Student Competition 4

1. Button battery / 纽扣电池 05:20 China 2024
   

   Directed:	Shuhan Shen, Mingyu Wu
   Screenplay:	Shuhan Shen, Mingyu Wu
   Production:	Shuhan Shen, Mingyu Wu

   
   

   The little girl accidentally threw the button battery into the sink, afraid that the battery would pollute the environment to look for the battery, and finally found the battery after overcoming many difficulties.

2. Echo / 回声 05:30 China 2024
   

   Directed:	Cefu Duan
   Screenplay:	Cefu Duan
   Production:	Cefu Duan, Xiguang Ren

   
   

   This short film is a discussion about time, adopting a cyclical narrative structure throughout. The female protagonist is trapped in the cycle of time

3. Fetching Water / 取水记 05:16 China 2024
   

   Directed:	Hongxu Chen, Chunxue Yang, Yudi Liu, Shiyao Chen, Luyi Wang
   Production:	Hongxu Chen

   
   

   This is a story set in a rural area in Northeast China during an old era, when a spring drought hit, and a master and his apprentice set out to fetch water.

4. This tooth is mine! / 这颗牙是我的！ 07:06 China 2024
   

   Directed:	Yiqian Ma, Qianai Lin
   Screenplay:	Yiqian Ma, Qianai Lin
   Production:	Zhiyan Chen

   
   

   A girl made a wish with her lost teeth. That night, there were actually two tooth fairies came to the little girl's room. Who is the real tooth fairy?

5. Rebirth / 新生 08:14 China 2024
   

   Directed:	Juntao Dong, Jinze Song
   Screenplay:	Juntao Dong, Jinze Song
   Production:	Juntao Dong

   
   

   In a future where robots dominate humanity, all carbon-based life forms are strictly controlled. Plants, being unnecessary for the robots, are eradicated. Day after day, the girl monotonously makes artificial flowers for the robots. One day, while transporting fake flowers, the girl finds a seed. With real flowers almost entirely destroyed by the robots, the girl decides to keep the seed and let it grow. However, a surprise inspection by the robots catches her off guard. To protect the flower from being discovered, the girl engages in a series of battles of wits with the robots...

6. Bubbles / 泡泡抱抱 07:35 China 2023
   Honorary Mention - International Student Short Animation- Jury
   

   Directed:	Lezhi Xiao
   Screenplay:	Qianyu Lin
   Production:	Dayu Liu, Weihua Gao

   
   

   The girl Baobao serendipity a "bubble" that symbolized negative emotions and enveloped people. She tried her best to rescue her mother from the bubble, but the way to break it was with a small hug.

7. The Graduation Day / 涨潮躲进一整天 04:44 China 2023
   

   Directed:	Haoyuan Zhu, Yuxin Wang, Chuyue Zhang, Zining Li
   Screenplay:	Haoyuan Zhu, Chuyue Zhang, Yuxin Wang
   Production:	Dayu Liu, Weihua Gao

   
   

   Xiao Yu, a sensitive and twisted high school student, prepares graduation gifts for her classmates, but missed the opportunity to send them out because of her cowardice and the delicate atmosphere among her classmates, and reconciliates with herself in regret.

8. So long memories / 拾遗记 05:02 China 2023
   

   Directed:	Ruihan Zhang, Wenzi Shan, Xingyi Chen
   Screenplay:	Ruihan Zhang
   Production:	Dayu Liu, Weihua Gao

   
   

   The raccoon finds the old man's lost music box, remembering the time he spent with him, decides to return it to its rightful owner. After receiving the box, the old man remembers the good old days and gives the music box to the raccoon as a token of his gratitude.

9. Stitches / 缝 06:11 China 2023
   

   Directed:	Xinyu Li, Xiaoyu Xu, Shuwen He, Xiaoke Wan, Xiangrenyue Du, Yuxuan Jiang
   Screenplay:	Xinyu Li, Xiaoyu Xu, Shuwen He, Xiaoke Wan, Xiangrenyue Du, Yuxuan Jiang
   Production:	Dayu Liu, Weihua Gao

   
   

   An animated film that portrays the tangible and intangible threads that sew a woman's life and her inward sensitivity.

10. Antenna 04:21 Israel 2024
    

    Directed:	Danielle Helman
    Production:	Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
    Dialogue Language:	Hebrew

    
    

    a mother and daughter struggle to understand each other because of the different antennas on their heads. After a difficult day at school, the daughter attempts to pull the mother’s antenna so she could understand her.

11. Manta Dreams 03:39 Australia 2024
    

    Directed:	Jasmine Lin
    Screenplay:	Jasmine Lin
    Production:	Mark Lycette

    
    

    A woman had a childhood dream to explore the world. Now she has grown up to be an overworked waitress living in a small apartment. But when she comes home from work, she acts out this dream using her imagination — alongside her childhood manta ray plush.

12. Rock&Frogs 04:45 Russian Federation 2023
    

    Directed:	Elina Sibgatullina, Ekaterina Sterkhova, Polina Andreeva
    Dialogue Language:	Russian

    
    

    A student wants to respond to the rudeness of passengers on the bus, but the frog in his mouth eats his words.

13. Clementine 07:04 Singapore 2024
    

    Directed:	Michelle Kham
    Dialogue Language:	English

    
    

    Clementine (2024) is a 2D animated film set in a local art gallery, where a Victorian painting of a pair of twins has been a prominent attraction for decades. However, when one twin sister mysteriously disappears from the artwork, the other is then forced to leave the comfort of their painting and journey through the gallery to find her.

14. I Think I'm Going to Die 05:10 Singapore 2024
    

    Directed:	Ning Xuan Tan
    Dialogue Language:	English

    
    

    A young girl finds her body afflicted by a mysterious condition. Panicked, she races through different worlds searching for a diagnosis. This mixed media stop motion film moves between the mediums of sand, paper, collage, puppet, and clay.

15. WINDOWS FROM THE SOUTH / PROZORI S JUŽNE STRANE 04:59 Croatia 2024
    

    Directed:	Eugen Bilankov
    Screenplay:	Eugen Bilankov
    Production:	Academy of Fine Arts
    Dialogue Language:	Croatian

    
    

    A movie about a breakup. The narrative develops through the author’s conversations with his long-time partner, and follows the contemplation of the end of a nine-year romantic relationship. The sound design of the film is constructed using documentary techniques, while animation illustrates the psychological and emotional spaces of these 'breakup' conversations. To depict the randomness of subconscious thoughts and emotional states, the author experiments with visuals that incorporate elements of the surreal, making the connections between frames associative. The film reflects on the dual purpose of the artistic endeavor: compressing and archiving a portion of personal history in the medium of film and using it as a form of therapeutic self-exploration and experimentation.

16. WORMHOLE / CRVOTOČINA 03:38 Croatia 2024
    

    Directed:	Tara Klepac
    Screenplay:	Tara Klepac
    Production:	Martina Meštrović, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb

    
    

    Wormhole follows the unusual journey of a girl Iva, from her bathroom to the inner part of the black hole, where she goes through different dimensions and changes shape, size and colour in the process. She manages to escape and finds herself back in her bathroom, but with an unexpected memory from her travel.

17. Get Gulled 02:31 United States 2023
    

    Directed:	Matt McElrath
    Screenplay:	Matt McElrath, Meghana Didugu
    Production:	Meghana Didugu, Nevadasri Jeyarajan Jeyamkumar
    Dialogue Language:	No Dialogue

    
    

    On a sunny beach day, a little girl eagerly awaits her sandwich at a food truck. As she enjoys the sandwich's aroma, a watchful seagull swoops down and snatches it from her hands, causing her to tumble into the sand. Determined to reclaim her meal, the girl chases the seagull, even throwing a shovel in a desperate attempt to stop it. The chase ends when the seagull crashes into a signpost, dropping the sandwich, only for a seal to eat it. Both the girl and the seagull are left watching the sunset in defeat, with the girl venting her frustration by slapping the seagull on the head. Important note: Please use the password getgulled_2023 if you are trying to access the film's website. Thank you.

18. Still Here 07:53 Ecuador 2024
    

    Directed:	Gabriel Osorio
    Screenplay:	Gabriel Osorio
    Production:	Gabriel Osorio

    
    

    Years after experiencing the loss of her brother, Zoe decides to open up to the last member of her family: Her father.