Short Docs 2

85 minutes
Short Docs 2

The short documentaries in this program all use animation to help bring a real story to life.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

2.3 x 2.6 x 3.2

2.3 x 2.6 x 3.2

  • Jiaqi Wang
  • United Kingdom, 2019
  • 3 min.

This film is for my aunt, she had breast cancer last year. I was depressed and did not know how to help her, so I make this film. The tapir in the film is myself, and I put the healing figure (Kareau) in front of the house, trying to cure her. I’m trying to discuss the certainty of hope (Kareau) and uncertainty of disease (Cancer) in this film.

A story by Jeannot

A story by Jeannot

  • Julie Rembauville / Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
  • France, 2019
  • 15 min.

As a young boy, Jeannot was a little fiery Parisian. In 1871, he dreamt to change the world with the partisans of Paris Commune. But with its repression, he is brought to a journey around the globe. The journey that lasts all his life.

Alba’s Memories

Alba’s Memories

  • Maria Steinmetz / Saul Saguatti
  • Germany / Italy, 2019
  • 6 min.

Alba remembers how she felt in Love with Pierino, friend of her brother, in the early fifties in Italy

Apart

Apart

  • Diana Cam Van Nguyen
  • Czech Republic, 2018
  • 9 min.

This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.

Bear With Me

Bear With Me

  • Daphna Awadish Golan
  • The Netherlands, 2018
  • 4 min.

A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.

My trip to Japan

My trip to Japan

  • Dante Zaballa
  • Japan / Argentina, 2018
  • 3 min.

Based on a real conversation we had with Juan Molinet before leaving Japan.
Mixed up memories about out visit to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Miyoshi, Naoshima and Kyoto.

Oneself story

Oneself story

  • Géraldine Charpentier
  • Belgium, 2018
  • 4 min.

While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.

Swatted

Swatted

  • Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
  • France, 2018
  • 21 min.

Online players describe their struggles with "swatting", a life-threatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play. The events take shape through youtube videos and wireframe images from a video game.