Competition Programs | International competition 2
IZONE. Ground Floor
  • Mermaids and Rhinos
    Viktoria Traub

    Hungary | 2017 | 15:33 

    Eight-year-old Tilda’s memories of her family as surrealistic visions come into life: the circus member ex-mermaid grandmother, the erotically overheated mother and the disappeared father whose broken heart, anger and jealousy manifest as a rhino. The acts of present and the past are in constant metamorphoses and transformation. The characters overstep their own and the surrounding world’s physical borders. Tilda’s life is full of grotesque, bizarre characters hungry for love. The atmosphere of wistfulness, desire, passion and sorrow frame the story.

  • Our Srtory
    Lorenzo Latrofa

    Italy | 2018 | 04:31

    Emigration is a common territory that has involved many people all over the world. 
    The stories of today's emigrants are the stories of our past. 
    Their 'story' is our story. It is everyone's story.

  • Maned & Macho
    Shiva Sadegh Asadi

    Iran | 2017 | 10:49

    A young girl's repressed emotions and instincts are embodied in some animals that come out of her dreams. However, no one in her family is receptive to these animals.

  • Honk
    Triet Le

    Denmark, United States, Vietnam | 2017 | 02:56

    HONK is a satirical animation about abusive honking in Vietnam. The film depicts motorists and drivers using their voices to honk to run pass each other and the humorous consequences which follow.

  • Bloeistraat 11
    Nienke Deutz

    Belgium | 2018 | 09:41 

    Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.

  • Reach the sky
    Daniel Sterlin-Altman

    Canada | 2018 | 05:49

    On the open road, three queer friends in three cars are separated by an unexpected fork in the road. From the surprise journey the friends encounter a butch mermaid, Frida Kahlo, a fabulous companion, and a sense of queer pride. Reach the Sky is a stop-motion short with heart, fantasy, and a whole lot of yarn.

  • Living like Heta
    Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp

    Switzerland | 2017 | 06:12

    Heta lives with her pet seal in her highly peculiar house full of curious rooms and endless corridors. Her entire life consists of carefully planned and conducted routines. When the latter get thrown into disarray, Heta‘s world begins to crumble, until she feels compelled to make an irreversible decision.

  • Untravel
    Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr.

    Serbia | 2018 | 09:20

    A film about (local) patriotism, tourism and emigration. 
    The girl lives in a gray, isolated country, enclosed by a huge wall. She has never travelled anywhere, but all her life she has dreamt of leaving forever for a perfect world called “Abroad”. 

  • Wicked Girl
    Ayce Kartal

    France, Turkey | 2017 | 08:00

    S., 8 years old, is a little girl with an overflowing imagination. She is keen on nature and animals. While she is looking back on the good old days in her grand parents village from hospital room, dark and terrifying memories emerge and, little by little, begin to make sense.

     
  • Heart Chakra
    Angela Stempel

    USA | 2017 | 07:23

    Mae's life is routinely disrupted by the advice from her online crystal healer and her devotion to horoscopes. Armed with healing crystals and numerology, Mae is ready to follow the predictions on an unexpected path to find her soulmate.

     
  • Serph - Sparkle
    Tarafu Otani

    Japan | 2018 | 05:30

    Sparkle of life. 
    Animation Music Video for Electronica music "Sparkle". 

     
  • Next Stop
    Brad Gibson

    Canada | 2018 | 02:06

    One overweight train passenger unintentionally disrupts everyone's commute. All walks of life are joined together in a gag filled series of stops and starts on route to their destination.