These shorts deal, in one fashion or another, with life’s constant changes, whether you’re young, old, or in between.
RUNNING LIGHTS
Lithuania 2017| 11 minutes
Ged Sia
The cycles of life and death are always bound together in this vivid animated meditation on life, death, and rebirth.
LATE AFTERNOON
Ireland 2017 | 9 minutes
Louise Bagnall
A mother and daughter’s relationship stretches across time.
LATVIETIS
Latvia 2009 | 9 minutes
The panorama of historical change and repetition takes us from the 13th century to the present. Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose!
FISHING
Slovenia 2016 | 7 minutes
Jan Citkovic
An elderly couple fishing by a riverbank muse on the passage of time.
THE CEILING
Finland 2017 | 14 minutes
Teppo Aeraksinen
In the midst of divorce, Olavi retreats to his summer cottage only to find that the ceiling has mysteriously come down .
DAMN GIRL
Denmark 2012 | 13 minutes
Kira Richards Hansen
The coming of age story about, Alex, a 12-year old tomboy. Hanging out with a group of only boys, she is soon confronted with her own body’s changes.
!O FORTUNA!
Austria
2017 | 12 minutes
Karin Berger
An experimental expression of a mother-daughter relationship, and an inventive rumination on memory itself.
CATHERINE
Belgium 2016 | 11minutes
Britt Raes
As she gets older, Catherine’s strange relationship with her pets takes her life in unexpected directions.
AWAKER
Czech Republic 2014 | 10 minutes
Filip Diviak
Set in a cold Nordic country in the early 19th century, this animation tells the tale of an old man who works as an awaker, waking people up. His life is always the same — until one day he gets a shiny old bell.
FLIMFLAM
Croatia 2018 | 8 minutes
Marco Belic
This is a story about the encounter between two individuals inside an imaginary world. One longs for company, and is soon rewarded with the arrival of a stranger. .
YAWTH
Greece 2018 | 10 mins
Lida Vartzioti, Dmitris Tsakaleas
A witty satire on love and relationships in the age of the ubiquitous cell phone.