Zoetrope

Director Sotir Gelev
Bulgaria
Runtime 01:40:43
Completion Date: February 19, 2017

Two robots – Primus and Decimus have to go through a labyrinth that is full of extraordinary objects. To find the right way or sometimes just to satisfy their curiosity, they examine and recover the stories of the objects. Thus they face strange characters, pursuing their aims. Sometimes the pursuing is impetuous; sometimes it is painful and desperate. The robots gradually realize that their efforts are accompanied by some kind of hopelessness.

Bottles

Director  Danielle Rabinovitz
Israel
Runtime 6:24
Completion Date: July 3, 2016
Student Project

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After a fight with her boyfriend Yoni, Or gets drunk and accidentally breaks a wine bottle. The fragments of broken glass become a window to Or’s and Yoni’s memories as a couple. Or needs to decide if the good memories surpass the bad ones.

Below 0°

Directors  itai hagage & jonathan gomez
Costa Rica
Runtime 4:54
Completion Date: June 21, 2016
First-time Filmmaker
Student Project

A meteorologist who narrates his experience in the Arctic through a voice recording; And how his life is linked physically and spiritually to nature.

Hope

Director  Michael Scherrer
Switzerland
Runtime 6:02
Completion Date: May 31, 2016
First-time Filmmaker

After an unsuccessful escape a mother and her son are deported to a prison camp. The mother sees her child hunger and secretly gives him some left-over seeds, the last food she has. Shortly after, they are separated.
The boy has to work until exhaustion, day in day out. When hunger and loneliness strike, he tries to fight it by eating a seed. But his hunger can not be stilled. The memory of his mother, though, warms him, gives him strength and hope. One evening, he holds the last seed in his hand. While sleeping, it slips out of his hand and falls into a crack in the floor. After waking up he realizes his final seed is missing. He spots it lying in the floor-crack, though cannot reach it.

Psiconautas, the forgotten children

Directors  Alberto Vázquez , Pedro Rivero
Spain
Runtime 01:15:48
Completion Date: September 23, 2015
First-time Filmmaker

Birdboy and Dinky are two teenagers who have decided to escape from an island devastated by ecological catastrophe: Birdboy by shutting himself off from the world, Dinky by setting out a dangerous journey with the hope that Birdboy will accompany her.

Tucuman

Director Natalia Ryss
Russian Federation
Runtime  6:20
Completion Date: July 13, 2015

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At the beginning it was the Day and the Night was not. Night lurking in the depths of water - at the heart of the Tucuma Nut.

The Perfumist

Directors Yukari Akaba Rockmuller,Shannon Lee, Daniela Lobo Dias, Sandra Rivero Ortiz
United States
Runtime  2:08
Completion Date: June 1, 2016
Student Project

The Perfumist is a dramatic story highlighting the battle of Machine-Equipped Man against Cosmic Nature. Seeking the perfect scent for his perfume, Benedict Malville runs into the consequences of trampling on sacred, natural ground.

Water Path for a Fish ( Camino de agua para un pez)

Director MERCEDES MARRO GROS
Colombia/Spain/France
Runtime  8 min
Completion Date: January, 2016

It's a starry night in a poor neighbourhood in Latin America. Oscar is sleeping in his bedroom when a sudden wind wakes him up. From his window he sees... a little goldfish jumping on a dirty puddle! Two cats are watching from the shadows. Oscar will try to save the goldfish through a rampant adventure full of mysterious challenges, with the lack of water as a backdrop.

My Life I Don't Want

Director Nyan Kyal Say
Myanmar
Runtime 11:54
Completion Date: May 1, 2016

A short animated film about the life of a Myanmar girl inspired by the true stories.

Equipoise

Director Gung-Kai Koo
United States
Runtime 3:00
Completion Date: May 1, 2016
First-time Filmmaker

Equipoise is a short film about positiveness, negativity and the opposite but complementary relationship between them. The spirit of the film is how they work together to reach the harmony and balance to react to stimulation, instead of judging the dominance or tendency of the two forces.

Acceptance

Director Drew Lewis
United States
Runtime 1:16
Completion Date: July 19, 2015

A animated short film that deals with social acceptance. We are living in a cold world filled with hate and injustice. We need to treat each other with respect. I've created the film on my Samsung Galaxy S4 tablet.

Notorious Corn

Director Mallory Grolleau
France
Runtime 1:15
Completion Date: September 25, 2015

It's the story of a small grain of corn that dreamed about glory.
He's going to succeed ... Unfortunately ...

Migration

Director Chao, Shun-Wen
Taiwan
Runtime 4:43
Completion Date: June 24, 2016

This story is a hint about the competition and the evolution of life and the key elements of story is the convey life filter evolution process. The Main characters of elders symbolize the survivals and big worm indicates threats of the environment. Whale represents the evolution of life, also with a bit of luck and the fittest to survive. However, we don’t know eternal and won’t become forever, we cloud change to become a better person.