48º Festival
Awards 2024

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SHORT FILMS

GRAND PRIZE CINANIMA 2024

ESPINHO CITY AWARD

Beautiful Man

Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.

Direction: Nicolas Keppens
Production: Brecht van Elslande – Animal Tank, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron – Miyu Productions, Joost van den Bosch, Erik Verkerk –  KA-Ching Cartoons
Script: Nicolas Keppens
Sound: Nicolas Snyder, Vivian William 
Belgium, France, Netherlands . 0:18:35 . 2023 . Other

Jury’s Special Award

A Crab in the Pool

In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.

Direction: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Production: Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte
Script: Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte 
Sound: François Lacasse
Canada . 0:11:11  . 2023 . 2D Computer

A Crab in the Pool

Award for the Best Animated Documentary

I Died in Irpin

24 February 2022 my boyfriend and I fled from Kyiv to Irpin. We spent 10 days in blockaded city and managed to escape with the last evacuation convoy. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.

Direction: Anastasiia Falileieva
Production: Alena Vandasová, Martin Vandas, Juraj Krásnohorský, Anastasiia Falileieva 
Script: Anastasiia Falileieva
Sound: Petr Marek
Czech Republic . 0:11:22  . 2024 . Drawing on paper, cut-outs

I died in Irpin

Award for the Best Experimental Film

See the Sun Rise in the Moon

At the end of his life, Victor Hugo abandons his pen to take one last look at the ocean and confront his ghosts. The film is based on the poem collection “Les Contemplations”, in which the poet addresses, among other things, the loss of his daughter Léopoldine and man’s.

Direction: Charles Nogier
Production: Marc Faye
Script: Charles Nogier 
France . 0:11:06  . 2024 . Paint, 2D computer

See the sun rise in the moon

Award for the Best Sound Design

Entropic Memory​

This photographic exploration of family photo albums ravaged by water evokes hazy and indistinct memories, poignant witnesses of a fragile past.

Direction: Nicolas Brault
Production: Nicolas Brault
Music: Mathieu Charbonneau, Simon Trottier
Sound: Olivier Calvert 
Canada . 0:06:28  . 2024 . Animated objects

Entropic Memory

Award for the Best Screenwriting

A Crab in the Pool

In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.

Direction: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Production: Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte
Script: Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte
Sound: François Lacasse 
Canada . 0:11:11  . 2023 . 2D Computer

A Crab in the Pool

Commendation for Short Films

Zarko, You Will Spoil the Child!

The film recounts the memories of a childhood in Split in the 1980s. These are stories retold after Sunday lunch when everyone is in a good mood, stories filled with emotions we can easily relate to. But above all, the film is a moving tribute to the love of a grandpa and grandma who did their best to keep their granddaughter smiling.

Direction: Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic
Production: Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic, Patrick Hernandez 
Script: Veljko Popovic, Tisja Kljakovic Braic
Music: Olivier Militon
Sound: Julien Sauvan
Croatia . 0:13:37 . 2024 . 2D Computer

Zarko you will spoil the child

Audience Award

Percebes

With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES (goose barnacle). From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.

Direction: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
Production: David Doutel, Vasco Sá – BAP Animation Studio, Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago – IKKI Films
Script: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, Regina Guimarães 
Music: Nicolas Tricot
Sound: Bernardo Bento
Portugal, France . 0:11:30 .  2024 . 2D Computer

Percebes

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FEATURE FILMS

Grand Prize CINANIMA 2024 – Feature Film

Memoir of a Snail

Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life. A poignant, heartfelt, hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.

Direction: Adam Elliot
Production: ArenaMedia – Liz Kearney, Screen Australia
Script: Adam Elliot
Australia . 1:34:00 . 2024 . Clay

Special Mention for Feature Films

Flow

A cat wakes up in a world covered in water, where the entire human race seems to have disappeared. He seeks refuge on a boat with a group of other animals. But getting along with them proves to be an even greater challenge than overcoming his fear of water! Everyone will need to learn to overcome their differences and adapt to this new world they find themselves in.

Direction: Gints Zilbalodis
Production: Dream Well Studio – Matiss Kaza, Take Five – Gregory Zalcman, Sacrebleu Productions – Ron Dyens
Script: Gints Zilbalodis, Matiss Kaza
Music: Rihards Zalupe, Gints Zilbalodis 
Sound: Gurwal Coic-Gallas
Latvia, Belgium, France . 1:23:00 . 2024 . 3D Computer

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION STUDENT FILMS

Grand Prize CINANIMA 2024 Student Film – Gaston Roch Award

Unrecognized Character Detected​

“The video that everyone is currently watching comes from a recently discovered microchip, estimated to be around 3-4 million years old. According to experts, the video was recorded inside a spacecraft, and it shows two organisms engaged in a continuous conflict. Although the video has been professionally deciphered by linguists and semioticians, some characters still cannot be recognized.”, stated the Chief Executive, inside the military base.

Direction: Song Ye
Production: Beihang University
Script: Ye Song 
China . 0:08:35 . 2024 . Clay, photos, 2D computer

Unrecognised character detected

Special Mention for Student Films

Dragfox

Sam’s search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ.

Direction: Lisa Ott
Production: Owen Thomas National Film and Television School
Script: John Cooney
Music: Charli Mackie
Sound: Em Edwards 
United Kingdom . 0:08:00 . 2024 . Puppets. other

NATIONAL COMPETITION

António Gaio Award

Percebes

With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES (goose barnacle). From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.

Direction: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves
Production: David Doutel, Vasco Sá – BAP Animation Studio, Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago – IKKI Films
Script: Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves, Regina Guimarães 
Music: Nicolas Tricot
Sound: Bernardo Bento
Portugal, France . 0:11:30 .  2024 . 2D Computer

Percebes

Young Portuguese Director Award (under 18 years old)

Never Stop Singing

Once upon a time there was a ghost who loved to sing and that was a problem. He felt he was different from others and wanted to find his place in the world.

Direction: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto – Anilupa, EB de Fernão de Magalhães
Production: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto – Anilupa
Script: Associação de Ludotecas do Porto – Anilupa, EB de Fernão de Magalhães
Portugal . 0:06:57 . 2023 . Desenho s/ papel, recortes

Never stop singing

Young Portuguese Director Award (more than 18 to 30 years old)

Bursting At The Seams

Narrations of 3 women about their experiences, their inner fight with being feminine and masculine, and their accepting journeys. A movie about girlhood and accepting ourselves, as women.

Direction: Adriana Andrade, Luana Rodrigues, Daniela Tietzen 
Production: Universidade Lusófona – Lusófona Filmes
Portugal . 0:03:38 . 2024 . Animated objects, 2D computer

Pelas Costuras

Special mention for national competition

It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow

Feeling that her mother may no longer be able to live on her own, a woman moves back to her childhood home. As she tries to adapt to the new situation, her mother continues to drift away.

Direction: Maria Trigo Teixeira
Production: Jonas César – AIM- Estúdios de Animação, Karsten Matern – Wait a Second! 
Script: Maria Trigo Teixeira
Music: Falk Meutzner
Portugal, Germany . 0:11:30 .  2024 . 2D Animation

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