Shorts 2: Awkward Age

70 minutes
Shorts 2: Awkward Age

Here's a few shorts that'll bring back all the suppressed emotions of
your early years. Enjoy your trip back to problematic relationships,
awkward social encounters, and childhood bullies.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018

Showing in this program

A Robot is a Robot

A Robot is a Robot

  • Emil Friis Ernst / Nilas Røpke Driessen
  • Denmark, 2018
  • 5 min.

Following the tragic demise of its military career, a disabled robot war veteran finds its home among humans in the tender care of an old lady, who hires him in her hair salon for cats. Can he leave its days as a ruthless killer robot behind or is he going to act on the sinister murderous instincts that are a key part of its programming?

Anna Rayner – Darkest of Blue

Anna Rayner – Darkest of Blue

  • Oksana Kurmaz
  • Ukraine, 2017
  • 3 min.

A young girl struggles with sadness and anxiety too often as for an eight-year, and, with the help of music power, she accumulates strength in herself to overcome the depressive mood and return to a normal happy life.

Bloody Fairy Tales

Bloody Fairy Tales

  • Tereza Kovandová
  • Czech Republic, 2018
  • 7 min.

Five classical fairy tales, recreated in an unreasonably violent way. Keep away from children.
They might like it. )
Red riding hood, Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast. Those and two more famous
stories twisted into one minute episodes filled with dark humor, cynicism, and also a bit
of modernization. Unpredictable storylines, love, sex, drugs and lack of happy ends.
Fairy tales for the new mille

Peepin

Peepin

  • Haein Kim / Paul Rhodes
  • Australia, 2017
  • 4 min.

Dorian is on her own playing wall ball when she discovers a hole in the wall that reveals a public hook up spot. She runs to show the school's popular girls Kimmy K and Jae Lee her new discovery to potentially make a friend.

Poem About All Different Things

Poem About All Different Things

  • Matthew Armitage / Marcus Armitage / Josh Kun / Nancy Kangas
  • United States, 2017

Old snakes, loose teeth, hot tubs, and ugly people in your face. This is the world when you are four. Poems composed and spoken by preschoolers are animated by award-winning international artists. The resulting hand-crafted films show a depth and complexity of expression we don’t expect from 4 year olds.

Room

Room

  • Michał Socha
  • Poland, 2018
  • 6 min.

Room is geometric space drifting freely in space. Inside, there are no windows, doors or any furniture. There is only Head that does not stop trying to get out. Employing a surreal convention, this animation tells the story of passing time and the situation which seems to have no way out.

Sigh of sighs

Sigh of sighs

  • Bo-seong Gim
  • South Korea, 2018
  • 5 min.

"A whale is being neglected and decayed since it has been drifted on the shore of Han River.
Such strange things happened but no one in the city cares, only a dog and birds are around the whale.
These sceneries are a remembrance of the depression which has been hanging over South Korea quite a while."

The Diver

The Diver

  • Daniéla de Lange
  • South Africa, 2018
  • 2 min.

For the diver, what she does and what she loves are two separate things. What she does comes at the cost of what she loves. She loves diving. This love demands an uncomfortable amount of self belief, perseverance and emotional investment. Insecure as she is, she does what she loves in isolation.

The Little One

The Little One

  • Diana Cam Van Nguyen
  • Czech Republic, 2017
  • 9 min.

A Vietnamese girl grows up in a European town. As she gets used to what it means to be strange and at home at the same time, her family inevitably heads towards a fatal decision. Who will leave – who will stay? Whose home is where?

Watsky – Roses

Watsky – Roses

  • Diego Huacuja / Carlos Lopez Estrada
  • Mexico, 2018
  • 4 min.

Sometimes we fall into a never-ending cycle where we're stuck pulling ourselves down, not letting ourselves succeed. "Roses" tells everyone's story of dealing with and overcoming obstacles and is represented in this abstract and cyclical video.

Weekends

Weekends

  • Trevor Jimenez
  • United States, 2017
  • 15 min.

'Weekends' is the story of a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Surreal dream-like moments mix with the domestic realities of a broken up family in this hand animated film set in 1980's Toronto.