STUDENT COMPETITION
28.09.24
11.30am – 01h24
Casa de Cultura Jaime Lobo e Silva – Auditorium
INFEMMES (France)
7:54
by Nicolas Fodor-Levreaud, Danaé Grimoire, Lise Merlaud, Florian Monchois, Julien Torres, Jade Wong (ECV – École de Création Visuelle)
The injustice suffered by women throughout the centuries illustrated during two trials: one in the 16th century, the other in 2022.
IT WILL PASS AWAY (China)
5:08
by Nan Yao (China Academy of Art)
After the end of a relationship that went nowhere, a woman’s complex emotions seem to be amplified. In the midst of insomnia, she feels she can touch the many subtle voices.
BY TWO (South Africa)
3:45
by Wiam Botma (The Animation School – Cape Town)
A stubborn old man goes about his daily routine, struggling with every task due to his age. He hears a ring from the doorbell and finds a robot has been sent to aid him in his old age.
THE STRANGER’S SHOES (France)
4:51
by Pauline Chrétien (EEC- Ecole Emile Cohl)
A young woman is about to end her life under a subway train. But the arrival of a stranger on the platform disrupts her decision.
BUG (Iran)
6:07
by Ali Masoumi (Iran’s University of Art)
The impact of positive and negative actions and reactions of parents on the mind and behaviour of children, from childhood to adulthood.
CALL TO THE WORLD
(Russian Federation)
3:44
by Natalya Olegovna Belyaeva (SPUFT – St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television)
The hero creates an ideal world and populates it with humans that eventually destroy it. The Creator is trying to save his creation by creating more worlds, but ends up failing.
WHO IS DOI? (Republic of Korea)
6:19
by Yeonje Kim (Kaywon University of Art & Design of animation)
One day, Dohyon meets an old doll named Moomoo in his dream. The puppet Moomoo asks Dohyeon to find his owner.
JAN (Belgium)
5:05
by Febe Van Avermaet (RITCS School of Arts)
Jan, a 48 year old, neurotic, socially incapable man is trying to find peace, during a chaotic train journey. He escapes into a dream about geese.
ON THE 8TH DAY (France)
8:12
by Agathe Sénéchal, Alicia Massez, Elise Debruyne, Flavie Carin, Théo Duhautois (Pôle 3D school – Roubaix)
It took 7 days to create the world. It only took one to disrupt its balance.
THE ABDUCTION OF
PERSEPHONE (Russian Federation)
3:30
by Marina Kapinus (SPUFT – St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television)
Young goddess Persephone is forcibly taken to the underworld by Hades. The girl becomes a hostage of circumstances and subsequently accepts her fate.
POMEGRANATE (UK)
2:31
by Livvy Seabrook-Wilkins (UCA – University for the Creative Arts)
A mother comes to terms with her Post-Natal Depression, using a pomegranate as a metaphor for her child and her feelings.
ARACNE OR THE SPIDER THAT
COULD NOT WEAVE (Spain)
1:35
by Dani Iglesias (Vigo University – UVigo)
Aracne is a lonely spider that cannot produce webs. One day she finds what seems to be a cobweb. Could it be a new friend?
HALF EMPTY (Poland)
4:52
by Katarzyna Orłowska (Poznań University of Arts)
With hopes to break a creative impasse, the woman pores over a blank piece of paper, drinking a half-empty glass of wine. Fear of failure haunts her at every step, taking the form of red wine.
SLICE OF LIFE (USA)
3:29
by Haram Lee (Rhode Island School of Design)
A powerful and visceral look into the haunting shadows of suicide.
LA ETERNA BÚSQUEDA DEL
QUIÉN (Colombia)
2:02
by Raquel Salome Velasquez (University of Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano)
An exploration of identity and grief through a fusion of techniques. Through monologue, an introspective journey is made, reflecting on loss and personal transformation.
MY MOTHER, THE SEA (Estonia)
6:00
by Aspasia Kazeli (Estonian Academy of Arts)
An expression of the grieving process of a mother’s loss. A weaving of two parallel paths: the mother’s journey to the afterlife and the parallel grieving states of her child.
FINDING THE GRAYS (Portugal)
5:37
by Class 12ºD – Specialization in Textiles and by students of Class 12ºQ of the Multimedia Course at António Arroio Artistic School
Staring at our History, the film weaves a collective vision about the April Revolution, taking the ideas of Manichaeism, Hypersensitivity, and Tolerance as a motto.
THE BEATING SEED (Portugal)
4:33
by Marta Ribeiro, Laura Pires, Tiago Pimenta, Alice do Carmo (School of Education and Communication of the University of Algarve)
Two energies that exchange glances, yield to a passion that vibrates in harmony. Both are transmuted, revealing themselves as witnesses that, with a gesture of love, it is possible to deserve the world.
THEY’RE JUST IMPS (Portugal)
3:07
by Students from Highschool of Escola Básica Maria Pais Ribeiro – A Ribeirinha, Leonor Pacheco, Dimitrije Mihajlovic
A little girl struggles to fall asleep, but every time she closes her eyes, small impish creatures appear from the darkness.
A CITY OF A FEW MICE (Portugal)
3:45
by André Lopes (Soares dos Reis Art School)
Years after a nuclear explosion, two very different mice – Dimitri and Tiny – scour the city looking for food.
ALL CATS ARE AUTISTIC (Portugal)
1:07
by Leonor Sofia (José Saramago High School)
Ame is an autistic girl who, every morning, crosses paths with a small abandoned kitten, named Sora. In him, she finds salvation from her loneliness.
I.C.U (Portugal)
2:06
by Inês Dias (José Saramago High School)
Trailer for an anthology series about psychology, where the characters have televisions for heads.
THE LIVING FIRE (Portugal)
3:10
by Miguel Ferreira Caetano, Inês Valente (Lusófona University)
A short experimental animation that depicts fire as a beautiful force of nature – but also how human action can cause it to be destructive.
VENDAVAL (Portugal)
2:10
by Patrícia Lopes, Caroline Soares and Inês Anacleto (Lus´ofona University)
The sound and animation portray the enraging burst of nature’s fury and the string of events in a timeline that repeats itself.
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