Silhouettes Competition 4 – Not the Goblin...?
01 The Sunset Special
Director(s)
Nicolas GEBBE
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Germany
Length: 17' 30''
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A secluded beach location, the perfect partner, the most exclusive Hotel: It is the life of your dreams. Join an eerie trip into the luxurious world of unfulfilled dreams and desires.
02 Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse
Director(s)
Thomas Johnson VOLDA
Ivana Bosnjak VOLDA
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Croatia
Length: 09' 57''
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She is serving coffee while thinking of escaping her reality. He is recording and listening back to the sounds of the café. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation, do they realise that they are examples of this too?
03 To the Brink
Director(s)
Hugo DOCKING
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: United Kingdom
Length: 04' 00''
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A violent stop-motion cabaret for the cynical and depraved. Guilt, alcoholic apathy and the inevitable, looming apocalypse threaten to push a young man "To the Brink".
04 Telsche
Director(s)
Sophie COLFER, Ala NUNU
Synopsis
Set on a vast plain of salt flats, explores memory, loss, and love. It is about the journey that Telsche takes to remember someone who she has forgotten. It looks hard to find the difference between a face and a stone.
05 Ode
Director(s)
Beáta GYÖRGY
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Hungary, Romania
Length: 02' 35''
Synopsis
The flowerman sits to his table with a piece of paper. Grabs a feather-pen and starts writing.
06 The Sausage Run
Director(s)
Thomas STELLMACH
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Germany
Length: 09' 45''
Synopsis
Tragic story of a little lamb with the help of multiple Zoetropes, loosely based on the well-known Grimm’s fairy tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.
07 LIGHTS
Director(s)
Adél PALOTÁS
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 08' 13''
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The hero with an old lamp head is hiding in a city ruled by LED lamp heads.
08 Message
Director(s)
Anna HORVÁTH
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 04' 12''
Synopsis
A drawing-animation study with a surreal atmosphere using motifs from István Örkény's One minute short stories.
09 Ludvercz
Director(s)
Enikő SVARCZ
Anna CSABAI
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 02' 30''
Synopsis
Adaptation of István Örkény's short story in which a university student makes a report with an old woman, but they disagree about certain creatures, whose name is the Ludvercz.
10 Flea circus
Director(s)
Hanna HORVÁTH
Lívia VÁLI
Bianka FARKAS
Janka BÁCSI
Anna BURKA
Alexandra TÓTH
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 01' 13''
Synopsis
The scent of fresh popcorn, a colourful group of performers. Every little detail is revealed in the spotlight…
11 Upbeat of joy
Director(s)
Eszter VARGA, Sára SZŐKE, Bence VADÁSZ, András MOCSÁR, Eszter KOCSIS
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 00' 42''
Synopsis
A coin thrown into a one-arm bandit starts the sounds of fun, which creates a rhythm.
12 Let’s Order Pizza!
Director(s)
Dávid JÁVORCSÍK
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 07' 18''
Synopsis
From the story it turnes out, why it's not recommended to order pizza in an altered state of consciousness.
13 The Witch's lullaby
Director(s)
Dasha VYATKINA
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Netherlands, Russia
Length: 04' 02''
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Grandma Yaga finds herself torn between the desire to be near her son and the longing to revel in the night's dance with her witch companions. Can she find a way to merge these two roles in the dark?