Anna Rayner – Darkest of Blue
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.
The Filmmakers Talkshow
100 minutes
Casual conversations with a Q&A flair. Anne Eijsbouts will talk to filmmakers taking part in this year's competition.
This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018
Showing in this program
Cul an Ti
Cul an Ti is a series of 12 short films/music videos of traditional Irish songs, poems and new original compositions.
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Dacha, Aliens, Cucumbers
One day aliens came to the russian dacha. And they never left.
Facing It
As a man anxiously awaits a meeting in the local pub, he is forced to explore his own difficult memories and relationships in an evening that will leave him changed forever.
Finity Calling
An empty room with five people sitting at a table that seats six. Their withered bodies adorned with lush fabrics and jewelry, they spend eternity playing with their food. A charged silence fills the air. When the fragile equilibrium in the group is broken by the boy’s constant pestering, the results are explosive.
Fuse
A mousetrap snaps shut, a market place awakens. A group of men heatedly discuss how to kill the animal in the little box.
One after the other, they try to trump each other’s sadistic fantasies, and even a stranger’s suggestion to let the creature loose, turns out to be a sick manipulation. But as the macabre game unfolds and spirals out of control, both victim and tormentor suffer the same fate.
Future Thoughts
Future Thoughts is an experimental short film showing a collection of ideas about the near
future. Loek Vugs has a great interest for science, technology, architecture and the future.
For his graduation film he decided to combine all of these interests and show them all
together in one short mosaic story.
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M.E.
M.E. is an animated documentary about an invisible illness also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This is an experiment using different modes of representation: creating a simulation of photophobia by using bright contrast and flashing white frames.
Olly's room is a safe place which protects him from being overwhelmed outside but this isolates him from the world.
Maikeulboudjan
Jean and Chantal are a pretty normal couple living a pretty normal life in a pretty normal neighborhood. Jean and Chantal love each other. Could a simple dish washing problem break their couple ?
Mushroom and the Forest of the World
“Mushroom and the Forest of the World” follows a young forest sprite named Mushroom in her training to become one of her clan’s “Leaf Keepers” — a special group of woodland sprites who take care of nature. They are the ones who help put the morning dew on plants, make leaves change colors, and help bears fall asleep for the winter months.
My Little Boys – The Lucky Cockroach
A huge cockroach found its way into their home, seemed a boring family this was, but then the cockroach raved confliction between the elder and younglings under the roof.
Room 29
Between the four cement walls of his small room, the middle-aged man, Valère, muses about everything and nothing. He seems confused, and yet, very aware of life.
Space Butthole
In the annals of mankind, we will realize that humans have been mistreating Mother Nature for far too long. It was only a matter of time before the universe blasted back. Please join us in experiencing a warning from the deepest bowels of the galaxy. Can humanity squeeze out a solution before it goes to pot? Don’t stall to find out!
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The Little One
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?
Undivided
Trinity loses focus as her attention splits to virtual places. But she doesn’t notice that it’s not the only thing that splits.
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Where do babies come from?
A question parents rather not answer. Lets respond as vague as possible and let the imagination do the rest!
WORD
WORD! – a visual exploration of language in an alternate, post-factual universe. Quotes in the form of tweets by famous philosophers and writers appear throughout the film. Between the evocative urban scenarios that unfold, the viewer is invited on a seven-minute cinematic journey that interrogates our indissoluble relationship with words.
