Tour FAN Young European Talents
Cyprus
Curated by Animafest Cyprus
Poppy flowers
by Evridiki Papaiakovou
Remembering is a fluid affair. A daughter tries to reconcile with her mother through memories of their shared rituals, exposing the intricate aspects of their relationship. As the daughter matures, she begins to contemplate conventional notions of divinity. The blank frames of the 35mm strip regain their function as memorabilia in the process of engraving her past onto its surface.
Original Title • Παπαρούνες
Prodution Company • Estonian Academy of Arts
Producers • Estonian Academy of Arts
Script • Abstract
Music • Bruno Quast
Sound Design • Bruno Quast
Cyprus, Estonia . 0:04:24 . 2024 . Direct animation 35mm analog
Water Film
by Maria Katerina Ieridou
A Cypriot girl carries precious cargo as she runs across a ribbon. The story takes on a physical form and a storyteller’s hand become the stage for a fabric recreation of celluloid films. This lyrical version of the illusion of ‘the moving image’ was influenced by the tableaux of artist Adamantios Diamantis and inspired by Cyprot folkore. Whether the girl is carrying her ego, her trust or the idea she has of herself, it is only when the cargo is broken that its value is realized.
Original Title • Water film
Production Company • Maria Katerina Ieridou
Producers • Maria Katerina Ieridou
Script • Maria Katerina Ieridou
Music • Constantinos Soren Demetriou (composer and musician), Jayna Leach (violin), Antonis Ierides (bouzouki)
Sound Design • Constantinos Soren Demetriou
Cyprus . 0:04:00 . 2022 . Mixed media, frame by frame experimental animation
Blak
by Giorgos Tsangaris
The film is set in a bleak post-capitalist dystopian world, where gentrification, surveillance and advertisement culture are the main elements of the public space in the city. The film follows the protagonist, a graffiti writer who lives in the sewers beneath the city, on a typical night out “bombing”, as he is struggling to compete within the urban environment to get his name out.
Original Title • Blak
Prodution Company • University of Hertfordshire
Producers • University of Hertfordshire
Script • Giorgos Tsangaris
Music • University of Hertfordshire
Sound Design • Stephanos Pissourios
England, Cyprus . 0:04:06 . 2020 . 2D, 3D digital animation
Tobin
by Adonis Sergiou
A man and a woman have an argument.
Original Title • Tobin
Production Company • For a Film
Producers • Adonis Sergiou, Ody Vlamis
Script • Adonis Sergiou
Music • Ody Vlamis
Sound Design • Ody Vlamis
Cyprus . 0:07:16 . 2023 . Colour . 42 AI variation images of the same prompt, edited to dance with the music
Erma
by Angelos Charalambous
Gender identity is a war taking place in the trenches of one’s body; A movie about gender, the body; and all of the interweaving moments founds in their midst.
Original Title • Erma
Production Company • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Film Department
Producers • Angelos Charalambous
Script • Kalliopi Arambatzi
Music • Dimitris Roidis, Antonis Antoniadis
Sound Design • Angelos Charalambous
Cyprus, Greece . 0:12:00 . 2021 . Colour . Stop motion
In the City of Dust
by Haris Pellapaisiotis, Maud Nivet
A collaborative animation project by French artist Maud Nivet and Cypriot artist Haris Pellapaisiotis. Originating from Pellapaisiotis’ Walking Narratives and Affective Mapping series, the work began with a walk, through Nicosia – starting at Nivet’s apartment, passing the Pedieos River and reaching the chapel Ayios Yeoryios. Their shared reflections shaped a poetic, multi-sensory narrative combining text, image and sound. Rather than documenting the walk literally, the artists embraced an introspective, organic process, creating a poetic layered artwork rooted in emotional resonance, mutual observation and the subtle power of place.
Original Title • In the City of Dust
Script • Rather than following a conventional script, Nivet composed a poetic impression of the walk, which the artists responded to visually though animation.
Music • (Cover version of Velocity of Sleep, by Kali Malone by Haris Pellapaisiotis recorded at Studio 35, Nicosia)
Sound Design • Haris Pellapaisiotis
Cyprus . 0:06:28 . 2022 . Colour . 2D animation, digital, mixed media
Greece
Curated by Animasyros
Cut the Tie
by Anna Oikonomou
The story of a girl’s relationship with her eating disorder, told through dance.
Original Title • Cut the Tie
Production Company • University of West Attica – Culture Department Of Graphic Design And Visual Communication
Script • Anna Oikonomou
Music • Myron Phoebus Ampatzis
Greece . 0:04:13 . 2024
The Last Line
by Io Andrikopoulou
The importance of the war’s final line. It primarily focuses on the roles of children and the experiences of those who are confronted with war. It calls on the audience to consider their role in mitigating and addressing the terrors of war.
Original Title • The Last Line
Production Company • Io Andrikopoulou
Script • Io Andrikopoulou
Greece . 0:04:13 . 2023
Moon Landing With a Twist
by Simos Tokalakis
In 1969, when the firts himans went to the moon, they found out something they weren’t expecting…
Original Title • Moon Landing With a Twist
Production Company • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Fine Arts
Script • Simos Tokalakis
Greece . 0:03:28 . 2023
Echoes
by Robinson Drossos
Echoes is a contemplative adventure into the depths of a noisy world. Guided by a distant melody echoing through concrete and rock, we follow a character wandering in the dark.
Original Title • Echoes
Production Company • ENSAD
Script • Robinson Drossos
Music • Robinson Drossos
Greece, France . 0:07:26 . 2024
The Gabardine
Kimon Papadatos
A story of my Greek grandfather during the Nazi occupation of Athens.
Original Title • La Gabardine
Production Company • Ecole Emile Cohl – Antoine RIVIÈRE
Script • Kimon Papadatos
Greece, France . 0:03:59 . 2024
Our Road
by Valasia Dodulu
Animated video clip of the song “Amaro Drom” created by the composer and animator Valasia Dodulu. The song is about the gypsies.Below is the Englisg translation of the lyrics in romani dialect: “We traveled all around the world / we arrived here on foot.
From our hands come out flowers / from our mouth come out songs.
We are romani people, like birds / our home is the sky.
We dance with our heart / every song is about love.”
Original Title • Amaro Drom
Producers • Valasia Dodulu
Script • Valasia Dodulu
Greece . 0:04:05 . 2023
Choosing Ignorance
by Mariza Tseva
A film based on Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”. The story takes place in a small village full of lambs, whose only care in the world is playing around, having one real goal: being accepted in a most popular club in the village. The protagonist, Lana, accidentally unearthed the secret hidden behind her village’s weird ways.
Original Title • Choosing Ignorance
Production Company • University of West Attica – Culture Department Of Graphic Design And Visual Communication
Script • Mariza Tseva
Music • Haris Pandis
Greece . 0:06:29 . 2024
Watering Hole
by Foivos Chalkiopoulos
Near one of the most expensive suburbs of Athens, in an abandoned quarry where sheep graze on the hills, a large circle is carved on the ground. Many have speculated about its purpose, but it remains unknown. Humans, animals and even clouds moving in the wind seem to be inexplicably drawn to the center of it.
Original Title • Watering Hole
Production Company • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Script • Foivos Chalkiopoulos
Music • Manolis Giannetakis
Greece . 0:07:06 . 2023
Stavros the Great: Starring in a Balkan Cartoon
by Kostas Firinidis
In this film, Stavros learns the value of friendly compeition. A satirical take on modern day Greece from the eyes of a cartoonis.
Original Title • Stavros the Great: Starring in a Balkan Cartoon
Producers • Kostas Firinidis
Script • Kostas Firinidis
Music • Mikal Pesek
Greece . 0:08:30 . 2024
Italy
Curated by IMAGINARIA
The Meatseller
by Margherita Giusti
The Meatseller is the true story of Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman who dreams of becoming a meatseller like her mom. In order to achieve her dream, she begins her voyage towards Italy, an experience full of atrocity and inhumanity.
Original Title • La Macellaia
Production Company • Margherita Giusti
Producers • Luca Guadagnino
Script • Alessia Angelini
Music • Enrico Ascoli
Sound Design • Enrico Ascoli
Italy . 0:17:13 . 2023 . Colour . Mixed media, 2D
A Dream, I Remember
by Chiara Cecchetto
“A dream, I remember” is the title of an animated short film born with the aim of visually narrating a dream I had one night in 2020. This visual experimentation is configured as an opportunity to talk about childhood, loss, fear and growth, through the narration of the relationship between a brother and a sister and their way of affectionately remembering the time spent together. The attempt is to make the viewer a oneironaut, dragging him into the faded memories of a grown-up child, in a dimension where dreams and reality merge within a world dominated by the sea, evanescent and sometimes opaque.
Original Title • Un Sogno, Io Ricordo
Script • Chiara Cecchetto
Italy . 0:03:19 . 2023 . B&W . charcoal on paper, pencil
Masadeg
by Federico Attardo
Masadeg in Reggio Emilia dialect means the first cutting of the hay in May. At the beginning of the 20th century, this time of year coincided with large village festivals to celebrate the arrival of summer.
The short animated film attempts to establish a dialogue between a past memory based on the village community and the present day where the community spirit has been lost in favour of an individualistic approach.
The animated short thus traverses the themes of loneliness and death, its first design just posthumous to the Covid years.
Original Title • Masadeg
Script • Federico Attardo
Italy . 0:02:03 . 2023 . B&W . Graphite and Liquin
53 Rue de Verdun
by Riccardo Ambrosi
53 Rue de Verdun is a short film about the life of the immobile but memorable Joë Bousquet, a French poet reduced to a living corpse due to a wound inflicted on him by a German howitzer during the First World War. In 140 seconds, his last hours of life are retraced, alone in the darkness of his room among clouds of opium smoke.
Original Title • 53 Rue de Verdun
Production Company • ISIA Urbino
Script • Riccardo Ambrosi
Italy . 0:02:20 . 2022 . Colour . Traditional animation on paper, graphite, grease and drypoint
Supersilly
by Veronica Martiradonna
After entering a tent, a little girl emerges frightened, grown up and strangely dressed in a rabbit costume. In this inner journey, this young woman will understand the original drama that causes the suffering she is enduring today.
Original Title • Supersilly
Production Company • Sacrebleu Productions
Script • Veronica Martiradonna
Music • Amos Cappuccio
Sound Design • Amos Cappuccio, Andrea Marazzi
Italy, France . 0:09:28 . 2024 . Colour . Pencil on paper
Neither One Nor Two
by Lucia Catalini
A girl called Elena finds after a long time the notebook of her maternal grandmother, Laura. She flips through it for the first time and through those pages she sees her grandmother’s life again. Once she reaches the end, Elena recalls a childhood episode in which Laura had revealed to her that if one has a great desire it must be confided to the paper of a notebook to make it come true. As a child she had believed that story and immediately had done so. Now 25 years old, Elena no longer remembers her past wish but now has a new one, to remember Laura.
Original Title • Né Una Né Due
Production Company • ISIA Urbino
Script • Alessia Angelini
Music • Claudio Catalini
Italy . 0:05:57 . 2024 . Colour . Mixed media, graphite, acrylic paint, rotoscope
Deceiving Sea
by Alessia Angelini
The short film brings to light the past of the maritime civilization of San Benedetto del Tronto that, with true courage and often a lot of risk, had decidedly dared to increase fishing activity, considered vital for their country. The sea is deceiving, it is beauty and danger, it can take away and give back, give serenity and suffering.
Original Title • Mare N’gannatore
Production Company • ISIA Urbino
Script • Carola Pignati
Music • Antonio Ministeri
Sound Design • Daniele Ceciliot
Italy . 0:04:36 . 2020 . Colour . Tempera, charcoal
Dòma
by Chiara Seveso
“Dòma” is a short film about the cult of death in one of Sardinia’s small villages. The two protagonists are Tzia and Aurora, two tailors whose job is to sew a new dress for a fellow villager who recently passed away. Both of them are not well seen by the eyes of the townsfolk because of their job, however they are openly welcomed at the wake.
Original Title • Dòma
Script • Chiara Seveso
Music • Annalisa Spera
Sound Design • Annalisa Spera
Italy . 0:04:35 . 2022 . Colour . 2D
The Bumps in the Garden, by Dino Buzzati
by Marco Caverni, Rachele Marrazzo, Luna Olivier
The story is about a solitary man, who likes going for a walk within his garden during the evening, especially at night. One night, he stumbles on a mysterious bump of dirt: he couldn’t figure out how that bump came out from the ground. From that day on, many piles and bumps started coming out from the ground, they were similar to graves: the man only then understands that every friend he loses is correlated to a bump, so that he can remember them being there in his garden.
Original Title • Le Gobbe nel Giardino, di Dino Buzzati
Production Company • ISIA Urbino
Script • Alessia Angelini
Italy . 0:01:46 . 2023 . Colour . Pencil on paper, 2D
Ready
by Alessia Angelini
The story of my grandmother is told using pasta as a metaphor for her life and her
love relationship with my grandfather, who died too soon. The creation process is described as a ritual of acceptance of mourning.
The idea for my film was born from the need to create an animated film that spoke about food and my origins. Food is the visual medium that allowed me to universalize the story
Original Title • Pronta
Production Company • ISIA Urbino
Script • Alessia Angelini
Italy . 0:03:50 . 2021 . Colour . Mixed media
Portugal
Curated by CINANIMA
Porto’s Old Man
by Tânia Marques
Porto’s Old Man was born and raised in Porto, right in the center, next to what remains of the Fernandina wall, in 1937. He heard about the First World War and has brief memories of the Second. He saw Porto united by democracy. He saw the construction of the four last bridges (he will not see the fifth). He saw Porto being considered a World Heritage Site and European Capital of Culture. He saw the much-acclaimed tourists arrive. He saw himself alone. He sees abandoned houses. He sees houses that become hotels. He sees a different neighborhood. He sees a Porto he has never seen.
Today he wants to live the Porto he saw and put in his memory the Porto he sees.
Original Title • O Senhor do Porto
Prodution Company • Tânia Marques
Prodution • Tânia Marques
Script • Tânia Marques
Sound Design • Sandro Garcia
Portugal . 0:15:00 . 2023 . Colour . Stop-motion, 2D animation
My House Has a Lot of Windows
by Leonor Faria Henriques
“My Home has a Lot of Windows” is a series that follows the adventures of the tiny Lulu in the infinite building she lives in. In each episode, Lulu will be challenged by her father, the building’s doorman, to help him with some task. While doing her chores, Lulu will meet a new neighbour and learn how they live their loneliness
Original Title • A Minha Casa tem Muitas Janelas
Prodution Company • Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Producers • Leonor Faria Henriques
Script • Leonor Faria Henriques
Music • Diogo Chaves
Sound Design • Alexandre Ventana, Duarte Maltez
Portugal . 0:05:00 . 2023 . Colour . 2D animation
Sadness Comes in Waves
by Joana Leal
In the subconscious there are infinite places to navigate.
Original Title • Sadness Comes in Waves
Prodution Company • Escola das Artes – Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Producers • Joana Leal
Script • Joana Leal
Music • Joana Leal e Alexandre Leal
Sound Design • Louis Wilkinson
Portugal . 0:05:01 . 2023 . Colour . Animation 2D
Aromas
by Eyshila Gondim, Sofia Ceia, Tiago Silva
A blind synesthete, capable of associating smells with different colours and textures, is looking for something to eat. The character evaluates and distinguishes the foods available to him according to the smells he gets in contact with, represented by colours.
Original Title • Aromas
Prodution Company • Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre
Producers • Eyshila Gondim, Sofia Ceia, Tiago Silva
Script • Eyshila Gondim, Sofia Ceia, Tiago Silva
Music • Alexandre Bragança
Sound Design • Alexandre Bragança
Portugal . 0:01:27 . 2023 . Colour . 2D animation
52 HZ
by Diana Rodrigues
In a world full of people, loneliness is something that can drown you if you face it alone, not even a whale in the ocean can escape the feeling, especially when they sing and no one hears them. As if they were singing on a different frequency from the resto f the world.
Original Title • 52 HZ
Production Company • Universidade do Algarve
Producers • Universidade do Algarve
Script • Diana Rodrigues
Music • Diana Rodrigues
Sound Design • Diana Rodrigues
Portugal . 0:04:52 . 2023 . Colour . 2D digital animation
Jungle
by Leonor Calaça
A girl wakes up in a morning existential crisis- The physical worl surrounding her s distorted by her inner struggles and is getting more and more crowde4d with ghosty animals. This is a film about the inner world o fan artists, whose mind can get really loud, dangerous and filled with way too many thoughts. A mind that can be thought of as a jungle.
Original Title • Selva
Prodution Company • University of the Creative Arts
Script • Leonor Calaça
Music • Leonor Calaça
Sound Design • Leonor Calaça
Portugal, Reino Unido . 0:03:00 . 2022 . Colour . Digital Hand Drawn Animation
Everything that stays on the surface dies
by Carina Pierro Corso
Between drowning and learning how to swim, we follow the internal conflicts of a Self who will talk about the experience of being human and facing emotional wounds.
Original Title • Tudo que fica na superfície morre
Prodution Company • Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Script • Carina Pierro Corso
Sound Design • Alexandre Ventana
Portugal . 0:03:15 . 2022 . B&W . Traditional animation, mixed media.
Mona Lisas
by Beatriz Silva
In a small recording room, tem people sit down to be interviewed, unaware of the questions they will be asked. During these interviews, they talk about their lives, experience, memories, dreams and expectations and all the tribulations of being human.
Original Title • Mona Lisas
Prodution Company • Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design
Producers • Beatriz Silva
Script • Beatriz Silva
Music • Rafael Lacerda, Pedro Cândido
Sound Design • Rafael Lacerda, Pedro Cândido
Portugal . 0:13:51 . 2023 . Colour . 2D, stop-motion
My Seagull, Espanhola
by Bárbara Barreto, Catarina Santos, Raquel Salvado
The origin of the daily life of a seagull taking on the streets of Albufeira. From being sick in the wild to an unpredictable domestic life. About the disagreements of thefamily that took her in, the resignation and acceptance o fan animal that is not loved by the people of this region, but the protagonista ends up taking as her own.
Original Title • A Minha Gaivota Espanhola
Prodution Company • LSF – Filmes
Producers • Bárbara Barreto, Catarina Santos, Raquel Salvado
Script • Bárbara Barreto, Catarina Santos, Raquel Salvado
Music • Ricardo Mata
Sound Design • Raquel Salvado
Portugal . 0:03:00 . 2023 . Colour . 2D digital, stop-motion
Spark
by Laura Equi
Two characters with a troubled relationship find themselves together by a campfire.
Original • Faísca
Prodution Company • Universidade do Algarve
Producers • Universidade do Algarve
Script • Laura Equi
Music • Bruno Freitas
Sound Design • Guilherme Bosco
Portugal . 0:03:04 . 2022 . Colour . 2D frame by frame animation
The Beating Seed
by Asa (Marta Ribeiro), Alice do Carmo, Laura Pires, Tiago Pimenta
Two energies that exchange glances, yield to a passion that vibrates in harmony. Both are transmuttedd, revealing themselvves as witnesses that with a gesture of love i tis possible to desserve the world.
Original Title • A Semente que Palpita
Prodution Company • COLA Animation, Universidade do Algarve
Producers • COLA Animation, Universidade do Algarve
Script • Asa (Marta Ribeiro), Alice do Carmo
Sound Design • Alice do Carmo, Dizplay Soundlab|Rui Miguel
Portugal . 0:04:34 . 2022 . Colour . 2D animation
Spain
Curated by Prime the Animation!
All Good
by Diana Acién Manzorro
A pandemic and two different people under one same roof. The trigger for everything is a sneeze. Anna and Vicent are forced to live with the new reality exceeding the limit of the absurd.
Original Title • Todobien
Prodution Company • Saltarinas
Producers • Rocía Benevent Méndez, Diana Acién Manzorro, Elena Albert García
Music • Carlos Mansa
Sound Design • Talleb Benadouda Ivars, Dina Pedrol Buyemaa
Spain . 0:06:00 . 2023 . Colour . CGI 3D
Pobre Antonio
by Mariana Guerreiro Ferreira, Eudald Rojas Lluís
Antonio is stuck to his routine. During the night, he works in a recycling plant and during the day stays with his family with whom he doesn’t really get along. One day, while working, he discovers that he can begin to make decisions about his life and change it to his will.
Original Title • Pobre Antonio
Producers • Mariana Guerreiro Ferreira, Valeria Salinas Yábar
Music • Gonçal Perales
Sound Design • Miguel Robleda, Marcel Vallejo
Spain . 00:08:06 . 2022 . Colour . Stop-motion
Bakeneko
by Ignacio Meneu Oset
A traveller finds himself lost in the woods, in the middle of a snowfall, when he notes an old cabin that might be the perfect shelther…
Original Title • Bakeneko
Producers • Ana Ros; Meritxell Gavaldà; Iván Almansa; Cecilia Millán
Spain . 0:01:38 . 2023 . Colour . Stop-Motion
Papirola
by Fabián Molinaro San Martín
Original Title • Papirola
Prodution Company • Master en Animación UPV
Music • Carlos Mansa, Manuel Zapater Usero
Spain . 0:07:00 . 2022 . Colour . 2D Animation
Quiche for two
by Isabel Lloret Lejarreta
A young woman named Rose comes home from work hungry. She goes into the kitchen to prepare a very special recipe. Suddenly, her boyfriend appears and as she cooks she remembers happy times they lived together when the recipe was present.
Original Title • Quiche for two
Prodution Company • Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Carles, Universitat politècnica de València
Music • Carlos Mansa
Spain . 0:03:42 . 2021 . Colour . Stop-motion
I’m fine mum
by Jose Manuel Palenzuela
Blanca just started to live by herself but her life is a disaster. When she faces her mum’s texts and questions, she invents herself a standard life, in contradiction with her true identity.
Original Title • Estic bé, mamà
Prodution Company • Incomedia Producciones
Producers • Pepa Sastre
Music • Sara Galiana
Spain . 0:05:250 . 2022 . Colour . 2D Animation
Chimborazo
by Keila Cepeda Satán
Chimborazo’s ice pickers have long been subjected for years to the inclemency of the volcano, located in the Ecuadorian Andes. In exchange, they crush some of its ice to provide for their people. Nowadays, it would be an occupation on the verge of extinction if it wasn’t for Baltazar Ushca, who despite of his age, walks to the Chimborazo glacier every day for hours to get large blocks of ice which he later sells in the nearest city. Baltazar is the last person to perpetuate this hard tradition together with Candela, a friendly llama that follows him after eating some of his straw. During his journey he remembers his youth and his ice pickers friends with nostalgia. Each day Baltazar and his lama risk their lives climbing up the Chimborazo. In one of these journeys candela dies leaving Baltazar alone. As years go by, the city continues to grow and the blazing sun gets closer which causes the glacier to melt. Despite the danger, Baltazar tries to rescue the last piece of ice while he sees how his last hope melts.
Original Title • Chimborazo
Prodution Company • Máster en Animación UPV
Producers • Daniel Barrachina Escalpés , Tatiana Santiago Solla
Script • Samuel Fernandi Martínez
Music • Matias Alvear Fall
Sound Design • Quino Piñero Ortíz
Spain . 00:07:17 . 2022 . Colour . 2D and stop-motion
Conej Steps Out
by Pablo Río
To give his girlfriend Claire the ultimate gift on their next date, Rabbit is set to travel the cosmos and beyond in his most unusual plan yet. Rabbit quickly sets to work building a rocket with the aim of convincing Claire to go to the moon with him in this beautiful animated short film.
Original Title • La gran cita de Conej
Prodution Company • DigiPen; Musikene
Producers • María Eugenia Luc; Garazi Navas
Music • Jordi Arcusa; Garazi Navas; Aritz Labrador; Íñigo López
Spain . 0:07:00 . 2023 . Colour . 2D Animation
Big Box
by Nuria Torreño
A courier company has created a system for collecting, packaging, and delivering feelings. Hermy, a young postman, must deliver an unusually large and heavy package that will cause him more than a few problems during his journey. Without giving up, he will find a way to fulfill his mission: to deliver the contents of the package to its recipient.
Original Title • Big Box
Prodution Company • Máster en Animación UPV
Producers • Aida Roldán
Script • Nuria Torreño y Aida Roldán
Music • Carlos Mansa
Sound Design • Carlos Mansa
Spain . 0:06:32 . 2021 . Colour . 2D Animation
