Nominations Best Short Films announced!

Director: Jon Vatne

Iris is a naughty, imaginative girl that tells stories no one believes. When her very pregnant, super tired mother sends Iris outside she has an adventure with a lost toddler, a real police chase, a bag of adult stuff and a message in a bottle for Syrian children. And to top it off, she sees a unicorn! Try explaining that at home...

Director: Marcus Vasconcelos and Alois Di Leo

Lulina cries by the sea. She is scared of the changes affecting her family. When she ends up in this fabulous animation on the moon, she decides to draw her biggest fears on that huge, empty space. To her surprise, the creepy things she thought up in her head turn out to not be so monstrous in real life.

Director: Daisuke Nishio

Dong-Dong doesn’t mind that the others never ask him to play marbles. Playing by himself is enough. But when the local shop sells him some magic candies, a whole new world opens up to him. In this stop-motion animation, with each candy Dong-Dong suddenly hears people, animals and even an old bench talk. An inner journey all about loneliness, social bonds and different perspectives.

Director: Susanne Hagen

9-year-old, introvert Bo observes the animalistic behaviour of her neighbours, recording her discoveries in a scrapbook. She’s spotted a bird dressed as a horse, for instance. A bouncy, extraverted caterpillar moves in next door to Bo. But which animal is she? A feature film about socially desirable behaviour and labels told using playful, collage-like animations.

Director: Wiep Teeuwisse

‘Dirty,’ ‘a failure’, ‘broken.’ The things people say about an old mattress, a home-made painting and a broken mirror are really not nice. But in this dazzling animated mini musical about self-respect, they sing to each other around the waste container to raise their spirits. With a backing group of garbage bags and discarded chewing gum and an old newspaper that dances with the wind.

Director: Nils Vleugels

‘Plofje is family’, Madelief’s father Peter always says about her guinea pig. And it’s inhumane to let an animal suffer. But does that also mean he will pay 700 euros in vet costs when Plofje needs an operation, radiation and hormone therapy? Peter has to make important decisions, also about what he wants to teach Madelief.