Professional Competition 6

1. The Melody Of Loneliness / نغمه تنهایی 09:45 Iran 2022
   

   Directed:	Samira Azimian
   Screenplay:	Samira Azimian
   Production:	Samira Azimian
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   The Melody of Loneliness is the story of a Kurdish girl who has to weave carpets for her foreman in order to make a living. To endure loneliness, she creates her dreams and depicts them in the form of carpet motifs. Finally, after weaving several carpets, she faces the truth and accepts it, but weaving dreams is the only reason for her to live, though all her carpets will be given to others. The girl weaves and weaves and years go by. She, who has now reached old age, dies on the last carpet she has woven for herself, and her soul is freed from the captivity of her body.

2. Us / Nós 05:00 Portugal 2021
   

   Directed:	Nelson Fernandes
   Screenplay:	Nelson Fernandes
   Production:	Nelson Fernandes, Daniel Pereira
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   "Us" is a short film of animation which mixes several Stop Motion techniques, proposing a journey through the conflicted human condition. War, loneliness, nature, crossings, fallen dreams are some of the recurring aspects in this animated poem on paper.

3. Magnified City 11:34 Japan 2022
   

   Directed:	Isaku Kaneko
   Production:	Isaku Kaneko

   
   

   A Magnifying glass human was wandering in ruined city. One day he was attracted by a photo of a beautiful city. When he tried to see it, he accidentally burned the photo,because light passed through his lens. Meanwhile, in a magnificent theater on the top of the mountain, a secret society of Projector humans was making a grand plan to recover the city with magnifying glass human's convex lens. This is an event that happened overnight.

4. Animal faces / Figures animales 04:47 France 2022
   

   Directed:	Frédéric Médrano
   Screenplay:	Frédéric Médrano
   Production:	Frédéric Médrano

   
   

   From the first cellular organisms to mammals, including insects and reptiles, faces follow one another. All testify to the fantastic diversity of living things and the kinship that binds us all, us animals...

5. THE SPRAYER 08:45 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2022
   

   Directed:	Farnoosh Abedi
   Screenplay:	Farnoosh Abedi
   Production:	M.reza Karimi Saremi

   
   

   In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private. So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary

6. Friday 06:14 Iran 2022
   

   Directed:	Ramtin Serajpour
   Screenplay:	Ramtin Serajpour
   Production:	Ramtin Serajpour
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   Friday can be a strange day!

7. One Last Wish, Based on "What, Of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?" by Etgar Keret / "משאלה אחת אחרונה ע”פ סיפור של אתגר קרת- “דג זהב 10:00 Israel 2021
   

   Directed:	Galia Osmo
   Screenplay:	Galia Osmo, Emi Sfard, Alon Marcus
   Production:	Galia Osmo
   Dialogue Language:	Hebrew

   
   

   The Fisherman and the Fish folk tale comes to life, in a bitter-sweet animation. A lonely fisherman has a magical goldfish, who granted him three wishes. He already used two wishes to help others in need. Now he is facing a grave decision; after accidentally killing a stranger, he has to choose whether to keep his last wish and stay a murderer. Or to use it to save a stranger's life, but in doing so he will lose the only thing that truly matters, his friend.

8. Bird of the Red Forest 06:23 Indonesia 2022
   International Professional Short Animation - Audience Award
   

   Directed:	Kusmalida Puspaning Budi
   Screenplay:	Kusmalida Puspaning Budi
   Production:	Kusmalida Puspaning Budi
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   A forest guard’s daughter is predicted to be sacrificed to save the forest. For years, her father, the Forest Guard, would not give up his daughter but the situation in the forest was getting worse and her daughter had to make a decision.

9. Wish you were here 07:14 United Kingdom 2022
   

   Directed:

   Shaun Clark

   
   

   A journey through a characters imagination as he digs in the sand discovering objects left by others who he can only imagine.

10. Louis I. King of the Sheep / Louis 1er Roi des Moutons 08:20 Germany 2022
    

    Directed:	Markus Wulf
    Screenplay:	Markus Wulf, Maggie Briggs
    Production:	Su-Jin Song, Levin Hübner, Maggie Briggs, Jorge Granados Ross
    Dialogue Language:	English

    
    

    One windy day, Louis the sheep finds a paper crown and thereby becomes Louis I. King of the Sheep. He addresses his people, tames nature, initiates festivities, separates the sheep by color and decides who gets to do what. Things go their royal ways. At least until the next gust of wind.

11. HELLO STRANGER 06:13 Germany 2021
    

    Directed:	Julia Ocker
    Screenplay:	Julia Ocker
    Production:	Thomas Meyer-Hermann

    
    

    An astronaut lands on an unknown planet. Everything is foreign.

12. LOOP 08:00 Spain 2021
    2nd Place - International Professional Short Animation - Jury
    

    Directed:	Pablo Polledri
    Screenplay:	Pablo Polledri
    Production:	Iván Miñambres Miñambres

    
    

    In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again.

13. Of the waiting / Dell'Attesa 03:49 Italy 2022
    

    Directed:	Adriano Vessichelli
    Screenplay:	Adriano Vessichelli
    Production:	Adriano Vessichelli

    
    

    A journey within the ruins of memory.

14. FEAR 03:42 Lithuania 2022
    

    Directed:	JULIUS ZUBAVIČIUS, ANTANAS SKUČAS
    Dialogue Language:	English

    
    

    Hello west Europe this is east calling. Inspired by Jiddu Krishnamurti. Timeless words explore the nature of fear and its effects on our lives.

15. Family Vacation Photos 04:30 United States 2022
    

    Directed:	Joel Benjamin
    Screenplay:	Joel Benjamin
    Production:	Joel Benjamin

    
    

    Flawed memories of the places we wanted to go to on vacation and the places we didn't want to visit. Trying to remember who we were, or who we are. A stop motion animation collaboration with a neural net.