Ionian ContemporaryAnimation Festival ICONA December, 4th-6th, 2020
Student Competition 1
Friday 04/12/2020 09:00 - 12:00, Friday 04/12/2020 21:00 - 00:00
Total Duration: 2:35:12
- The naive boy who thought it was a circus night, and if it was, but not as he imagined it. 02:18 Mexico 2020
Directed: VICTOR DEL VOLKOV Screenplay: VICTOR DEL VOLKOV Production: VICTOR DEL VOLKOV Dialogue Language: English, Estonian, Russian A boy chases a clown to a circus where a chilling surprise awaits him.
- Chasing Stars 02:21 Netherlands 2019
Directed: Laura Aldofredi Production: Laura Aldofredi The film tells the magic journey of a young girl, who’s looking for her home and own place in the world. The journey takes place in the Arctic and the main character is helped by a very special friend, a Beluga whale.
- Hat Shop 02:00 United Kingdom 2020
Directed: Stevie Stedman Screenplay: Stevie Stedman Production: Jessica Hiles Dialogue Language: No Dialogue A robot goes shopping at his local hat shop, but gets more than he bargained for.
- Trilo-Bite 02:30 Canada 2020
Directed: Joshua Ralph In taking pity upon a helpless trilobite, a dunkleosteus attempts to save the prehistoric arthropod from the predators of the End-Devonian.
- Internal Affairs 02:42 Germany 2020
Directed: David Sick Screenplay: David Sick Production: David Sick As a guy in a bar falls in love at first sight, an inner conflict sets in whether he should hit on his crush or not.
- Fathom 02:20 United States 2020
Directed: Connor Binford Production: Kate Anderson Dialogue Language: No Dialogue One night changes a young boy’s life forever as he is forced to face an uncomfortable truth.
- East Wind / 东风 06:09 China 2020
Directed: Yuanhua Luo Dialogue Language: Chinese In Chinese context,“East Wind”can interpret into”the coming of spring”. This film describes the process of winter to spring,and compares the process to a child growing up in the mother’s uterus.By depicting the microscopic perspective of the fetus slowly growing from a single point to complex tissues, it refers to the birth process of small life in early spring. Those invisible changes like the east wind reflect the poetic nature of the process of spring new life from simple to complex And beauty.Those sutble changes like east wind represent the poetry and beauty of the process which is from complexity to simpleness of new life in spring.
- Travel Bud 02:04 Ireland 2020
Directed: Niall Farrell Screenplay: Niall Farrell Production: Niall Farrell Dialogue Language: English Follow Bud from seed to wildflower as he endures climate change in the hope of a better life.
- Twelve Falafel’s Tribes. Part 1. / 12 Колен Фалафельевых 14:00 Russian Federation 2020
Directed: Michael Dudov, Anna Gomon Screenplay: Michael Dudov, Anna Gomon Production: Michael Dudov Dialogue Language: English, Russian Falafel is an ordinary member of society, like the rest of us. He has a job, a wife, but suddenly one time all this disappears. In addition, he also needs to keep an eye on his nephew Fili, who is constantly getting into all sorts of trouble. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, his friend Pete comes to Falafel, with a strange message - he was sent a note with a threat. Falafel decides to figure it out and, together with his friend Pita and nephew Fili, goes to the lair of the main bandits of their city.
- Crunch 09:30 United States 2019
Directed: Liukaidi Peng Dialogue Language: English “Crunch” is a sci-fi comedy 3D animation. The story starts with the morning of a little, short guy named Bob who just starts working in the space agency. When watching the spaceship launching, Bob is hit by a mysterious lightning and starts to grow bigger. But there seems no way to stop...
- The President Wears Nothing 11:00 Portugal 2019
Directed: Clara Borges, Diana Agar Screenplay: Clara Borges, Diana Agar Production: Clara Borges Dialogue Language: Portuguese The President Wears Nothing is a documentary about a woman who works for a Portuguese textile company that produces baby clothes. The movie conducts a talk between her and the audience which reveals a singular perspective about the daily life in the company with some socio-political issues.
- Roberto / ROBERTO 09:00 Spain 2020
3rd Place - Student Short Animation - AudienceDirected: Carmen Córdoba González Screenplay: Carmen Córdoba González Production: Carmen Córdoba González 15 have passed and Roberto is still in love with his neighbor, but she prefers to hide ashamed of her body. With his art and an old clothesline as the only ways of communication, Roberto has a plan to push his beloved for face her monsters at once.
- Merida 17:55 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2020
Directed: Fardin Screenplay: Fardin Production: Fardin Dialogue Language: English Merida
- Vivi Wolf and the Magical Room / Vivi Lobo e o Quarto Mágico 13:00 Brazil 2019
Directed: Isabelle Santos, Edu MZ Camargo Screenplay: Isabelle Santos, Edu MZ Camargo Production: Anne Lise Ale Dialogue Language: Portuguese I'm Vivi Wolf, nice to meet you! This is a story about all the doors we've must open through our lives. As girls, as human beings.
- Promise 02:30 Not Specified 2020
Directed: Irina Harkavets Dialogue Language: English This is a very personal story about how much everything is connected. About the relationship of children and parents, ecology education and responsibility for both relations with people and with nature.
- I Call It Home 03:00 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2020
Directed: Leila Ahang Screenplay: Leila Ahang Production: Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Tehran University of Art Dialogue Language: English, Persian This experimental abstract animation, “I Call It Home”, demonstrates two distinct worlds for a migrant who is born and lives far from her real home.One world is where she was born. It is such as somewhere human lives before the birth, womb. This is growing and the spirit is blown into it. The spirit of human is floating such as a fish in the water. For her, first world is selected as a home to settle down. But slowly she understands the real home is somewhere else. This is another world such as out of mother`s womb. There is strange and frightening place. All things are dark and against her. So she has to struggle to overcome. It takes time but finally she feels tranquility and starts to live new world such as new born baby.
- Sunshower 09:15 Hungary 2020
2nd Place - Student Short Animation - AudienceDirected: Attila Fekete, Ádám Patrik Wator Screenplay: Attila Fekete, Ádám Patrik Wator Production: Melinda Kiss Residents at a drought-stricken dystopian town invoke a mannequin for help.
- Square 10:57 Slovenia 2020
Directed: Klemen Kekec A young, square-headed boy finds himself outcast in a world of roundheads. Little does he know, the path to fitting in is riddled with dark twists and turns.
- Shame 02:00 Spain 2020
Directed: Paz del Carre de la Portilla Screenplay: Paz del Carre de la Portilla Production: Paz del Carre de la Portilla Dialogue Language: Spanish Shame is an animated documentary about abuse in Spanish catholic schools from the 60s, based on my father’s experience.
- A Flea in a Jar 02:50 United Kingdom 2020
Directed: Vicky Carr Dialogue Language: English Based on the fleas in a jar analogy. A female character dreams of becoming a violinist yet is always put down. The obstacles of her mind are hindering her from success.
- The Incredible Wardrobegadget of Dr. Stein 14:56 Czech Republic 2019
Directed: Plačková Production: Tomas Bata University in Zlin Dialogue Language: English When professor Stein's dog dies in an accident, he's ready to do whatever it takes to get him back. He builds an incredible life-reviving machine but instead of a cute pup a hideous monster comes out of it. How can the monster prove that it has the dog's good heart inside?
- Apparition of standard figures / Apparition des figures standards 10:55 France 2020
Directed: Marin Martinie Dialogue Language: English There are more than 300 standard figures, here is a little sample. Four faces related to four affects are deconstructed through vibrating image.
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