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 3


Saturday 07/12/2024 09:00 - 11:00, Saturday 07/12/2024 21:00 - 23:00
Total Duration: 1:50:00

  1. Aluado 07:11 Portugal
    Directed: Cláudio Jordão
    Screenplay: Cláudio Jordão
    Production: António Costa Valente
    Dialogue Language: No Dialogue

    …somewhere in the far reaches of an imagined universe, an astronaut travels between moons in search of his mental sanity… somewhere in the far reaches of an imagined universe… … algures nos confins de um universo imaginado, um astronauta viaja entre luas em busca da sua sanidade ment… algures nos confins de um universo imagin…

  2. Vor 17:31 Taiwan 2024
    Directed: Ping An HUANG
    Screenplay: Ping An HUANG
    Production: Sheep WU
    Dialogue Language: Chinese

    Daikon and Bean met at the edge of the world, then that hot summer turned into spring.

  3. An Unwanted Member 02:16 India 2024

    Nowadays, we are all stuck in the cycle of stress and day by day, it becomes a permanent member of our lifestyle. In this film, there are three phases: Transmission of stress (first phase), It moves from boss to employee, employee to other man in traffic, other man to his wife like infection. Birth of stress (second phase): A baby grows up with stress. The third phase is the spreading of stress. The boy goes to school and spreads stress to his school friends. One of his classmates becomes a boss; he is that boss who came in the first frame. In short, if you give stress to someone, the same things will come to you in different ways. It is time to identify this problem and make our world happy.

  4. Pader 08:25 France 2024
    Directed: Jean Vergé
    Screenplay: Benjamin Pernot
    Production: PEGBAR ANIMATION
    Dialogue Language: French

    "A young boy, clad in a dunce cap and lion's paw gloves, embarks on a quest across a fiery desert, carrying a heavy burden. Compelled by an imperative inner voice, he faces hardships, turning his duty into a tool to get through the pitfalls.

  5. The Three Sisters 14:31 Cyprus 2024
    Directed: Timur Kognov
    Screenplay: Timur Kognov
    Production: Alexander Perishev, Dave Henderson

    Three sisters live a lonely life on an isolated island, each in their own small house. One day, circumstances develop in such a way that they are forced to rent out one of the houses.

  6. Plain of Yellow Flowers 08:42 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2023
    Directed: Hossein Aghamohammadi
    Screenplay: Hossein Aghamohammadi
    Production: Hossein Aghamohammadi
    Dialogue Language: No Dialogue

    Distributed by IRAN FILM PORT co. An Iranian Films Agency and Distribution Under the supervision of "Alimohammad Eghbaldar" www.iranfilmport.com Synopsis:A girl is only eager for the birth of her sister. She imagines her in her dreams and is trying to make a gift for her...

  7. The Alchemist’s Apprentice 06:48 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2024
    Directed: Erfan Parsapour
    Screenplay: Erfan Parsapour
    Production: Zahra Mansouriyeh, Sarah Kayvan
    Dialogue Language: No Dialogue

    A young alchemy apprentice tries to fix his master's creation discreetly.

  8. Featherbrain / Tête de linotte 06:25 France 2024
    Directed: Paul Charff
    Screenplay: Paul Charff
    Dialogue Language: French

    Colin, an absent-minded pupil, escapes into his thoughts during a math lesson, surrounded by amusing characters who bring him comfort. When called to the blackboard, he remains stuck in his dream. One of Colin’s imaginary friends sprouts from a tear, guiding him through the wonders of the outside world, pointing out all the beauty and fascinating details about it. This gives Colin the strength and hope to return to his senses.

  9. The Magic of Santa Claus 08:52 United States 2024
    Directed: Andrew de Burgh
    Screenplay: Andrew de Burgh
    Production: Andrew de Burgh, C. Diamant, Ananya Chopra
    Dialogue Language: English

    Despite receiving a heartbreaking diagnosis, Santa Claus moves on with his life as if nothing happened.

  10. Our Ashes Are Alive 07:55 Greece 2024
    Directed: Vanessa Ferle
    Screenplay: Vanessa Ferle
    Production: Vanessa Ferle
    Dialogue Language: English

    A female testimony of a post-apocalyptic “ancient-Greek-drama-alike” non-human chorus of ashes' statues. The ashes of the victims of the genocide of Palestinians arise in an underwater world and tell their story, protected from the inhumanity of humans on earth, and accompanied by mutated fish-birds. A story of love and hope in an age of despair, through an audiovisual breeding of archival folk & revolutionary music, war field journalists' auditory documentations and new smart technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, VR and AR. CONCEPT: “An audiovisual lament for the unjust death of innocent Palestinians, who dissolved literally into ashes, during their ongoing massive and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza since October 7, 2023, through an experimental breeding of traditional music, current war field recordings and Artificial Intelligence, VR and AR.

  11. Kissing Day 08:00 Turkey 2024
    Directed: Ligebita Libera
    Dialogue Language: Russian

    "Kissing Day" is a short animated film based on an interview with the famous Russian journalist and LGBTQ activist Elena Kostyuchenko. It tells the story of the "Kissing Day" action that Elena organized outside the Russian State Duma in 2012 during the first hearings of the law against "gay propaganda" among minors. In total, Russian LGBTQ activists organized four protests outside the State Duma. In June 2013, the law on "gay propaganda" was adopted by a majority vote.

  12. Trumpet Voice / Voz de Trompeta 12:11 Chile 2023
    Directed: Pilar Smoje Gueico, David Monarte Serna
    Screenplay: Pilar Smoje Gueico, David Monarte Serna
    Production: Pilar Smoje Gueico
    Dialogue Language: No Dialogue

    A middle-aged trumpet player, unable to communicate with the world in any other way than through his music. One day his trumpet is stolen by the demons with whom he lives every day and he will have to travel inside his mind, reliving his greatest fears and traumas in order to fight his demons and recover his precious trumpet.


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