4 minutes 7 seconds/2019/Israel/Colour/Digital
Directors // Shimon Engel & Ofer Winter
Producers // Dov Abramson & Beit Avi Chai
A young boy gets lost in a busy shopping mall, foreshadowing the story of his falling as a soldier in the Israel-Lebanon War of 1982.
10 minutes, 45 seconds/2019/China & USA/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer/Producer // Zhie Zhang
A delusional man lives alone in a small dark house, believing that he is the king of the world and his supremacy is secure. However, his sovereignty is shaken by the arrival of a stranger. Little by little, this intruder occupies his living space, forces him to face his inner fears, cowardice and inferiority. Eventually, he realizes the great king he conjured in his tiny kingdom, is nothing but a pitiful tramp to the rest of the world.
4 minutes, 41 seconds/2019/USA/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer/Producer // Emily Brundige
A giant girl (Charlyne Yi) feels out of scale in her colorful little town, only to realize she takes up just the right amount of space.
4 minutes, 25 seconds/2019/USA/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer // Polla Ilariya Kozino
Producers // Jean Ahn & Arealous Kendrick
The Ribbon is a beautiful short film about a little girl who wakes up in a magical world. Riddled in this little girl’s journey of beautiful scenery and enchanting creatures, a deeper significance lies behind what meets the eye. The Ribbon is not just a children’s film after all. Join us on a little girl’s journey to find out why!
9 minutes, 03 seconds/2019/UK/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer // Rory Waudby-Tolley & Diana Gradinaru
Producer // Becky Perryman
In 1999 a boy becomes obsessed with the Y2K bug; In the distant future a girl is learning to be a priest in a religion based upon the ‘artefacts’ left behind by the boy.
2 minutes, 20 seconds/2019/Netherlands/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer // Merel Hamers
Producer // Bart Maalderink
Cinema is an adventurous drama film about the grumpy adolescent sister Nora, who, as a babysitter of her enthusiastic brother Quinten, has to go to a children’s film. But if she is such a big disturber during the film with her cell phone that the cinema itself intervenes, she will have to make a choice between her brother and her cell phone.
4 minutes, 18 seconds/2019/UK/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer/Producer // PJ Wood
A peaceful mermaid is relaxing by herself when a viking comes along who just can’t take a hint.
1 minute, 45 seconds/2019/Switzerland/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer/Producer // Moritz Engi
How little birds eat their dinner these days.
2 minutes/2019/UK/Colour/Digital
Director/Writer/Producer // Robert Brown
Opposites attract but the path to true love is never plain sailing.
7 minutes, 01 second/2019/UK/Colour/Digital
Director // Laura Robinson
Producer // Gavin Halpin
As a storm descends, Fern runs back to Mum and Granda who are waiting for her on their houseboat – but when their rope breaks, they are hurled across the angry seas until the home washes ashore on the Far Isle. Unable to get their houseboat back on the water, Fern is defeated again. However, this time through a series of enchanting encounters on the Far Isle, Fern makes some new and unusual friends as her world view is (sometimes literally) turned upside down. Saying goodbye to her newfound friends, Fern returns home with a new appreciation of the wonder and beauty around her and realises that sometimes you can’t see what’s in front of you until you learn to look at the world from the perspective of others.
4 minutes, 05 seconds/2019/USA/Colour/Digital
Director // Mike McCraw
Writer // Ray Hedgpeth
Producer // Mike McCraw, Ray Hedgpeth
Boxer, Verve, Campbell and Herman teach Naomi Money that the Sun revolves around the Earth, foiling her quasi-evil plan, and schooling her about Ptolemy, Galileo and Copernicus in the process.
1 minute, 22 seconds/2019/UK/Colour/Digital
Director // Antoinette Marshall
When impulsive behaviour takes a hold of us, we may end up doing something we later regret. This mini short is a comedic take on impulsivity in a natural world setting.
| Date | Friday 20th of March 2020 |
| Time | 10:00 |
| Venue | St James’ Church |
| Duration | 60 minutes |
| Note | All seating is allocated at a first-come-first-served basis. This event is only open to Animation Dingle festival pass holders. |
