Emile Award Winners 2018

75 minutes
Emile Award Winners 2018

We cherry-picked our favorites from the winners of the 2018 European Animation Awards.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

(Fool time) JOB

(Fool time) JOB

  • Gilles Cuvelier
  • France, 2017
  • 16 min.

Pedro has found a new job.
A kind of strange one, but these days, he can't afford to be fussy. It's a real chance !
Anyway, he's never been the kind of getting cold feet...

A Love Letter to the One I Made Up

A Love Letter to the One I Made Up

  • Rachel Gutgarts
  • Israel, 2017
  • 6 min.

A lonely walk home is intertwined with an underwater fantasy world. The combination between reality and fantasy is portrayed in a love letter addressed to an imaginary "perfect" man. The film is made with a unique technique of screen-printed animation.

Cat Days

Cat Days

  • Jon Frickey
  • Germany / Japan, 2018
  • 11 min.

Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor's. She diagnoses a harmless condition. But it shakes the core of the boy's identity.

Enough

Enough

  • Anna Mantzaris
  • United Kingdom, 2017
  • 2 min.

Moments of lost self-control.

Have Heart

Have Heart

  • Will Anderson
  • United Kingdom, 2017
  • 12 min.

A looping animated GIF has an existential crisis.

Musical Traumas

Musical Traumas

  • Miloš Tomić
  • Serbia, 2018
  • 10 min.

Musical Traumas came to fruition as the result of the director's obsession with music schools. It is a rhythmic compilation of traumatic, but amusing confessions of former students, as well as an attempt to visualise music with scrumptious, hand-drawn animation.

Small Fish

Small Fish

  • Noémie Buffat
  • France, 2016
  • 2 min.

On stage, disguised children dance and sing to the rhythm of a nursery rhyme, until an unforeseen causes brutally the end of the show.

The Fruits of Clouds

The Fruits of Clouds

  • Kateřina Karhánková
  • Czech Republic, 2017
  • 10 min.

Furry and his friends live in burrows on a glade surrounded by dark woods. They feed themselves with seeds that turn into glowing fruit after touching the ground. However, these are quite rare. The animals’ fear from the wood does not allow them to leave the glade and look for the food somewhere else. Instead, they resignedly wait until it falls from the sky. But Furry does not want to wait anymore. The wood awakens curiosity in him. He wants to know what is hiding in there…