Professional Competition 6

1. Thoughts of Monday Blue 04:45 China 2023
   

   Directed:	Hana Zhang, Eugene Lee
   Dialogue Language:	Chinese

   
   

   A person has a thousand reasons not to wake up in the morning. Still the eyeballs started their own journey. By the way, can you eat carrots with dentures?

2. The Grandma's Mind 07:50 India 2023
   

   Directed:	Vibin Alex
   Screenplay:	Vibin Alex
   Production:	Vibin Alex, Joe Prathap, Anandha Krishnan, Alfi Hussain
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   An elderly woman living alone goes to the forest to collect wood. She sees two baby monkeys near their dead mother. She takes them to her house and raises them. One day when she sees a burial of a neighbor in her village, she thinks about what would happen to the baby monkeys after her death. How the decision she takes changes the lives of the baby monkeys forms the rest of the story.

3. My Pushkin / Мой Пушкин 06:40 Russian Federation 2023
   

   Directed:	Yuri Tomilov
   Screenplay:	Alena Tomilova
   Production:	Ivan Vtoryh
   Dialogue Language:	Russian

   
   

   This film is about a great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in a form of children's fantasies and sketches in a notebook, which were drawn during a lesson of (Russian) literature.

4. Witchfairy 15:00 Belgium 2022
   

   Directed:	Cedric Igodt, David Van de Weyer
   Screenplay:	Brigitte Minne
   Production:	Cedric Igodt, Lachezar Velinov
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   Rosemary, a young fairy, leads a boring life at the fairytale castle. She’d rather be a witch so she can scream, fly on brooms and get really messy. Unfortunately her mother strongly disagrees, so Rosemary decides to run off to the mysterious witch forest.

5. KUUMBA UMBO / Birth of Form 06:39 Belgium 2022
   

   Directed:	Ekaterina Ogorodnikova
   Screenplay:	Ekaterina Ogorodnikova
   Production:	Ekaterina Ogorodnikova, Audrey Hosman

   
   

   The birth of form is the birth of the world. From our early childhood to our last breath, we as humans learn about the world around us and try to find our place in it. One African mask can reveal a whole spectrum of human culture, its origins and the transformation that takes place to produce the art that decorates the museums of the world.

6. The Legend of Halloween Ghosts 09:21 Italy 2022
   International Professional Short Animation - Audience Award
   

   Directed:	Teodoro Francesco Liberto
   Screenplay:	Isabella Liberto
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   On the night of October 31, two ghosts in love wander the countryside. Both of them have only one desire: to embrace again like many years ago when they were alive.

7. Hana Meets Hana / hana gurigo hana (하나 그리고 하나) 24:05 Korea 2023
   

   Directed:	Jeong-Byeon-Ji KIM
   Screenplay:	Jeong-Byeon-Ji KIM
   Dialogue Language:	Korean

   
   

   Hana, a young musician with stage fright, finds herself trapped in a world without music. She is willing to fight for her dreams, but will she be able to rediscover her melody?

8. Gilgamesh 10:00 Iran 2022
   

   Directed:	Hossein Moradizadeh
   Screenplay:	Hossein Moradizadeh
   Production:	Hossein Moradizadeh
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   Gilgamesh is the oldest epic and literary work in the world. The oldest written part of it dates back to the second millennium BC, but its history dates back to three thousand years BC. Gilgamesh saga best describes human destiny in search of immortality. Gilgamesh, the famous hero of Uruk, a city in the land of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, who has a semi-divine-semi-human character, strives for immortality for a lifetime and fails many times, but eventually finds a plant that immortalizes him. , But the snake steals the plant from him.

9. Cornucopia 07:49 Austria 2022
   

   Directed:	Ani Antonova, Dimiter Ovtcharov
   Screenplay:	Ani Antonova, Dimiter Ovtcharov
   Production:	Ani Antonova Hristova, Svetla Tzotzorkova, Svetoslav Ovcharov
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   A man wanders in constant search and pursuit, driven by the longing for a magical cornucopia. His vicissitudes are brought to life on an ancient vase’s surface.

10. Pirate and a Cello 14:08 Russian Federation 2023
    

    Directed:	Andrei sokolov
    Screenplay:	Marat Narimanov
    Production:	Mikhail Khuberyan
    Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

    
    

    What feelings do street musicians evoke in you: indifference, irritation, or?.. An unusual duet of a cellist and a dog will make you change your attitude for the better, because true art and true friendship do wonders!