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AMARILLO
by Ana Pérez López


"This fruit has been part of our cultural history for centuries and is now threatened by extinction through monocropping and a looming epidemic. Ana Pérez López lets us take part in her internet expedition to explore the fate of the Gros Michel banana with alert humor. A finely drawn chronicle which also uses relics of the media and everyday history of the 20th century to retrace how telegenic the industry banana is and will remain. Even if it will soon cease to exist."

Porzellan / Porcelain - Joe Madog // Cité NOIR

by Cité Noir

"Music by Joe Madog & The Trommelfellas // Visuals by CitéNOIR //

This animation film is a visualization of a song by Joe Madog, called "Porcelain". It deals with the theme of ephemerality and longing.
It's about the fragile things we hold precious,
trying to hold on to, but who will inevitably fade away,
vanish or break like porcelain.
The animation was pencilled on paper on a lighttable and then inked with brush and a light black ink and some gray inkwash, then arranged in a videosequencer frame by frame."

Scent of Geranium
by Naghmeh Farzaneh

"Immigration is a new chapter in one's life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one's life down paths different from the one imagined. This film is an autobiographical account of the director's experience with immigration."

Chella Drive by Adele Han Li

"A disembodied memory of adolescence, expressed through projected animation. The stuck-stillness of suburban summer is interrupted only by a passing El Niño.

Directed and Animated by Adele Han Li
Sound and Music by Davy Sumner"

Nutag - Homeland (2016)
by Alisi Telengut

"A visual poem and surrealist requiem for the Kalmyk people that were mass-deported by USSR from 1943-1957 and half of them died before they were allowed to return home. The film manifests itself as an archetype with frame by frame hand painted imagery, bringing back an example of human history on the eternal and universal theme of diaspora and the loss of homeland.
Credits
Directed and animated by: Alisi Telengut
Sound design: Alisi Telengut
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Strangers by Vallée Duhamel

"Strangers is a short film by Vallée Duhamel that tells the surreal stories of characters moving around in the same space in a complex choreography of interlaced paths. The tight human pattern they weave often comes really close to overlapping, yet they remain invisible to one another."

Directed by : Julien Vallée & Eve Duhamel
Produced by : Sailor Productions
Cinematographer : John Londono
Choreographer : Isabelle Boulanger
Music by : Pressure by Milk & Bone
Post-Production : Mels & Erik Gagnon
Casting :
Girl waking up : Wensi Yan
Guy jumping : Daniel Alwell
Girl reading a book : Lydia Weber
Girl with the ball : Kimberly Bittner quinn
Giant girl : Amanda Van Der Siebes
Dancer girl : Brontë Poiré-Prest
Giant guy : Theodore Pellerin
Girl in the window : Solène Buxo-Marti

Le nuage by Iulia Voitova