2024 EACG Fest Animation Short Films
 
2024Epic ACG Fest Animations-Short
 
 

 

  A Brief Lunch Break
|China|3:03
Director: Traveling Frog
A child dreamed during his lunch break that he was blamed by his mother for his poor test scores, so he decided to work hard and study knowledge and martial arts. In the end, he, who was both good at literature and martial arts, had a contest with his mother. However, at the critical moment when he was about to defeat his mother, he was awakened by the alarm clock.
    A Pedaling Old Man
|China|4:42
Director: Zhiguo Bu
  A Thought
|United States|3:31
Director: Ryan Bode
While attempting to turn off the shower, a black circle is attacked by an intrusive blue dot.
    Before Heaven
|Iran|6:00
Director: Ahmad Heydarian
Children paintings are on the wall that the new owner of the house has made a decision to paint all of the walls.
  Black power is green power
|France| 1:00
Director: Etienne HUSSON
Haïku: “Raised fist, an isolated willow tree makes spring explode”

 

    Beyond The Gravity
|China|3:45
Director: Mingqi Yang
  Childhood Goose Dream
|China|4:45
Director: Wangying Hu
  Cohesion
|Poland| 5:05
Director: Sara Sawicka
A journey through the subconscious, the visions are surreal interpretations of hidden fears. The ego, fearing disintegration, tries to resist it.
  Contaminate
|China|4:30
Director: Yangling Zhang
The work takes "nuclear pollution" as its theme, and uses the first-person perspective to look at the lives of ordinary people under nuclear pollution. It tells the story of the protagonist's life in a polluted environment. At the end of the story, the protagonist wakes up from a dream and finds that it was a nightmare. This will strengthen people's awareness of environmental protection, and at the same time, it will help the public pay attention to the pollution of the environment in their daily lives.
  Dayfall
|Poland| 3:02
Director: Julia Szkup
Inert figures immersed in the dense depths of the ocean are waiting for the sun, which may bring them the long-awaited escape. A painting animation about fear and hope for better times that do not always come.
  Door Gods
|China|6:47

Director: Sun Lijun
The two door gods, the Chinese folk gods whoguard the door, are torn from the door after afarce over a leaf causes both sides to lose, and anew door god is affixed to the door
    Dream of Butterflies
|China|4:45
Director: Mingqi Yang
  DUST
|China|3:45
Director: Mingqi Yang
    Half Empty
|Poland| 4:52
Director: Katarzyna Orlowska
With hope to break a creative impasse, the woman pores over a blank piece of paper, drinking a half-empty glass of wine. The fear of failure haunts her at every step, taking the form of wine red. The animation created in ink is a metaphorical image of the heroine's inner experiences and her struggles with the lack of faith in her own abilities and achievements. THE SILVER BUNDLE O!PLA 2024
 

Hoang the Paper Boy (US)

    Junga the Dancing Yeti in Yeti, Set, Go!
|United States|24:00
Director: James R Alburger
When Junga, Groth, Heidi and friends play football on the mountain, they learn important lessons about fair play, forgiveness, making friends, dealing with bullying and more. As the locals prepare for the annual MFL (Mountain Football League) game, the bullying from other players becomes too much to handle for the children.
 

 Lack
|Poland| 10:45
Director: Pawel Prewencki
The film tells a story about struggling with pain and suffering. It touches on a very personal experience. It is a story of loneliness, anger and grief experienced by parents who lose a child. It is an intimate and emotional visualization of the world in which bereaved people live. It tells about a situation for which no one is prepared, and the 'catalogue' of reactions we have known up to that point becomes useless. THE BRONZE BUNDLE O!PLA 2024 

     The Historical Bolt
|Iran|1:15
Director: Milad Mohamadi
The Bolts are fighting with thunder and they need to be united to survive
  Letter from a stranger
|Iran|5:49
Director: Shima Markazi Omidvar
"Letter from a Strange" is a short 2D animation that explores the delicate interplay between two colleagues working in a large library.
    love bubbles
|Switzerland|7:34
Director: Marcel Hobi
Floating on a pink cloud as a couple is easy. It is much more difficult to cope with everyday life and the future together - an amusing relationship drama.
  Mercedes’ kitchen
|France| 8:34
Director: Inés Argueta, Melissa Troublé
Mercedes is a traditional Mexican cook, she learned cooking by watching her mother and grandmother. When she arrived to France, she wantedt to claim Mexican gastronomy and show this ancestral cuisine.
    Military Training
|China|1:30
Director: Yeming Chen

Metal Flower
|South Korea|9:54
Director: Seoyun Kim
One day, the robot making 'fake flowers' with metal encounters 'a real flower' for the first time.

     Mr. T
|France| 5:52
Director: Etienne HUSSON
A tea bag will suffer and then rebel against the dictatorship.
   My Number One
|United States| 4:59
Director: RosFiol
Two brothers fight over -- and within! -- a kiddy racing video game.
"My Number One" is about making peace with chaos while also learning how to play nice.A love letter to all the wonderful stuff that colors childhood
     No Way Forward, No Way Back
|Poland| 3:27
Director: Maciek Stepniewski
Landscapes loosing friends collage getting tinnitus synthesizers climate crisis generator the end. THE BRONZE BUNDLE O!PLA 2023
  Om Nom Nom...
|Japan| 3:16
Director: Minato Matsuda, Haruna Ueno, Tomoko Taiga
One day, a hungry dinosaur came across a weird jumping egg in the forest. He swallowed it, and then felt some strange rumblings in his tummy. Well, well, well.
     Whose Apple Is This
|China|2:06
Director: Jianwen Huang, Qingling Chang, Yujie Fu
  Perfect Me
|Poland| 2:16
Director: Sonia Mossoczy
A short story tackling the issue of eating disorders. As the main character gets smaller, her alter ego floating in a teacup grows.
     Rice and Chicken
|Poland| 1:35
Director: Kamil Wojcik & Cat Kaczmarek
get out of breath on the stairs again? fed up with your slim figure? puke when you look in the mirror? don’t have time for the gym? excellent! Turbo Chicken was created especially for you! filled with proteins, testosterone, lead, hatred and lust for murder, it tastes like a Silesian roulade! eat and grow! the rest of the leaflet is illegible. THE SILVER BUNDLE O!PLA 2024
  Sadness
|China|1:22
Director: Ruiyan Lei
    Safari Club
|Poland| 9:52
Director: Zuzanna Szyszak
"Safari Club" is a place where partygoers can cut loose, run wild and display animalistic behaviour. A girl gets ready to go out hunting and is about to have the wildest night-out of her life, in every sense of "wild". THE GOLDEN BUNDLE O!PLA 2024
  Shizhen Li
|China|6:36
Director: Guiru Fu
     .Seven Spider Myths (US)
  Smiling Wings
|China|1:29
Director: Peter Wu, Murphy Xie, Zoe Lv
  Star Fire
|China| 2:30
Director: ZhaoQiang Song
The love, hate, and enmity between a group of advanced life forms that profit from lower creatures in the vast galaxy.
  The clay comprehension’s
|France| 4:11
Director: Etienne HUSSON, Azul Paola MEZA
In a world of increasing pressure and fear, a woman becomes the form.
    The Corridor
|Iran|8:36
Director: Kourosh Mohammadi
A body that is completely disjointed is trying to put its pieces back together. On this path, it succeeds in creating a collage of itself.
  The Earth in the Tank
|China|3:00
Director: Ruiyan Lei
  The Grand Mother
|Poland| 10:00
Director: Julia Hazuka
The Great Spideress catches drops of sunlight on her web and collects them in a large jar. From one of these drops, she creates the first Man to raise him and teach him life. They are like Mother and Son to each other. When the Boy reaches adulthood and the jar is completely filled, the Spideress takes him to a secret cave where he has never been before. The story focuses on the relationship between the Mother and Child. Both grow to the point where their paths must part. THE BRONZE BUNDLE O!PLA 2024 AWARDED BY CHILDREN
  The painter of flags
|France| 4:24
Etienne HUSSON
The Painter of Flags helps the greatest leaders in the world so that he can “show their ideals high” until the day he realizes what they are really doing with them.
    The Pearl (lets-make-peace)
|Iran|6:00
Director: Abdollah Alimorad
Afandi and Pashandi are two neighbors that just can’t stand each other. When they’re not trying to sabotage each other’s plans, they’re usually plotting to get revenge. But when push comes to shove, they cast aside their differences and join forces to vanquish the dragon, fend off the wolves, and save the princess—you know, the usual
  The Splint
|Iran|5:27
Director: Mehdi Sedighi
A robotic truck driver, on a dirt road, is replacing old wooden power poles with new concrete ones when he hits two birds.
    The Three Gorges of Chinese Ink Painting
|China|2:28
Director: Yu Tao
  They Called Me a Good Girl
|UK| 5:05
Director: Agata di Masternak
Between what is warm, moist and pulsating, formed for a moment into cells, tissues and bones, and what is free from matter and eternal - there lies the secret of existence. Memories from a difficult childhood in Poland during the political transformation; childhood additionally burdened with a serious and incurable disease. SPECIAL MENTION O!PLA 2024
    Under the Water
|Poland| 1:00
Director: Julia Orlik-Buratynska
It is a short but very intense journey into the depths of the ocean. What we know well becomes something completely different. THE BRONZE BUNDLE O!PLA 2024
  Wait for Me in a Dream
|Poland| 14:56
Director: Natalia Durszewicz
Wait for me in a dream is a poetic story about an elderly married couple shown with the use of painterly animation. Isolated from the world and condemned to loneliness, Bronka and Zygfryd experience a slow defragmentation of their reality caused by the woman's illness and the adversities associated with it. On their final journey, they experience moments of regret, pain and even repulsion. However, for all their worth they try to remember the love that used to last between them. THE SILVER BUNDLE O!PLA 2024
    Water Jar
|China|3:01
Director: Leyang Zhang
This story is deeply rooted in the heart of a boy who lives in a small town. Although he loves rivers, there is no river flowing through his town. His surroundings are filled with square houses and square furniture, everything arranged in neat rectangles. However, one day, a crack forms in the lightbulb in his room, and light begins to spill out like water, slowly filling the room. Surprised, he rises from the floor, accidentally shatters the light, and is engulfed by the luminescent water, leading him into a new world he never knew existed.
         
 
 

 

 

@2024 Epic ACG Fest