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Eagle Feather
USA | 1 hr 05 min Feature
Director / Writer /Animator: Pasquale, Steve Encell
Elizabeth, a young American Indian girl, and her single father as they journey into the wilderness early one morning to search for her first ceremonial eagle feather.
  Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Ireland/Canada/France/USA | 94min  History/Adventure
Director: Richard Lanni
Writer: Richard Lanni / Mike Stokey
Producer: Emily Cantrill / Laurent Rodon
Synopsis:  With World War I looming, a young Army private adopts a terrier and names his new friend Stubby. The two quickly find themselves in the trenches of France and on the path to history. French soldier Gaston Baptiste befriends the man and dog and accompanies them along their epic journey through harsh conditions and incredible acts of courage.
THE LAST FICTION
Iran | 100min Feature | Animation
Director/Writer: Ashkan Rahgozar
Producer: Ehsan Rasouluf
Synopsis: 
Based on classic Persian literature, The Shahnameh by Ferdowsi (The Book of Kings), the film follows an upstart ruler’s treacherous rise to the throne in ancient Persia, and a young hero who will save the kingdom and people from the darkness.,
  The Snow Queen: Mirrorlands
Russia | 1 hr 27 min Feature
Director: Alexey Tsitsilin, Robert Lence
Writer: Robert Lence, Vladimir Nikolaev, Andrey Korenkov, Alexey Tsitsilin, Alexey Zamysilov
Producer: Yuriy Moskvin, Vladimir Nikolae, Vadin Vereshagin, Pavel Stepanov, Boris Mashkovtsev
A powerful king finds a way to ban all the magic from the world - all the possessors of magic powers are now trapped in Mirrorlands. The only one who can stop him and keep the fairy-tale in our world is Gerda - as her own biggest power is not magic but her faith in kindness and friendship, she will be helped by trolls, pirates and even the Snow Queen herself.
Harvie and the Magic Museum
Czechoslovakia | 86min  Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Inna Evlannikova, Martin Kotík
Writer: Jesper Möller, Dan Harder, Miki Kirschner, Petr Nepovím
Producer: Martin Kotík
Synopsis:
A young boy and his companions embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the forgotten realms of a city's old puppet museum.
   2019 Epic ACG Fest Screening 50 animations from 15 countries in Mountain View, CA
 
 

 
 

 Short 

  All The World's A Stage
Germany | 1 min 30 sec Short / Animation
Director:Hannes Rall
Writer: Daniel Keith Jernigan
Producer: Hannes Rall / Daniel Keith Jernigan / Seah Hock Soon
Cast: Samuel West
Synopsis:
An animated adaptation of the famous Shakespeare poem "All The World's A Stage" narrated by the renowned Shakespeare actor and director Samuel West (Royal Shakespeare Company). Directed by
  Balance
Singapore | 3 min 38 sec Short / Animation /Action
Director / Producer: Raymond Limantara Sutisna
Writer: Raymond Limantara Sutisna; Liao Zhibin
"There isn't enough room for the both of us." Two painters battle out what space they have to paint in their own style.

  Billie
UK | 4 min Short / Family / Drama
Director / Writer: Maki Yoshikura
Synopsis:
Billie the dog's happy life comes to a sudden end when one morning her beloved owner doesn't wake up anymore. She is taken away to a place she does not recognise. She is sad and lonely until one day her life takes a new turn...
  Comfortable Position
Uzbekistan | 4 min 12 sec Animation / Documentary / Student
Director: "DRF Children Animation Studio"
Synopsis: When a person falls asleep, he immersed in another reality ,where anything can happen to him. He can fly above the ground in red slippers. Or he can be eaten by a green bear. Or he can see the blue house falling. And when a person wakes up, he can probably remember nothing. As if he did not exist all this time ... What do you feel when you are asleep?
  Dream Catcher (USA   Esperança
France | 5 min 26 sec Short / Animation
Director: Cécile ROUSSET, Jeanne PATURLE, Benjamin SERERO,
Writer: Benjamin SERERO, Cécile ROUSSET
Producer: Beppie Films
Synopsis:
Esperança, 15, has just arrived in France from Angola with her mother. At Amiens station, they don't know where to sleep and look for someone who can help them.
  Everything Must Go
USA | 2 min 27 sec Short / Animation / Student
Director / Writer: Lee Gallagher
Producer: Huda Razzak
Synopsis:
Conspiracy theorist and alien hunter Ian ends a day of fruitless searching with the discovery of a lifetime--a garage sale at the mysterious Area 51. All the proof he's ever needed exists, and it's priced to move! It's the best day of his life...until an unforeseen obstacle puts a dent in his plans.
  Fables of living water 
Mexico | 8 min Short Short︱Experimental
Director Edith Trujillo
In the vast, lonely space Pluto finds sudden company.)
  Flora
Germany | 4 min 17 sec Short / Experimental
Director / Writer / Producer: Chaerin Im
Cast: Bronwyn Malony, Katie Eikam
Synopsis:
Experimental animation about gender and sexuality, the awkwardness of division. Uncanny sculptures of vagina and penis are the main element.
  Floreana
France | 4 min 05 sec Short / Animation
Director:Louis Morton
Synopsis:
On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a look at the mechanics of this training facility and the creatures within.
   Grizzy and the Lemmings (France)   Hors Piste
France | 6 min 01 sec Short / Animation / Student
Director: Léo BRUNEL, Loris CAVALIER, Camille JALABERT, Oscar MALET
Producer:Julien DEPARIS
Synopsis:
The two best rescue workers of the region are ready for their new mission. Despite their professionalism and their determination, it will not go as planned..
  How and Why Don José Dissipated
Germany | 12 min 38 sec Short / Animation / Experimental
Director / Writer / Producer: Moshe Ben-Avraham
Cast: Don Jose, Dvora the Bee
  I’m Going Out for Cigarettes
France | 13 min 35 sec Short
Director: Osman CERFON
Animator: Capucine Latrasse, Remi Schaepman, Quentin Marcault, Valentin Stoll
Synopsis:
Jonathan, twelve years old, lives with his sister, his mother and also some men. They all have the same face and nest in closets, drawers, TV set…
  IInglitrompet Angel’s Trumpet
Germany | 2 min 26 sec Short / Animation
Director / Writer / Producer: Martinus Klemet
Synopsis:
Inspiration for the film came to me from the plant Angel’s Trumpet (Brugmansia). One of its many breeds can be pollinated solely by a very long billed hummingbird. Only this bird is able to reach the core of the blossom and drink the flower's nectar. It took millions of years of evolution to develop such cooperation between the bird and the plant. I was amazed by this interesting synergy and I played with the idea of imagining what could be the next step in the evolution of hummingbirds.
   Lilly Hits the Road
Canada | 4 min 51 sec Short / Animation
Director / Writer: The Bum Family
Producer: Xstine Cook
Synopsis:
Lilly and her new pet fluffle undertake an epic adventure after they are abducted by an alien.
   Marbles (USA)    Margo (USA)
   Miles Away
Switzerland | 3 min 30 sec Roadmovie / Animation
Director / Writer: Barbara Brunner
Producer: Franziska Meyer
Miles is a little boy whose best friend is a tree. Together they venture on a roadtrip and enjoy a perfect Summer day at the funfair.
  Mister Mirror Man
Mexico | 10 min Short / Animation / Drama
Director: MARA SOLER GUITIÁN
Writer: PABLO AZUELA SUÁREZ
Producer: CÉSAR MOHENO PLA
Synopsis:
A stubborn fish collector confronts his own limits in this maritime story.
   Neko No Hi (Cat Days) (Germany)   PigTails
USA | 2 min 58 sec Short / Animation / Children
Director / Writer: Caitlyn Chase
Producer: Josh Addessi & Bryan Ballinger
T A pig in a pet store tries everything to be adopted, but soon realizes he only needs to be himself to find his forever home.
  Planeman
USA | 5 min 19 sec Short / Animation
Director / Producer: Suzette Troche Stapp
Writer: Juana Stockham
Trailer parkers, evil cats, and a newfangled crime-fighting superhero, Planeman, who solemnly vows to defend all modes of transportation under his mighty wing. Remember wearing a seat belt and eating your vegetables is important kids, but not as important as defending all things vehicular
Play / Ground
Germany | 14 min 13 sec Short
Director / Writer / Producer: Hanna Sköld
Cast: Ramtin Parvaneh, Biggan Hjelt, Elvin Sköld Forsell
Synopsis:
With a mix of claymation and live action we enter the world of Love, who's 2 years old and struggles to get attention from his father and connect to his Granny. But Loves father has no time, to see him or to listen, since he's totally preoccupied with trying go get grandma out of bed.
  Polar Opposites
UK / Brazil | 3 min 45 sec Short
Director / Writer / Producer: Diana Wey
Edmund, a grumpy penguin, flees his colony to be by himself, but has to protect his iceberg from Otto, a friendly polar bear who wants company.

 

  Sophie
Germany | 4 min 42 sec Short
Director / Writer: Anna Cangellaris
Producer: California Institure of the Arts
Cast: Anna Cangellaris
Synopsis:
Sophie longs to be reborn while seeking to know her double. A party in the hills of Los Angeles offers a corporeal shift to her existence.
Starvation
Iran | 7 min 12 sec Short / Animation
Director / Writer / Producer: Zahra Rostampour
Cast: Hamed Pourkerman
Synopsis:
A hungry wolf gets stuck in stereotypes about being the big bad wolf of the story. She has to flee when everybody accuses her to violence and murder. She faces the danger of getting killed.
  Story Time (France)
  Synchronicity
Germany | 3 min 47 sec Short / Experimental
Director / Writer / Producer: Michelle Brand
Synopsis:
People come, people go - Yet everyone is moving in the same direction. We all are sharing something that we are unaware of, creating one big picture we are unable to see.
The film explores the idea of how everyone is connected in a way we may not realise. By sharing time, space and movement, we overlap and create a bigger picture.
  The Adventures of Zack & Molly
USA | 11 min Short
Director: Jim Toomey
Producer: Sara Beresford, Emily Davenport
Cast:
Synopsis:
Molly takes Zack to her deep ocean home in the Gulf of Mexico to show him its unique features and threats to its health.
  The Avant-Gardener
USA | 36 min 09 sec Short / Animation / Experimental / Music Video
Director: Lindsay Katt, Heather Matarazzo, Jeremiah Kipp, Carl Byrd
Writer: Lindsay Katt
Producer: Lindsay Katt, Daniel Madoff
Cast: Heather Matarazzo, Tom Datnow, Michael Hafftka, Lindsay Katt, Celisse Henderson
Synopsis: Distinguishing itself through innovative format, and raw emotion, this "FilmTrack" to Lindsay Katt's new Musical Record "The Avant-Gardener" is tackling new ground on the frontier of artistic visual  storytelling/Experimental Film.
Captured through the lens of ten interlocking musical vignettes,
(each produced in a different style of film making)
  The Beach Boy
Germany | 7 min 48 sec Short / Animation
Director / Writer: Hannes Rall
Producer: Hannes Rall, Seah Hock Soon
Synopsis:
A story of two star-crossed lovers in ancient Vietnam. Baeed on a traditional folk tale and adapted for animation in a style inspired by local Asian art styles.
  The Bestest Job (Australia)   The Moon’s Shadow
China | 4 min 50 sec Short
Director / Producer: Youtian Ye
Writer: Youtian Ye, Jing Fan
Animator: Ni Liu,Yujie Huang,Hao Liang
Cast: Zhe Zhang ,Weihan Fang,Yujie Huang,Yuhao Li,Yue Huang, Ying Ke,Xiaoai Fan
Synopsis: The Moon 's shadows is a poetic animation for his own alma mater. The whole film is carried out by the artist's personal feelings for his alma mater. He has constructed a special emotional and spiritual space, creating a campus scene of Zen and dense, grand, broad-minded, and refined. At the same time, the artist expressed his deep affection for Hu Mei in the lyrical way, breaking the rules, breaking the reality of life and the memory of human existence, creating many seemingly strange "strange" scenes,
   The Symphony of Triangle (USA)    Them
Germany | 15 min Short / Animation
Director / Writer /Animator: Robin Lochmann
Producer: Matthias Schwerbrook, Robin Lochmann
Cast: Ryan James, Yalin Özer
Synopsis:
In a forgotten village, where everyone is cut from the same cloth, a new, self-proclaimed leader arrives changing the local way of life. Dividing lines are carved out as the once unified society is torn and segregated. THEM is a cautionary tale of misguided ideologies, destructive leadership and of being an outsider. But most importantly, it is a film about celebrating what we have in common rather than what separates us.
  To the EAST
China | 6 min 47 sec Short / Animation
Director: Yali Zhang
Writer: Yali Zhang, Qing Yang
Producer: Zhengang Han
With the traditional Chinese art style, this animation was telling a story of a fishman’s day dream. After his daydream to the Buddhism world, he released his fish for kindness.
  Too Beautiful For This Planet - Ep. 2 - Ticket Studs
USA | 8 min 48 sec Short / Animation / TV
Director:Mike Smolev
Synopsis: Episode 2 of an animated comedy series centering on best friends Hunk Brickbody (a musclebound beefcake) and Grody Ogreman (the opposite of that), and their girlfriends, Candy Sweetheart and Summerspring Fallwinter, who all work together at the theme park in an Orlando-like city in a Florida-like state. Hunk and Grody, for whom sincerity is a strength and intelligence is not, work in the Haunted Doll Factory attraction; Candy and Summerspring - vastly smarter than their boyfriends (but that's not saying much) - co-manage one of the mobile ice-cream carts. In this episode, Hunk and Grody offer to find two tickets to the Haunted Doll Factory for a mother and her young daughter who learn they're all sold out.
  Tragic Magic
USA | 11 min 07 sec Short / Animation
Director / Writer: Geoffrey Clark
Cast: Steve Riley, Robert Claus, Marcus Freeman
Synopsis:
An elderly wizard and his impatient apprentice's day is disrupted when Death arrives. Will their combined magic skills be enough to defeat him?)
  Tutorial > SKIP?
USA | 3 min 41 sec Short / Animation / Student
Director: Thy Vo, Sydney Seekford, Ryan Imm,
Producer: Thy Vo
Synopsis:
A level-1 player barrels head first into the game, sword a-swinging. Will the tutorial guide be able to slow him down long enough to avoid certain doom?

 

 

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