In the beginning of them She created us.

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Evelyn Ross grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is interested in creating work out of tactile media such as sand, ink droplets, and clay. She has a background in dance and subconsciously uses that knowledge to choreograph movement in her work.

As a child, Carlotta didn’t expect the people around here to have faces. She even doesn’t recognize her own face. Years later, she learns about a rare, untreatable deficit of her brain. It was art, after all, that offered her a way to finally recognize herself.

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Valentin Riedl is a physician and neuroscientist studying the complexity of the human brain. For his endeavor to merge abstract science with the artistic form of film, Valentin won the 2016 Young Talent Award of the Cultural-Sparkassen-Foundation by suggestion of Wim Wenders...

Frédéric Schuld studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and founded the studio “Fabian&Fred” with Fabian Driehorst in 2011. He mainly works as a director and animator on short films, animation and documentaries. In 2014 Fabian&Fred received the scholarship of the Wim Wenders Foundation for the development of their first animated feature...

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A letter, a broken heart. The sound of the rain. A black cat, a plan.

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I wanted to do a project which reflects my preference for drama, tragedy and black humour - kinetic, cinematic and entertaining. The script was written at a time when I had health problems. Out of creative urge, I wrote down this fantasy story to distract myself from the physical pain I was going through at the time. This short film is also about pain. Who doesn't know the agonizing feeling of being ditched? How often have we done things out of lovelorn that we would never do otherwise?

Pedro has found a job. A rare occurence in this period of crisis. That's good news for him and his family. It's true that the job is rather strange... But the important thing is to have a job... Isn't it ?

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An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal?

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Born in Switzerland in 1987, he is a filmmaker and artist based in Zürich. He studied animation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and at the Estonian Academy of Art in Tallinn. His Films «Not About Us» and «Plug & Play» received numerous awards all over the world. He was invited «Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo» in 2014. His interactive project «Plug & Play» became an internet phenomenon. Funny. He recently co-founded Playables, a production company for peculiar projects based in Zürich.

Human activity does not always have a positive effect on our planet. The short animated film Look explores natural cycles of exchange between humans and animals. Dare to look and change the world.

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Meinardas Valkevičius has been interested in animation since childhood. In 2010, he graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts, BA Animation course. During that period, he created many animated films, one of them “The Impossible Moon” has been sent to many global animation festivals. In 2012, he established animation studio “MeinArt”, during the 5 years the company created various animated films, one of them “Hunt” traveled around the globe to many animation festivals and has been viewed online for more than 2 million times. “MeinArt” and its directors vision is to invest part of its profits to create memorable animated films with a deeper meaning.

Functional and aesthetic values in recurrent, yet questionable domestic scenarios.

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Luca Cioci is a filmmaker and visual artist from Italy. He recently graduated with a BFA in Animation from CalArts and currently resides in Los Angeles working as a multi-disciplinary freelancer.

Recently, Louis, painter, and his wife Michelle are experiencing strange events. Their world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furnitures, objects, people lose their realism. They are destructuring, sometimes disintegrating …

Born in 1965 in Saint-Brieuc, France, Bruno Collet got his Art Degree from The Fine Arts of Rennes in 1990. From 1993, he worked as a set designer on numerous productions in stop-motion before starting, in 2001, his career as an author-director.

Separation and divorce earnestly are painful processes that disrupt the live of families especially their children who have to cope with the crisis of parents’ separation. Midst is the story about a boy who has to learn to deal with the emotional trauma of separation. The conflicts remain unresolved when disagreements are brought up again and again that the boy often witnesses between parent and it results him in anxiety. Thus, the boy tries to distance himself from the arguments and tries to block out everything emotionally...

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"I would define myself as an animator and graphic designer who also enjoys hands on art such as drawing and painting. As a result, my animation incorporates knowledge from all aspects of visual art. Aesthetics such as lighting, space, and color are just as important in animations."

Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to see the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless case of cat flu. However, according to the doctor, this means that Jiro must be a cat. As father and son try to cope with the boy’s new identity, things go awry. Jiro’s father wishes him to connect with other cats at the animal shelter, but Jiro gets scratched. Complying with a handbook on raising cats, Jiro’s father sends his son outside. This leads to encounters with a friend, with nature and with a wild white cat. In the end, though, everything will feel right again.

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Jon lives in Hamburg, Germany. He is an illustrator and animation director. Previously, he worked in Berlin as an advertising art director.

„The feeding habits of the common cameleon as never seen before“

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Born in Tel-Aviv - 23. November 1977. 1995 Graduation-“School of Arts High School“ - plastic arts department, Jerusalem, Israel. 2004-2009 Student at the „Academy for Film and Television Konrad Wolf“- Animation department, Potsdam, Germany. 2010-2013 Director, Animator, Co founder- „Talking Animals“ Animation Studio – Berlin, Germany. 2013-2016 Director, Animator, Co founder – Lumatic GmbH & Co KG – Berlin, Germany / Director– Constantin Film GmbH – Munich, Germany.

After the premiere in Locarno in 2018, SELFIES has been invited to over 200 international film festivals and won already over 30 awards. SELFIES is a fireworks display of grinning people who lose themselves in the abysses of human existence. A selfie race around the world. A view on people’s every-day obsession with portraying themselves.

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1968 born in Lucerne. Studies in graphic design and animation in Lucerne, Liverpool and Kassel. 1995 scholarship year in Cracow. Working as freelance graphic artist and animator in Zurich. Claudius Gentinettais one of the most acclaimed animation filmmakers in Switzerland. He is especially known for his award-winning short films THE CABLE CAR, SLEEP and ISLANDER’ S REST, which all became huge international festival hits.

After a flood, some fish got stuck in old trees. In danger of drying-out they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don't feel happy about the unintended gathering.

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Jonatan Schwenk, born in Göttingen, Germany in 1987 is an independent filmmaker and animator. He is studying Visual Communication at the University of Art and Design in Offenbach. Since 2014 he is a guest student at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the animation class.

The concept of the film is based on the physical and emotional behaviour of breathing. This vital living function is manifested in an artificial and yet organic material, plastic, as well as in a human body. The film questions physical existence and movements as dance on screen, through the metamorphosis of a body.

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Entering an antique shop, a young man finds an intriguing drawing which is hiding a secret love letter on the back, written 70 years ago. After finding out that the author of the drawing is still alive, 105 years old, and persuasive in finding out if the story is real, the man goes on an unusual journey to meet her, the painter who befriended many important Romanian artists at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Sergiu Negulici was drawing and his parents took him seriously and studied arts - sculpture in Toniza Art College and National University of Arts Bucharest He started working in the first post production studio in post '89 Romania, Abis Studio, where he worked a lot of projects - as art director, visual artist, animator, lead animator, director , and he became part of the new wave of digital artists. He was participating with his art projects in few shows and art exibitions, he was also trainer In the romanian animation festival - Anim’Est during 5 editions...

You have probably heard of the phrase "To think outside of the box"? Well this is a film about such a box and the flat-headed creatures that live inside of it. Life in the Box is boring and miserable. Until one day when a new baby boy starts to grown in the middle of the Box! This baby is very different from other flat-headed inhabitants of the Box. He's happy, lively and curious. As the baby grows bigger and bigger, the flat-headed neighbours are becoming more and more annoyed with him. Until one day when he literally grows over their heads…

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Dušan Kastelic was born in a small mining town in central Slovenia. Being a sickly kid he was unable to carry on the family tradition and get a decent job as a miner. So he became a teacher. But he wasn’t smart enough to be a teacher.So he became an animator…

A turntable springs out a woman named Avocado, out of Avocado's instinct creates a man called Soul. A sudden passion joins and swings them in a trumpet mood. An uncertainty madness strikes Soul heavily. Seed of passion continue to breed conflict amongst five men without control, which eventually leads Soul to the fact of life.

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Emily Wong had graduated and studied film in Columbia College-Hollywood where she started experimenting stop-motion animation. She had worked in both Hong Kong and Canada as visual effects producer for several years. Afterward she studied a stop-motion program in Bristol, England. Recently, her “short animation was screened in Sundance Film Festival and won Jury award in 2016 Sundance Film Festival Hong Kong: Short Film Competition

Wild Woman is an animated poem to mankind which invokes current world issues such as drone-strikes and religious persecution in a plea for empathy. Scenes transform and melt as the animator also explores her personal struggle of becoming a mother and identifying as such in our current social and political climate.

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Vanessa Sweet is a multi-discipline artist who currently resides in Shishmaref, Alaska. Born and raised in Moosic, Pa, she and her husband, Nic, moved to his home state in 2012. After her daughter’s birth in 2013 she founded SleepingFox Studio, where Vanessa and Nic create illustrations, graphic design, and animations for various clients such as Fandango, Hallmark, and “General Hospital”. Vanessa was recently awarded a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award to complete her work on her upcoming animated short “Wild Woman”.

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