Tour FAN Masters
Cyprus
Curated by Animafest Cyprus
Enan tzi enan
by Michalis Papanikolaou
‘Monsieur Doumani’ in the role of teacher, will teach you how much 1+1 is, what is the
color of the kurkouna, how to make a tsamarella and various other fascinating things.
Original Title • Έναν τζι έναν (1+1)
Prodution Company • Tempelis Drakos Ltd.
Producers • George Hadjipieris
Script • George Hadjipieris
Music • George Hadjipieris and Orchestration: Marios Takoushis
Cyprus . 0:03:32 . 2020 . Colour 2D, Frame by frame, Handrawn
Dahlia
by Ana Mougis, Fox Schwach
Through a metaphorical narrative about love, Dahlia explores a relationship between two
people which is burdened by mental illness
Original Title • Dahlia
Music • Tomjuno, Johnny Ripper, Luke Loseth
Sound Design • Fox Schwach
Cyprus, USA . 0:04:21 . 2017 . Pain on Glass, 2D Digital
Golden
by Antony Petrou
Golden is a provocative animated short exposing Cyprus’s “golden passport” scandal. A passport morphs under construction, its photo slot cycling through citizens, dictators, and criminals. With real Mandarin narration from a leaked political recording, the film critiques corruption, identity, and the price of EU access in just 1 minute 43 seconds.
Original Title • Golden
Prodution Company • Watermelon Films & 11 Little Films
Producers • Antony Petrou: Anzellika Kapanidi-Petrou
Script • Antony Petrou: Anzellika Kapanidi-Petrou
Sound Design • Christodoulos Procopiou
Cyprus . 0:01:43 . 2022 . Colour Mixed, stopmotion and 2D animation
Rites of Spring
by Yiorgos Tsangaris
Original Title • Rites of Spring
Producers • Yiorgos Tsangaris
Music • Antonis Antonis
Cyprus . 0:04:18 . 2021 . Colour 2D Animation
Cypriot Transfigurations
by Spyros Demetriades
A visual interpretation of traditional Cypriot music. Out of darkness a white triangle breaks into a schematic flutist who creates a colorful world of animated mosaics by blowing his flute. Fauna and Flora, following the circle of four seasons in a peaceful schematic Cyprus, help human beings to cultivate grapes, Turn them into wine, then come in marriage and create a better new World of concord and friendship
Original Title • Cypriot Transfigurations
Prodution Company • SP DEMETRIADES Animation and Design Ltd
Producers • Spyros Demetriades
Script • Spyros Demetriades
Music • traditional, Arrangement by Kostas Melides
Czechoslovakia, Cyprus . 0:09:55 . 2012 . Colour Stop motion, paper cut-outs, digital
Phantom of Venus
by Christiana Ioannou
Phantom of Venus, is an inventive matriarch story. The two mothers of Cyprus, Aphrodite goddess of Love and
Mary, Mother of Jesus, enter a fight. Which one will conquer all the island? Aphrodite holds the people together,
Mary keeps them apart. History versus Religion.
This absurd political satire is a hybrid of found-footage documentary and hand-painted/collage animation.
Today, political tensions in Cyprus as well as in the rest of the world, exist more than ever – a sad reminder
that little has truly changed.
Original Title • Φάντασμα της Αφροδίτης
Script • Christiana Ioannou
Music • Tasos Stylianou
Sound Design • Tasos Stylianou
Cyprus . 0:10:52 . 2023 . Black & White Collage, Found Footage
Pasty Child
by George Tymvios, Andy Luck
Mr. and Mrs. Leg, owners of a traditional Cornish Pasty Shop, were never able to have a baby. The sudden death
of her husband leaves Mrs. Leg alone with a heavy secret hidden in the basement. Will she be able to keep that
secret to herself or will that secret want to be exposed to the world? On a normal everyday working day, Mrs. Leg
goes about her duties, unbeknownst to the impending misfortune surrounding her.
Original Title • Pasty Child
Producers • George Tymvios
Script • Sasha Lawrence
Music • Alex Wilkins
Sound Design • Andy Luck and George Tymvios
Cyprus, UK . 0:06:00 . 2012 . Colour Stop motion
2000 Miles and Thirteen Years
by Yiannos Economou
Two thousand miles is the distance, thirteen years the time, separating a photographer from home. Photography bridges this gap.
Original Title • 2,000 MIAIA (Kat dekatpia xpóvia)
Producers • Yannos Economou
Script • Yannos Economou
Music • Graham Pilgrim and Fiona Mitchell
Sound Design • Graham Pilgrim
Cyprus, UK . 00:07:38 . 1997 . Colour . Stop frame motion, cut-outs and live
The Tornado Outside
by Maria Tomazou
Anna lives in a perfect house at the edge of a tornado. When she needs to go outside, she is forced to face
the chaos of life that she usually hides away from.
Original Title • The Tornado Outside
Prodution Company • The National Film and Television School
Producers • Solomon Golding
Script • Marius Scholtz
Music • Ariella Koorlander Ereira
Sound Design • Marios Themistokleous
Cyprus, UK . 0:08:15 . 2023 . Colour stop motion animation
Outsiders
by Toff Mazery
OUTSIDERS is a lyrical creation myth about cosmic beings who depend on shifting sacred shapes to keep the cosmos alight. But when the workers they depend on start to stagnate, a final hope emerges – the ‘Outsiders’, born to think outside the box and reignite creation. An allegory that celebrates those who challenge norms, reminding us that it’s often the ones on the fringe who spark humanity’s transformations.
Original • Outsiders
Music • Johnny Clyde
Sound Design • Toff Mazery
Cyprus . 0:03:16 . 2013 . Colour . Handrawn, digital, after effects
Greece
Curated by Animasyros
Apodemy
by Katerina Athanasopoulou
In Plato “Theaetetus”, Socrates compares human soul as a cage, where knowledge is depicted as birds. Man is born with an empty cage and as he grows up he collects bird-knowledge. The hands signify the knowledge sought but also the outdated heroes- leaders that continue to hunt us. As Europe collapses, Apodemy is a depiction of Athens.
Original Title • Apodemy
Producer • Onassis Stegi, Katerina Athanasopoulou
Greece, UK . 0:05:03 . 2012
I Lost the Way
by Panagiotis Rappas
Two men, two monologues: One, almost middle-aged, feels he has lost the way. Full of anxiety and metaphysical agony, he desperately seeks to find the path of return to the years of innocence. The route looks like a strange dream. People, animals, machines and actions in a nightmarish cluster full of paradoxical images, charged with passions and unacknowledged guilt.
The other, an elderly man, is nearing the end of his journey. Locked up in a small room, isolated, full of memories and ghosts from the past, he has stopped being anxious. He watches the outside world with the same stoic calm that he also watches what happens in the strange circus in the room.
They are both the same person. The poet Miltos Sachtouris in different phases of his life. At the end of the imaginary journey, the poet “finds”, among the ruins, his mother. He returns to the womb without finding an answer to what tortured him along the way: “Τhere is no sanguine answer” because everything “is a vast void rather like a tomb”.
Original Title • εχασα το δρομο moy
Direction, Screenplay • Panagiotis Rappas
Animation • Katerina Kremassioti, Panagiotis Rappas, Orestis Barsakis
Music • Floros Floridis
Production • Panagiotis Kyriakoulakos
Greece, EU . 0:08:00 . 2021
My stuffed Granny
by Effie Pappa
Little Sofía loves her grumpy granny: even though she is always hungry and eats what little food they can buy. Her pension is the only thing keeping her and her father alive. To what extremes will they go to once granny is no more?
Original Title • My stuffed granny
Direction • Effie Pappa
Animation • Effie Pappa Joan Zhonga
Screenplay • Effie Pappa, Miranda Ballesteros, Nina Kouletakis
Music • David Pearce
Editing • Sibila Estruch
Production • Miranda Ballesteros
Greece, EU . 0:08:00 . 2021
Aenigma
by Antonis Doussias
A 3D requiem film to Form, Feminine-Goddess, eternal Eve, Art. From idealization and sacred worship to delectation and insemination, to transformation and reproduction, to deterioration and decay, to desecration and vandalizing, to condemnation and subjugation, to the fall into timeless erebus. To the dream of regeneration.
Original Title • Aenigma
Direction, Screenplay • Antonis Doussias, Aris Fatouros
Animation, Editing • Antonis Doussias
Music • Marios Aristopoulos
Production • Maria Kontogianni, Michael Sarantinos
Greece, EU . 0:10:00 . 2016 . 3D animation
Canary
by Chrysoula Korovesi, Manos Gampierakis
A canary is born in captivity amongst other caged birds. A coal miner is experiencing the hardships and risk of everyday labour. The two of them will meet and form a special bond of companionship and solidarity, vital to their existence in this harsh environment under the surface of the earth. Until a violent incident will rupture their routine and awaken them.
Original Title • Canary
Direction, Screenplay, Animation • Chrysoula Korovesi, Marios Gampierakis
Music • Lolek
Production • Teta Apostolaki
Greece, EU . 0:05:54 . 2021
Ethnophobia
by Joan Zhonga
Survival, clash and symbiosis go side by side; all accompanied by bursts of joy and pain as a result of man’s internal need to find and exaggerate differences when similarities are obviously greater.
Original Title • Ethnophobia
Direction • Joan Zhonga
Screenplay • Petros Koskinas
Editing • Irida Zhonga
Music • Vanias Apergis
Production • Magikon – Manolis Sakkadakis, Irida Zhonga
Greece, EU . 0:14:00 . 2016
The Blind Writer
by George Sifianos
The drawings of this film were made blindfolded, that is, without looking at them while drawing but using only tactile cues. This constraint deconstructs the individual drawings, which are then assembled into a whole in the viewer’s mind. The film gropes along like a blind man. This reflects the writer’s perplexity, who questions dogmas and certainties. Faced with the complexity of the world, eternal questions concerning the relationships among people, political and metaphysical questions arise:- Who created the universe? – God. – And who created God?
Original Title • L’Écrivain Aneugle
Direction, Screenplay, Animation, Production • Georges Sifianos
Music • Gustave Carpène
Greece, France . 0:10:00 . 2021
Pink Mountain
by Thomas Kunsler
In the Ottoman city-state of Ioannina in 1809, The Florist of the castle is in love with the favourite of Ali Pasha, Vassiliki. Will he ever be able to win her love?
Original Title • Pink Mountain
Direction • Thomas Künstler
Screenplay • Thomas Künstler, Glykeria Patramani
Animation • Thomas Künstler, Phaera Derizioti
Music • Yannis Pothos
Production • Konstantinos Vassilaros
Greece, EU . 0:08:40 . 2022
Heatwave
by Fokion Xenos
In the midst of a heat wave of insanity, two children find a way to cool everyone down!
Original Title • Heatwave
Direction, Screenplay, Animation • Fokion Xenos
Production • Priya K. Dosanjh
Greece, EU . 0:07:13 . 2019
Italy
Curated by IMAGINARIA
For Life
by Roberto Catani
Through a journey back in memory, a woman and a man retrace the most important moments of their love story. From the winter of their love they go back, in a whirlwind of memories, to the summer of passion and the little magic from which everything began.
Original Title • Per Tutta La Vita
Script • Roberto Catani
Sound Design • Andrea Martignoni
Italy . 0:05:20 . 2018 . Colour . Traditional animated drawing
Dreams at the Field
by Magda Guidi & Mara Cerri
A boy searches for his cat along a river. He doesn’t find it. He is dying and has distanced himself from everything to find intimacy. The child arrives at the gates of time, where the dead disappear and the living let them go. The child is afraid, he enters a forest of symbols and memories. He grows up. His childish illusions dissolve and blend into the landscape.
Original Title • Sogni al Campo
Production Company • Miyu Productions, Withstand Film
Producers • Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Alessandro Giorgio, Davide Ferazza
Script • Magda Guidi & Mara Cerri
Music • Massimo Volume, Stefano Sasso
Sound Design • Stefano Sasso, Valentina Vallorani, Fabio Chiossi, Michela De Carlo, Roberto Casula
Italy . 0:08:41 . 2020 . Colour . Pencil on paper
Animated Newspaper
by Donato Sansone
Journal animé by Donato Sansone is an artistic improvisation created between September 15 and November 15, 2015, inspired by the international news published in the newspaper Libération. Day after day, the artistic improvisation of its author brought the pages of the newspaper to life, looking further than the words and images printed on paper. When a series of attacks shook the French capital on November 13, Sansone’s film immediately transformed into something even more impressive and powerful.
Original Title • Journal Animé
Production Company • Canal +, Autour de Minuit
Script • Donato Sansone
Music • Enrico Ascoli
Sound Design • Enrico Ascoli
Italy . 0:03:19 . 2023 . Colour . Mixed Media, Stop Motion, 2D
Mercurio
by Michele Bernardi
Mercurio is a kid who loves cycling. One day he is stopped by the Fascist regime and incarcerated in a transit camp, ready to be sent to a concentration camp. Forced to quickly become a man, he will try, fighting unarmed, to win against the horror of Fascism and gain absolute freedom.
Original Title • Mercurio
Script • Michele Bernardi
Italy . 0:10:00 . 2018 . Colour
Mistral
by Nico Bonomolo
A man goes to work and sees a boat for sale. He dreams of leaving his life behind. He leaves, and the dream gives way to memory, the mistral forces him to make a crash landing. A woman, another story, a new beginning? Like in an Escher drawing, everything begins again where it seemed to have ended.
Original Title • Maestrale
Production Company • Tramp LTD, Studiorain
Producers • Salvo Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Attilio de Razza
Script • Nico Bonomolo
Music • Gioacchino Balistreri
Italy . 0:10:30 . 2021 . Colour . 2D Animation
About Killing the Pig
by Simone Massi
“While the pig is being dragged out from the sty he has the chance to see the sky”.
Original Title • Dell’ammazzare il Maiale
Script • Simone Massi
Music • Stefano Sasso
Sound Design • Stefano Sasso
Italy . 0:06:20 . 2011 . Black, White and Red . Oil pastels on paper
Ekart
by Ahmed Ben Nessib
In a flooded house, a girl catches a glimpse of her reflection in a mirror. The image dissolves immediately. Finding herself alone, she begins to watch the glass. The animation is created with animated drawings, charcoal on paper.
Original Title • Ekart
Script • Ahmed Ben Nessib
Music • Demetrio e Cosma Castellucci
Sound Design • Demetrio e Cosma Castellucci
Italy, France . 0:09:00 . 2017 . B&W . Charcoal on paper
Portugal
Curated by CINANIMA
Fragments
by José Miguel Ribeiro
This is a film about how the war settles in the body of the people who are forced to live it directly in the eye. And then, thousands of miles away and dozens of years ahead, how, like a virus, it can still infect other human beings.
Original Title • Estilhaços
Prodution Company • Filmes da Praça
Prodution • Ana Carina Estróia
Script • José Miguel Ribeiro
Music • Tiago Cerqueira
Portugal . 0:18:00 . 2016 . Colour . Animated objects and mixed materiais (sand, salt, etc), 2D computer, drawing, live action
Soot
by David Doutel, Vasco Sá
It’s like soot that rests on the walls of our head. We can’t see it. It belongs there already.
Original Title • Fuligem
Prodution Company • Bando à Parte
Producers • Rodrigo Areias
Script • Vasco Sá, David Doutel, Pedro Bastos
Music • Rita Redshoes, The Legendary Tigerman
Sound Design • Pedro Ribeiro, Pedro Marinho
Portugal . 0:14:00 . 2014 . Colour . Animation 2D, traditional animation, charcoal drawing on paper, digital painting
Drop by Drop
by Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
The last habitants of a village refuse to let themselves sink into oblivion. In a world where the idea of progress appears to be above all, this home floats.
Original Title • Água Mole
Production Company • Bando à Parte
Producers • Rodrigo Areias
Script • Alexandra Ramires, Carolina Freitas, Laura Gonçalves
Music • Nico Tricot, Ricardo Santos Rocha
Sound Design • Pedro Ribeiro, Pedro Marinho
Portugal . 0:09:15 . 2017 . B&W . Computer animation 2D, engraving, digital painting
Uncle Thomas, Accounting for the Days
by Regina Pessoa
From Regina’s personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, a humble man with a simple and anonymous life. This is my acknowledgment how one does not have to be somebody to become exceptional in our life.
Original Title • Tio Tomás, a Contabilidade dos Dias
Prodution Company • Les Armateurs, ONF/NFB, Ciclope Filmes
Producers • Reginald de Guillebon, Julie Roy, Abi Feijó
Script • Regina Pessoa
Music • Normand Roger
Sound Design • Normand Roger
Portugal, Canada, France . 0:13:00 . 2019 . Colour . Mixed media
Ice Merchants
by João Gonzalez
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Original • Ice Merchants
Prodution Company • COLA Animation, Wildstream, Royal Colege of Art
Producers • Bruno Caetano, Michaël Proença, João Gonzalez
Script • João Gonzalez
Music • João Gonzalez
Sound Design • Ed Trousseau
Portugal, France, United KIngdom . 0:14:00 . 2022 . Colour . Animation 2D
Spain
Curated by Prime the Animation!
Alike
by Rafael Cano Méndez, Daniel Martínez Lara
In a busy life, Copi is a father who tries to teach the right way to his son, Paste. But…what is the correct path?
Original Title • Alike
Prodution Company • Daniel Martínez Lara & La Fiesta P.C.
Producers • Daniel Martínez Lara , Nicolás Matji
Script • Daniel Martínez Lara & Rafa Cano Méndez
Music • Oscar Araujo
Sound Design • Aleix Vila Canela
Spain . 0:08:01 . 2015 . Colour . 3D animation
The Ducks
by Ángela Arregui
Mari Carmen faces her first day at work, when a duck shows up on the office balcony, completely shattering her expectations about the start of her new life.
Original Title • Los Patos
Prodution Company • Javier Planells, Izan García, Máster en Animación UPV
Producers • Javier Planells, Izan García, Máster en Animación UPV
Script • Ángela Arregui Chavarría, Ana Mª Hernández
Music • Jamaleonics
Sound Design • María de los Reyes Prieto
Spain . 0:05:54 . 2020 . Colour . 2D Animation
Ivet and Michuco
by Ignacio Meneu Oset
Ivet is a 6-year-old girl who believes she’s already very grown up. Dreamy and full of imagination, she constantly invents fantastical worlds and characters. Her best friend is a stuffed cat named Michuco. As an only child, Ivet often plays alone at home, letting her imagination run wild. Her daydreams and fantasies sometimes get out of hand, leading to unexpected and complicated situations. Whether she’s a pirate, an astronaut, or a queen in a magical land, Ivet’s world is always vibrant and full of surprises. Her boundless creativity makes every day an adventure — for better or worse
Original Title • Ivet y Michuco
Prodution Company • Pigmeos Animación
Producers • Juan Ignacio Meneu Oset
Script • Ignacio Meneu Oset
Music • Ramón Giner
Sound Design • Ramón Giner
Spain . 0:04:49 . 2020 . Colour . 3D Animation
Patchwork
by María Manero Muro
The story of 60-year-old Loly who needs a liver transplant.
Original Title • Patchwork
Prodution Company • María Manero Muro / Máster en Animación UPV.
Producers • María Manero Muro / Máster en Animación UPV
Script • María Manero Muro
Music • Nani García
Sound Design • Nani García
Spain . 0:08:00 . 2018 . Colour . mixed media animation
The Luggage Room
by Daniela Cuenca
Soledad, a 65-year-old immigrant, packs a suitcase full of gifts to send to her family, while embarking on a journey of fantasies and memories about her loved ones and the countless items she has gathered for them in a mountain of luggage inside her small room.
Original Title • Patchwork
Prodution Company • Daniela Cuenca / Máster en Animación UPV
Producers • Daniela Cuenca / Máster en Animación UPV
Script • Daniela Cuenca, Paula Tinoco
Music • WARÁX
Sound Design • WARÁX
Spain . 0:07:00 . 2021 . Colour . 3D Animation
Interns
by Marina Cortón, Marina Donderis, Nuria Poveda
Just moved into a 21st-century co-living space, three young friends face the challenge of paying the rent each month.
Original Title • Becarias
Prodution Company • Pangur Animation
Producers • Pangur Animation
Script • Marina Cortón, Marina Donderis, Nuria Poveda
Music • Las Lorettas
Sound Design • Las Lorettas
Spain . 0:10:00 . 2023 . Colour . Stop Motion
El Diañu
by Samuel Fernandi Martínez
A miner named Xuan Vallina finds a strange white horse with a black spot on its forehead among the chestnut trees. He doesn’t know it’s the “diañu burlón” from the old fairy tales no one believes in anymore.
Original Title • El Diañu
Prodution Company • Samuel Fernandi Martínez / Máster en Animación UPV
Producers • Samuel Fernandi Martínez / Máster en Animación UPV
Script • Samuel Fernandi Martínez
Music • Felpeyu Mapi Quintana Tomás de la Güeria
Sound Design • Antonio de Benito
Spain . 0:08:00 . 2018 . B&W . 2D Animation
Fashion Victim 2.0
by María Lorenzo Hernández
An uncomfortable truth: the Western fashion industry is built on forced child labor in the Third World. Will you keep allowing it?
Original Title • Fashion Victim 2.0
Prodution Company • Enrique Millán
Producers • Enrique Millán
Script • María Lorenzo Hernández
Sound Design • María Lorenzo Hernández
Spain . 0:02:07 . 2021 . Colour . 3D Animation
