The Selected Animated Films for the International Competition Section
 

 Composer's Mess

Title: Composer's Mess
Director: Paul Rains
Category: Animation
Format: DV Cam
Time: 4',30"
Year: 2001
Country: England
Script:
Photography:
Editor:
Sound: P.Rains
Music: P.Rains
Producer: Paul Rains

Synopsis:
A frustrated composer struggling to write, is sucked into his own
manuscript when the notes come to life.

Top


 Getting in position

Title: Getting in position
Director: Simone Massi
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 4'
Year: 2001
Country: Italy
Script: S.Massi
Photography:
Editor: S.Massi
Sound:
Music:
Producer: S.Massi

Synopsis: The weather will be worsen; this is what everyone is waiting for in the next winter. Nobody likes to do anything.

Top


 The dog

Title: The dog
Director: Damien O'Conner
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Time: 8',30"
Year: 2001
Country: Ireland
Script: D.O'Conner
Photography:
Editor: JDM Services
Sound: JDM Services
Music: Darren Nendcey
Producer: Steve Woods

Synopsis:
An old man and his dog live happily in a large house, until the arrival of a stray creates a grave situation indeed.

Top


 Cherchez la Femme

Title: Cherchez la Femme
Director: Daniel Hoepfner
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Time: 12'
Year: 2002
Country: Germany
Script: D.Hoepfner
Photography: D.Hoepfner
Editor: Rudi Zieglmeier
Sound: Arne Neuman
Music: Luigi Gaggero
Producer: HFF Konrad Wolf

Synopsis: A few years ago, I discovered a book titled " Doctor Diamonds portraits of the Insane " written by Adrienne Burrows and Iwan Schumacher. Especially the photograph of a young woman ( titled Queen A.D. dated around 1854) fascinated me.

Top


 Beaches

Title: Beaches
Director: Rachel Bevan Baker
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 13'
Year: 2001
Country: Scotland
Script: R.B.Baker
Photography: R.B.Baker
Editor: Dan Meadows
Sound:
Music: John Harris
Producer: Red Kite Productions

Synopsis: Beaches, is a group of 11 short animated films inspired by both urban and wilderness beaches around Scotland.

Top


 The fish hunters

Title: The fish hunters
Director: Rosana Liera
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Time: 6'
Year: 2001
Country: France
Script: Rosana Liera
Photography: Rosana Liera
Editor: Herve Guichard
Sound: Loic Burkhard
Music: Daniele Seff
Producer: Unifrance

Synopsis: Our ancestors say that once here has been a sea and in it, lived a fish named " Tapa Noptchi " . I never saw this fish.

Top


 Clown

Title: Clown
Director: Irina Evteeva
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Time: 10'
Year: 2002
Country: Russia
Script: Irina Evteeva
Photography: Genyi Mayandzhan
Editor:
Sound: L.Gavrichenco
Music: Ai Sigee
Producer: Slavas Shoshow Company

Synopsis: This animation film is about love, grief, solitude and death of a clown.

Top


 The duel

Title: The duel
Director: Waldemar Mordarski
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Time: 2',45"
Year: 2002
Country: Poland
Script: Waldemar Mordarski
Photography: Jan Ptasinski
Editor: Waldemar Mordarski
Sound: Slawomir Walczyk
Music: Krzystof Cybulski
Producer: Polish National Film School

Synopsis: Two fighting knights are observed by a wolf in a dark forest.

Top


 Keeper of the light

Title: Keeper of the light
Director: Marzena Nehrebecka
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Time: 3',45"
Year: 2002
Country: Poland
Script: Marzena Nehrebecka
Photography: Marzena Nehrebecka
Editor: Malgorzata Zajac
Sound: Walemar Mordarski
Music: Wojtek Wawszlzyk
Producer: Polish National Film School

Synopsis: A young man meets a girl who is selling the light.

Top


 Pulling my leg

Title: Pulling my leg
Director: Ulises Guzman Reyes
Category: Animation
Format: 35 mm
Time: 15'
Year: 2000
Country: Mexico
Script: Ulises Guzman Reyes
Photography: Jorge & Hugo Mercado
Editor: U. G. Reyes, E.D.Guerrero
Sound: Carlos Aguilar Zafra
Music: Jorge Reyes
Producer: Institute Mexicano de Cinematografia

Synopsis: After a bloody conquest, an indigenous Shaman is imprisoned by the inquisition led by a sinister cardinal.

Top


 The Guff

Title: The Guff
Director: Jelena Girlin
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 8'
Year: 2001
Country: Estonia
Script: J.Girlin/ D.Polubojarov
Photography: Urmas Joemees
Editor: Urmas Joemees
Sound: Avo Ulvik
Music: Malle Maltis
Producer: Nuku Film

Synopsis: While searching for something, a man makes some experiences but he is not able to separate right and wrong anymore.

Top

 White

Title: White
Director: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 6'
Year: 2000
Country: Iran
Script: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei
Photography: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei
Editor: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei
Sound: Abdollahi
Music: Vahid Ali Nezhad
Producer: Mohammad Djafar Rafiei

Synopsis: A flock of birds are migrating to a warm region, suddenly one of them breaks the journey.

Top

 Conversation

Title: Conversation
Director: Mohammad Mehdi Khoda Karami
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 8'
Year: 2001
Country: Iran
Script: M.M.Khoda Karami
Photography: M.M.Khoda Karami
Editor: M.M.Khoda Karami
Sound:
Music:
Producer: IRIB, Hamedan

Synopsis: When a " woolen man " meets a metal man.

Top

 Whiter than snow


Title: Whiter than snow
Director: Abbas Esmaeili
Category: Animation
Format: Beta Cam
Time: 4'
Year: 2002
Country: Iran
Script: Abbas Esmaeili
Photography: Mohsen Golchin
Editor: Abbas Esmaeili
Sound: Mohsen Golchin
Music: Saeed Zehni
Producer: Khaneh- Honar

Synopsis: A snowman remembers the time he was made.

Top