You are what you eat. In a world where people start to look like the thing they eat the most of, you can take this quite literally. When a newcomer prefers different eating habits, the visible consequences turn the world upside down.
● Chenglin Xie
● 7΄
● USA, China
Welcome to the world of PLSTC, an undersea dystopia that submerges you in the disturbing reality of plastic pollution. Through a series of graphically confronting AI-generated and hand-composited images, this animated film confronts you with the devastating consequences of our habits on marine life and leaves you gasping for breath.
● Laen Sanches
● 2΄
● France
The sun rises happily over the horizon and is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly and pollute without shame. Their ideas and actions, usually very disrespectful to the planet, are putting in jeopardy the whole environment. What they do not realize is that whatever they do, it will affect them sooner or later. However the cosmos is not that patient…
● Irene Iborra
● 10’
● Spain
Chelar is upset. Upset with climate change, upset with the rules of her classmate’s games and upset with the absence of any real connection with nature. So Chelar decides to become a tree. What starts as a spontaneous act soon becomes a mind changing example for her friend Solvei and the adults around her.
● Agnes Maagaard
● 12΄
● Germany
Rainboy isn't a common gardener. He plants drops and grows clouds. While working he injures the vain sun. Revenge! The prognosis for the boy is bleak, but together with the rain clouds he manages to brighten her spirits again. A short film about stormy conflicts.
● Barbara Brunner
● 5’
● Switzerland
9-year-old Babs hates meat and loves summer holidays, for which she is preparing until her plans are upset by the arrival of her grandfather from America. She and her best friend think he's an outsider, until he gives his granddaughter a little piglet as a present for her birthday. Bubs will love the little animal unconditionally and they become inseparable friends.
● Mascha Halberstad
● 73’
● The Netherlands
In 2050, Earth has become a dry and desolate place. Fighter pilot Nova is forced to travel back in time to prevent a devastating environmental disaster.
● Maurice Trouwborst
● 86’
● The Netherlands
Summer 2031, 104°. Saadia, 16, is oriented in mechanical school although the car industry is in crisis and there are only a few electric cars in circulation. Her friends, Charly and Titi, throw a joke to cheer her up: what if the car of the future was a horse? Against all odds, Saadia trades her scooter for a massive workhorse which she brings back to the heart of her housing project...
● Juliette Gilot
● 17΄
● France