Eccentric Grass
The Pocket Man
France, 2017, 8 minutes, Color, No Dialogue
2017 Animax Festival Best Children’s Film London Animation FF Best Children’s Film Animation Festival of Pernambuco Best Children’s Short Film Taiwan Kids FF Best Children’s Film Palermo FF Best Child Short Film Montreal Chlidren's Film Festival Best Short Film
Director: Ana Chubinidze
Screenplay: Ana Chubinidze
Editing: Hervé Guichard
Music: Yan Volsy
Production: Nadasky Film
A little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend - an old blind man. The little man jumps into the blind man's pocket. With music, the pocket man helps the blind man walk and see things in the street.
In Between Two Lines
Turkey, 2018, 20 minutes, Color, Turkish; Turkish subtitled, Turkish Sign Language
Director: Osman Yazıcı
Screenplay: Osman Yazıcı
Cinematography: Uğur Uygun
Editing: Mehmet Ali Akça
Music: Gözde Üsfekes
Cast: Vatan Demir, Hülya Savaş
Lost his father and then his mother when he was very young, Osman lives with his grandmother. His speech disorder isolates him more and more in the small town he lives and his school. One day he receives a box from his father’s bibliopole.
Cat Days
Germany, Japan, 2018, 11 minutes, Color, Japanese; Turkish subtitled, Turkish Sign Language
2019 Tampere FF Best Animation RiverRun FF Best Animation National Film Board of Canada Award Best Animation 2018 Dresden FF ARTE Short Film Award, Golden Horseman for Gender Equality Florence Short FF Best Animation, Audience Award
Director: Jon Frickey
Screenplay: Jon Frickey
Animation: Jon Frickey
Editing: Jon Frickey
Music: Gofish, Satoko Shibata
Production: Opus Film, Apocalypso Pictures, MK Productions
Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor’s. The doctor diagnoses a harmless condition. But it shakes the core of the boy’s identity.
Shock Therapy
United Kingdom, 2017, 7 minutes, Color, English; Turkish subtitled, Turkish Sign Language
Director: Bali Engel Matthieu Landour
Screenplay: Bali Engel, Matthieu Landour
Cinematography: Bali Engel, Matthieu Landour
Editing: Bali Engel, Matthieu Landour
Music: Tom Haines
Production: Bat Collective
Jim is afraid of everything. To cure himself, he decides to invite all his phobias to his home. Yet it is not a very smart idea.
Downside Up
United Kingdom, 2017, 14 minutes, Color, No Dialogue
2018 Brussels Short FF Canal+ Award Lviv Short FF Best Fiction Prague Short FF Audience Award RAMDAM FF Audience Award, Best Belgian Short Film
Director: Peter Ghesquiere
Screenplay: Peter Ghesquiere
Cinematography: Robrecht Heyvaert
Editing: Jochen Decostere, Toon Mertens, Kobe Van Steenberghe
Music: Hannes De Maeyer
Production: A Team Productions
What is normal, exactly? Downside Up reveals a world where everyone has Down’s syndrome. One day, Eric is born, a boy who’s different.
Yulubidyi – Until The End
Australia, 2017, 13 minutes, Color, Aboriginal; Turkish subtitled, Turkish Sign Language
2018 SA&WA Australian Cinematographers Society Award Best Cinematography - Silver Award Flickerfest’s Virgin Australia Award Best Australian Short Film Sydney FF The Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship
Director: Curtis Taylor Nathan Mewett
Screenplay: Curtis Taylor, Nathan Mewett
Cinematography: Ben Berkhout
Editing: Jessie Hildebrand
Music: Mike Sukys, Ben Morton
Production: BlackRussian Productions
A young Aboriginal man helps his disabled brother escape from their abusive life in a remote Australian Aboriginal community with the aid of a Mamu (Dreaming Creature).
Just, Go!
Latvia, 2017, 11 minutes, Color, Latvian; Turkish subtitled, Turkish Sign Language
2017 Giffoni FF Best Short Film Stony Brook FF Audience Choice Award - Best Short
Director: Pavel Gumennikov
Screenplay: Laura Lapina, Pavel Gumennikov
Cinematography: Martins Jansons
Music: Michael Bachnmiller
Production: BlackRussian Production
Inspired by the incredible true story about a young man Just, who lost both of his legs in childhood accident and who is in love with the girl next door Ieva. The story begins when Just meets Ieva on the doorstep of the house they both live in. They start a flirty conversation that is interrupted by two thieves, who rob Ieva in front of Just.