The best student films from every corner of the planet, selected for your viewing pleasure. This program includes hair-raising high speed buffoonery in Elk Hair Caddis, beautiful apocalyptic stop-motion in Teclopolis and beat-boxing felines in All That Cats.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2010

Showing in this program

All that Cats

• Mátyás Lanczinger
• Hungary, 2009
• 4 min.

Mini-funy animated series about beatboxing cats.

Beachcombers

• Koen De Koninck
• Belgium, 2009
• 4 min.

Twee strandjutters zoeken met hun metaaldetectors op een verlaten strand naar verborgen schatten...

Bottle Return

• Miriam Frank / Xaver Böhm / Georg Utz
• Germany, 2009
• 7 min.

A robot spends most of his time watching tv and drinking. One day he falls in love with a bottle-return-machine.

Delicious Friend

• Pierre Adrien
• France, 2009
• 3 min.

A women lets herself be taken away by evening adventure. The next day, she's rudely awakened by... the bed.

Elk Hair Caddis

• Magnus Igland Møller / Peter Smith / Alice Holme / Anders Brogaard Jepsen
• Denmark, 2010
• 4 min.

A father escapes his stressful life with his many tadpoles to his favourite hideout by the river. His peace and quiet is suddenly disturbed by his neighbour’s attempt to catch the fish of his dreams.

Elysium

• Xin Sun / Yun Li
• Germany, 2009
• 7 min.

We are all ordinary people, but we believe that somewhere in the world there is an Elysium we would leave everything behind for.

Feed Me

• Niels Dekker
• The Netherlands, 2010
• 5 min.

Feed Me is the 2010 graduation short by Niels Dekker about the constant feeding of one very fat lady.

Leafpeople: Drawn, Quartered, Decapitated

• Britt Raes
• Belgium, 2010
• 4 min.

Music video for the band Leafpeople. A birdman decapitates all the members of the band.

Lebensader

• Angela Steffen
• Germany, 2009
• 6 min.

A little girl finds the whole world inside a leaf.

Line

• Laurianne Proud'Hon / Ludovic Ramisandraina
• France, 2010
• 2 min.

A contemplative journey guided by small creatures who observe the micro events of daily life which seem to be for them precious and fleeting moments.

Mobile

• Verena Fels
• Germany, 2010
• 6 min.

At the edge of society, a cow tips the balance of destiny with quite some impact.

Sand Animation

• Nicolien Opdam
• The Netherlands, 2009

Man is getting very emotional with his annoying wife.

Teclopolis

• Javier Mrad
• Argentina, 2010
• 12 min.

Once upon a time old magazines dancing in the wind. Suddenly, a mouse: and then a whole civilization running towards its inevitable destiny, while a super8 camera searches for a lost love. Plastic waste has now reached a point where not even the most distant beaches are safe.

The Nest

• Ethan Clarke
• United States, 2010
• 3 min.

A colony of creatures have settled in Esther's back yard.

The Rabbitman

• Zsófia Tari
• Hungary, 2009
• 2 min.

Millions of years ago our planet was ruled by rabbits. But their hands were undeveloped. Everything had to be done with their ears. Rabbits resorted to the help of a primitive creature: man!

Trichrome Blue

• Lois van Baarle
• The Netherlands, 2009
• 4 min.

A girl living in a hollow and empty world finds out what the myserious brand Trichrome can bring her.