Cinekid Festival (Amsterdam, Oct. 19-25) has selected 26 animated short films from 19 different countries for the 2019 Best International Animated Short Film Competition. Also, for the first time, the leading children’s media festival is expanding the international shorts program with the Best International Short Live-Action Film Competition — comprising nine promising new films from around the world.
All the international selected titles will have their Dutch premiere at Cinekid Festival, and will be presented in combined programs for different ages, or as preludes to the feature film screenings. Cinekid will also showcase the entire line-up of the animated shorts as a sneak preview at the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in the U.K., which takes place September 19-22.
A jury of three film professionals will award the filmmakers of the best shorts from both competitions with a Cinekid Lion Statue and a cash prize of €2,500 each. This year’s jury members are Kirsten Ruber, director of Go Short International Short Film Festival, Thomas Meyer-Hermann, founder of Film Bilder animation studio, and screenwriter and director Julia Thelin (Push It, Tweener).
Best International Animated Short Competition: Big Wolf & Little Wolf | Rémi Durin | Belgium, France Chess | Alexey Pochivalov | Russia Cloudy | Filip Diviak, Zuzana Čupová | Czech Republic Dad | Atle S Blakseth, Einar Dunsæd | Norway Echo | Borisa Simovic, Kosta Rakicevic | Serbia The Elephant’s Song | Lynn Tomlinson | United States Elsa and the Night | Jöns Mellgren | Sweden The Fox and the Bird | Sam Guillaume, Fred Guillaume | Switzerland Good Heart | Evgeniya Jirkova | Russia Heatwave | Fokion Xenos | Greece, United Kingdom Hedgehog | Morgane Mattard, Kaisa Pirttinen, Vaibhav Keswani, Jeanne Laureau, Colombine Majou, Jong-ha Yoon | France In the Woods | Salomé Bertolone Lopez, Maxime Dartois, Marjorie Grinda, Zoé Guillet, Alissa Mazouz, Rebecca Wahler | France The Kite | Martin Smatana | Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic The Last Day of Autumn | Marjolaine Perreten | France, Belgium, Switzerland Nest | Sonja Rohleder | Germany Overboard! | Filip Pošivač, Barbora Valecka | Czech Republic, Slovakia Partridge in a Bear Tree | Adam Bailey | United Kingdom Raccoon and the Light | Hanna Kim | United States Sam’s Dream | Nolwenn Roberts | France Saturday’s Apartment | Jeon Seungbae | South Korea Snail the Painter | Manuela Vladić-Maštruko, Manuela Vladić Maštruko | Croatia this side, other side | Lida Fazli | Iran A Tiger with No Stripes | Raul ‘Robin’ Morales Reyes | Switzerland, France Tree High | Martina Svojikova | Belgium The Wheat Keeper | Haitao Bai | China The Wiremen | Jessica Patterson | Ireland
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