International Professionals 4

From 11:30 to 13:00

Screening at Beehive Theatre

90 minutes

Realign

Taiwan // Colour // 2022 // 16.27min

Directed by: Ruei-Feng Huang

“REALIGN” is an animation film about space and time dimension. It depicts a boy who reverberate confusedly around the room, street and the lake outside the gigantic wall, which he decided to take the step toward the line that behold the gravity of whole after thunderstorms corroded the time.

Another Presence

United Kingdom // Colour // 2022 // 12.00min

Directed by: Simon Ball

Another Presence recounts the unique and often curious experiences of people living with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the third most common form of dementia. A multi-sensory condition that can cause dream-like symptoms, it’s a condition like no other. Told through the testimonies of those living with DLB, the film explores the surreal and lesser known effects of dementia.

Roped

Spain // Colour // 2022 // 10.00min

Directed by: Carmen Córdoba González

Mother and Daughter are roped for life by an eternal bond that heals and hurts, and that is perpetuated when Daughter becomes a Mother.

Tehura

Canada // Colour // 2022 // 12.00min

Directed by: Wei Li

Tehura aims to explore the vastly different meanings our bodies can hold for ourselves as well as for others. For a tourist, the body of an exotic dancer lifts him into the fantasies of love. For a dancer such as Tehura, her body is a battlefield where she struggles to find herself.

Carecrow

United Kingdom // Colour // 2022 // 5.20min

Directed by: Robby Baldwin

An allegory about climate responsibility. We follow a scarecrow as they change their understanding about how they relate to the world around them. This film was directed, written, animated and built by one person.

Ninety-Five Senses

United States // Colour // 2022 // 13.33min

Directed by: Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess

An ode to the body’s five senses, delivered by a death-row inmate with little time left to enjoy them. Tim Blake Nelson and a diverse team of animators from Latin America and the U.S. bring to life this bittersweet tale of regret and redemption from visionary duo Jerusha and Jared Hess.

Us

Portugal // Colour // 2022 // 5.00min

Directed by: Nelson Fernandes

“Us” is a short film of animation which mixes several Stop Motion techniques, proposing a journey through the conflicted human condition. War, loneliness, nature, crossings, fallen dreams are some of the recurring aspects in this animated poem on paper.

Ecce

Italy // Colour // 2022 // 7.14min

Directed by: Margherita Premuroso

ECCE is an Escherian journey through the ordinary day of a woman who lives every day the same task from which she cannot extricate herself. Soon we will realize that this is not the story of a single woman but that of many people forced to live in the same claustrophobic circle of Dante.

Canary

Greece // Colour // 2022 // 5.54min

Directed by: Chrysoula Korovesi, Marios Gampierakis

A canary is born in captivity amongst other caged birds. A coal miner is experiencing the hardships and risk of everyday labour. The two of them will meet and form a special bond of companionship and solidarity, vital to their existence in this harsh environment under the surface of the earth, until a violent incident will rupture their routine and awaken them.

Wild & Woolly

United States // Colour // 2022 // 5.40min

Directed by: Alan Jennings

Sparks fly when a young girl encounters a mythological beast in the woods. Tension rises when the creature navigates the perilous world of family dynamics.

International Students 3

From 13:15 to 14:45

Screening at Beehive Theatre 80 minutes

Curiosa

United Kingdom // Colour // 2022 // 9.30min

Directed by: Tessa Moult-Milewska College: National Film and Television School

Curiosa tells the story of overly curious Mary, who visits her boyfriend’s flat for the first time, just to discover it’s been stripped bare of all personal belongings. After being denied an explanation, she climbs into his head.

In His Mercy

Germany // Black & White // 2022 // 11.55min

Directed by: Christoph Büttner College: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

One evening a prison director announces to a convict being executed next day. As by a miracle later at night the cell door opens. Being exhausted by endless interrogations the convict drags on through dark prison corridors. On his odyssey to gain freedom he is tossed back and forth by various mental states.

A Dog Under Bridge

China // Colour // 2022 // 12.44min

Directed by: Tang Rehoo College: China Academy Of Art

“i’m a dog,who lives in the park under a bridge. awooooooooo~”

Zadig/ Človek

Slovakia // Colour // 2022 // 4.21min

Directed by: Andrea Pátková, Adam Čurko, Viktoria Voržáčková College: SŠUPAT

An animated video clip for Jazz song called Človek for Peter Lipa and David Rotter. The animated video clip is journey of an alcoholic tourist in Egypt , who is trying to runaway from his fate.

It

China // Colour // 2022 // 6.40min

Directed by: Fei Xia College: Jiangxi Normal University

The short film depicts a protagonist full of “hallucinations”, who always reveals his “beastly nature” at different points in time or under different events. These hallucinations orderly and progressively show the main character’s “tiger head and snake tail” day...

Clicker

United States // Colour // 2022 // 9.20min

Directed by: Charles Kugler

College: Savannah College of Art and Design

Two boyfriends take a tour of their dysfunctional relationship through the magic of television.

Slouch

United States // Colour // 2022 // 18.00min

Directed by: Michael Bohnenstingl College: Igor Kosenko

Wannabe musical legend Slouch is pushed by his song-writing-demon Nuffti to deep dive into his darkest emotions, while his girlfriend Lisa is pregnant and wants him to transition into a harmonic family life...

Szzz

Israel // Colour // 2022 // 6.18min

Directed by: Dafna Inbar College: Bezalel academy of art and design here is a certain moment that takes place before falling asleep, a moment between waking and sleeping, some king of dimension that exists between the two, it can feel like a quick and sudden fall into a bottomless pit or rather like a gentle sinking into a soft grass bed, either way this is the moment where the film begins the part before the dream itself