OFFICIAL SECTION
6-7 SEPTEMBER | 19.00 | WHITE BOX
The Official Section of the Animadeba Festival is a showcase of global animation, featuring short films from over ten countries. Divided into two sessions, the jury will award prizes for Best Short Film and Best Screenplay, while the audience will have the opportunity to choose their favorite film with the Audience Award.
To bird or not to bird
Martín Romero | 9 min | Spain | 2024
To bird or not to bird, that is the question. A critical and kaleidoscopic view of the current world told through the tragicomic and grotesque experiences of some birds.
La perra
Carla Melo Gampert | 14 min | Colombia | 2024
In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.
Colocation sauvage
Armelle Mercat-Junot | 14 min | France | 2023
A joyful goat decides to build a cabin in the jungle. But the construction process results in sharing it with dangerous roommates. Luckily she succeeds in building a friendship. However, it comes at a heavy price.
The mole
Alexey Sukhov | 13 min | Russia | 2023
Victor, at the request of his wife, goes for a pipe cleaning liquid “The Mole”. On the way, he reflects and philosophizes, but a sudden incident leads him to a memory loss. Thus, a series of events is launched in which the hero is forced to try on different essences of the word Mole.
Les Bêtes
Michael Granberry | 11 min | United States | 2024
A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his decadent court in this dark stop-motion animated fantasy inspired by the works of Ladislas Starevich.
The cactus
Ricardo Kump | 10 min | Brazil | 2024
A man, troubled by a severe nervous system disease, finds himself paralyzed in a remote and hostile environment after an accident. His situation takes new directions as he surrenders and accepts his new reality. An horror film inspired by Santiago Dabove (1889 - 1951) short story "Ser polvo".
Impossible maladies
Stefano Tambellini & Alice Tambellini | 8 min | Italy | 2024
Aboard their cart, Doctor Rabarbaro and his assistant Tosse travel from house to house to cure absurd illnesses with their ingenious remedies
Herbe verte
Elise Augarten | 12 min | France | 2024
Red boards the train. If she could vanish right then and there, she would. Everything is off, unreal. Memories blend together with the landscape. Time and space collapse. A little girl runs towards a creaking house. Wild grass grows in the train. Red wades through and confronts her past.
Les pieds dans l`eau
Éloïc Gimenez Yoon | 9 min | France | 2024
Jeanne and Louis, a couple in their seventies, discover the unexpected effect of a footbath in the middle of the day on their balcony. Jeanne recalls a distant and comical memory of a dog biting her husband's left buttock.
The wild-tempered clavier
Anna Sammo | 7 min | Germany | 2024
Play: both a verb and a noun — and despite the world’s disasters, an artist insists on both. A story told through a filmmaker’s art, inspired by Bach’s timeless music and painted on rolls of toilet paper in an homage to the tradition of painting directly on 35 mm film.