For Children 2
Migrants
France, 2020, 8 minutes, Color, No dialogue
2020 BAFTA Student Film Awards; BAFTA Winner-Animated Short Lund Fantastic FF; Özel Mansiyon Special Mention Sardinia FF; Best Animation Cleveland FF; Best Animated Short Film Concours de Courts; Best Animated Film Leiria FF; Best International Animation Short Film
Director: H. Caby, A. Dupriez, A. Kubiak, L. Lermytte, Z. Devise
Screenplay: Lucas Lermytte
Animation: Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte
Editing: Hugo Caby, Aubin Kubiak
Music: Yann Menou
Production: Pôle 3D
Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.
The Tomten And The Fox
Norway, 2019, 9 minutes, Color, Norwegian; Turkish dubbed, Turkish sign language
2021 Athens Animfest; Special Mention Stuttgart Int. Festival of Animated Film; Special Mention 2020 Animafilm (Azerbeican); Best Short Animated Film for Children Annecy Int. Animated FF; Young Audience Award
Director: Yaprak Moralı Are Austnes
Screenplay: Ingrid Haukelidsæter, Mina Juni Stenebråten, Are Austnes
Animation: Yaprak Moralı, Are Austnes, Michelle Klitgård From, Kristian Kim Larsen, Marcos Valin, Mads Ringdal
Editing: Yaprak Moralı, Are Austnes
Music: Gaute Storaas, Joakim Berg
Production: Hydralab, Qvisten Animation
A hungry fox hunts for food on a cold winter night. He sneaks into a small farm to steal a snack when he is caught by the Tomten who guards the farm.
The Best Orchestra In The World
Austria, 2020, 13 minutes, Color, German; Turkish dubbed, Turkish captioned, English subtitled
2021 Bamberger Kurzfilmtage; Best Short Fiction Film Watersprite FF Cambridge; Best Fiction Award Blackbird FF; Most Original Film 2020 Malatesta SFF; Special Mention Brisbane FF; Special Jury Award Max Ophüls Ödülleri Max Ophüls Award; Best Short Film
Director: Henning Backhaus
Screenplay: Henning Backhaus, Rafael Haider, Albert Meisl
Cinematography: Matthias Halibrand
Krgu Editing: Jana Libnik
Music: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Sebastian Bach, Henning Backhaus
Production: Institut für Film und Fernsehen, Filmakademie Wien
Cast: Thomas Mraz, Jörn Hentschel, Peter Huemer, Dominic Oley, Richard Obermayr, Helen Hagmueller
Born in Dresden, Germany. He moved to Vienna to study directing with the director Michael Haneke at the Filmakademie Wien. In 2013 he shot his film debut Local Heroes. From 2013 to 2018 he was an assistant director at the Vienna State Opera.
Ink
Netherlands, 2020, 3 minutes, Color, No dialogue
2021 Mi Primer Festival at Animayo Festival; Children's Audience Award New York Children's FF; Audience Award 2020 Cinekid; National Audience Award KUKI Festival; Best Short Film for Children aged 4+ and 6+
Director: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch
Screenplay: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch
Animation: Digna van der Put, Geoffrey Armfield, Elian van der Heiden, Tijmen Raasveld, Elysa Ketelaars
Editing: Erik Verkerk, Joost van den Bosch
Music: Mikis Theodorakis
Production: Ka-Ching Cartoons
In this short animated film, we follow an octopus who is a clean-up neat-freak. But sometimes, even though you have so many arms, you still cannot reach what you are aiming for.