15h30 | Centro Multimeios - Sala António Gaio
On 24 February 2022, my boyfriend and I fled Kiev for Irpin. We spent 10 days trapped in the city but escaped the blockade on the last evacuation train. Time has passed, but the feeling that I had died in Irpin has never left me. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective perspective.
Direction: Anastasiia Falileieva
Production: Alena Vandasová, Martin Vandas, Juraj Krásnohorský, Anastasiia Falileieva
Script: Anastasiia Falileieva
Music: Petr Marek
Czech Republic. 00:11:22 . 2024 . Drawings on Paper, Cut-outs
Best Animated Documentary Award
The video everyone is 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 shows two organisms engaged in ongoing conflict. Although the video has been professionally deciphered by linguists and semioticists, some characters still cannot be recognised,” says the Chief Executive at a military base.
Direction: Song Ye
Production: Beihang University
Script: Ye Song
China . 0:08:35 . 2024 . Clay, Photography, 2D Computer
Grand Prize CINANIMA 2024 Student Films – Gaston Roch Award
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
Audience Award, António Gaio Award
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
Commendation for Short Film
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
Jury’s Special Award, Award for the Best Screenwriting
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 Williams
Belgium, France, Netherlands. 0:18:35 . 2023 . Other
Grand Prize CINANIMA 2024 – Espinho City Award
16h00 | Centro Multimeios - Sala António GaioThe Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz established in 1948, is considered as one of the oldest and most respected film schools in the world. Ranked every year in the prestigious Hollywood Reporter “The 15 Best Global Film Schools”.
Approximately 700 students across 8 faculties: Directing, Cinematography, Screenwriting, Acting, Editing, Animation and Special Effects, Photography, Film and Television Production Organization. Among us are international students from all over the world.
Since its establishment, the School has placed significant emphasis on practical experience within its educational curriculum. We firmly believe that only through immersion in an authentic production environment can students truly master their craft, cultivating both professional autonomy and practical expertise. Each academic year, our School facilitates the production of approximately 300 student short films. These productions subsequently participate in leading Polish and international film festivals worldwide, frequently earning prestigious awards.
Our distinguished alumni include directors: Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Malgorzata Szumowska, Jan Komasa, Magnus von Horn and cinematographers: Jerzy Wojcik, Adam Holender, Witold and Piotr Sobocinski, Slawomir Idziak, Ryszard Lenczewski, Dariusz Wolski, Hoyte van Hoytema, Pawel Edelman, Lukasz Zal and Michal Dymek. A significant number of our graduates subsequently return to the School as lecturers. We take immense pride in fostering the unique master-apprentice relationship, which has yielded an impressive portfolio of projects created by both our students and alumni.
Our graduates have been honoured with numerous prestigious accolades, including Academy Awards (Oscars), the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, BAFTA awards, and the César (from the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques). Films created by our students have received recognition at the world’s most esteemed film festivals, including Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, IDFA, Annecy and Camerimage, while also securing Student Academy Awards, Student BAFTAs and the CILECT Prizes.
The films shows the relationship between two sisters.
Direction: Sara Szymańska
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Sara Szymańska
Music: Marcel Baliński
Poland . 0:06:00 . 2021 . Animation Cartoon
A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul – a miniature of the deceased.
Direction: Barbara Rupik
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Barbara Rupik
Music: Maurycy Raczyński
Poland . 0:09:12 . 2019 .
This film is about the director’s mom, or rather about what she would like to tell her. A short , humorous story about arguments, growing up and the relationship between mother and daughter.
Direction: Agnieszka Popińska
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Agnieszka Popińska
Music: Wiktor Szymurski
Poland . 0:12:43 . 2024 . Animation Cartoon
A short story full of emotion about a father-son relationship that leads to startling events.
Direction: Jakub Krzyszpin
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Jakub Krzyszpin
Music: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Poland . 0:05:22 . 2023 . 2D Animation
A short animation about a young girl struggling with insecurities about her large nose.
Direction: Julia Marchowska
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Julia Marchowska
Music: Patryk Petersson
Poland . 0:03:12 . 2023 . Animation Cartoon
A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
Direction: Renata Gąsiorowska
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Renata Gąsiorowska
Music: Volodymyr Antoniv
Poland . 0:08:20 . 2016 . Animation Cartoon
Stefa goes shopping despite rampant inflation.
Direction: Zuzanna Heller
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Zuzanna Heller
Poland . 0:02:35 . 2024 . Painting
A visit to a psychologist prompts a young girl to talk about her seemingly innocent and funny phobia: her fear of animals.
Direction: Weronika Szyma
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Weronika Szyma, Joanna Róźniak
Music: Bartek Karlicki
Poland . 0:10:31 . 2018 . Animation Cartoon
Exhausted from the night’s adventures, a man takes a bath and enters into dialogue with a rubber duck. Together, they roam through the events of the previous evening…
Direction: Maria Dakszewicz
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
Script: Maria Dakszewicz
Music: Maria Dakszewicz
Poland . 0:04:21 . 2024 . 2D Computer
16h00 | Centro Multimeios - Sala António GaioWhen I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It’s a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn’t hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
“Kodachrome” Paul Simon (1973)
Ah, high school. I recall so little, I remember so much.
Where do memories come from? How do we make them, shape and store them, recall them, and control them?
“My car is white” is more a piece of data than a memory. “The first car I ever owned was white” is likely to be a gateway to an entire chapter of one’s life story. It sure as hell was for me!
Carl Sagan famously said that we are all made of star stuff. And he’s right but that’s only a tiny, tiny part of the story – all he’s doing there is explaining all of us. A ‘one size fits all’ explanation for the myriad shapes, colours and sizes of that great big ‘us’. But I’m not ‘us’, I’m just me. And the same thing applies to you.
Words, pictures and binary code can be used to store and communicate data, information and knowledge. But for a memory to be made and saved it needs a ‘me’ or a ‘you’ and there’s an infinite mystery in the way that all comes together. That boundless capacity of the human mind to mould the specific data of a lived experience into the infinite, expansive mystery of a saved memory is one of humankind’s greatest party tricks.
Using the infinite pliability of animation is our best chance of reverse engineering that process to pass on not so much the detail of an experience but the purest essence and feel of a memory. And so, whether it is Jody Cleaver’s abstracted visualisation of one woman’s life spent bringing classical music to the streets, Barry Purves recalling the light and dark of Tchaikovsky’s inner and outer lives, or Valerie Barnhart’s valiant attempts to force into existence the memory of a little life that should have been allowed to make its own, each of these films does a superb job of precisely this.
Underpinning them is a second, below-the-radar thread that meanders through my own life time of quite specific memories harvested from decades of being able to experience close-up the most expressive artform there is…. I hope you enjoy this selection of writings on the wall.
Young Udo has a burning desire to fly. However, he does not know that there is a law which keeps things on the ground and that one must let go of things in order to fly. The results can be disastrous for some. Flight is a dream, after all, which falls apart when it comes true.
Direction: Priit Tender
Production: Eesti Joonisfilm – Kalev Tamm, Linda Saede
Script: Priit Tender
Music: Tõnu Kõrvits
Estonia . 0:08:29 . 1996
“To penetrate someone else’s life, or my own for that matter, to its most intimate depths is terribly painful for me, but pleasurable as well.” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Using Tchaikovsky’s music and pieces from his diary and letters, this reflective and melancholy film sees Tchaikovsky wondering if he has achieved enough in his life.
Direction: Barry Purves
Production: Studio M.I.R Moscow – Irina Margolina, Loose Moose London – Glenn Holberton
Script: Barry JC Purves, Irina margolina
Music: Tchaikovsky
Sound: Vladislav Tarasov, Ivan Voronin
Russian Federation, United Kingdom 0:13:10 . 2011 . Puppets, other
Natalie Trayling’s amazingly improvised composition, “Among the People’”accompanied by filmmaker Jody Cleaver’s animated visualisation.
Direction: Jody Cleaver
Production: Jody Cleaver
Animation: Jody Cleaver
Music: Natalie Trayling
Australia . 0:06:27 . 2022 . Watercolour painting
This award-winning animation is a poignant interpretation of a short story by Montreal author Mordecai Richler. It makes a strong statement about how many families respond to their old and infirm members. In washes of watercolour and ink, filmmaker Caroline Leaf illustrates reactions to a dying grandmother, capturing family feelings.
Direction: Caroline Leaf
Production: National Film Board of Canada – Guy Glover, Wolf Koenig
Script: Mordecai Richler
Sound: Gloria Demers, Michel Descombes, Ken Page
Canada . 0:10:00 . 1976 . Paint on glass under the camera
A film about the fragility of emoticons within relationships and our inability to manage them.
Direction: Arden Colley, Asil Atay, Kellie Fay, Isabel Wiegand
Production: BAU – Barcelona College of Arts & Design
Script: Arden Colley, Asil Atay, Kelly Fay, Isabel Wiegand
Sound: Talat Savaşkan
Spain . 0:03:09 . 2019 . Puppets, stop motion
A former pilot looks back over his life – The Earth, the Sky, the Woman – everything that took place on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned boat house.
Direction: Vladimir Leschiov
Production: Lunohod
Script: Vladimir Leschiov
Music: Normand Roger
Sound: Pierre-Yves Drapeau
Latvia. 0:05:52 . 2009 . Drawing on paper, 2D
A particularly creative example of the pinscreen animation technique, this film is about an artist who steps inside his painting and wanders about in a landscape peopled with symbols that trigger unexpected associations.
Direction: Jacques Drouin
Production: Natinal Film Board of Canada -Gaston Sarault
Script: Jacques Drouin
Music: Denis Larochelle
Canada . 0:07:00 . 1976 . Pinscreen
An adaptation of a war poem by Siegfried Sassoon.
Direction: Layla Atkinson
Production: Richard Barnett
Script: poema de Siegfried Sassoon
Music: Dom James
United Kingdom 0:02:30 . 2016 . 2D, collage
The story takes place in Lisbon at the time of the great maritime discoveries. Explorers, looking like pigs, arrive in the harbour after a long voyage across the oceans. Everywhere in the city small groups gather and congratulate each other. They organize spontaneous round dances and celebrate their return. Meanwhile, a young pig has the strange feeling of being completely isolated from the others in his own native city…
Direction: Carlos de Carvalho
Executive Production: Carlos de Carvalho, Je Regarde
Script: Carlos de Carvalho
Music: Jean-Philippe Goude
Sound: Christian Cartier Maxence Ciekawy
France . 0:04:42 . 2014 . 3D Computer
Why does ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ give Jamie nightmares? It’s been 15 years, and the girl in
the hallway haunts him still. This is a testament to locked doors. A lullaby sung by wolves with
duct tape and polaroids. Not all girls make it out of the forest. Some stories children shouldn’t
hear.
Direction: Valerie Barnhart
Script: Jamie Dewolf
Music: Alex Mandel
Canada . 0:10:33 . 2019 . Hybrid, 2D stop motion
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Narrations of 3 women about their experiences, their inner fight with being feminine and masculine, and their accepting journeys. A movie about girlhood and acepting ourselves, as women.
Direction: Adriana Andrade, Daniela Tietzen, Luana Rodrigues
Production: Universidade Lusófona – Lusófona Filmes
Portugal . 0:03:38 . 2024
Ūla is an introverted and anxious teenager who likes swimming. One ordinary morning at swimming practise, she is taken on an unexpected adventure, through which she grows-up, learns to accept herself and to see her body anew.
Direction: Eglė Davidavičė
Production: Agnė Adomėnė – ArtShot, Tripode Productions
Co-production: Delphine Schmit
Script: Eglė Davidavičė, Aušra Umbrasaitė
Music: Lolita Del Pino
Sound: Dominyka Adomaitytė
Lithuania, France 0:12:00 . 2024 . 2D Computer
The drawings of this film were made blindfolded, that is, without looking at them while drawing but using only tactile cues. This challenge reflects the writer’s dilemmas facing ideological certainties. In a world of communication, where custom images and opinions are constructed, how can one discern the essential? What is seeing anyway? Appearances, do they correspond to reality?
Direction: Georges Sifianos
Production: Georges Sifianos
Script: Georges Sifianos
Music: Gustave Carpène
France, Greece 0:09:50 . 2021
Nothing like TALAIAS for a fun game! An animated series for little ones. Those with more time for the pleasure of playing.
Direction: Maria Raquel Atalaia
Production: António Costa Valente – Filmógrafo
Executive production: Júlia Rocha
Script: Maria Raquel Atalaia
Music: Joaquim Pavão
Portugal . 0:10:00 . 2024 . 2D and 3D Computer
Tell us Ducth painters – tell us what darkness is.
Direction: Steve Woods
Production: Steve Woods, Cel’ Division
Post-production: Brown Bag Films
Script: Steve Woods
Sound: R<>MO
Irland . 0:05:00 . 2010 . Pixilation
It’s pouring down with rain at the funeral. There’s a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.
Direction: Lucija Mrzljak, Morten Tšinakov
Production: Drasko Ivezic – Adriatic Animation
Co-production: Eesti Joonisfilm – Kalev Tamm
Script: Morten Tšinakov
Sound: Morten Tšinakov
Estonia, Croatia. 0:15:58 . 20122 . 2D Computer
11h30 | Centro Multimeios - Sala António GaioFounded in 1984 in Lyon, France by Philippe Rivière, École Émile Cohl has always aimed to train complete artists, combining strong drawing skills with modern media. From the beginning, comics and animation have been at the heart of its programs. For 40 years, generations of teachers have encouraged students to build their own artistic style on a solid foundation of drawing.
The school keeps evolving with new technologies and digital tools, preparing young artists for the future of illustration, animation, and video games. Many alumni are now leading major projects around the world—for example, Pierre Perifel directed The Bad Guys for DreamWorks, among other box office successes.
In their final year, students each create an animated short film on their own. They take care of every step, from the first sketches to the finished movie. For the soundtrack, they work with students from music schools, creating real artistic collaborations.
More than just technical work, each project reflects a personal artistic vision. Students are encouraged to bring originality, style, and emotion into their films.
For the school’s 40th anniversary and Cinanima’s 50th, we are proud to share a selection of short films that shows the diversity and creativity of École Émile Cohl.
An old farmer in love with his land is let down by the worker who was supposed to take
over his farm. Despite his age and failing health, he continues his work alone.
Direction: Benjamin Delabays
Production: École Émile Cohl
Script: Josema Garcia Hormigo
France . 0:04:19 . 2025 . 2D Computer
It’s show time. Everyone takes a sit, is silent, and pays attention. Well, almost everyone
Direction: Colette Natrella
Production: École Émile Cohl
Script: Yann Ruffieux, Liam Simonet
France . 0:04:07 . 2012 . 2D Computer
From a little further away, where imagination reinvents the food chain…
Direction: François Marc Baillet
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Paganini
France . 0:02:00 . 2007 . 2D Computer
A game of chess comes to an end. The black queen runs relentlessly, searching for the next white pawn to sink her teeth into. White’s move.
Direction: Etienne Vautrin
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Popertelli
France . 0:05:52 . 2019 . 2D Computer
In medieval Japan, in the Empress’s palace, a young apple thief flees from one of the guards. To escape, he hides among the belongings of two imperial tailors who have come to present their latest creations and finds himself trapped in the throne room.
Direction: Antoine Ettori
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Michèle Kopf
France . 0:03:30 . 2009 . 2D Computer
Trevor Tripp is seven and a half years old and suffers from terrible insomnia. He does not believe in ghosts and is not afraid of the dark, but his thoughts keep him awake late at night.
Direction: Matthieu Saghezchi
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Thomas Mercier
France . 0:03:11 . 2010 . 2D Computer
A farmer and his wife run a cafe in Provence. Irritated by her husband, who is confined to bed after an accident, the embiterred wife is going to ask him for something unexpected.
Direction: Céline Brengou
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Julien Limonne
France . 0:04:40 . 2016 . 2D Computer
Elia is going to the seaside with his dad. But Etienne, his goldfish, must also be part of the trip.
Direction: Matthieu Gaillard
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Irene Puente, Sergio Pérez, Jaume Guillén, Eric González, Alexis Navarro
France . 0:04:34 . 2011 . 2D Computer
Following a failed experiment, a scientist finds himself sharing his body with a hundred other people and sets out to regain his individuality.
Direction: Paul Raillard
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Moondog – Dark Eyes
France . 0:04:30 . 2018 . 2D Computer
Yuna is six years old and loves drawing and telling stories. And there’s no shortage of stories, as crazy things are always happening to her little sister. This time, the adventure takes place at the zoo.
Direction: Nina Heckel
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Rémi Fay
France . 0:03:49 . 2019 . 2D Computer, Stop motion
A peculiar assemblage of individuals convene to discuss their mutual trauma. They have descended from the heavens and their celestial bodies have been fragmented. While some endeavour to move forward, a young, unkempt girl named Rose attends these gatherings to pilfer shards of other stars in a quest to reconstruct her own and ascend once more to the sky.
Direction: Hugo Mermillod
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Matthieu Gomez Mancini
France . 0:06:39 . 2023 . 2D Computer
A banknote, apparently lost on the pavement, causes chaos among passers-by.
Direction: Frédéric Martin
Production: École Émile Cohl
Music: Yan Volsy
France . 0:04:21 . 2D Computer
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In a city where nature has been banned, a simple man’s minor crime triggers unexpected consequences.
Direction: Bruno Caetano
Production: A COLA – Bruno Caetano, Wild Stream – Michael Proença
Script: Based on a tale by Manuel Ruas Moreira, Bruno Caetano
Portugal, France . 0:10:00 . 2019 . Puppets
An old Cosmonaut lives the same kind of life now in his flat in a concrete panel apartment building as he did in his youth in a space station. As before, he still carries out heroic missions and misses his close relatives, who he left behind on his home planet. His close relatives see the situation altogether differently. Is this old man capable of coming to grips with the norms that apply in society? A cosmonaut will always be a cosmonaut. To the very end.
Direction: Kaspar Jancis
Production: Eesti Joonisfilm – Kalev Tamm
Script: Kaspar Jancis
Music: Kaspar Jancis
Sound: Horret Kuus
Estonia . 0:11:38 . 2019
Is there really such a thing as coincidence? R. is scouring bookstore after bookstore in search of a remarkable book that he yearns to read. He finally finds it in the most unexpected way. A playful and offbeat reflection on the surprising moments where you get the feeling that everything is somehow connected. Based on a short story by Paul Auster.
Direction: Kajsa Naess
Production: Mikrofilm
Script: Kajsa Naess baseado num poema de based on a poem by Paul Auster
Noruega . 0:07:52 . 2019 . Puppets
What was young gets old, what was healthy is sick. Uncertainty has crept in. What started out tough ends in melancholy. In that sense, this is a farewell.
Direction: Menno de Nooijer, Paul de Nooijer
Production: TRI-EYE, Françoise de Nooijer, TROLLFILM AS, Anita Killi, Lillian Løvseth
Norway, Netherlands 0:11:19 . 2023 . Animated objects, 2D, fotocopies, pixilation, live action
Looking at an x-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man`s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born. ’Mr. Mare’ is a surreal animated chamber play, set in a ‘haunted’ claustrophobic space, in which we witness the dynamics of unrequited love as we follow the relationship of an oddly codependent pair.
Direction: Luca Tóth
Production: Sacrebleu Productions – Ron Dyens, Boddah – Péter Benjámin Lukács, Tamás Beke
Script: Luca Tóth
Music: Csaba Kalotás
Hungary, France 0:19:35 . 2019
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