Animation
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A morning stroll
by Grant Orchard
Animation | UK | 2011 | HD | 7 min.
When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we’re left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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A shadow of blue
by Carlos Lascano
Animation | France - Spain | 2011 | 35mm | 12 min.
A touching story in which fantasy and reality merge to make dreams come true. How determining can reality be, and how can fantasy unleash an unexpected freedom ? Can a fragile world of lights and shadows show us more than a silhouette drawn against the sunlight ?» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato
» date: saturday 7 july
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About the hard life of the Barn Swallow
by Chintis Lundgren
Animation | Estonia | 2011 | HD | 6 min.
The life of a Barn Swallow is not easy. Everything gets mixed up on the way back home from Africa, bigger birds are pesky, ghastly shadows from previous centuries annoyingly stalky, the clay is all gone and the barn locked at night.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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Basilisk
by Arkadiusz Jurcan
Animation | Poland | 2011 | HD | 3 min.
It's a new version of old polish legend about basilisk. There are big dungeons somewhere deep under Warsaw. Story told there lives a lot of strange creatures. And one of them was basilisk - big dragon. Ugly and stenchy. People, who walked close to gate of the dungeons, lost...» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato
» date: saturday 7 july
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Blik
by Bastiaan Schravendeel
Animation | Netherlands | 2010 | HD | 8 min.
A young boy moves to a new Neighbourhood and falls in love for the first time, with the much older girl next door.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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Blue whale
by Sivan Kidron
Animation | Israel | 2011 | DigiBeta | 7 min.
When my Grandpa turned 100-years-old he came to live with us. He used to sit at the place where we could once see the sea, only that Grandpa was a whale. He set there all day long, drinking his tea and hiding the sea.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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Brandt rhapsodie
by François Avril
Animation | France | 2011 | DigiBeta | 6 min.
The Ordinary tragedy of a romantic encounter, sung by Benjamin Biolay and Jeanne Cherhal.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Catherine the great
by Anna Kuntsman
Animation | Israel | 2011 | HD | 5 min.
Catherine, a young woman from Moldova, answers an appealing Want ad that calls for work overseas. She receives a plane ticket and arrives in Israel, landing in Tel Aviv without the slightest notion about the cruelty that awaits her.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Dell'ammazzare il maiale
by Simone Massi
Animation | Italy | 2011 | DigiBeta | 6 min.
While being dragged out of the barn, the pig has a way of seeing the sky and the things of the world.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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Der besuch
by Conrad Tambour
Animation | Germany | 2011 | HD | 9 min.
A tragicomical story about an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends. Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old...» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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Duo de volailles, sauce chasseur
by Pascale Hecquet
Animation | Belgium - France | 2011 | 35mm | 6 min.
Life hangs by a thread. Sometimes, it is none other than an old floor lamp switch. The question (of life or death) should be: Must the light stay on or off? This exploration between hunter and prey, will be revealed with music.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Fiumana
by Julia Gromskaya
Animation | Italy | 2012 | DigiBeta | 6 min.
A girl at the window watching the passing of time, the waltz of seasons, waiting for her man.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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Gato encerrado
by Peque Varela
Animation | Spain | 2010 | HD | 12 min.
How many lives does a cat have? It all depends on where you come from. Follow us in the journey of the quantum cat; he does not know whether he is dead or alive.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Grand Prix
by Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Animation | Spain | 2011 | 35mm | 8 min.
Cloudless sky. Vehicles on the grid. Blas, Ivan and Hector take their places. This is about to start! Ready, steady...» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Herr Hoppe and the nuclear waste
by Jan Lachauer, Thorsten Löffler
Animation | Germany | 2011 | HD | 4 min.
A barrel of nuclear waste drops into the living room of Herr Hoppe an average suburbian German. He has to get rid of it and does it in his own wacky way.» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato
» date: saturday 7 july
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La detente
by Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey
Animation | France | 2011 | DigiBeta | 8 min.
In a trench during the first world war, a French soldier becomes paralysed with fear. His mind disconnects from reality and escapes to a world where wars are fought by toys.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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Manège magique
by Viola Baier
Animation | Germany | 2010 | HD | 1 min.
In the backstage area of circus “Manège Magique”, a little absent-minded conductor accidentally mixes up his baton with the magic wand of the circus’ magician. Unaware of his mistake he inadvertently turns the whole circus into a magical underwater world.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Maria magenta
by Orlanda Laforet
Animation | France | 2011 | HD | 9 min.
As every Tuesday, François and his dauhgter drive through the woods after the child's music class. François perceives Maria Magenta, a disturbing beauty. He stops the car...» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Microphobia
by Nikki Schuster
Animation | Austria | 2010 | HD | 7 min.
Microphobia is about the beauty and uniqueness of nature and the desire of her artificial reconstruction. Plant particles, collected in South Africa and Berlin, are digitally combined to new plant constructions. They thicken till figurative creatures are generated. The viewer is hoaxed to, consumed and regurgitated by these manipulated forms....» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Night of the living chocolate
by Avinash Changa, Mark Bazelmans, Stijn Windig, Daniel Dugour
Animation | Netherlands | 2010 | HD | 7 min.
Ever wonder what happens in a candy factory after the lights go out? When two candy-making robots get into a huge food fight, they inadvertently stir up chocolate trouble of epic proportions. To save the factory from total devastation, they overcome their differences and find friendship in victory.» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato
» date: sunday 8 july
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Prinz ratte
by Albert Radl
Animation | Germany | 2011 | 35mm | 14 min.
"Prinz Ratte" is a fairy tale with all the ingredients needed: A castle, a princess, a prince, a dragon, a secret admirer and deep emotions, but also with an unexpected ending and an uncommon truth about little heroes and big desires...» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato
» date: saturday 7 july
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Reis door de stad (City trip)
by Gerben Agterberg, Jasper Bos, Emma Hazenak, Daniel Oliveira Prins
Animation | Netherlands | 2010 | DigiBeta | 6 min.
City Trip is an animation made by eleven animators who worked in an unique way on this project: in a relay race. Each animator has given his own vision and style to the animation inspired by the theme: City Trip.» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato
» date: saturday 7 july
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The farmer and the robot
by Abdollah Ali-Morad
Animation | Iran | 2011 | 35mm | 21 min.
Crashing of a spaceship in a farm, a robot comes out and gets in touch with the farmer…» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato
» date: sunday 8 july
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The greek crisis explained
by NOMINT
Animation | Greece | 2010 | DV | 3 min.
Animation for the Nation! You asked for it, so here it is! The Greek Crisis explained in 3 episodes. We didn’t want to have our hands tied when it came to Greek Financial Crisis. It was a joint decision to set them free, and this is what they came...» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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The itch
by Patrick Schoenmaker
Animation | Netherlands | 2011 | DigiBeta | 7 min.
A promising young love turns into a dragging marriage, unbearable for everyone involved, including the dog. He is bored to death in the squeaky-clean house of his neat freak mistress. But an uninvited guest might bring some welcome playtime around the house.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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The monster of Nix
by Rosto
Animation | Netherlands | 2011 | 35mm | 30 min.
Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix... until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Via Curiel 8
by Mara Cerri, Magda Guidi
Animation | France | 2011 | 35mm | 9 min.
A man and a woman retrace a distant moment of their life, to look for each other and discover the unknown simultaneity of their existence. A meeting just imagined, a new memory to preserve and bring back to present.» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: saturday 7 july
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Vicenta
by Sam Orti
Animation | Spain | 2010 | 35mm | 18 min.
When Alfredo dies without revealing his wife the hiding of the fabulous fortune that won the lottery, Vicenta will look everywhere to assume that the only way to know is to ask where her dead husband is. Return the dead to life has never been easy, let alone a...» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
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Wenzu
by Ezra Wube
Animation | Ethiopia - USA | 2011 | 35mm | 3 min.
Wenzu is a stop action animation using grains, salt, dirt and plants. In the story Mr. Hyena was standing and drinking from upstream and accuses Mis. Donkey who was drinking from down stream for dirtying the water.» location: ESTE, Accademia dell'Artigianato
» date: sunday 8 july
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Zing
by Kyra Buschor, Cynthia Collins
Animation | Germany | 2011 | HD | 8 min.
Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people's lives. One day, his monotonous existence is interrupted by the door bell. It's a little girl. She wants her cat back. Little does she know that she's the next life on Mr. Grimm's...» location: ESTE, Giardini del Castello
» date: friday 6 july
