ALL WINNERS OF THE CATEGORIES - OFFICIAL SELECTION TO THE LIVE SCREENING
The Live Screening of Winners Films – January 18, 2025
PIGSY (Taiwan)
Director: LI WEI CHIU
– Best Animation Feature Film
– Best Producer
Pigsy is a street-smart loser who often messes things up. One day, he is chosen to enter the new world, to become a symbol of success. He can finally make grandma proud. Soon after, though, it turns out to be a mistake.
JOURNEY TO YOURLAND (Slovakia)
Director: Peter Budinsky
– Best Director
– Best Sound in Animation Film
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Riki, a 10 year old boy, runs away from home, following a mysterious emergency signal sent by a shiny stone. The strange artefact seems to have a mind of its own and it takes Riki to the breathtaking parallel world of “Yourland” where wonderful machines roam golden deserts, monkeys and ravens talk and science peacefully coexists with nature.
Beautiful Scarecrow (United Kingdom)
Director: Jess Cope & Venkatram Viswanathan
– Best Animation Short Film
– Best Animation Music Video
In a world where society is severed by a mysterious disease a victim of the separation lives underground with only a precious memento from his youth for company. A midnight foraging run to the surface brings a chance encounter with an unlikely figure from his past.
Fiego and the Magic Fish (Belgium)
Director: Joe Murray
– Best Animator
– Best Orginal Score in Animation Film
A happily married Italian fisherman named Fiego catches a magic fish and makes wishes to give his wife the good life. A reimagining of the German fairytale “The Fisherman and his Wife”
LUKi and the Lights (United States)
Director: Toby Cochran
– Best Animation US Short Film
LUKi, a charming and upbeat robot known for living life to the fullest, confronts a life-altering ALS diagnosis.
Through the lens of LUKi’s unwavering resilience, the story of his battle against ALS transforms into a testament to the human (and robotic) spirit’s ability to find light even in the darkest of times. With every choice he makes, every smile he shares, and every second he cherishes, LUKi paints a vivid portrait of what it means to truly live, even as the sands of time slip through his grasp.
Floraspira: Sarra (China)
Director: Zeming Sun
– Best Animation Student Film
A mystica pitcher plant creature as a predator who can catch her prey that much larger than her by smelling the desire. This time she trys to induce and catch a lost boy.
The Tale Of The Little Potato (Switzerland)
Director: Sergio Herencias
– Best Animation Documentary Film
It took a long time for the potato to make its way from South America to Europe and become popular there. The journey wasn’t easy. While beloved in South America, Europeans rejected the potato. Follow Linda, the Little Potato, as she recounts her own story of resilience and adaption. After a lot of hardship, the potato succeeded – it is now one of the most vital food sources in Europe and has transformed its culinary landscapes over hundreds of years.
Moonset Crow Cry (China)
Director: Huifu Ling
– Best Animation Experimental Film
On the rivers in the east, accompanied by a large number of crows, a Western boat drifted in with a girl with golden hair inside
CELESTE (Brazil)
Director: FERNANDO M. MACEDO
– Best Animation 3D Film
In this captivating tale, we journey with CELESTE, a girl endowed with the unique gift of viewing life through a lens of joy and optimism. Initially confined within a tower, CELESTE ingeniously shifts the perspective of the DRAGON, its keeper, revealing their shared bondage. This revelation prompts the DRAGON to accompany CELESTE on a thrilling adventure across the realm, inspiring various creatures along their path as they endeavor to return to CELESTE’s abode in time for her mother’s birthday celebration, honoring her mother’s belief that “No one should be alone on their birthday.”
Corn (Egypt)
Director: Youssef Mahmoud Hanafi
– Best Animation Film Cinematography
The journey of fear and struggle of “Kernel K-500”. Who rebels against the cruelty of apartheid and the condescending perception of his kind. Moments before his salvation, the unforeseen unfolds.
The old hag and the crow (Mexico)
Director: María Lucía Bayardo
– Best Stop Motion Animation
Larisa, a curious girl, enters the house of the old hag, who has a crow as her allied, not imagining the consequences of her decision.
The Red Heel (United States)
Director: Elena Katherine Serenko
– Best Student Animator
– Best Character Rigging
A midcentury comedy about misogyny in the workforce. An out of touch HR worker gets what’s coming to him when he’s forced to spend a day in heels.
The Illuminer (Bulgaria)
Director: Lachezar Velinov
– Best First Time Director
It is a story about the path each of us is meant to take. Once we have chosen the difficult path, we have to follow it to the end. At the beginning of the journey, the man does not know the other people’s pain. We are shown what happens when one shows compassion and what is the price we pay.
THE MONSTER (Korea)
Director: RUBY YANG & BOMIN KIM
– Best Student Director
In a cabin at a camping site deep in the forest, three girl scout children sit together and talk about scary stories, and encounter a small strange monster that came into the cabin.
Children who fall in love with cute monster have a good time with them without expecting what will happen in the future…
