Competition Programme 5 FLOATING WORLD

The Egret River

Director: Wan-Ling Liu
Year: 2022
Length: 20:20
Country: Taiwan
Production: Wan-Ling Liu

Synopsis:
Among the tall buildings of the city, a lonely guard hides a beautiful field that no one knows, and meets an egret there; but the expansion of the city never stops, one day the field is destroyed, the egret escapes without a trace, he begins to see mysterious illusions…

Resting Fog

Director: Nikolett Fábián
Year: 2022
Length: 5:14
Country: Hungary
Production: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Synopsis:
The experimental animated film “Resting Fog” depicts the process of reliving a memory – and the disintegration that follows – through a series of associative images. The film takes place in a fictional, dreamlike sanatorium surrounded by the sea and the setting sun. Through the effect of its images, the film attempts to lead viewers into a hypnotic mental and emotional state, where they can experience the manifold character of memory and the pleasant yet ephemeral joys of descending into our recollections.

Oneluv

Director: Varya Yakovleva
Year: 2022
Length: 10:35
Country: Russia
Production: SHAR Studio

Synopsis:
Strangers come to visit the home of a young couple. Taking advantage of the hospitality of the hosts, the unexpected guests push the couple to do rash things, which leads to the destruction of the established order and harmony within the family.

Ice Merchants

Director: João Gonzalez
Year: 2022
Length: 14:33
Country: Portugal, France, UK
Production: COLA Animation, Wildstream, Royal College of Art

Synopsis:
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

Airborne

Director: Andrzej Jobczyk
Year: 2021
Length: 7:35
Country: Poland
Production: Letko

Synopsis:
Airborne is a surreal animation that connects the world of flying machines with the kingdom of flora and fauna. Engrossed in the fight, the pilot loses his target which leads to tragedy. The plane crashes into the crown of a tree. The tragedy that seems to be the end opens a new stage in history. In the place of the accident, a new life is awakened and now it has to solve the mystery of its origin. “Airborne” is a story about passion and its roots and tells us what we have to lose to be born again.

11

Director: Vuk Jevremovic
Year: 2022
Length: 5:28
Country: Croatia, Germany
Production: Vuk Jevremovic

Synopsis:
Three masterful footballers. They can perform wonders during a match and score impossible goals, but what goes on in their heads when they are about to take a penalty kick?

Miles Davis – What’s Love Got to Do With It

Director: Irina Rubina
Year: 2022
Length: 4:20
Country: Germany, USA
Production: iraru.films

Synopsis:
Star People strolling through the night. Each of them alone, in their own dance, accompanied by shiny flowing waves. Those small sparkling dashes can lead them out of the darkness into surrealistic, mysterious and cheerful scenery if everything goes right…

Marie. Eduardo. Sophie

Director: Thomas Corriveau
Year: 2022
Length: 3:15
Country: Canada
Production: Thomas Corriveau

Synopsis:
A mesmerizing contemplation of moving bodies and painting, with three magnificent contemporary dance performers from Montreal, Marie Mougeolle, Eduardo Ruiz Vergara and Sophie Corriveau.