Ionian ContemporaryAnimation Festival ICONA December, 2nd-5th, 2021
Professional Competition 2
Friday 03/12/2021 15:00 - 17:00, Saturday 04/12/2021 03:00 - 05:00
Total Duration: 1:54:29
- The Chimney Swift 05:00 Germany 2020
Directed: Frédéric Schuld Screenplay: Frédéric Schuld, Fabian Driehorst Production: Fabian Driehorst Dialogue Language: English 19th century in Europe. A child climbs up a chimney while a bird sails down into it to build a nest. An encounter with no way back. A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master's statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past.
- How My Grandmother Became A Chair / كيف تحولت جدتي الى كرسي 09:55 Germany 2020
Directed: Nicolas Fattouh Screenplay: Nicolas Fattouh Production: Fabian Driehorst, Nermine Haddad An ageing grandmother loses her five senses, one after the other before finally becoming a wooden chair. Throughout her transformation, she realizes that her housekeeper is not the wild animal she once thought she was, but the caring and loyal family member she was sadly lacking. A poignant story about illness and growing old which employs imagination and metaphor to show the difficult and painful process of departing.
- Siege of Catalonia / Cèrcol a Catalunya 09:24 Spain 2021
Directed: Fran J.S.C. Screenplay: Fran J.S.C. Production: Fran J.S.C. Dialogue Language: Catalan, Spanish To avoid further bombings on Barcelona, a unit of the Spanish army is sent in to capture the separatist leader. Among them is José Antonio, a soldier of strong beliefs. Montserrat, a young, committed member of the Catalan CDRs, will fight with all her might to prevent the army's mission.
- Emidoinã - Short Film / Emidoinã 18:52 Brazil 2021
Directed: Luciano Lagares Screenplay: André Abujamra, Luciano Lagares Production: Aguinaldo Rocca Dialogue Language: Portuguese Two great moments define a life, the moment of birth and the moment of death. What happens between one and the other is nothing more than oscillations. In this saga, André Abujamra is Iskandar, a character determined to find the lost secret that establishes the link between humanity and nature.
- Money / Dinheiro 04:20 Brazil 2021
Directed: Arthur B. Senra, Sávio Leite Production: Sávio Leite Dialogue Language: Portuguese It came from China and spread all over the earth.
- MITCH-MATCH series #09. 02:52 Hungary 2020
Directed: Géza M. M. Tóth Screenplay: Géza M. M. Tóth Production: Géza M. M. Tóth Dialogue Language: No Dialogue There’s only one matchstick left in the box. This matchstick, this ordinary thing is the protagonist of MITCH-MATCH series. The main character is a blue headed matchstick, that embarks on a journey in every episode and always returns to the box at the end of lots of strange, playful and imaginative adventures. A single matchstick, an easy-to-use object and at the same time opportunity for creative experiences that evokes everyone’s fantasy world.
- MITCH-MATCH series #06 / MITCH-MATCH sorozat hatodik epizód 02:12 Hungary 2020
Directed: Géza M. Tóth Screenplay: Géza M. Tóth Production: Géza M. Tóth Dialogue Language: No Dialogue There’s only one matchstick left in the box. This matchstick, this ordinary thing is the protagonist of MITCH-MATCH series. The main character is a blue headed matchstick, that embarks on a journey in every episode and always returns to the box at the end of lots of strange, playful and imaginative adventures. A single matchstick, an easy-to-use object and at the same time opportunity for creative experiences that evokes everyone’s fantasy world.
- MiTCH-MATCH series #22. 02:43 Hungary 2020
Directed: Géza M. Tóth Screenplay: Géza M. Tóth Production: Géza M. Tóth Dialogue Language: No Dialogue There’s only one matchstick left in the box. This matchstick, this ordinary thing is the protagonist of MITCH-MATCH series. The main character is a blue headed matchstick, that embarks on a journey in every episode and always returns to the box at the end of lots of strange, playful and imaginative adventures. A single matchstick, an easy-to-use object and at the same time opportunity for creative experiences that evokes everyone’s fantasy world.
- The wayfarer 07:00 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2020
Directed: Behrouz Soleimaninazir, Shirin Soleimaninazir, Farnaz Moazen Screenplay: Behrouz Soleimaninazir, Farnaz Moazen Production: Farnaz Moazen this story is about a bird that couldn't fly and start migration on foot ...
- crazy in quarantine 05:15 Uganda 2021
Directed: akram kamya, kizito samuel saviour Screenplay: akram kamya, Josephine kabahuma Production: akram kamya, ali aryasinga Dialogue Language: English A brief animation experimental short film about a character losing their mind going crazy in quarantine after being locked down due to the corona virus pandemic, in a dark creepy but fun kind of way, struggling between what's real and what's not as staying sane is not an option.
- Under siege by a finger 03:41 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2021
Directed: Zahra Shafiei Dehaghani Screenplay: Ismaeil Mokhtarian Production: : Ismaeil Mokhtarian Votaing people for anilliterate and ignorant person who destroys the country and indostry only by force and people inevitably turn around and do not know what to do.
- The human and human 02:04 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2020
Directed: Zahra Shafiei Dehaghani Screenplay: Zahra Shafiei Dehaghani Production: Esmaeil Mokhtarian Human fallen to earth and began to procreation and multiplication until earth full of them ...
- Goodnight Spa 12:52 Spain 2021
Directed: Emilio Gallego, Jesus Gallego Screenplay: Roberto Aliaga Production: Gallego Bros SL Dialogue Language: English, Spanish Goodnight Spa is a very special and unique spa. All the pillows in the world visit daily to relax in warm baths, get dry and perfumed in top-of-the range dryers and, above all, to download the dreams they’ve absorbed during the night.
- THE SUN 08:32 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2021
Directed: Omid Seifi Screenplay: Omid Seifi Production: Omid Seifi In an iron and dusty city, people are suffering. A child is born. He who has lost his mother is alone in the city when a child feels lonely and scared. A butterfly takes him somewhere. The child sees in a dark room that the sun is imprisoned in a cage. The child releases the sun and the sun illuminates the city and removes sorrow from the people.
- The next hole 07:43 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2021
Directed: fatemeh ahmadi Screenplay: fatemeh ahmadi Production: fatemeh ahmadi & iycs Dialogue Language: English a man is sensitive about holes, because of his job(because of the nature of his job),one day a hole is created in his life, that nothing can fill it.
- TED-ED''The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act'' 05:57 United States 2021
Directed: Mohammad Babakoohi, Yijia Cao Screenplay: Robert Chang Production: TED-ED, Gerta XHELO Dialogue Language: English In 1882, the United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first federal law that restricted immigration based explicitly on nationality. In practice, the Act banned entry to all ethnically Chinese immigrants besides diplomats, and prohibited existing immigrants from obtaining citizenship. Robert Chang details the lasting impact the Act had on immigrant rights and freedoms.
- Your daughter Hero 04:12 Greece Submissi 2021
Directed: Apostolis Iliopoulos, Elias Roumeliotis Screenplay: Marina Lizardou, Apostolis Iliopoulos, Aris Kaplanidis Production: Municipality of Fyli Dialogue Language: Modern Greek (1453-) The story of a young teenager's metaphysical relationship with climate change phenomena.
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