Original title: Desire
Nationality: USA, 2014
Production: Red Echo Post
Director: Scott Thierauf
Script: Scott Thierauf
Music: Rob Fetters
Editing: Theresa Bruce
Runtime: 9 min
Animation: Scott Thierauf
VOSE

A small robot is born and sets out into the world, happily performing his simple tasks. Suddenly, in a small but profound way, the world as he knows it changes. What follows is a downward spiral of jealousy, resentment and unrestrained desire.

Original title: Entracte
Nationality: France, 2013
Production: Ecole Supérieure Des Métiers Artistiques de Montpellier
Director: Valentin Dely, Damien Garrigue, Laury Guintrand, Valentine Hemery, Clélia Magurno
Music: Anthony Touzalin, Olivier Defradat, Clément Osmont
Cast: Chrstiane Marciano, Melody Gonzales, Tony Style
Runtime: 5 min
Animation: Valentin Dely, Damien Garrigue, Laury Guintrand, Valentine Hemery, Clélia Magurno
VOSE

A maid in her monotonous routine and a mime will meet through a window.

Original title: La Maison de poussière
Nationality: France, 2013
Production: Mathieu Courtois
Director: Jean-Claude Rozec
Script: Jean-Claude Rozec
Music: Arnaud Bordelet
Editing: Jean-Claude Rozec
Runtime: 12 min
Animation: Julien Leconte, Sylvain Lorent, Antoine Maillère, Eleonora Marinoni, Jean-Claude Rozec
VOSE

Slowly, the steel jaws devour the old tower. A previous owner rushes into the rubble, chasing unwary children. Then begins a strange journey into the heart of this “house” which shelters so many memories…

Original title: Kuc Matruska
Nationality: Turkey, 2014
Production: Kozmonot Animation Studio
Director: Serin Inan and Tolga Yildiz
Script: Serin Inan and Tolga Yildiz
Cinematography: Serin Inan and Tolga Yildiz
Music: Cem Adiyaman
Editing: Serin Inan and Tolga Yildiz
Runtime: 8 min
Animation: Emre Camci and Kubilay Kocaoglu
VOSE

A matryoshka family, led by an over-protective mother, find themselves on a desk full of playful wooden toys. Wary of strangers, Mother Matryoshka distances her family from the other toys. However, the curiosity and openness of the youngest member of the family, Little Matryoshka, will lead them into an adventure that will change them all.

Original title: Me+Her
Nationality: USA, 2014
Production: Adastra Films
Director: Joseph Oxford
Script: Joseph Oxford
Cinematography: Bradley Stonesifer
Music: Miles Mosley
Editing: Jonathan Melin
Runtime: 12 min
Animation: T. G. Levin, Patricia Ja Lee
VOSE

When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill’s untimely death, Jack goes on a journey to mend his (literally) broken heart.

Original title: Mr. Hublot
Nationality: Luxembourg, France, 2013
Production: ZEILT Productions, Watt-Frame, Arte
Director: Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares
Script: Laurent Witz
Cinematography: Pascal Thiébaux
Music: François Rousselot, Li Lo*
Editing: Jean-Christophe Craps
Runtime: 12 min
Animation: Mickaël Coedel
VOSE

Mr Hublot lives in a world where characters made partially of mechanical parts. A world where the giant scale of machines reign supreme. Mr Hublot is scared of change and the outside world. His solution: he doesn’t step foot outside his apartment! The arrival of the dog Robot Pet will turn his life upside down: he has to share his home with this very invasive companion…

Original title: Rabbitland
Nationality: Serbia, Slovenia, 2013
Production: Jelena Mitrovic
Director: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr.
Script: Ana Nedeljkovic
Cinematography: Nikola Majdak Jr.
Music: Dusan Petrovic
Editing: Srdjan Radmilovic
Cast: Masa Mileusnic, narrator
Runtime: 8 min
Animation: Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak Jr.
VOSE

Brainless Rabbits live in Rabbitland, a perfect world ordered according to the most successful examples of war zones, ghettos and slums. They are intensively pink, have holes in their heads instead of brains, and they are happy regardless of what happens to them. They are the highest stage the evolution has ever reached. Their everyday life is completely fulfilled. The Rabbits spend days voting on free and democratic elections, which take place in Rabbitland once a day, because Rabbitland is an ordered democracy.

Original title: Raging Balls of Steel Justice
Nationality: UK, 2013
Production: Blue Dolphin
Director: Mike Mort
Script: Mike Mort
Cinematography: Mike Mort
Music: Joris de Man
Editing: Gary Bush
Cast: Mike Mort
Runtime: 15 min
Animation: Mike Mort, Jody Meredith, Jason Comely
VOSE

It’s not 1985 anymore. It’s 1986 and Chuck Steel is ‘the best Goddamn cop on the force’. But even this maverick, renegade, lone wolf, loose cannon, cop-on-the-edge, who doesn’t play by the rules has his work cut out when the city’s most influential banker is kidnapped by a group of escaped convicts armed with stolen firearms. He must fight a desperate battle against overwhelming odds to save the hostage.

Original title: Tea Time
Nationality: Germany, 2013
Production: Institute of Technology Georg Simon Ohm Nuremberg
Director: Marie Kister, Thomas Schienagel, Marcel Knüdeler, Wilfried Pollan
Script: Marie Kister, Marcel Knüdeler
Cinematography: Marie Kister
Music: Simon Scharf
Editing: Marie Kister
Cast: Osman Ragheb, Julie Weigand
Runtime: 8 min
Animation: Marie Kister, Marcel Knüdeler, Thomas Schienagel
VOSE

A woman enters the library of elderly librarian Paul. He cannot remember her name but knows that she ordered a book. As Paul sets out to look for it in the dusty aisles of his vast library, the boundary between reality and illusion starts to blur until nothing is as it seems.

Original title: Wedding Cake
Nationality: Germany, 2013
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
Director: Viola Baier
Script: Viola Baier
Cinematography: Viola Baier
Music: Balz Aliesch, Vespertina
Editing: Viola Baier
Cast: Helge Sidow, Jessica Krämer
Runtime: 9 min
Animación/Animation: Viola Baier
VOSE

Two marzipan figures come to life on top of a wedding cake and start to sculpt the perfect marriage out of cake icing. And success! Everything seems sweet and perfect: they try to please each other and make each other happy. But discontent soon sours the atmosphere. At first, they manage to find compromises, but the more insignificant the disputes get, the less they are willing to compromise until nobody is willing to give in anymore.