendship-driven world, young lonely man decides to try unconventional methods to find his soulmate.

35 What triggers the - so called - “battle of the sexes”? What is the actual definition of gender? People experience their gender in numerous ways, while lots of them struggle to accept or show their true identity. As we free ourselves from stereotypes and social norms, we contrive to become our unique and beautiful selves. It’s the only way for acceptance and equality to thrive!

36 CIERVO CWCH DEILEN FLORIAN Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma Efa Blosse-Mason, Amy Morris Keshav Abrol, Lucas Londoño-Clayton, color, 10’15’’ // USA 2020 color, 6’32’’ // United Kingdom 2020 Pavel Loparev, Alicia Velasco color, 3’46’’ // Spain 2019 An emotionally haunting and visually Learning to love someone can be beautiful experience, ‘Ciervo’ tells the scary, but it can also lead to the most Every day, a bearded man must story of a young girl who holds violence, marvellous adventure. With a striking complete a strange and difficult ritual submission, and independence in an illustrative style, writer/director Efa to prepare himself for the day ahead. uneasy balance as one morphs into Blosse-Mason tells the story of the other. Heledd and Celyn who navigate the undiscovered and murky waters of entering a new relationship. Facing vulnerability and a sea , the lover’s odyssey tests the strength of their Leaf Boat. Through the bewitching power of 2D animation this film explores the internal worlds of the characters emotions which are visualized through seasons and stormy seas.

37 INSIDE ME POSTPARTUM THE CAGE Maria Teixeira, University Babelsberg, Henriette Rietz Jinlan SHI, ECV PARIS Konrad Wolf color, 4’36’’ // Germany 2020 color, 3’17’’ // France 2020 b&w, 5’14’’ // Germany 2019 The film is about the chaotic phase Michael is a man who has gender A clear decision surrounded by mixed in life of a new mother. Pumped up dysphoria. For him, it is like he is a feelings. A young woman recounts her with hormones and lacking sleep, this woman but being trapped inside a body experience with abortion. intense time has burned deep into of man. This feeling is frustrating for the protagonist’s heart. This film is “her”, she felt like a prisoner in a cage ... an honest and very personal insight into the world of an overwhelmed mother, who seriously thought that parental leave would become a sort of sabbatical.

38 THE LOST BRIDE UNLIKELY LOVE WALKING AT KNIGHT Juliette Cousin Molly Mayhew, Markus Øvre Faye Thomas color, 7’16’’ // France 2019 color, 1’38’’ // United Kingdom 2019 color, 3’55’’ // USA 2020

During the XVIIIth century, in Denmark’s A short documentary following the A young girl moves to a tropical city. countryside, a young woman slips highs and lows of a young moth After experiencing harassment on a away from her wedding ceremony to grappling with the love of her life... train, she learns the unique way that follow a will o wisp through the hills. It a candle. people in the city keep themselves will lead her to a demons’ procession safe. and she joins them for a dance.

39 WAY OF SYLVIE Verica Pospíšilová Kordić, Ondřej Šejnoha color, 12’24’’ // Czech Republic 2019

Sylvie´s life beats in a rhythm of responsibilities. And she is efficient, flawless, wonderful and - tired. A small accident happens and everything changes... or maybe not.

40 Welcome to the spooky collection! It is time to shed light on the darkest corners of our subconscious; the homeland of our inner demons… Aliens, witches and monsters from all over the world, are here to entertain the bravest among you. Care for a good scare?

41 41 CANARY’S ECHO FALLEN LIGHT FOR TEDDY Christopher Ellis Bastien Philippe, Maella Rethaber, Marco Giglio color, 4’15’’ // South Africa 2019 Manon Minerbe, Manon De Vincenzi, color, 3’16’’ // Italy 2020 Idir Hadoum, Franck Petitta Somewhere along the outskirts of color, 5’50’’ // France 2019 Teddy is gone. Left lifeless inside Johannesburg. Milo, a young illegal a shoebox, receiving the farewell miner descends down into another An inquisitor convinces a village to from its pals, the Space Marines. But abandoned mine, for another day of sentence a woman for witchcraft. the mission is not over. It’s time to scavenging. Everything is going fine avenge the fallen hero, fighting the until his companion Canary, Sully, real enemy. escapes from his cage and flies off into a closed-off area of the mine. Milo timidly ventures into the unknown to retrieve his canary but gets trapped in a deeper part of the mine. He finds himself face to face with something far more frightening, something ancient, that had been waiting….

42 MALAKOUT MELTED MR. EICHMANN AND THE Farnoosh Abedi, Ali Gholami Nikki Chapman MAVERICK GOAT color, 10’00’’ // Brazil 2020 color, 1’45’’ // USA 2020 Qiao (Joe) Cheng color, 3’22’’ // United Kingdom 2019 Music was his passion... A macabre girl laments about the Love was his masterpiece... inevitability of death after being given A story of an obedient workman and a a melting cartoon character popsicle. rebellious goat, inspired by the Stanley Milgram experiment. It explores if Mr. Eichmann would follow an inhuman order when pressured by a higher authority. The film is allegorical with a subtext challenging the compliance of the proletariat with authoritarian regimes.

43 OLD HAG PACO SATURNO Julie Rembauville, Nicolas Bianco- Susanna Ruttnig, Stefan Tantana Gaspar Aguirre, Román Sovrano Levrin, Sébastien Hussenot color, 4’20’’ // Austria 2020 color, 7’11’’ // Argentina 2019 color, 7’37’’ // France 2020 While waiting for the train the bunny On a rainy night, a young man receives While his wife believes he is at a Paco is plagued by intrusive thoughts. a strange and completely unexpected corporate seminar in Paris, Jean-Luc visit. Someone seems to be interested is sitting in a boat moving in the bayou in him and his dear Saturno. somewhere in Louisiana. He has an appointment with the voodoo wizard Richardson. This wizard is known for solving all the problems.

44 THE SUGARCANE MAN WADE Tina Obo, Leroy Le Rouxcolor Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, Kalp Sanghvi color 4’53’’ // South Africa 2019 color, 10’38’’ // India 2019

A true story, about Joseph Kony, a In a version of Kolkata, India rendered warlord from Northern Uganda, who unliveable by sea level rise, things take has kidnapped over 30,000 children a dark turn when a family of climate to strengthen his army, forcing the change refugees are ambushed by a boys to become soldiers and the girls tiger on the flooded streets. to become sex slaves. Through the promise of immunity, the children were being used as a tool for the war, killing even their family members.

45 This is an effort to give rise to social consciousness and reveal the sensitive side of animation. Just like every year, this film block is devoted to freedom and equality. The block is funded by Heinrich Böll Stiftung Greece and the best film will be awarded by the Select Respect network, consisted of 15 organisations that spread awareness on human rights. This year we have expanded this category, by adding two more film blocks: “Introspective” and “Gender Equality”.

46 DRAWING LIFE HELENA #STOLENMEMORY LET THEM HAVE CHEESE Luciano Lagares, Laura Morales Toby Mory Jishnav Iyer b&w, 12’52’’ // Brazil 2018 color, 4’06’’ // Germany 2020 color, 2’09’’ // India 2020

An unmotivated caricaturist draws Helena was born in Poznań in 1925, Three rats are presented with a slab people in the street. One day, a woman was a good student and grew up of cheese on a stool. In order to get pulling a sick and incommunicable boy embraced by the love of her family. to the cheese they have to cooperate, in a wheelchair appears. The drawer One day, on her way to school the which leads to conflict. observes him, scrutinizing the life that Nazis arrested her. This is her story activates the simplest emotions, joy, during the regime and after the end anger, disappointment and happiness. of WWII. Despite the injustice and all As a connection is established, an the sufferings Helena´s experience can atmosphere full of fantasy, fun teach us valuable and timeless lessons drawings and funny situations is of resistance, courage and hope for a created by an unlikely communication better world. process.

47 ME AND MY MAGNET AND ONE LEFT STRAWBERRY CANDY MY DEAD FRIEND Sebastian Doringer Nianze Li, Koji Yamamura Liu Maoning color, 6’13’’ // Austria 2020 color, 6’41’’ // China 2020 color, 13’05’’ // China 2019 “One Left” takes place in a world where She has an unspeakable secret but A magnet that accompanied me to life is symbolized by a heart pictogram the memory is gradually fading. The grow up and a dead friend was the that appears above a person’s head. little girl is no longer sure if it was a symbol of my past years. I tied the Several patients are waiting in a dream or reality. magnet to the trousers and pulled doctor’s office to hear test results it out all day. Blocks or coins make regarding their remaining lifetimes. me very happy. Until I met the friend In most cases, the allotted time is not who wanted to fly to the universe, as long as they had hoped for. he was as fat as I was, and then he accidentally fell into the water and died. My childhood was over.

48 THE SOCIAL CUBE THIS SIDE, OTHER SIDE WHAT IS CORRUPTION? Bety Suchanová, Ondřej Šejnoha Lida Fazli Toby Mory color, 4’08’’ // Czech Republic 2019 color, 8’51’’ // Iran 2019 color, 1’42’’ // Germany 2020

Resurrect our imaginations beyond the In short, the story of the film is that Corruption is the abuse of entrusted four wall of our social cage. Animated no border can prevent the formation power for private gain. This film for essay about global situation of our of friendships and affection between Transparency International explains society living in neoliberalism which children, and I wish that the world of in a nutshell the way corruption works tends to a constant need of growth and adults, like the world of children, is and the systems that enable it. increases inequality. Film is pointing full of peace and friendship. out problems most of the people face in their everyday life without noticing it, and encourages us for seeking brighter prospects for the future and break through.

49 Dare to step into the maze of human mind? Join us, in an effort to unlock the mysteries of the soul. Stress, fear, obsession, depression, the struggle with therapy, the redemption...Dive into a sea full of emotions and discover the most precious treasures: the ones we hide within.

5050 ABDITA AHEAD APNEA Valentina Giorgi, Arianna Morganti, Ala Nunu Leszynska Carol Sakura, Walkir Fernandes Dennis Pezzolato, Giulia Zanette color, 5’00’’ // United Kingdom, 2020 color, 14’27’’ // Brazil 2019 color, 5’29’’ // Italy 2020 A short story about living with and as Muriel could not swim, she was so A little girl finds the courage to face the a headless person. afraid. A fear that echoed the distance frightening world of the depression in of her mother and brought up monsters which her mother lives. of childhood. Dipped in herself, she now seeks the voice and air that she always lacked as a girl and a woman.

51 EACH AND EVERY NIGHT HARRY KUMAGAI Julie Robert Markus Eberhard, Gerd Gockell Julia Berdollt, Auriane Remond, color, 11’33’’ // France 2020 color, 5’54’’ // Switzerland 2020 Mathilde Girard, Abigaelle Michel, Victoria Lallemand, Franck Petitta Since childhood, Lea has been seeing Harry is a completely hairy person color, 7’44’’ // France 2019 ghostly deer looming around her. Now whose hair rapidly grows and falls out that she is in a relationship with Maud, again. He tries to deal with this problem Kumagai, a veteran samurai is forced the visions are getting worse. How and to keep his apartment in order to kill a mysterious opponent on the can she prove to her girlfriend, and to before his lost hair gets out of hand. battlefield. When he comes back home, herself, that this is a real problem to he has to learn to live again next to be dealt with? his wife but the memory of his deed keeps haunting him and is destroying him day after day.

52 PERFECT SEAT 42 SOMMERREGEN Khe Yn O Andreana Boatta, Filippo Di Piramo, Julia Skala, Oscar Jacobson, Michael color, 3’08’’ // Russia 2019 Alice Di Natale, Nicola Giacomelli Hessenbruch color, 5’58’’ // Italy, 2020 color, 6’03’’ // Germany 2020 A short film about a girl, whose obsession with perfectionism went A journey halfway between dream After an exhausting rainy day, a young too far. and memories of a boy who does not woman is struggling with her growingly understand where he is going and what overwhelming feelings. Initially, she his place is. While no one can answer has difficulties allowing her tears his questions, this journey will make and fights actively against them. She him face his life as an adult. desperately tries to keep out the rain, which more and more vehemently makes its way into her apartment. Yet as soon as she learns to accept and appreciate the rain, she also makes peace with crying. In the end, she finds comfort and consolation in her own tears.

53 THE FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT THE MAN WHO NEVER SAW RESPONSE RAIN Cecile Regis, Julien Bartissol, Miguel Muñoz Sabine Aime, Agathe Capin, Margot color, 2’00’’ // Spain 2020 Rousseau, Franck Petitta color, 6’10’’ // France 2019 What if you’ve never seen it rain? When John-Boris Keybusiness, a man overwhelmed by fear of flying, is forced to get on a plane, nothing happens as planned... Dun dun duuuuunnnn

54 Welcome to the mystery box! This is a place for all of you who feel like watching anything and find it hard to choose. From sad to hilarious, from black and white to an explosion of colours, this film block is a rollercoaster that you will most definitely enjoy.

55 BUBE MAISES DRAW JEAN Or Levy Martin Kamminga, Conway Dobbs Marion Auvin, Virginie Giachino, color, 6’00’’ // Israel 2020 color, 1’39’’ // United Kingdom 2019 Joris Clerté color, 13’29’’ // France 2020 Yaffa is a 80 years old woman who live Two kings do battle for supremacy in a nursing home and has dementia. on the chess board. Through my film, I wanted to talk the dementia causes her to live her about the opposition of a stressful, childhood again. At that time, her exciting atmosphere of a shooting, to a dad who was a business man was prolonged, indeterminate waiting time traveling the world and sending her in which my character, Jean, a well- postcards from every country he known actor, will suddenly become visited, and she imagined her with him paralyzed through a banal everyday in his adventures. at the end we find gesture: shaving his beard. Jean will out that her daughter, Miri, is forging be destabilized by the radical change in Yaffa this postcards today to keep her the way those around him look at him. mother happy.

56 LAST ROUND MIME YOUR MANNERS MIRACULUM Anatole Bournique, Maeva Chaulvet, Kate Namowicz, Skyler Porras Claire Eyheramendy, MoPA Katia Hochstetter, Nicolas Jaffre, color, 3’20’’ // USA 2020 color, 1’24’’ // France 2019 Thais Mercier, Franck Petitta color, 6’27’’ // France 2019 An arrogant man berates a mime. As A priest realises he possesses the a consequence, he is transformed into power of levitation with unholy results! In a Parisian suburb, a young and a mime until he learns to treat others promising boxer has to find a way to how he would like to be treated. ensure the future of his little sister, a piano prodigy.

57 PEARL DIVER THE CITY SHORES THE WINTER Margrethe Danielsen, Pierre Watteyne Xin Li Endre Eidsaa Larsen color, 7’57’’ // Belgium 2019 color, 5’00’’ // Australia, China 2020 color, 9’00’’ // Norway 2020 Célestin is an old urban fisherman Walking in a snowy forest, a peasant Three couples are facing different living in his solitary bubble while he sees an unusual deer and goes to challenges: A middle aged hedgehog indulges in his routine: fishing along follow it. The deer allures him and falls in love with a balloon, but finds the canal of the city. One day his the peasant even wants to catch it. it difficult to maintain his grooming nightmares and memories caught up routine. A couple of arctic lovers are with him, finally leading him to a new experiencing a coldness between them encounter. and two oysters are losing patience as they wait to be on the same schedule.

58 THE ZILLAS WILD WEST COMPRESSED Christian Franz Schmidt Christian Kaufmann, Linda Krauss color, 4’45’’ // Germany 2019 color, 2’39’’ // Germany 2019

The Zillas, a huge family of lizards, The wild west! Cowboys galloping emerge from the sea and notice that through vast landscapes, yearning their traditional picnic area is inhabited looks into the distance, huge egos by humans and other monsters. duelling to the blood - of course it needs the wide screen! But following the slogan, “vertical is the new widescreen” even the western has to keep up with the times. With the new, Mobilescope‘ the genre expects of it’s cowboys the same cool performance as we are used to. Will that work well?

59 Welcome to the mystery box! This is a place for all of you who feel like watching anything and find it hard to choose. From sad to hilarious, from black and white to an explosion of colours, this film block is a rollercoaster that you will most definitely enjoy.

60 AT THE END OF THE WORLD BREAK COMO Y PORQUE SE HA Martin Kukal, Libor Nemeskal, Riccardo Pavone, Wei Huang ESFUMADO DON JOSE Petr Babinec color, 2’45’’ // China 2018 Moshe Ben-Avraham color, 9’51’’ // Czech Republic 2019 color, 12’38’’ // Spain, Israel 2018 In a smoky, Piranesian world, full of A nearly common shop with a nearly incomprehensible machinery and A delighted bee disturbs the tranquility common corpulent saleswoman, Karla, busy mechanical workers, a robot is of vacationers on a quiet pastoral lies at the end of the world. Out of passionately dedicated to music for island. Disturbing Don Jose in the standing in time, beyond genres and the short time granted by the recharge middle of a relaxing gaze, he spits universes. Whoever needs anything to of his jackhammer batteries. at her and she falls into his drink. buy will simply arrives there. Stranger Attempting to save her from drowning, and stranger customers come to Don Jose becomes emotionally Karla and she always sells whatever attached to the bee. When the bee every creature needs. But does a lone is suddenly devoured by a duck, Don vendor even fulfill her greatest wish? Jose starts his pursuit of the duck, Sensitive animated short film about embarking on a chase of logic. and a the insensitive human world. surrealistic journey into the depths of his consciousness.

61 DEAD END DOOMSDAY PRINCESS ESCAPE VELOCITY Nir Berger, Yael Ozsinay Alyssa Ragni Tamás Rebák, Melinda Kiss color, 4’00’’ // Israel, 2019 color, 2’14’’ // USA 2020 color, 7’43’’ // Hungary 2019

Dead End is an animated comedy As the only human survivor of a An astronaut awakens in an abandoned web series set in a post-apocalyptic radioactive apocalypse, a cheerful cave of a strange planet. An interstellar Israel. The year is 2020 and JerUnited young woman sings her way through vagabond, so to say. A light path leads Stateslem has been decimated by life, planning a tea party where she him to the surface, where he looks a nuclear war. Bickering teenage hopes she can finally find friendship. at his compass and heads for his siblings Yarden and Kineret travel spaceship. He keeps glancing back, what remains of the city in search of treading nervously, looking afraid. He their little brother who went missing has been chased by a creature for a in the aftermath of the bombing. In long time, and his only way to break their travels they encounter various free is to escape this curious planet. survivors of what was once Israel, only to find that very little had actually changed.

62 LIMBO FUNGOS ROUTINE: THE PROHIBITION SHIBUYA Alexis Ménard Sam Orti, Alex Cervantes Olivier Lescot, Paul Le Baron, Emilie color, 11’00’’ // Belgium 2019 color, 8’15’’ // Spain 2020 Walmsley, Stella Ramsden color, 2’36’’ // France 2019 A spaceman tries to survive on a planet In a dark world, devastated by lies and where everything seems hostile to him. dominated by fear, we continue with The track features Vic Mensa, Jaden A disaster that destroys his only refuge our self-destructive routines towards Smith and Belly and pairs up superbly pushes him to anticipate his attempt to extinction. with the futuristic, Manga-influenced, escape aboard a small ships he’s been 80’s universe Lescot has cooked up. building for years, but not everything We follow five characters roaming is going as planned. Shibuya and getting tangled up in the city’s violent underworld.

63 SHORT TALES WITH LONG TITLES Juan Vargas, Ivan Rodriguez color, 5’11’’ // Colombia 2020

Three short animated stories, with absurd premises and surprising endings. Time travel, existencial coincidences, bakery dictatorships and more.

64 The circle of life and everything in it... Are we still in it? Will we miss the birds and the bees, the trees and the ice... or will they outlive us? There’s still time to make things right with mother Nature. All we need is a small act of kindness. A series of animations about humans and the environment.

65 CRACKS IN THE PAVEMENT EMPTY SPACES GAIA Nicolas Conte Grégoire de Bernouis Brenda Ximena Roldan Romero, color, 8’51’’ // Argentina 2019 color, 2’00’’ // France 2017 Tijana Trifunović color, 1’15’’ // United Kingdom 2020 A beautiful and delicate flower An isolated house, in the middle of the grows amidst the asphalt jungle. desert. Men in suits try to occupy their ‘Gaia’ is the story of an Australian A street rubbish bin witnesses the time. They reinvent a daily past, with Koala. In a traditional wooden theatre mistreatment of the Flower in the nothing around them. set, we follow our puppet koala (Gaia) polluted public way. Concerned about to discover how innocent and playful her torment, the rubbish bin seeks a she is when she comes down from her way to protect her. tree to investigate some strange lights and sounds from the forest. Soon she realises is a dangerous fire, and when she tries to escape she realizes there is no way out.

66 QUARANTINE CHORUS SAD BEAUTY SEA YOU Edoardo Sartori, Nickoel Izharudin Arjan Brentjes Ben Brand color, 1’00’’ // United Kingdom 2020 color, 9’50’’ // Netherlands 2019 color, 2’25’’ // Netherlands 2019

A small Italian town learns the spirit In a heavily polluted world, a young Would you feel it? Would you know o cooperation during the Coronavirus woman mourns the disappearance it? Travel back in time and see for Lockdown. of animal species. When she falls ill yourself.. due to a bacterial infection, nature appears to send her a message in her hallucinations.

67 SIMPLE PRESENTS THE FLAT THE PECULIAR CRIME OF Catalina Matamoros Lev Voloshin, Dmitri Voloshin ODDBALL MR J color, 1’21’’ // Colombia 2020 color, 1’00’’ // Moldova 2019 Bruno Caetano color, 10’50’’ // Portugal 2020 Without the outside noise, a family of Every day, each and every one of us three learns to rediscover and enjoy produces garbage: at work, at school, In a city where nature has been the daily presents that exist in their at home, on a walk. Everywhere. The forbidden, a small crime by a simple everyday routines. short film describes the journey of man triggers a chain of unexpected trash on the planet. The ending of the consequences. film leaves open the question: what is the final destination of garbage and what happens to it?

68 WINTER Guodong Yu, Bradley Hawkins color, 8’00’’ // China 2019

In bitterly cold northeast China, generations of locals survive in the wilderness by hunting for their food. A young boy born into this culture develops a strong connection with the forest and the wildlife living there, while the relationship between the boy and his father grows increasingly tense, like the thick winter snow of winter that resists melting with the coming change of seasons.

69 The circle of life and everything in it... Are we still in it? Will we miss the birds and the bees, the trees and the ice... or will they outlive us? There’s still time to make things right with mother Nature. All we need is a small act of kindness. A series of animations about humans and the environment.

70 ABOVE ACROSS THE BRIDGE FAR ISLE Marco Savini, BigRock Alisha Steinberger, Chao Goody Wu Laura Robinson, Gavin Haplin color, 5’27’’ // Italy, 2020 color, 5’06’’ // Canada 2020 color, 7’30’’ // United Kingdom, 2020

A small sweet story about friendship, We were interested in portraying the Through a series of enchanting answering one of the great questions relationship between two siblings, encounters, Fern discovers how to see of humanity: where balloons go when who have grown apart, but find their the world from a different perspective. they run from the kids? friendship again through a game. Growing up with siblings, we can relate to our characters, and we hope that others will be able to as well.

71 GO FETCH GOALIE HÚICÉIR David Coole Maarten Lemmens Makenzie Hooks color, 2’10’’ // USA 2020 color, 2’06’’ // USA 2020 color, 2’57’’ // USA 2020

A dirty old tennis ball is tired of his life During a foodball game, a goalkeeper’s An artistic reflection on one of as a dogs chew toy. He escapes the frustration of being unable to get Ireland’s beloved cultural symbols: dog and tries to find new friends at the involved in the action, causes his the Galway Hooker, or húicéir in Irish. tennis court. However, the brand new pole breaks. He tries to show that Characterized by its deep red sails and tennis balls that live there reject him. he is meant for more than ‘just’ a black hull, the iconic fishing vessel is The dirty ball goes home and forms a goalkeeper. However, he quickly comes absolutely unique to the west coast of plan to use the dog to get his revenge to realize that the goalkeeper position Ireland. The film follows a shipwright on the clean balls. is an extremely important part of the who, upon discovering a derelict team and game. boat on the shore, delves into the “memories” of the húicéir as it was in its glory days, in its eventual decline into disuse, and in its modern revival.

72 JOE JUANION KAPAEMAHU Callum Reeve, Aidan Lonergan Jose Batista, Antonio Cintron Rivera Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean color, 1’38’’ // United Kingdom 2020 color, 4’16’’ // USA 2020 Hamer, Joe WIlson color, 8’25’’ // USA 2020 A cleanup robot goes wrong. Juan Gutierrez is a small onion man Kapaemahu reveals the healing power that realizes that his “curse” of making of four mysterious stones on Waikiki people cry is actually the best gift life Beach and the legendary transgender could have given him. spirits within them. The stones still stand on what is now Waikiki Beach, but the true story behind them has been hidden – until now. Narrated in an ancient Hawaiian dialect, Kapaemahu brings a powerful legend back to life, seen through the eyes of a curious child.

73 LONGWAY DOWN MOIST MURMUR Brandon Lopez Chao Ming Lee Rachel Middleton color, 1’40’’ // USA 2020 color, 1’28’’ // Taiwan 2019 color, 2’32’’ // United Kingdom 2020

A round, chunky cat is lazily playing Tears are soft fountain, when my tears Two islands each with a lonely resident, with a squeaky mouse toy on top of flow,may add some moisture to the how will they reach each other? a steep staircase. After accidentally world. nudging the toy, the feline heads down into an inevitable predicament.

74 REACHING FOR THE THE LIGHTHOUSE MAN WORLD OF THE FLUFFS SUNLIGHT Matthew Walton Chaisi Glover Franki Furnell color, 4’48’’ // Canada 2020 color, 1’45’’ // Canada 2019 color, 3’03’’ // Australia 2020 A friendly giant struggles to adapt to What happens when the fluff that Like a plant fuelled by sunlight, 12 year the growth of an out-port community collects in your pocket comes to life? old Florissa is fuelled by academic he calls home. Or a ball of hair that doesn’t get caught praise. But when you’re convinced by the vacuum? They have to learn that you’re the classroom’s brightest survive in unforgiving environments. shining star, what happens when This is the story of a piece of fluff who someone dims your light? lives in a glove, and his journey to build a nest for the winter months when he will be evicted from his home.

75 STAVROS SAVVAIDIS DIMITRIS SAVVAIDIS MARCIN J. SOBCZAK CHRISA GKOUMA Producer Director Artistic Director Programmer Assistant Director

NASSIA KEFALA ALEXANDRA GKOUMA DIMITRIS KAZANTZIS STEFANIA Lead Designer Social Media Manager Coordinator CHATZICHRISTOU Brand Manager Graphic Designer MAGDA VAZ NATÁLIA LUCAS SILVANA VALENTE TATIANA MELANI Production Assistant Production Assistant Production Assistant Production Assistant Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

MARIA AVERI CHRISTOS MELAS ANGELIKI KONTONI DONATELA NIKA Graphic Designer Content Assistant Assistant Programmer Assistant Programmer Intern Intern 78 CHANIARTOON International Comic & Animation Festival Chania, Crete • 11 - 20 September 2020 chaniartoonfest.gr ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival island, Cyclades • 23 - 27 September 2020 animasyros.gr TAF Thessaloniki Animation Festival Thessaloniki • 22-25 October 2020 tafestival.gr ICONA Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival Corfu island • December 2020 ciak.avarts.ionio.gr/icona ATHENS ANIMFEST Athens • March 2021 athensanimfest.eu

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