Films in official competition at the SPARK ANIMATION 2021.

Several patients are waiting in a doctor’s office to hear test results regarding their remaining lifetimes. In most cases, the allotted time is not as long as they had hoped for.

One Left

The tree is still standing. Roots enclosing the past. Branches reaching out for the future in the border region. A film about the reunification after World War I.

Reunify

Tara is being guided to defuse a bomb in a school, which leads her into a surrealistic situation she has to escape from.

Cut It Out

In a world where single use waste still overrules the world, one aluminum bottle steps in, determined to defeat all single waste and get rid of it once and for all.

Plastic Punches

On a beach at twilight's dawn, a little girl meticulously builds up an ecosystem. She intends to make her little world perfect. But soon, the tide is coming in ...

Astralium

Small creatures are wandering through the forest looking for food when one of them discovers strange remains of civilization...

Electric Sky

Munzuk and his fourteen-year-old daughter Mine are two Mongols from the Altaï peaks. They regularly suffer the attacks of wolves who gradually decimate their flock. When the small family experiences the ultimate attack of the wolves, Mine will be separated from his father and confronted to a divine entity that will change her vision of nature.

Altaï

Noée, a 9 years old girl, just joined her mother who started living on the island of Benac’h, in Britanny, where she works as a waitress. Soon Noée discovers that all the children on the island all know each other very well and live an easy life where money is no problem. They also love to sail. Noée would love to learn that too! But her mother doesn’t have enough money to pay for the classes…

Mussels & Fries

In 1977, in a frantic London on the eve of Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, Ralph, punk, anarchist and in love, gets it into his head to steal the Crown of England for the beautiful Wendy, whatever the cost. After all, is there a better proof of love than the symbol of this monarchy they dream of overthrowing?

London's Burning

In a haunted house, the ghost Gerald and his silent tenant, a self-propelled armor named Bob, they spend their quiet "nonlife", between chess games and ghost rants. One day their routine is interrupted by a thug who sneaks into their home by tagging the walls with his cans and destroying anything comes to range. Gerald then decides to scare the hooligan..

Haunted

This eponymous "female portrait" is made of social expectations, stereotypes and cultural constructs. The protagonist must continuously reject the roles imposed on her and adjust to the views of others. Finally, the woman decides to liberate herself from the surrounding limitations. Will she manage to escape? This animated interpretation of a poem by Wisława Szymborska, a Nobel Prize Laureate, was painted using the palette of red shades, such as the colour of her lipstick, rose petals or blood drops. The feelings and emotions of the character are complemented by the depictions of nature, while deep colours and intensifying music create the atmosphere of tension and unease.

Portrait of a woman

An awkward young moth going through puberty must control his attraction towards lamps but finds it difficult when his life becomes a health class PSA

Mothboy

Madera, a lonesome woman, lives a quiet existence in a small apartment. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and her problems are physically materialized in the form of a cube that appears in her world.

Hexed

*下校（Gekou): Jap. word for "Coming home from school" Under the influence of Covid-19, people have disappeared from the city. The everyday life of the past has changed into an extraordinary life. However, it is also true that we can now see parts of the world that we could not see in the past. Gekou is a work that depicts the extraordinary in the ordinary. I always take the same route home. However, when I take a detour for a trivial reason, I am always stimulated by new discoveries and realizations. Just by walking down a different street, the mundane daily life shifts and a different world appears. The boundary between the two is very delicate, and what is extraordinary now may one day become ordinary. And vice versa, of course. I tried to capture this sense of boundary coming and going in this work.

Gekou (下校)

We follow Ernst, a postcard character, on his way through the diverse world of postcards and his bizarre journey to himself. Will he find happiness?

Avant Card

Marcel, an old dabbler scarecrow, sees his homely life turned upside down by the arrival of the hardworking scarecrow Léon, a new neighbour unwilling to laze about...

A Crow to Pluck (Prise de Bec)

An adaptation of a classic Polish folktale, rich in history, culture and magic told with an epic cinematic lens and stunning animation puppetry!

Wawel Dragon

The plague rains from the sun instead of the sunlight, we are trapped and there is no refuge…

Balzan Band 'Ain't Our Fault'

With bathing suit season just around the corner, Steve needs to put his sweet-tooth for cookies in check! But when an ambitious Cookie Scout darkens his doorway, dead-set on the sale, it becomes the ultimate battle of the bulge!

The Cookie Cutter

One day, the father recalls the passion of his childhood, which he had to leave. Nostalgia gives him the idea of a Christmas present for his son. And the game comes back.

Comeback

OUTSIDER, a 66 second visual art, was created by year two students of the University of Bournemouth, UK. We would like to thank our teacher Prof./Dr. Paula Callus for her guidance and for always having confidence in us.Synopsis:In a presurizing world where Ed wants to live more freely, thus ending up being ostracized by society. One day, whilst walking in line to work, Ed hears a sound, turns around, and sees a hole in his own shadow; revealing a mystical world below. Ed embraces the difference, and decides to jump into the unknown. Director Biography -&nbsp;Charlotte Ying Scott Charlotte Ying Scott is a English rose.17th Sep 2018 - July 2021 Student of the Bournemouth University with unconditional offer. Charlotte finished her BA computer animation courses with the First Class Honours.Social commitment: Students leader; Vice Chairman of the (students) Animation Society.Oct. 2021 1st Job offered: Animator at the Moving Picture Company.She also speaks fluent mandarin Chinese.Both of her first oil painting REMEMBER* in 2017 and her first DIY animation SURVILLANCE** in 2018 were shortlisted by the Royal Academy of Arts.Ref.*REMEMBER on the Royal Academy of Arts online exhibition:https://www.flickr.com/photos/royalacademy/35221032286/in/album-72157684967321605/**SURVEILLANCE: https://filmfreeway.com/projects/1489651

Outsider

The doll was the only companion of Mr. rabbit's lonely nights which turned his chance of finding true love into a disaster.

Mr. Rabbit's Doll

Covid-19 has shuttered theaters everywhere. We made this short film as an ode to the power of the theater, and the lifetime of memories that stay with us after every performance. This is a heartwarming story about a boy Takuto and his family. While helping his family for packing, Takuto found a pair of mysterious opera glasses from a piled-up cardboard box which turns out to be his grandma’s relic. The magical opera glasses named ‘Gyoro’ suddenly came to life when Takuto touched it. Gyoro brings back happy memories to grandpa and mom of going to theaters with grandma. With Gyoro, Takuto gradually becomes fascinated by the world of theater.

Gyoro Goes to the Theatre

Based on a children's book of the same name, Wylder is a story about a Boy, his Dad and the great outdoors.

Wylder

Votaing people for anilliterate and ignorant person who destroys the country and indostry only by force and people inevitably turn around and do not know what to do.

Under Siege by a Finger

Refugium is a experimental Skatevideo combining the Art of Skateboarding with Animation and Visual Effects. Skateboarding as an escape from everyday life, stress and fear into a „urban Neverland“ - a surrealist world where you can still be a child. But also a world of ambivalent feelings – not everything is always play and fun, but also hard work, despair and frustration.

Refugium

Jerusalem in 1938 is a divided city. At the "cinema Rex", a Jewish boy and an Arab girl will form a soulful friendship based on one mutual language - the language of cinema.

Cinema Rex

The shamans are considered in Korean society that they are extraordinary as they bridge the gap between the gods and humans with their psychic talents.The shamans are not situated in both sides. They are not ordinary people as well as they are not gods. They usually feel lonely and confused at the same time because they feel distance from both the spirits and ordinary people.

A Sip of Water

Traveling in the city of Beirut, a small fire particle finds its way into a middle aged man’s home, where upon its entry, the reality of this man shifts from seemingly-normal, to a never-ending nightmare.

Let's Go Home (رماد)

Eviah, a young and timid kid on the brink of puberty and his best friend sneak into the Black slide, the most terrifying ride in Aqua Fun. There Eviah will gain insight to prepare him for events about to unfold at home.

Black Slide

100 years in the future, the Earth is tipped into a hostile new ice-age. Robot siblings Vera and Sprocket have just lost their creator. As they struggle to process their grief, they are left to survive the perilous world alone. Can they learn to work together weather the oncoming storm?

Build Me Up

Fetch is a heart-on-its-sleeve animated dramedy about a dog and his human, working together as the only maintenance crew aboard a colossal space station. They fill their days cleaning vents, rewiring fuses, and throwing well-worn tennis balls down dimly lit-corridors in games of fetch. Overwhelmed by the scale of scope of the job, the man slides into depression, causing the station to malfunction catastrophically! When the human realizes he can’t reach the last escape pod in time, he throws his tennis ball towards it… His dog, following instinct, chases the ball into the pod and is propelled to safety, inadvertently leaving the human behind! But the dog’s devotion is too much, so he resolved to journey back across the universe to either save his human… or die along aside him.

Fetch

A young, indefatigable office worker deals with an overwhelming workload. After all, he faints and falls beside a pile of trash on the street and accidentally meets a lazy, alcoholic street child who is living in the pile of trash. They stare at each other. The film raises a question: which one exactly do we drink? Coffee or caffeine, whisky or alcohol?

Who the Fuck Are You (你誰)

In any war, there is always a soldier who has lost and the women who are waiting for him to return. The dreams these women weave carry them to the farthest seas. Knowing there is no return, they weave and weave to treat the wounds of war.

Up to the Sea, She Weaves a Dream

N. tries to communicate with a star. In this work, he is disturbed by the neighbours' cat, which he has to look after.

Mulm

Will, a boy who wants to become an inventor, loves to invent various toys for his old dog named Norman. One day, while introducing his new toys to Norman, he finds out that dogs are color blind. A science-lover boy decides to invent special glasses to present colors to his dog.

Colourful

People tend to hurt each other, leaving long lasting wounds, and this is no different amongst families.

Cradle

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