OFFICIAL SELECTION
We're pleased to announce the 31 films in competition for the Best Animation award at Cardiff Independent Film Festival 2017.
A LITTLE GREY
Dir: Simon Hewitt, Stu Royall,
Steve Smith
United Kingdom / Mexico
5 mins 51 secs
A colourful story about losing your spark and finding redemption.
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COURAGE TO MAKE A FOOL
Dir: Heather Colbert
United Kingdom
3 mins 51 secs
Kazimir, an elderly clown, is lonely and tired. Backstage, he recalls his past, and rediscovers the joy of being foolish.
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JOHNNO'S DEAD
Dir: Chris Shepherd
United Kingdom
8 mins
Serving twelve years behind bars for a crime you didn't commit focuses the mind. Everything becomes crystal clear.
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LIFE CYCLES
Dir: Ross Hogg
United Kingdom
4 mins 17 secs
Routine, monotony, attention and distraction. Will we allow events to pass by uncontested, or will we break the cycle?
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OS LOVE
Dir: Luc Gut
Switzerland
6 mins 2 secs
Click, click. Tip, tip, tip… Tip, tip. A young woman seeks spirituality and tranquility in the web.
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RORSCHACH KRISTALLE
Dir: Paul McKelvie
United Kingdom
1 min 35 secs
An experimental, stop motion animation, exploring the famous Rorschach psychological technique. Tell me what you see.
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THE ORCHESTRA
Dir: Mikey Hill
Australia
15 mins
In a world filled with beautiful music, Vernon always seems to strike the wrong note.
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V EP I NOSTAL61A
Dir: Vincent Gondo, Abel Grape, Miguel Angel D Vas, Hoodlover Cuevas, Fran Shad Barajas
Spain
3 mins 31 secs
V is the past, present and future of 61 Garage's last album recording sessions.
ANALYSIS PARALYSIS
Dir: Anete Melece
Switzerland
9 mins 4 secs
Anton is lost in his own head until one day a yellow boot brings him to an exit.
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DAY, THE CHEF
Dir: Shuyu Xiong
China
2 mins 34 secs
This animation presents the subtle connection between Beijing urban life and Beijing dishes.
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JOINT TENANTS
Dir: Delphine Priet-Mahéo
France
11 mins 32 secs
Camille lives alone. But one day, a man discreetly slips inside her house and starts living in her home while she works.
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LINE
Dir: Mia Rose Goddard
United Kingdom
3 mins 3 secs
A ballet dancer striving to find her perfect line through repetition, strengthening, dreaming, failure and perseverance.
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PENELOPE
Dir: Heta Jäälinoja
Estonia
4 mins 20 secs
Doorbell rings. Someone is at the door. But everything's a mess.
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RUMBO
Dir: Augusto Goicoechea
Uruguay
3 mins
In search for water, two characters start a long journey where new technologies and traditional customs have to coexist.
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THE PSYCHEDELIC ROPE
Dir: Liu Gaoxiang
China
10 mins
In ancient China, after a long cruel war, a young magician walks to a ruined temple. The past emerges in his sight...
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WAVES '98
Dir: Ely Dagher
Belgium
14 mins 50 secs
Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's discovery lures him into the depths of the city.
AU REVOIR BALTHAZAR
Dir: Rafael Sommerhalder
Switzerland
9 mins 30 secs
A scarecrow, a storm, a broken leg. The resonant sound of a sea shell. Leaving forever.
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EYE FOR AN EYE
Dir: Steve Bache, Louise Peter, Mahyar Goudarzi
Germany
4 mins 25 secs
Frederick Baer spent over a decade on death row in Indiana State Prison. He is still waiting for his death penalty to be executed.
KLEMENTHRO
Dir: Ben Mitchell
United Kingdom
3 mins 50 secs
Klementhro may not have it all, but at least he has his paddle. A cautionary tale.
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NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
Dir: Jack Bennett
United Kingdom
8 mins
Joe Connoly’s little life is turned upside-down by the arrival of a note. It seems Molly thinks he is cute. Is this true love?
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RAILMENT
Dir: Shunsaku Hayashi
Japan
9 mins 43 secs
In a continuous scenery, his physical movement stays in the same position. The speed accelerates and gradually causes a distortion.
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THE BOX
Dir: Merve Cirisoglu Cotur
United Kingdom
6 mins 48 secs
The precious belonging of a Syrian kid is a box, which is used for various purposes as a toy, a home and a boat respectively.
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THERE IS STILL LIFE
Dir: Maxime Roz, Yann Jobin, Thibault Houdon
Canada
6 mins 48 secs
A dark museum at night reveals wondrous worlds to one of his inhabitant.
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WAY OF GIANTS
Dir: Alois Di Leo
Brazil
11 mins 55 secs
In a forest of gigantic trees, Oquirá young indigenous girl, will challenge her destiny and discover the cycle of life.
BLUE HONEY
Dir: Constance Joliff, Daphne Durocher, Fanny Lhotellier
France
4 mins 45 secs
A small bee, allergic to pollen, discovers an extraordinary product that will dramatically impact the life of the hive...
FINAL CALL
Dir: Sara Barbas
Portugal
11 mins 30 secs
A love story about Catarina (a cat) who bumps in to her old flame and ‘might-have-been' lover Diogo (a dog) at airport security.
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LEERSTELLE
Dir: Urte Zintler
Germany
4 mins 30 secs
A woman, a road, the outland. A poetic debate on the issue of "home" and the experience of the outland as a new home.
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OF SHADOWS AND WINGS
Dir: Eleonora Marinoni, Elice Meng
France
12 mins 54 secs
In the heart of a group of birds, the indignant Moann feels her body changing.
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ROADKILL
Dir: Arwyn Hughes
United Kingdom
3 mins 15 secs
The man and the road do battle across the desert, as one tries to kill the other.
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THE NOSE
Dir: Sean Vicary
United Kingdom
4 mins
An autobiographical journey through a landscape evoked by the physiological process of olfaction.
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TO BUILD A FIRE
Dir: Fx Goby
France
13 mins
A man and his dog trying to survive in the overwhelmingly freezing and hostile nature of the Yukon Territory.