Professional Competition 8

1. Mombomb, part 1 05:00 United States 2024
   

   Directed:	Patricia Beckmann Wells
   Screenplay:	Patricia Beckmann Wells
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   Pez sees life through fairy tales while serial killers hunt her. Mombomb explores intergenerational trauma and memory through the eyes of the daughter of WWII immigrants. Pez is a first-generation immigrant daughter in Toledo Ohio, a breeding ground of serial killers in the 70's, and she must learn how to survive when her mother allows her to be hunted.

2. Oniris 04:54 Argentina 2024
   

   Directed:	Nano Bor
   Screenplay:	Nano Bor
   Production:	Nano Bor
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   A person can become unrecognizable to themselves when frustration and abandonment take over their life. However, life always offers us a path to return to our essence, to that child we once were, and thus be able to face all our fears. That path can also present itself in a nightmare.

3. A pleasure / Plazer bat 04:05 Spain 2024
   

   Directed:	Sonia Estevez
   Screenplay:	Javier Fernández Landaluce, Sonia Estévez
   Production:	Sonia Estévez
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   What is truly pleasurable is in the simple. Plazer bat is a succession of ordinary actions and situations that are a source of pleasure. How little is needed to feel good!

4. Detours Ahead 07:45 Canada 2024
   

   Directed:

   Esther Cheung

   
   

   A road trip traces a transition of grief to acceptance through valleys, junctions, and detours. It is a meditation on solitude, and articulates my shifting relationship with place.

5. Jus d'orange 13:45 France 2023
   Honorary Mention - International Professional Short Animation- Jury
   

   Directed:	Alexandre Athané
   Screenplay:	Alexandre Athané, Chloé Célérien
   Production:	Yoann Scherb, Grzegorz Wacławek
   Dialogue Language:	French

   
   

   Toni grows oranges. He loves them, they are his treasure. Until one day, strange cargo ships dock in the valley. Cargos loaded with... GREEN oranges!

6. Oliver, the Giant 08:14 Hungary 2023
   

   Directed:	Júlia Lantos
   Screenplay:	Júlia Lantos
   Production:	Mónika Mécs
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   Oliver is a giant kid who is living on a little planet with other very little humans. Oliver doesn't realize his own triviality until a big shadows appears to him from nowhere.

7. Wolf's Box 20:00 Turkey 2023
   

   Directed:	Uğur Savaş
   Screenplay:	Uğur Savaş
   Production:	Berat İlk, Doğuş Minsin, Emir Külal Haznevi
   Dialogue Language:	Turkish

   
   

   A man living alone at the top of a valley turns into a wolf with the book he reads. The dwarfs born from the rain clouds come to his village and the wolf continues to harbor some of these dwarfs. Others establish living quarters there. The wolf eats the dwarfs' heads and turns them into monsters. And sail with them...

8. HARVEST 06:10 Russian Federation 2023
   

   Directed:	Ivan Arkhipov
   Screenplay:	Ivan Arkhipov
   Production:	Ivan Arkhipov

   
   

   Experience is something you've never done.. The deeper you go, the more frightful this experience is.. Animation film reveals to the viewer the mystical moment of the intercession of the Great Mother for humanity before the power of doom. Animation made of metal plates & graphic prints in the art of dry point engraving. Animation is made of CA 1500 prints and metal plaits.

9. The Giant Bird 06:05 Germany 2024
   

   Directed:	Sharmeen Ahmed
   Screenplay:	Sharmeen Ahmed, Dhrubo Das
   Production:	Sharmeen Ahmed, Mir Rakib-Un-Naby

   
   

   Through the innocent eyes of a bird couple, the story explores the devastating impact of war. Mistaking airplanes for benevolent giants, their hope turns to horror as they witness the destructive power of bombs, shattering their trust in the seemingly godlike humans they control. This realization ignites a powerful message about the consequences of violence and the fragility of innocence.

10. RIPTIDE 04:30 Spain 2024
    

    Directed:	Jorge Rimer, Laura Herrero García
    Screenplay:	Laura Herrero García, Laia Llop
    Production:	Laura Herrero García

    
    

    Neela, a 26-year-old woman, seeks refuge in the sea to escape her troubled mind, only to be pulled into a dreamlike world where her darkest thoughts take shape.

11. Hunky Dory 06:00 United States
    

    Directed:	Steven Vander Meer
    Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

    
    

    Hunky Dory juxtaposes scenes of animal life with images of human existence, observing the quirky and unexpected ways in which we are similar. The meticulously hand-drawn animation is a visual smorgasbord, moving and morphing in perfect time to the banjo music of Béla Fleck and his bandmates in My Bluegrass Heart.

12. Luthier 12:24 Colombia 2023
    Honorary Mention - International Professional Short Animation- Jury
    

    Directed:	Carlos González Penagos
    Screenplay:	Carlos González Penagos
    Production:	Carlos González Penagos
    Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

    
    

    In the high mountains of the Andes in South America a lone luthier manages to create a magical connection between nature and his instruments, so he builds one to try to revive the last red condor that has a special bond with him and his territory.

13. Avel 08:00 Argentina 2023
    

    Directed:	Daniel Marin
    Screenplay:	Daniel Marin
    Production:	Lorena Stricker, Cristina Smargiassi
    Dialogue Language:	Spanish

    
    

    Avel takes down his bird's cage and sets off on his motorcycle towards the hill; the wind sings through the bars, and a deep blue appears. A journey through time begins that returns us to the purest notion of freedom.