OFFICIAL SELECTION (2nd Edition)

20-30 June, 2016

Balloon Ride

Directed by: Evan Hughes

 

Category: Animation, Drama, Stop-motion

 

Year & Country: 2015, Australia

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Duration: 5 min

 

Synopsis: The story follows a young boy who is part of a dysfunctional family. He and his mother are victims of domestic violence inflicted by the father. The boy dreams of escaping with his mother, only to wake up to a tragic reality.

 

Website:  N/ A

 

 

 

Heroes of color

Directed by: David Heredia

 

Category: Animation, History, Black History, Short, Documentary, Education, Web Series

 

Year & Country: 2015, United States

 

Duration: 3 min

 

Synopsis: An Award Winning, educational whiteboard web series celebrating the outstanding achievements of people of color from different 
ethnic backgrounds.

 

Website: http://www.heroesofcolor.com/

 

 

 

KINDA BLUE ~ Project Hello! Redux~ 

Directed by: Eunkyung Ko

 

Category: Animation

 

Year & Country: 2016, Korea, Republic of

 

Duration: 3 min

 

Synopsis: It is a film that explores the world through a child's eyes. A fantastical world where magic and reality collide to make for an entirely new experience! There is a quest, to find someone lost. Or better yet, find something lost! We all lose our ability to see as a child sees at some point, a painful fact of life. Where everything and anything is possible. This film is ultimately about that. Finding our youth again. And rediscovering, as every child already knows, that a smile can literally change the world!

 

Website: https://www.facebook.com/ProjectHelloTokyo/?fref=ts

 

 

 

Sweet Mysterious

Directed by: Simone Hooymans

 

Category: Animation

 

Year & Country: 2015, Norway

 

Duration: 8 min

 

Synopsis: Sweet Mysterious is an animation inspired on the song Sweet Mysterious of Mari Kvien Brunvoll (norwegian singer and composer). The Animation discusses various ways man's relationship to nature - how we both mythologizing it, wreak havoc, while living under a constant threat from it. Not realising we are part of it, both in body and soul

 

Website: N/A

 

 

 

Yuanfen: A Fateful Coincidence

Directed by: Karolina Jacobsson

 

Category: Animation, Drama, Romance

 

Year & Country: 2016, United Kingdom

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Duration: 2 min

 

Synopsis: Some people might be fated to meet but not destined to stay together

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Website: http://www.jacobssonkarolina.com/#!fateful-coincidence/c5izt

 

 

 

MOOM

Directed by: Robert Kondo, Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi

 

Category: Animation, Drama

 

Year & Country: 2016, Japan

 

Duration: 14 min

 

Synopsis: Have you ever wondered what happens to your forgotten objects? 
In this story, those objects with its 'memory' still attached end up rising from the waters of the magical lake. 
Scared and lost, memories need help to let go of their objects. Sometimes, it can be as simple as opening a car door or loosening a lid. Other times, memories can have a hard time letting go. Those memories might need more help. This is the story of one of those memories stuck in this world. His name is Moom. 

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Website: https://www.facebook.com/moomthemovie