Panorama I

Afternoon

Poland 2012, 3'

REŽ/DIR: Izabela Plucinska

Prod: Izabela Plucinska

In her latest animation Izabela Plucinska returns to the motives that in 2006 inspired her to create her film Breakfast. Similarly, Afternoon is a two-part commentary on one single moment shared by a man and a woman. Although each of them is completely engaged with their own activities and doesn’t seem to notice anything else all of a sudden, owing to an unexpected incident, a couple will towards one another once again. When the world somehow fades away for a little while they are given the chance of reuniting once again. For how long however will this precious moment last? Izabela Plucinska, the author of awarded Esterhazy, employing clay technique creates an impressive depiction of the relationship between a man and a woman.

They live together but separately – held together by a thin thread. An unfortunate accident leads them to each other again.

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Apple

United Kingdom 2011, 1'40''

REŽ/DIR: Lesley Barnes

Prod: Melissa Venet

Lesley Barnes' latest production is a beautifully lyrical piece of animation created to accompany a short poem written for Channel 4's spoken word competition. Entrants were asked to write, in 220 words or less, about a truly random event, good or bad, that altered their life forever. The winning piece, 'Apple' by Dylan Owen, a tragic tale of luck and circumstance, was recited by Owen himself, realised in moving form by Lesley and transmitted on Channel 4 following the premiere of the drama 'Random'.

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Berlin Recycles

Austria, Germany 2011, 6'02''

REŽ/DIR: Nikki Schuster

Prod: Fiesilm

Berlin – techno, cobblestones and a lot of graffiti. „Berlin Recyclers“ portraits the cultural, social and urban fabrics of this city by means of experimental animation. The viewer is guided to urban hideouts where little creatures dwell. These are digitally composed with collected trash and typical local products. The clatter of the limbs of these creatures interacts with the soundscapes of Berlin.

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Djuma

Italy 2012, 3'50''

REŽ/DIR: Michele Bernardi

Prod: Michele Bernardi

Djuma is a wild child, bred in the forest by a pack of wolves. He 's not so much attracted by the life of the flock, even if he follows up to a certain extent the rules and organization, but the call of nature and freedom.

Djuma and the wolves, who live on the edge of a city now almost completely degraded and abandoned by men, they decide to delete it completely, giving it to the flames.

But the boy does not know the language of the man wild and even bears the structured system of the pack solves his life by killing the leader of the pack and giving himsel

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Egaro

France 2011, 6’09''

REŽ/DIR: Bruno Salamone, Benoît Delaunay, Maïwenn Le Borgne, Anaëlle Moreau, Alexia Provoost, Simon Taroni

Prod: Cargo Films / Canal+

A sad and lonely little man dreams of having the courage to get out of his house to meet the woman he loves.

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Folk Songs And Ballads

France 2012, 7'53''

REŽ/DIR: Mathieu Vernerie, Pauline Defachelles, Rémy Paul

Prod: Jacques Lesnes, Marie-Anne Fontenier

This film, created entirely in CG, carefully depicts in great detail, with unsurpassed artistic ablility, the daily life of an elderly fisherman who lives in an isolated fishing village. Irish folk songs resound strikingly throughout various scenes. It is the graduation work of students at Supinfocom Valenciennes, the French animation college.

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Gates Of Life

Finland 2012, 6'

REŽ/DIR: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen

Prod: Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen

Brief moments of life stolen from passing-by strangers form a sequence of events hidden in plain sight.

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House Shoes ✖ Danny Brown „Sweet“

United Kingdom, United States 2012, 2'44''

REŽ/DIR: Ruffmercy

Prod: Ruffmercy, Ewen Farr

Danny Brown's surreal spittings find their perfect visual accompaniment in the form or RUFFMERCY's flow of consciousness, hallucinogenic animation.

In the video for House Shoes, the Detroit-based Danny morphs thru a seriesof acid-fried pop iconography while floating upon funky tapestries of colour and sound.

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Hum

United Kingdom 2012, 4'33''

REŽ/DIR: Emily Howells, Anne Wilkins

Prod: Isabelle Croissant, Sara Mullock

It’s another endless, sleepless night. Bedtime rhythms and routines mark the hundreds of hours that drift past in a twilight haze. You’re caught in a monotonous cycle, until suddenly something heavy and strange approaches. It weighs you down, and you’re crushed by books and cats and water. Your hands scrabble for something to cling to. You need to find a way out.

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Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs „Demoni“

Bulgaria, Germany 2012, 3'43''

REŽ/DIR: Theodore Ushev

Prod: Theodore Ushev

Kottarashky takes his unique sound sketches one step further and transforms them into a live experience. Together with accomplished musical companions Kottarashky & The Rain Dogs guide you into a new universe of advanced Balkan Funk and Blues

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La Détente

France 2011, 8'30''

REŽ/DIR: Pierre Ducos, Betrand Bey

Prod: Kawanimation - Pierre Ducos, Betrand Bey

In a trench during the first world war, a French soldier becomes paralyzed with fear. His mind disconnects from reality and escapes to a world where wars are fought by toys.

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L'Mrayet

Tunisia 2011, 11'24''

REŽ/DIR: Nadia Rais

Prod: Imed Marzouk

The rhythms and beat of Tunisia as seen through Boum Mrayet, born into a fictional world where people wear glasses from birth…

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Luminaris

Argentina 2011, 6'

REŽ/DIR: Juan Pablo Zaramella

Prod: Sol Rulloni, Mario Rulloni

In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.

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My...My...

China 2011, 4'38''

REŽ/DIR: Lei Lei

Prod: Raydesign

One day. I found my naked. Where is my chothes?

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Unintended

Portugal 2011, 8'50''

REŽ/DIR: João Fazenda

Prod: Humberto Santana

A young woman receives a postcard with the image of a painting that her father showed her when she was a child as a life lesson. She visits the museum so often to look at it that the painting eventually vanishes. Was it common theft or desire overflowing?

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All films screen in English or with English subtitles.