CIAK - Ionian ContemporaryAnimation Festival ICONA November 29th to December 1st 2019
Professional Competition 2
Saturday 30/11/2019 18:00 - 21:00
Total Duration: 3:00:05
- The last eagle 07:47 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2019
Directed: Reza Golchin Screenplay: Reza Golchin Production: Reza Golchin Making a restaurant in the forest makes changes to the ecosystem and …
- Three Meals from Anarchy 06:00 United Kingdom 2019
Directed: John O'Hare, Tom Phipps Screenplay: John O'Hare Production: John O'Hare, Tom Phipps Dialogue Language: English The film follows a zero hour contract worker navigating a world of bureaucracy; from the extreme newspaper headlines that create social barriers to the paperwork that defines his existence. However when he and others are turned away from work, routine is broken and together they descend on the local park where they become intoxicated by new found freedom. The fragile paper barriers ignite they dance wildly into the night until pangs of hunger leads to jealousy and a sobering sense of reality. All music and sounds are original recordings.
- CASTLE 05:00 Japan 2019
Directed: Ryotaro Miyajima Production: Sayaka Omodaka During the period of the 'Provinces at war', many lives were lost. A castle architect discovers the possible role of a tea room as a place for warriors to regain humanity.
- Natural Selection 09:40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2019
Directed: Aleta Rajic Screenplay: Aleta Rajic Production: Sanja Rajič-Banjac Woman-Doe works as a professional exhibit at the museum in which she hangs from a wall as a dead animal alongside the rest of the trophies of the same kind; deer and doe heads. The life she lives is a definition of a routine; she spends her free time walking about and cleaning her apartment. One morning, after a terrifying nightmare, she notices that small horns grew out on top of her head. This makes it impossible for her to pull her head through the hole in the wall at the museum. She knows she will be punished in one way or another, and her only way out is towards freedom...
- Transconscience / Transconsciencia 11:56 Spain 2019
Directed: Angel Pascual "Yelitö" Screenplay: Angel Pascual "Yelitö" Production: Angel Pascual "Yelitö" When consciousness and consciousness merge.
- Ailin on the moon 05:00 Argentina 2018
Directed: Claudia Ruiz Screenplay: Claudia Ruiz, Malena Martinez Production: El molinete Animación Dialogue Language: Spanish Work, do the shopping, cooking, cleaning, ironing, taking care of Ailín: that is the routine of Vilma, mother of 40 years, overwhelmed by fatigue and skin intolerance. Ailín (4), just looking to play and demand the attention of a restless girl, one day causes the emotional outbreak of the mother. The routine that led them away must be broken to meet again.
- Declan McKenna - British Bombs (Official Video) 05:02 United Kingdom 2019
Directed: Ed Bulmer Production: Leo Green Music video for Declan McKenna's "British Bombs".
- Homba. Footprints in the sand 07:49 Russian Federation 2019
Directed: Anton Kalchenko Screenplay: Anna Kalm, Anton Kalchenko Drought came to the world of Homba. One need to leave the house to find water. Homba meets strange prints in sand and follows them.
- The Gods Of Tiny Things 05:22 Australia 2019
Directed: DEBORAH KELLY Dialogue Language: English The Gods of Tiny Things is a collaborative collage animation work emerging from a commission for Bundanon's Siteworks Festival. Produced through a residential workshop at the Riversdale Education Centre, the imagery, musical composition and soundscape design were devised to reflect upon the imperilled lives on a climate-changing planet. The Gods of Tiny Things speculates upon parthenogenetic, queer insurrection.
- Frank's Joke 06:07 United Kingdom 2018
Directed: Edward Bulmer Screenplay: Andrew Eu Production: Shereen Ali Dialogue Language: English Animation about Frank who told a bad joke at his new place of work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3.00am he's unable to sleep as he obsesses and ruminates over this social faux-pas, leading him to ponder on the nature of memory itself. He becomes trapped in a loop, a self-imposed purgatory for what seems like an age as the clock ticks by. This comedic and surreal look at how our brains can keep us awake at night and the mercurial nature of memory mixes live-action puppetry and expressive hand drawn animation to convey both the physical world and Frank's inner thoughts.
- Hoan Alone: Personal Stories from the Bridge 08:30 United States 2018
Directed: Aaron Johnson Screenplay: Aaron Johnson Production: Aaron Johnson Milwaukee’s Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge is the crown over Summerfest and has become one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. But it’s also a popular site for suicides. This animated documentary explores the issues of the bridge and suicide through three intimate interviews. Follow animator, Aaron Johnson, as he shares the stories of Dave, John, and Mary. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xrA495uA6-Y Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/357696140 Watch on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aaron.johnson/posts/10162092682275114?notif_id=1567769189579282¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic
- The Cycle rickshaw 05:00 India 2019
Directed: SaneeshThomas Screenplay: SaneeshThomas Production: SaneeshThomas Dialogue Language: English An ageing widow bids her son goodbye as he sets out on his cycle rickshaw. The young man's journey is fraught with many obstacles and dangers which he overcomes as he moves ahead. In time, this journey is repeated and cycle rickshaw becomes a metaphor to the monotonousness of life. As the years go by, his young daughter takes over the old rickshaw and life repeats itself.
- Verso le Stelle (TO THE STARS) 08:00 Italy 2019
Directed: Antonello Piccione Screenplay: Antonello Piccione Production: La Zattera dell'Arte Dialogue Language: Italian Ahmed e la sua famiglia fuggono dagli orrori della guerra in Siria cercando una vita migliore. Basato su una storia vera. - Ahmed, a little syrian child and his parents escape from the horrors of the war to seek a better life. Based on a true story.
- Hunting stories / Histoires de chasse 03:35 Switzerland 2018
Directed: Ionel Luca Screenplay: Ionel Luca Production: Ionel Luca Three hunting stories that start well but do not end as much. How do the characters react when they can still? Three unexpected situations are not shown and horrified, amused.
- The Night / La Noche 11:45 Spain 2018
Directed: Martín Romero Screenplay: Martín Romero Production: Iván Miñambres A Wolf Man and a Moon Woman meet in a large lake during a warm summer night. The passion arises between them and they immediately begin an idyllic love relationship. However, an unexpected happening will turn their life upside down.
- 09:09 F 05:04 India 2019
Distinction - Professional Short Animation - AudienceDirected: Avinash Medhe Screenplay: Avinash Medhe Production: Girgit Studios Dialogue Language: Marathi A journey in a local train of Mumbai showing the universal human behaviour where an outsider struggles to make space for himself.
- Mr Indifferent 02:46 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2018
Directed: Aryasb Feiz Screenplay: Aryasb Feiz, Akhilesh Bagri Production: Aryasb Feiz A busy man who is always in a rush is reluctant to help others until one day he encounters an old woman in a crossroad... Here is a link for downloading the film : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mMivUyoYU6-2yPM1F4N_ksCr1Ru_Bncb/view?usp=sharing
- Butterfly & Mouse / Пеперуда и Мишка 14:19 Bulgaria 2019
Directed: Mira Yankova Screenplay: Mira Yankova Production: Roumen Barrosov People often say, “This one has a lion’s heart, and that one – a rabbit’s”. Some hide lions in their chests, other ones – rabbits, yet others – mice. There are also those who wouldn’t dare face their inner spirit animal. What could happen to someone so very afraid of seeing what he carries within. A short jazzy film about the fears that obstruct man's way to himself and to others.
- Florigami 05:30 Serbia 2019
Directed: Iva Ćirić Screenplay: Iva Ćirić Production: Draško Ivezić, Milan Milosavljević A lonely white flower grows surrounded by other plants and every day he struggles to survive.
- "EMBRACES & the touch of skin" 02:42 Denmark 2019
Directed: Sara Koppel Screenplay: Sara Koppel Production: Sara Koppel Dialogue Language: English “EMBRACES & the touch of skin” is an animated poem about the vital need for embraces and contact with other beings.
- The Fox 09:45 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2018
3rd Place - Professional Short Animation - AudienceDirected: Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh Screenplay: Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh Production: Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh, Documentary & Experimental Film Center A young fox on the verge of experiencing the first love got trapped by a hunter. The Hunter ties his dog collar bell on the fox’s neck and leaves her in the wood. And then the fox begins his effort to survive and love and revenge.
- Subconscious Notes / Notizen aus dem Unterbewusstsein 03:37 Germany 2018
Directed: Susann Arnold Screenplay: Susann Arnold Production: Susann Arnold Dialogue Language: English A poetic film about subconscious messages and growing up.
- The Music Box 11:29 Canada 2019
Directed: Joe Chang Screenplay: Joe Chang Production: Joe Chang, Yang Li Dialogue Language: Chinese The Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was a political campaign in China launched and led by Mao Zedong from 1966 to 1976. Nearly ten million people, including outstanding scientists, artists, intellectuals and ordinary people, died during these "Ten Years of Turnmoil" or "Ten Years of Holocaust." This animated short film is based on a real story and sets in China during the Cultural Revolution in 1967, It is about a young boy Liang Liang, whose family is suddenly taken to the countryside by Red Guards. He is able to grab the only thing he treasures which is a western style music box, and is careful not to expose it to the red guards since it was linked to western culture. The film mirrors tragedies that befall children and families who are forced to leave their homes, due to war, colonization and political campaigns - unfortunately a situation which is all too common today.
- WASTE OBJECTS / OBJETOS DE DESECHO 05:00 Mexico 2019
Directed: Luis Renteria Pimentel Screenplay: Luis Renteria Pimentel Production: Arturo Aguilar Cruz Dialogue Language: Spanish Three objects are rescued from the garbage to reveal a possible past imagined by the narrator.
- The afterbirth / Más allá de nacer 04:00 Spain 2018
Directed: Ignacio Rodó, Blanca Bonet Screenplay: Wayne Dyer Production: Ignacio Rodó Dialogue Language: English Two twins discuss, while still inside their mother's belly, what they might find once they are born.
- Yin & yang 09:20 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2018
Directed: Ali alizadeh Screenplay: Ali alizadeh Production: Ali alizadeh With turning on the light, a volume starts to show.
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