Animated Shorts 9

75 minutes
Animated Shorts 9

These next-generation animators offer up tales of love, sorrow, and adventure: Passions run high in the world of online dating, and in a very naughty music video. One man feels locked up, while another wonders whether he’s locked the door. There’s also a lullaby, a girl who listens to seashells, and a band of ill-adjusted teens who have to save the world.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015

Showing in this program

Eli

Eli

  • Sagi Alter / Reut Elad
  • Israel, 2014
  • 7 min.

The film illustrates a day in a life of an Israeli soldier during his service, located in the Palestinian territory. A local boy dressed as a bunny starts a chase that blurs the line between the pursuer and the pursued, between reality and imagination.

Es Mü Z’äng

Es Mü Z’äng

  • Lalita Brunner / Fela Bellotto
  • Switzerland, 2015

The tight fight of a misdressed mistress

Fairy tale

Fairy tale

  • Natalia Grofpel
  • Russia, 2014
  • 4 min.

Film based on a lullaby song. Little birdie helps to put asleep naughty babies

Master Blaster

Master Blaster

  • Sawako Kabuki
  • Japan, 2015
  • 3 min.
Milton and Lydia

Milton and Lydia

  • Jamie Plaumer
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 3 min.

'Milton and Lydia' is the story of a like-minded pair who take to the internet in their search for love. Milton is 31, his friends lovingly call him Egg, due to the abnormal shape of his head; and Lydia is 27, divorced and tends to sleep with her socks on. The world of online dating is new to them, and the film follows them through the nerve wracking process of preparing for a first date.

My Seashell Memory

My Seashell Memory

  • Yanlai Chen
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 10 min.

The animation is about my childhood with my father whom died in several years ago. So, this animation is made for my father and also made for all my sad and apologies days. The story through the girl finishing a portrait that she haven't finished when her father lived to repay the paternal love and say goodbye to the sad days after her father leave her. In the present life, I want make this animat

Pineapple Calamari

Pineapple Calamari

  • Kasia Nalewajka
  • United Kingdom, 2014
  • 9 min.

Pineapple Calamari dreams of being a horse-racing champion and he is taken care of by two inseparable women who share a very special connection, but when tragedy befalls this happy family their social dynamic will take a drastic turn to the unexpected. A bizarre drama combining horseback riding, cooked frogs and women always on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Pircantaturi

Pircantaturi

  • Alice Buscaldi / Angela Conigliaro / Lorenzo Fresta
  • Italy, 2015
  • 5 min.

Sicily, 1930. The task of a " Pircantaturi ", a character now long gone, was to lurk outside the house of an insolvent debtor: its silent and continuous presence in front of a door was enough to label the victim as a man without honor: a real social delation, a denigration against the debtor and his entire family. It was a bad day when the “pircantaturi” appeared in front of the house of Pino an

Ruben Leaves

Ruben Leaves

  • Frederic Siegel
  • Switzerland, 2015
  • 5 min.

On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by obsessive-compulsive thoughts; is the front door locked? Is the stove really turned off? As Ruben’s creative mind is invaded by increasingly absurd scenarios, reality and imagination begin to merge…

Tale

Tale

  • Attila Bertóti
  • Hungary, 2014
  • 7 min.

Animated short about Vanya, Lenochka, the king, the queen, the robber, the guards, the horse, the blacksmith, the fire chief and his wife based on a short story by Daniil Kharms.

The Cage

The Cage

  • Hristo Karastoyanov
  • Canada, 2015
  • 3 min.

The cage is an animation movie that aims to penetrate into the reality by the dream visions of anonymous sufferer.

The Whyers

The Whyers

  • Lora D'Addazio
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 7 min.

The Whyers meet at a party – bored by atmosphere, they decide to go on the streets where they belong. On the front stairs of a church, a prophetic hobo who warns them of an imminent terrorist attack. Will they save Europe – and stop being bored ?