SHORTS & Animation CFF

Step into a world of stylistic animation and challenging topics.

THE RECORD

Switzerland, 2022, 9 mins.

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Laskar

An antique music instrument dealer receives a magical vinyl record that can read your mind and play lost memories. Obsession begins and memories re-emerge, resulting in a painful memory being revealed.

IT WASN'T BOURGOGNE

France, 2021, 7 mins.

DIRECTOR: Mathias de Panafieu B

etween two telephone calls, a grandfather recounts some of his memories of the Second World War from when he was just twenty years old.

OOP

China, Canada, 2022, 4 mins.

On the battlefield, a creature called “Oop” awakes by coincidence. It follows a guide and wanders in an abandoned city until it regains its memory and finds out about itself.

THE SPRAYER

Iran, 2022, 10 mins.

DIRECTOR: Farnoosh Abeo

In land occupied by the sprayers army, no one can grow any kind of plants neither in public nor in private, until one day a soldier finds a seed buried deep down in the dust.

PEARS

Israel, 2021, 6 mins.

DIRECTOR: Julia Trachtenberg

Yana yearns for contact from those she loves, but only receives pain in return. The complicated relationships test Yana's personal journey to discovering who she really is.

ECHO

Greece, 2021, 12 mins.

DIRECTOR: Gizem Özmen

Ellie struggles with verbal communication and survives thanks to her landlady. Manu moves into the apartment directly across from her. Day by day, their routines echo each other and a connection emerges.

GRANDPA

France, 2021, 7 mins.

DIRECTOR: Théo Bongiovanni, Sophie Ouvrard, Valentine Rolland, Hugo Martins, Thomas Piot, Nell Molinier

Witness the magic of youth as we dive into the wild imagination of a young girl as she bids farewell to her grandfather in a cascade of memories of their treasured fishing trips. OTHER HALF

United Kingdom, 2021, 13 mins.

DIRECTOR: Lina Kalcheva

In a world that comprimises of merged couples, a lonely individual-being longs for a connection and to find his true other half. In his eyes, this is the only way he will be truly complete.

CONTENT WARNING This strand contains scenes of war and violence