Young Animation 4 (of ITFS 2020)

Due to the Corona crisis, the 2020 and 2021 editions of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) could only take place online. The competition programs were therefore presented exclusively in the media library at OnlineFestival.ITFS.de instead of in the cinema. However, the films were made and intended for the big screen.

For this reason, the ITFS Animation Special – REPRISE gives the competition entries their due place in the cinema in the form of an epilogue. REPRISE includes all competition films from the International Competition, Young Animation (student film) and Tricks for Kids sections of ITFS 2020 and 2021! This also includes all ITFS award winners.

So if you missed watching the animated shorts of the animation festival in May 2020 and 2021 online or want to see them again on the big screen, you can do so now.

 

About Young Animation

The Young Animation (YA) competition shows the best animated short films by students from international film and art schools. Young animators from different countries tell touching stories, create fantastic worlds and open up new perspectives for you.

 

Monday, November 28 2022, 6:45 pm

Cinema, Innenstadtkinos
Königstraße 22, 2nd floor
70173 Stuttgart

Tickets

Running time: 1h23, FSK: not available, Language: OmeU

 

Apfelmus (Applesauce)

Director: Alexander Gratzer
School: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Country: Austria, 2019
Running time: 06:51 Min

While two uniformed guards divulge themselves as spineless beings, animals carry on philosophical dialogues about important existential issues.

 

The Fox & The Pigeon

Director: Michelle Chua, Aileen Dewhurst, Sharon Gabriella, Viktor Ivanovski, Sang Lee, Tyler Pacana, SiKyung Kevin Sung, Morgan Thompson, Chelsea van Tol, Matt Walton, Steven Wang
School: Sheridan College
Country: Canada, 2019
Running time: 06:00 Min

Fox’s life takes place on the pages of a book. As the narrator reads, the Fox obediently does as he’s told… until Pigeon comes along hoping for a taste of Fox’s ice cream cone. Fox and Pigeon are forced into an argument, and end up fighting for their lives – until they are pushed to the limit and learn to take control of their own destiny, and write their own story!

 

Knife Hanging From A Tree

Director: JiHee Nam
School: California Institute of the Arts
Country: USA, 2019
Running time: 03:27 Min

The story in „Knife Hanging From A Tree” revolves around a fruit, persimmon, and is based on a Korean traditional saying, directly translated as “sour grapes” depicting the idea of greed and karma.

 

Undone

Director: Saira George, Sara Laubscher
School: The Animation School
Country: South Africa, 2018
Running time: 03:51 Min

Dotty lives alone in her house, finding comfort in her daily knitting routine. When she knits she enters a world where her memories come to life. Dotty enters the knitted world time and time again reliving the same memory. Over time, the different parts that make up this world begin to unravel. She notices that her world is falling apart and tries to knit everything.

 

Szélfogó (Windbreak)

Director: Ágnes Győrfi
School: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME)
Country: Hungary, 2019
Running time: 07:18 Min

A child’s experiences at her rural grandparents come to life in haiku-like images. The connection between the child’s spirit and nature is both personal and universal, general and symbolic. The scenes of the film are mosaic pieces incorporated throughout the creation.

 

Second round

Director: Alex Khlebnikov
School: Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design
Country: Israel, 2019
Running time: 05:11 Min

Alex, new immigrant boy from Russia receives a new bicycle from his mother in order to meet new friends.

 

Dcera (Daughter)

Director: Daria Kashcheeva
School: FAMU – Film School
Country: Czech Republic, 2019
Running time: 14:50 Min

In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her father. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all the way to this hospital room, until the moment when a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird.

 

Il y a un chat sous la voiture (There is a cat under the car)

Director: Neira Islena
School: École des Métiers du Cinéma et d’Animation (EMCA)
Country: France, 2019
Running time: 04:57 Min

At night there is a cat under a car, it is very calm, until three noisy kids start to play with it. When the game begins to degenerate, the cat calls for an unexpected ally…

 

Big Flirt

Director: Ina Albrecht
Schule: Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology – National Film School (IADT)
Country: Ireland, 2019
Running time: 00:33 Min

A girl at a party finds the courage to make a move on her crush.

 

The Growth

Director: Sarah Cheok
School: Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore
Country: Singapur, 2019
Running time: 07:03 Min

 

An ambitious young boy is eager to grow up so he can experience the world outside of his kelong house in the middle of the ocean. Eventually, he musters up the courage to persuade the old man but was faced with disapproval. Being young and ambitious, the boy decides to go anyway.

 

The Lost Wedding Ring

Director: Elisabeth Jakobi
School: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Country: Germany, Iran, 2019
Running time: 04:15 Min

A tourist who came to Tehran for an operation of her nose, loses her wedding ring. While her husband is pursuing his hobbies and the employees search the hotel for the lost item, she finds the peace she was looking for.

 

Shabashaba

Director: Wei Wang, Jessica Wu
School: Taipei National University of the Arts, Animation Department
Country: Taiwan, 2019
Running time: 01:50 Min

Something sweet in my double chin.

 

Marie Boudin

Director: Margot Barbé
School: École des Métiers du Cinéma et d’Animation (EMCA)
Country: France, 2019
Running time: 09:32 Min

Marie Boudin searches for the sea. She desperately looks for her everywhere, sometimes even under a pebble.

 

Inès

Director: Elodie Dermange
School: La Poudrière
Country: France, 2019
Running time: 04:06 Min

Inès is facing a difficult choice. She thinks one last time over the decision that she has to make.

 

L’ordre des choses (The natural order of things)

Director: Mathilde Poigniez
School: Atelier de Sèvres
Country: France, 2019
Running time: 04:06 Min

A stupid insect, at the lower level of the food chain, endures its position as a prey into the forest. But suddenly, the established order is overthrown. The insect provokes, unintentionally, a sequence of increasingly important accidents. It causes a wildfire that results in the destruction of the spacecraft in which the insect was living. The engine crashes on Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs.