Balkanima - Student competition program 1

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Year: 2020
Director: Jeanne Waltz
Country: Portugal
Duration: 4:50
Synopsis: A short essay done in animation about Time and the different representations we have of it, following two main metaphors, the movements of water and competitive running.

Year: 2019
Director: Matei Monoranu
Country: Romania
Duration: 4:19
Synopsis: An extremely lazy writer aims to write something worthy of a great prize while struggling with the delights of procrastination. Things change when a talented mosquito enters the window, bringing the possibility of writing a masterpiece.

Year: 2019
Director: Katarina Lundquist
Country: Denmark
Duration: 7:23
Synopsis: Deep in the Norwegian forest, there is an old man, living an orderly and quiet life. Closed off from the rest of the world, he spends his days together with his lifelong friend, a troll. Together they share an everyday routine, drinking tea and taking care of each other. One day the troll begins to hint that the time has come for him to leave the comfort of their home. Not wanting to face the consequences of reality, the man sticks to his routines, maintaining their daily life. One morning, the troll is gone. Trying to restore balance to his life, the old man leaves his home in search of the troll, only to find himself getting lost in his own mind, entangled in his fears. In his darkest moment, he realizes that in order to find peace, he needs to accept the fate of his friend.

Year: 2020
Director: Sofja Gorelova
Country: Estonia
Duration: 3:47
Synopsis: "You" are trying to get in touch with "your inner self", but it turns out you speak different languages and turns on the mode of self-destruction.

Year: 2020
Director: Miljana Tešović
Country: Serbia
Duration: 6:28
Synopsis: In an intimate world of two characters, in which the connecting bonds are materialized, man and woman are tangled together in a number of missed tries to hang out with their own problems.

Year: 2019
Director: Sunčana Brkulj
Country: Croatia
Duration: 3:32
Synopsis: Singing skeletons dream about breaking free from their geometric formation, and taking a swim in the great, big, blue sea.

Year: 2019
Director: Matisse Gonzalez
Country: Germany
Duration: 10:30
Synopsis: Some days are light and some days are heavy. In a world where gravity changes constantly, you have to find something to keep you grounded.

Year: 2020
Director: Hannah Miller, Abi Lindon, Hana Bhati
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 2:29
Synopsis: A twist on Edgar Allan Poe's literary classic “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

Year: 2019
Director: Óscar Ferreira
Country: Portugal
Duration: 3:18
Synopsis: Tormund lives alone, with few resources to survive in a world in which it is always winter. After killing a deer he is visited by a mystical creature that guides him on a path of self-reflection, taking him to realize that his actions have consequences.

Year: 2020
Director: Larisa Nagode
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 4:13
Synopsis: Tonight, in the mansion, the children are home alone. They fearfully listen to the eldest sister’s awful tale: »In the night of a shining full moon, all children should be sound asleep in their beds, for when the clock strikes midnight the time stands still. A sleepless child that does not stand still with the time, shall be eaten by their shadow…ALIVE! Poor little Elsie can’t fall asleep for her sister’s words are almost making her weep…

Year: 2019
Director: Michelle Brand
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 5:12
Synopsis: A man in a room, in a film – it is the becoming of something and simultaneously becoming in itself. Nothing is as solid as we believe. The film explores our perception of time and change, bodies and objects, and our inability to comprehend the full motion of things.