Young Directors Competition 2
01 Nun or Never!
Director(s)
Heta JAALINOJA
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Finland
Length: 10' 00''
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The nuns live in the monastery in contentment and harmony, fused together. One of the nuns finds a man underground while digging potatoes. The nun begins to dream of a man and goes mad.
02 My name is Edgar and I have a cow
Director(s)
Filip DIVIAK
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Czech Republic
Length: 07' 47''
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Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse.
03 Fox Tossing
Director(s)
Zénó MIRA
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 07' 48''
Synopsis
In 17th-century Europe, there was a now-forgotten aristocratic pastime called “fox tossing”. Based on this strange cultural phenomenon, the animated short aims to depict the hedonistic lifestyle of palace dwellers who treat foxes as playthings sentenced to death.
04 Drijf
Director(s)
Levi STOOPS
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Belgium
Length: 14' 59''
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A couple is lost at sea. They are cooped up together on a small tree bark in the ocean. As they fail to understand each other, the fight for their survival and their relationship becomes a bloody mess. Will our castaways be able to grow or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?
05 Crab
Director(s)
Piotr CHMIELEWSKI
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: France, Poland
Length: 08' 00''
Synopsis
Animals are our silent companions; they have witnessed the greatest achievements and most horrible failures of humankind. They live their lives parallel to ours – they are our food, our tools or, in the best case, we just don’t notice them. Usually our victory means death for them, but there are moments where the situation changes…
06 Piano in the bushes
Director(s)
Dashka DEMENTEVA
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Estonia
Length: 06' 56''
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Empty handed head, Mystery girl, piano keys, New awakening.
07 I Want to Believe
Director(s)
Zoé NAGY
Film info
Year of production: 2023
Country of production: Hungary
Length: 06' 00''
Synopsis
The film follows the everyday life of a fanatic grandma, who discovers signs of extraterrestrial life in her environment.
08 Caché
Director(s)
Julie RENER
Film info
Year of production: 2021
Country of production: Belgium
Length: 08' 43''
Synopsis
A fragment of an intimate investigation, an attempt to go back over the generations in order to touch on a turning point. In a psychomagical act, drawn and intuitive, my hands will mediate between the invisible and the visible.
09 Ice Merchants
Director(s)
Joao GONZALEZ
Film info
Year of production: 2022
Country of production: Portugal
Length: 14' 33''
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Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.