The film is about the existential journey of A Little Beetle. A Little Beetle’s attempt to escape from the sink has been unsuccessful, but the trouble that came in the form of water, will prove to be the beginning of a wonderful journey. Elene Sebiskveradze (elenesebo) is a freelance artist and filmmaker from Tbilisi, Georgia. Elene earned her bachelor’s degree from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, faculty of Architecture (2010-2014). Since 2015, she has been working in the animation field. She finished her master’s degree in Høgskulen i Volda (Volda University College) in Norway (2021-2023). “A Little Beetle Returns” (2023) is Elene Sebiskveradze's (elenesebo) master's degree graduation film project at HØGSKULEN I VOLDA (Volda University College) in Norway. "A Little Beetle Returns" (2023) received production grant from “Georgian National Film Center” (Georgia) and from "Fritt Ord" (Norway).

A Little Beetle Returns

A news crew investigates a mysterious anomaly reported by residents of a small Latvian village, but the more questions are asked, the less clear it all gets. Arturs Voblikovs is a London-based animation director from Latvia, specializing in Stop-Motion.

Anomaly

A girls' night. Under the city lights, fangs out, bitches will bite. Laure is a french stop-motion artist and animator. She works with light and texture to creates vibrant and colorful films, to lovingly celebrate chaotic, abrasive womanhoods. She studied Animated Cinema at ESAAT, France, where she also started to experiment with puppets and stop-motion animation. She left France to study in Volda University College, Norway and further explore her love for stop-motion filmmaking.

BITCH(ES)

Nature contains both the raging fire and the flowing waterfall. Inside a mysterious rainforest, lust takes shape between love and pain. Would you face your haunting desire? Renato José Duque is a brazilian animation artist born in São Paulo. His graduation film, “Ocean”, premiered in 2017 at Animafest Zagreb, and has also been exhibited at other festivals like Huesca International Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival and Havana Film Festival. He has worked as both animator and editor for several short films and series since. Recently, he got a Masters degree from the ReAnima scholarship programme, a joint course between LUCA School of Arts (Belgium), Aalto University (Finland) and Lusófona University (Portugal).

Cherry, Passion Fruit

Man meets woman. It's a tale as old as time. But she doesn't know, if it's a game to him, while it's an entire life for her. Amanda Drejer (1995) was born and raised in the country side of Fyn, Denmark. She lost her heart to Venezuela at 16, but has since rediscovered Scandinavia as an adult woman. Before identifying as a film-maker, she sees herself as an artist with a basis in painting and drawing the human figure and face. She captures the female experience with the world and is especially fascinated by perceptions of beauty and the feeling of ambivalence we may encounter in our relationships to other humans. Amanda recently completed a year-long stay at Nordiska Folkhögskolan in Kungälv, Sweden. She is now attending the bachelor in fine arts at KMD in Bergen, Norway.

He Was a Hungry Man

A throne room engulfed in roots and branches echoes a past of something grand and royal. The Prince has returned to his fathers kingdom, only to find it forsaken and hollowed with silence. As we follow him going deeper into the thickening forest-like hall, glimpses of his past are revealed, pushing him closer and closer to his breaking point.

Judgement

The lonely knight Angus is looking for love on the dating app "Tender". Daniela Pardiñas & Martine Samdal are two Volda University College graduates who decided to make their bachelorfilm together. With their similar work ethic and eye for detail, it was a match made in heaven! Daniela (24) from Slovakia and Martine (24) from Norway are both passionate about 2D handdrawn animation, and dream of doing similar projects like this one in the future!

Tender Is The Knight

Going back to my childhood memories of raising silkworms. The physical existence of human beings was erased, and only my “ghost” as an experiencer existed in my childhood bedroom. My existence in the past decomposed in the animism garden* of my childhood. My physical body felt tired in human society, and my cyber body/consciousness returned to the “classroom”, where the children worship silkworms and rejoice in their transformation — they are divine beings rather than any other manmade shapes. In the secret endless rituals, words from anthropocentric ideology are invading, and fading. Nevertheless, all the matter will be decomposed, as planetary changes, because in the end, the cosmos has it all. VoidSpecies Garden (Jingkun Qiao) is an illustrator, and animator based in Stockholm.

When all things come together and decompose.

A man in a suit and fedora is patiently waiting for a mysterious delivery. Suspense builds up as the story follows an unknown courier with a suitcase. What will happen when they meet?

Fedora

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