
International Shorts 2: Delicate Relationships
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Relationships between truth and reality, generations and genders, the feckless and the responsible, captured in a collection of tales that are, by turns, dark, humorous and mysterious.
Happy Ending
EunJu Ara Choi / UK / 2018 / 5 mins / Subtitled
With real testimony from a Korean prostitute, this beautiful painted animation explores what it is like to be the subject of other people’s pleasure.
Producers: Royal College of Art, EunJu Ara Choi
Virago
Kerli Kirch Schneider / Estonia / 2019 / 16 mins / Subtitled
In Virago village, where no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday, Tonu is about to turn forty.
Producer: Diana Mikita
Miss Chazelles
Thomas Vernay / France / 2019 / 22 mins / Subtitled
Clara and Marie are rivals. Clara is the first successor, while Marie won the Chazelles-sur-Lyon Prize. The tension rises between Clara’s friends and Marie’s family, but the girls are ambivalent.
Producer: Thomas Vernay
In Bloom
Maya Armon / UK / 2018 / 8 mins
A young generation prepares the old one for its tragic death.
Producer: Dorin Sella
After the Summer (Efter Sommeren)
Bjarke Underbjerg / Denmark / 2019 / 10 mins / Subtitled
‘After the Summer’ is the story of a woman’s longing for all the things that could have been.
Producer: Mads-August Grarup Hertz
Hush
Armağan Ballantyne / New Zealand / 2018 / 15 mins / Subtitled
Ava, a young woman, surprises her brother and friends when she suddenly turns up in her small home town with a secret.
Producer: Larisa Tiffin
The Hedgehog’s Dilemma (Le Dilemme du Porc-Épic)
Francesca Scalisi / Switzerland / 2019 / 12 mins / Subtitled
Jean (45) has been training his daughter to become a champion diver until, on the day of an important competition, an unexpected event changes their relationship forever.
Producer: Mark Olexa
Rain (Deszcz)
Piotr Milczarek / Poland / 2019 / 5 mins
A simple animated film about collective consciousness.
Producers: Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak