BEST OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ANIMATION

PUISTO
Finland 2008, 4’
DIR: OLLI LAAMANEN
Prod: Eija Saarinen

A playful story of a day in park. Life flows on following its natural course, until a strange injustice makes the park wake up from its slumber and take a hand in what’s going on.

MAD VAL
Great Britain 2009, 5’58’’
DIR: ARTHUR COMFORT
Prod: Royal College of Art

We’ve all had them. Housemates that we can’t stand. Everything from loud music, swearing, laziness, dirty dishes, late rent and having mates over on a weeknight for a few beers! „Mad Val” is a film about a middle aged man, George Griffin, who shares a flat with an unruly woman called Val.

TOLLO MUERTE
Finland 2008, 2’48’’
DIR: SANNI LAHTINEN
Prod: Eija Saarinen

Serious dancing and joyful playing to the rhythm of guitars.

PASSING
Great Britain 2009, 9’38’’
DIR: SEONG JUN LEE
Prod: Royal College of Art

Nostalgic journey through coloured silhouettes.

RANAS
France 2008, 4’56’’
DIR: CELIA SACIDO-MARTIN
Prod: La Poudriere Film School

The frogs are unable to cross a dangerous road to join the female frogs waiting for them on the other side. A stranger comes to aid.

67° NORD
Germany 2009, 12’56’’
DIR: ILDIKO DIETRICH, MARIYA HRISTOVA, BENJAMIN HAAGEN, THOMAS SCHIENAGEL
Prod: Jürgen Schopper

On a lighthouse in the middle of the great wide ocean, in complete solitude lives Jouris, an old and infirm man with a small statue.

L’ABANDON
France 2008, 3’31’’
DIR: MATHIEU PERRIER
Prod: La Poudriere Film School

In an antechamber, a body gives itself up to a set of white-gloved hands.

ZACHTE PLANTEN
Belgium 2008, 10’
DIR: EMMA DE SWAEF
Prod: Sint Lukas Hogeschool Brussel

Naked, on the back of a sheep, soft office worker Willy rides trough the forest. His body is still in the office, but his mind wonders between dangerous flowers, li-lo’s and an imaginary friendship for a soft sheep.

MAMIE NANO
France 2008, 3’54’’
DIR: MAGALI BILLIOUD-TOURLAN
Prod: La Poudriere Film School

Granny Nano is making a chocolate cake for supper for her 5-year-old grandson, Louis. However, things start to go wrong during the preparations.

SÁIVA
Norway 2009, 8’30’’
DIR: TUVA SYNNEVÅG
Prod: Høgskulen i Volda

This is a story about the indigenous people of Scandinavia, the Samies, view of death.

I WILL FOR IT TO RAIN
Canada 2009, 5’22’’
DIR: DAVID BARLOW-KRELINA
Prod: David Barlow-Krelina

A man sits alone in his apartment watching the city. He describes the changes that have occurred in his life, his losses, and the decay. People wander the streets below, disoriented. They have forgotten. Who is responsible?

TANTE MANS
Belgium 2009, 4’
DIR: BARBARA RAEDSCHELDES
Prod: Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent

An old woman is musing about her life.

HOUSE GUEST
Great Britain 2008, 15’
DIR: BEN MITCHELL
Prod: Ben Mitchell

When a recently-deceased duck is brought back to life, he sets out to exact an atypical revenge on the hunter who shot him. A thrilling tale of Man vs. Anatidae, exploring the power of emotional blackmail, psychological manipulation and interspecies romance!

BOOMKRUIPER
Belgium 2009, 4’30’’
DIR: DRIES BASTIAENSEN
Prod: KASK Hogeschool Gent

A man is watching birds from an observation tower while listening to birdsongs playing from an old tape recorder.