Shorts New Talents Competition: Animation 2
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Hall 2Kino Artis
Screening082218 / Shorts New Talents võistlusprogramm: anima 2
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A proud urban planner defends his “visionary” bike lane designs to his superiors, while outside the conference room his “perfect” plans are throwing the city into chaos.
A girl, Ping, faces conflict with her girlfriend Lala's homophobic and aggressive father, The Man.
As tensions escalate, Ping is forced to take drastic action to save herself and kills The Man.
This act becomes a ritual of transformation—a severing of ties, a rebirth, and a step into a new phase of life.
All Eddie has ever known is her Granny's world, where they pickle everything around them, preserving their family history forever. But when Granny joins their ancestors, Edie has to decide if she'll continue their tradition.
What suffocated me from an early age did not come directly from men, but rather from older women who have long existed within patriarchal structures.They love younger women, yet within that love, they exercise a certain form of “exclusive authority.”
The first manifestation of this power upon me was the shaving of my hair. As love and repression intertwine, this form of pressure is passed down across generations of women.
Through these conflicting emotions, Silkworm emerges as an attempt to offer a quiet warning against such inherited structures.
A caramel bar, an empty school desk, river water flowing and a blanket fort in a living room. Two adults revisit their childhood after experiencing sexualized violence inflicted by other minors. The short drifts between intimacy and distance, exploring how violence lingers in ordinary objects, moments and spaces. This documentary observes what remains and explores the foundations of shame, silence and responsibility.
Charcoal animation reveals the fear of home through the eyes of a little boy who has to be constantly on alert and ready to escape.
The main character and her friend are in a field and a flower field, talking through a tin can telephone. One day, the main character notices her friend seems upset. Following clues from their conversation, she crosses the field, trying to find her. As they talk, the friend opens up about her fears and desires. But just as the main character feels close to finding her, the friend suddenly disappears, leaving behind only the tin can telephone.
Katherine kneads clay, shapes it, and fires a cup. A curiosity sparked by this physical sensation leads her to reveal her own body. Sensing this, a lustrous linden blossom breaks away from the tree and begins to drift toward the girl. She crushes it with her hand, and an allergic reaction rash appears on her groin.
Back home, the girl encounters three cats.
A man and a woman with contradicting recounts of a night out, compete on a televised court show to determine who is telling the truth.
Rejected by everyone, a woman follows a mysterious finger into a surreal realm, where a tender yet unsettling touch slowly begins to twist her reality.