ICONA ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2024 Official Screeningshttps://iconafestival.eu/live
Ionian Contemporary
Animation Festival ICONA
December 5th - December 8th, 2024 LIVE
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Professional Competition 9


Sunday 08/12/2024 09:00 - 11:00, Sunday 08/12/2024 21:00 - 23:00
Total Duration: 1:48:42

  1. Glide 07:53 Canada 2023
    Directed: Jason Zumpano
    Screenplay: Jason Zumpano
    Production: Jason Zumpano

    A meditation on the radically different means of creation available to us, Jason Zumpano’s latest short “Glide” is an invitation to the mythopoetic and the various materials, from the painterly to the digital, that bring it into existence. Against Matisse-like colour palettes and impressionistic-resolutions, the central figure of “Glide” is a woman floating on a lantern-helmed rowboat. We float through various angles and perspectives as she’s drawn languidly towards a collective future. The screen blends between settings that emerge from sky to ocean and from canvas to characters coming together in a watery dreamscape that enacts a mysterious ritual. The soundtrack voices the oceanic and star-lit setting. Think Vangelis in an Aeolian reverie of golden hues. Think, ponder and glide. * official selection Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn 2024 * official selection Athens Animfest - 3rd Prize Experimental Competition 2024 * official selection Les Sommets du cinema d'animation, Montreal 2024 * official selection The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival 2024

  2. First 1000 Times 05:21 Spain 2024
    Directed: Guby Moon
    Screenplay: Guby Moon
    Production: Guby Moon
    Dialogue Language: Spanish

    Fuck is not as important as getting emotional and being sweet, because laughing in bed is also making love.

  3. The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princess 06:33 United Kingdom 2024
    Directed: Anna-Ester Volozh
    Production: Anna-Ester Volozh
    Dialogue Language: English

    A princess’s impossible demand sparks an endless war, until a mysterious suitor emerges, claiming to be the one to satisfy her pride. Based on a story by L.M.Montgomery.

  4. The Tales of Grandmother Basyang: The Mysterious Guardian of Mount Arayat 13:00 Philippines 2024
    Directed: Nelson Jr Caliguia
    Screenplay: Christine Bellen-Ang
    Production: Benjie Marasigan
    Dialogue Language: Tagalog

    After meeting an elderly fairy, a young boy goes through a fantastic journey through time and space .

  5. I do have something / У меня что-то есть 08:27 Russian Federation 2024
    Directed: Valeria Burgucheva
    Dialogue Language: Russian

    What is your first memory? The animated documentary project collected from the childhood memories of different people.

  6. Lupus Sophus 08:00 Russian Federation 2023
    Directed: Yuliya Evdokimova
    Screenplay: Yuliya Evdokimova
    Production: Boris Mashkovtsev

    Black and white story with chase and pacification.

  7. Out there 13:32 Russian Federation 2024
    Directed: Evgeniy Golovin, Alexander Afonasyev
    Screenplay: Maria Parfenova
    Production: Natalia Kozlova, Anton Smetankin, Evgeniy Golovin
    Dialogue Language: Russian

    One page, and another. One foot before the other. I am here, I’m not there. I’ll reach the light, stair by stair.

  8. The other one / Un Autre 05:00 Belgium 2023
    Directed: Adèle Pion
    Screenplay: Adèle Pion
    Production: William Henne, Victor Claude
    Dialogue Language: French

    A man has built his nest in the wasteland opposite my house. I see him regularly, I watch him, does he see me too? I question my relationship with him, my shame, my powerlessness. Is a meeting possible?

  9. LACK 10:45 Poland 2023
    Directed: Paweł Prewencki
    Screenplay: Paweł Prewencki
    Production: Ewa Sobolewska, Michalina Prewencka
    Dialogue Language: English

    The film tells a story about struggling with pain and suffering. It touches on a very personal experience. It is a story of loneliness, anger and grief experienced by parents who lose a child. It is an intimate and emotional visualization of the world in which bereaved people live. It tells about a situation for which no one is prepared, and the 'catalogue' of reactions we have known up to that point becomes useless.

  10. Rose Rash 10:00 Thailand 2024
    Directed: Thanut Rujitanont

    O Nobly-Born, your breathing is about to cease. Listen with full attention, without being distracted. O Nobly-Born, go forward, you have been in a swoon. The film was inspired by the book titled “Tibetan Book of the Dead” (1927).

  11. Closer / Lähemmäs 07:55 Finland 2024
    Directed: Albert Aleksanteri Laine
    Screenplay: Albert Aleksanteri Laine
    Production: Albert Aleksanteri Laine

    Closer is a jagged existential animation about how the perspective to life can change. It tells the story of an old artist, broken by his difficult memories. It is an animated short film made by one person about closeness, love, acceptance and healing.

  12. Обіруч (Heart Hug) 08:46 Ukraine 2023
    Directed: Rimma Gefen, Nika Zhukova
    Screenplay: Rimma Gefen, Nika Zhukova
    Dialogue Language: Ukrainian

    "Обіруч (Heart Hug)'' is a deeply moving film that explores the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the lens of a lovely duo. The film is based on a true story about the power of human connection and the beautiful bond between an elderly woman named Lilia and her faithful companion, Max, a big orange dog. The film is a story of love, loss, and resilience, reminding us that even in the darkest of times, the connections we create are our strengths.


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