Ainda Assim Não Somos Super-Heróis | And Yet We’re Not Super Heroes | ON N’EST PAS PRÈS D’ÊTRE DES SUPERS HÉROS

Belgium | 12’17’’ | 2019
Director: Lia Bertels
Producer: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Serge Kestmont

Synopsis

It takes time to grow up. And sometimes you even wonder if it’s really worth it… Then the children move slowly, at their own pace, the time to tame the world that awaits them. On the way, they ask questions and invent answers using their overflowing imagination.

Biography

Lia Bertels studied animation cinema at La Cambre (2006-2011). From live music videos to pure illustration passing through animation, her favorite medium, Lia Bertels makes graphic expression, which she masters in her own way in an efficient and stripped down style, a real plea for the deep nature of beings, taking her audience into an extremely intimate sphere of perceptions and feelings.

Ano|Year|ROK

Poland | 11’40’’ | 2018
Director: Małgorzata Bosek-Serafinska Produção

Producer: Małgorzata Bosek-Serafinska

Synopsis

This film is dedicated to the memory of Marek Serafinski, an animation filmmaker and producer. It is a graphic and sound diary created from everyday life paper waste: labels, tickets etc. and cigarette packages of one chain smoker, accumulated by one collector within six years. It shows the degree of addiction, determination and a kind of addiction of the collector as well as a passage of time in that strange symbiosis of their shared life

Biography

Małgorzata Bosek-Serafinska was born in 1968 in Warsaw. Graduated by the Secondary Art School and Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1995 she took the 2D animation course in Studio Miniatur Filmowych. These two paths met in her debut animated film titled Dokumanimo. Małgorzata Bosek has had nine individual exhibitions in which she has presented for instance “Collection of buttons found on the streets’’. In 2017 she took over Serafiński Studio Sp. z o.o. as a producer.

Esfinge Urbana | Urban Sphynx

Spain | 04’53’’ | 2020
Director: María Lorenzo Hernández

Produção | Producer: Enrique Millán

Synopsis

Urban Sphinx is an animated short film that creatively documents the presence of street art in various neighbourhoods of Valencia, Spain, between 2018 and 2019. In URBAN SPHINX these pieces of ephemeral art are animated, connecting each image like the frames of a film. All these faces look at us with widely open eyes, as if they tell us that we exist, but we might not exist —and the world would go on

Biography

María Lorenzo Hernández (1977) is an animation teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. Her short film The Night Ocean (2015) has been nominated to the GOYA Spanish Academy of Film Awards. Her short films Portrait of D. (2004), The Carnivorous Flower (2009) and Impromptu (2017) received several awards. In 2012 she coordinated the collective film The Cat dances with its Shadow (2012). Urban Sphinx (2020), her most recent work, is a tribute to all street artists from the city of Valencia

EuVejo | ISpy | VEOVEO

Argentina | Argentina | 05’29’’ | 2019

Director: RAMA – Red ArgenSna de Mujeres y Disidencias de la Animación: Jacqueline Baffico, Luciana Digiglio, Malena Laiño, Gabriela Fernández, Agostina Ravazzola, Ann Lopez Angulo, Malena Martinez, Ileana Andrea Gomez Gavinoser, Lola Barreto, Cez Comerci, Maricel Igna, Marina Lisasuain, Laura Norma Martinez, Alicia Rosenthal, Paula Herrera Vivas , Patricia Menghi, Belén Tagliabue, Ana Martín, Irene Blei, Gabriela Clar , Isabel Macías, Elena Aracena , Milena Lois, Raquel De Simone, Paola Bellato, Isabel Estruch, Sofia Ugarte, Gala Moser

Producer: Romina Savary

Synopsis

Animated collective film that connects the inquisitive look of 33 women showing feelings and emotions.

Biography

RAMA, Red Argentina de Mujeres Animadoras, is a collective of women related to Animation that face community project work without internal hierarchies.

It is a diverse, inclusive group that embraces sorority and mutual help ideals.

Germany | 07’22’’ | 2019

Director: Luise Fiedler

Producer: Luise Fiedler

Synopsis

Spasms and cries that echo through the night announce the presence of a new being. She says it’s going to be a masterpiece.

Biography

Luise Fiedler, born in 1985 in Dresden, Germany. Studied Illustration at the Academy of Applied Science, Hamburg. From 2012 to 2015 she did an MA of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In the last years she has produced several award winning animation movies and was involved in international movie and theater productions. She currently works as a freelance filmmaker and a teacher at the Academy of fine Arts of Dresden.

Mãe e Leite | Mother and Milk

Finlândia | Finland | 10’00’’ | 2019

Director: Ami Lindholm Produção

Producer: Ami Lindholm

Synopsis

Mother and Milk describes the mental process of becoming a parent – imagined as a catastrophe film. The film talks about the important subject of breastfeeding in a hilarious and heartwarming way. Although babies are cute, the difficult situations, sleep deprivation and negative feelings might come as a surprise.

Biography

Ami Lindholm is on a mission to make tired parents laugh! Her comic Vauvakirja-Baby Book and short film Mother and Milk show the best and worst moments in parenting, in a hilarious yet touching way. Lindholm has directed award winning animations, for example The Irresistible Smile (2006). Lindholm was an episode director at Rovio Entertainment for Angry Birds Stella Tv series seasons 1&2.

Natalie D | Natalie D

França | France | 05’00’’ | 2018

Director: Angèle Béraud

Producer: Kevin Bily

Synopsis

Through a pencil, we are going to follow the amorous epic of two women who meet, fantasize and then lose themselves.

Biography

Angèle Béraud, born in 1989 in Paris, first studied History of the Arts in Angers. Diploma in hand, she left for Paris to study Cinema at the University Paris 8. She moved to Santiago de Chile in 2014, where she became a projectionist at the Arte Alameda cultural center, in order to study the cinema of the Resistance under the dictatorship of Pinochet for the writing of her final dissertation.

O Labirinto da Minha Vagina | My Vagina Labyrinth

Taiwan | Taiwan | 05’00’’ | 2019

Director: BadBadMeowMeow

Producer: BadBadMeowMeow

Synopsis

Vagina labyrinth is an animation with a video game style, based on a female perspective. A contemporary image of female body eroticism. The sexual experience that enters the vagina can be imagined as a maze adventure.
Players have to go through various levels in this vaginal maze to unlock arousing passions and attack the clitoris … until the treasure of the orgasm can be excavated. In the video, a large number of symbols of body and sex are used to show female eroticism and fantasy.

Biography

BadBadMeowMeow was born in Taiwan. Child of the internet century. She graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts, majoring in Theatre

Director. Her works contain video art, experimental film and theatre, and have been presented at several art fairs. Most of her artwork springs from personal emotions, as well as the unusual experiences that day-to-day life throws up. Her work makes use of the bizarre and to craft unique ways of telling stories, with her signature wicked black cat a repeat presence.

O Pião | The Spinning Top

Irão | Iran | 07’28’’ | 2019

Director: Shiva Momtahan

Producer: Shiva Momtahan

Synopsis

A child is looking for his lost spinning top. His search takes him to his dreams and memories

Biography

Shiva Momtahan, born in 1975, Tehran. She started her career in 1998 and since then has directed and animated several animated TV series, commercials and feature films, which have received several awards

Os Deuses das Pequenas Coisas | The Gods of Tiny Things

Austrália | Australia | 05’22’’ | 2019 Director: Deborah Kelly Producer: Collaborative Animation

Synopsis

The Gods of Tiny Things is a collaborative collage animation work produced through a residential workshop at Bundanon, on unceded Yuin Country.
The imagery, musical composition and soundscape design were devised to reflect upon the imperilled lives on a climate-changing planet. The Gods of Tiny Things speculates upon parthenogenetic, queer insurrection, and the choreography of the dance at the end of time.

Biography

Deborah Kelly is a Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown around Australia, and in the Biennales of Singapore, Sydney, Thessaloniki, Tarra Warra and Venice. In 2017 her first international solo exhibition, Venus Envy, was held at the Kvindemuseet in Aarhus, Denmark. Kelly’s work has been presented in group exhibitions at MOMA PS1 in NYC, the ICA in London, the Hammer Museum in LA and the Pera Museum in Istanbul