International Competition 3

Souvenir Souvenir

2020 / France / 0:15:00

Director : Bastien Dubois

For ten years, I’ve pretended to make a movie out of my grandfather's Algerian war souvenirs.
Today, I’m not sure I want to hear what he has to say...

The Chimney SwiftOnline Screening

2020 / Germany / 0:05:00

Director : Frédéric Schuld

19th century in Europe. A child climbs up a chimney while a bird sails down into it to build a nest. An encounter with no way back.

A British chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master's statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past.

At the EdgeOnline Screening

2020 / France / 0:05:10

Director : Sylvie Denet

Family photos, posing on holiday. Family on a break the moment before or after. What happened, or not.

How to Disappear

2020 / Austria / 0:21:06

Director : TOTAL REFUSAL
Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf

Is it possible to desert in a shooter game? Along this question, "How to Disappear" reflects on war and game, discipline and disobedience. For the history of defiance is as old as the history of war - and yet the act of desertion goes beyond the game's space of action. Shot in the martial yet picturesque war landscapes of the online shooter ""Battlefield V"", the hyperreal graphics become the backdrop for an essay-like narrative.

The Tawny OwlOnline Screening

2019 / Germany / 0:09:41

Director : Aleksandar Radan

Lurking in the grass has paid off for the fox. The narrator’s apprehensive voice takes us to an island where a battle for survival rages among creatures feathered and furry. After all, a bear is only cute if you’re not a rabbit. The animation resembles landscape shots from animal documentaries—but instead of Smokey the Bear we’re served pointed humor, instead of glossy nature, the images are rampant with sprawling absurdity.

Betty

2019 / United Kingdom / 0:14:05

Director : Will Anderson

An animator tries to make sense of a failed relationship.

Half of an AppleOnline Screening

2020 / Japan / 0:04:19

Director : Zhou Xiaolin

A boring afternoon in December, Papa Bear washed an apple and cut it in half. Half to me and half to my twin sister. We all don’t like the apple with a kitchen knife smell.