Professional Competition 2

1. Shoes and Hooves 14:53 Hungary 2024
   

   Directed:	Viktória Traub
   Screenplay:	Zsuzsanna Bak, Polett Dus, Viktória Traub
   Production:	Polett Dus
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   A pedicurist in a small-town, Paula the centaur-girl longs to have human feet. When she meets Arnold the crocodile-man, it is love at first sight. Can Paula take the first steps in her search for identity? What will be the price of her attempts to fit in and deny her true self?

2. INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES 10:36 Hungary 2023
   

   Directed:	Géza M. Tóth
   Screenplay:	Géza M. Tóth
   Production:	Eszter M. Tóth
   Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

   
   

   Film genre examples displayed with a few animated matchsticks for taking serious theoretical approaches by exploring the narrative implications of the cinema and develop skills and knowledge of in-depth analysis of film texts. Or just for fun.

3. The Old Man and his Grandson / Старый дед и внучек 14:50 Russian Federation 2024
   

   Directed:	Mikhail Gorobchuk
   Screenplay:	Mikhail Gorobchuk
   Production:	Svetlana Dalskaya, Polina El Bakhlali
   Dialogue Language:	Russian

   
   

   The film is about family relationships and understanding of old age, about the importance of personal example in raising children.

4. The Boat / O Barco 17:00 Brazil 2024
   

   Directed:	Rodolpho Pinotti
   Screenplay:	Luís Alberto de Abreu
   Production:	Diana Gerbelli

   
   

   An isolated island, a teenager, and her mother. A boat docks at the pier, bringing promises and desires. Against her mother’s wishes, the girl sets off to explore the world, and a few years later, she returns with passions and memories in her baggage. The film delves into rites of passage and the inherent transformations of life.

5. Camping 07:00 Canada 2023
   

   Directed:	Sacha Kai Michaud, Alyssa Ashmore, Nicole Calfchild
   Screenplay:	Alyssa Ashmore, Sacha Kai Michaud, Nicole Calfchild, Lolita Matchee, Terri Williams, Leanne Crier
   Production:	Sacha Kai Michaud, Quickdraw Animation Socieity
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   Camping is a stop-motion short, that follows the story of Shawna, a young woman living in an urban encampment as she attempts to find housing. This was a community project, written by people with the lived experience of being unhoused.

6. the-room.exe 03:57 Croatia 2023
   

   Directed:	Nela Gluhak
   Screenplay:	Nela Gluhak
   Dialogue Language:	English

   
   

   cd [C:\Program Files\Games] start [the-room.exe]

7. Flux / Cheia 05:00 Brazil 2024
   
   

   The last floods marked on the wall measure the speed of life. Washing images and melting certainties.

8. Dance with the Reaper 04:15 Spain 2024
   

   Directed:	Berta Alsinet, Paula Anglas, Núria Aranda, Martina Berney, Joan Cortit, Laia Domene, David Martín, Carlota Massó, Roger Menta, Víctor Moya, Gisela Torras
   Production:	Carlota Massó Cabré

   
   

   Sofia, the most wanted criminal in the state, cannot avoid meeting her own fate after a manhunt. In this face-to-face encounter with Death, a dance begins, driven by love at first sight. But Death has a job to do: to reap Sofia's soul. It is at this moment that Death must make a crucial decision.

9. Feel like home 05:40 Poland 2024
   

   Directed:

   Aneta Siurnicka

   
   

   "Feel Like Home" is an animated short inspired by voice recordings from people around the world, sharing their thoughts on what home means to them, often moving away from the traditional idea of a permanent place. These diverse perspectives shape the narrative, following a female character as she journeys through imaginative landscapes in search of her own definition of home.

10. Buckshot 09:00 United Kingdom 2024
    

    Directed:	Trevor Hardy
    Screenplay:	Trevor Hardy
    Production:	Trevor Hardy
    Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

    
    

    Tension boils over when a neighbour goes next door to borrow a saucepan.

11. When.the.Khan.died 05:35 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2023
    

    Directed:	Abbas Kaviri
    Screenplay:	Ali Sajjadi
    Production:	Abbas Kaviri
    Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

    
    

    In a remote village in the center of Iran, around the 1330s of AH, both the south villager and the north villager died at the same time. Currently, the members of both the villages are looking to give a grand burial ceremony for their respective leaders. During the process, fueled by the inventions of the village's elderly merchant, conflicts and disagreements arise, and ultimately, everyone is driven by self-interest, greed, and unnecessary prejudice, leading to their destruction

12. The Spire 06:32 Russian Federation 2024
    

    Directed:	Maria Dubrovina
    Screenplay:	Vadim Mikhailov
    Production:	Larisa Guchkovskaya
    Dialogue Language:	Russian

    
    

    In the history of Leningrad during the siege, there is a page dedicated to the female mountain climbers who in 1941 covered the city's golden domes so that the enemy could not use the high-rise buildings for aimed fire. A "skirt" was sewn for the Admiralty to cover its top from the enemy. The girls worked, forgetting about fatigue, despite hunger and cold, at the cost of their lives they hid monuments and all the city's residents from destruction. This film is dedicated to their memory and their feat

13. Piano / پیانو 07:00 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2023
    

    Directed:	Marjan Keshani, Shahab Shamsi
    Screenplay:	Danesh Giti
    Production:	Marjan Keshani

    
    

    The production of this stop-motion animation has just been completed and it depicts the world of war with an anti-war narrative. In this work, we don't see any war scenes or unfortunate events, and it is narrated how humans go to war with their own kind. "Piano", which is a 7-minute short film, deals with poverty and life's problems, and is the story of a person who wants to buy a piano, but the war crisis occurs and he is deprived of the simplest things in his life. According to Keshani, our character lives in the middle of his external and internal war, and the simple dreams of his life become unattainable dreams and finally he reaches inner peace.