Tuesday 7 August

8:00 PM

Free admission.

Short animation films:
– From Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film
– Two Jordanian films

Negative Space
Max Porter, 5 min, in English, France, 2017
My dad taught me how to pack.

Cubed
En Ge Xue, 3 min, No dialogue, Singapore, 2017
A man with a Rubik’s cube as a head tries to connect with others, fails and tries again.

Reruns
Rosto, 13 min, in English, Netherlands/ France/ Belgium, 2017
Everything is different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.

Oh Mother! (O Matko!)
Paulina Ziolkowska, 12 min, No dialogue, Poland, 2017
Mother and son are changing places and roles constantly: once, the mother is an adult, sometimes son matures and takes care of suddenly childish mother. The arrangement works fine, until the boy decides to escape from under the skirt of the overprotective mother and start an independent life.

Spindrift
Selina Wagner, 11 min, No dialogue, UK, 2016
A girl, more eagle-like than human, must decide between a life on the wing and her humanity when a stranger arrives on the tide.

Pioneers (Les Pionniers de l’Univers)
Benjamin Bernon, Clémentine Courbin, Matthieu Guevel, Anthony Rege, Jérôme Vanbeneden, 5 min, in English, France, 2017
During the United States and Soviet Union space race, Macha and Vassily work secretly on a special project…

Ayny (My Second Eye)
Ahmad Saleh, 11 min, Short Animation, in Arabic with English subtitles, Jordan/ Palestine/ Germany, 2016
A cruel war has taken two brothers’ home. Their mother overprotects them, anxious her sons could come in danger if they leave the house. But the boys chase their dream to play a music instrument they’ve fallen in love with: a beautiful oud. They collect scrap metal to earn money and find out that their mother’s fears were justified. But as strong birds will always fly, the two boys become one to overcome their trauma.

The film has won the Gold Medal at the 2016 Student Academy Awards for Best Foreign Animation. It has competed for the Muhr Short Films Competition at Dubai International Film Festival, where it had its World Premiere.

The Pact
Hosam Omran, 3 min, No dialogue, Jordan/ Palestine, 2016
A short stop-motion animated Film Noir set in the 40’s portrays the interplay between love and violence. In this Noir, a Palestinian femme fatale is married to a British merchant, and she does not negotiate betrayal.