SUN 1 SEPT
The Muse ART GALLERY
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Animation Film Night


6 pm

I don’t want to be a hero.
Joan Paüls Vergés. 20 mins Spain Drama/Animation. U.
Guille, a 10-year-old boy, is diagnosed with cancer and has to go to the hospital. There he finds a cuddly toy and a secret journal that seem somewhat magical. Will they help him fight this disease?

SOMNI
SONJA ROHLEDER. 03 minutes. Germany. Animation. U.
The sun sets and the eyes are closing. Rocking from one green leaf to the next, the little monkey glides gently to sleep. Suddenly the world of dreams gets darker, more colorful and wild. Mysterious plants, creatures and shapes line the trajectory through the night. Somni is a cinematic lullaby.

LACK
PAWEL PREWENCKI. 10 minutes. Poland. Animation. 12A.
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.

REGULAR
NATA. METLUKH. 05 minutes. Animation. Ukraine/USA. 12.
The story is set in a graphic design world where fonts are the main characters. They have unique properties: Bold makes everything thicker, Italic tilts things, Monospace equalizes objects by width, etc. Fonts team up to build a garden, and the five boxing wizards jump in quickly to inspect their work. A negative space storm flushes everything away, but Regular comes and fixes the garden.

UNDER THE ENDLESS SKY
ALEXANDRA. DZHIGANSKAYA U. 04 minutes. Animation. Austria/Ukraine
Our memories play an important role in the construction of identity and self awareness.

WATER ASHES (CENIZAS DE AGUA)
KATI. EGELY Hungary. 03 minutes
Animation. / Music Video 12.
How is it possible to find happiness while seeing the world around us falling apart so quickly? A music video about the hope of the “climate change” generation.

Cafunè
Carlos F. de Vigo, Lorena Ares. 8 mins Spain 12 Animation.
Alma, a solitary refugee child, is thrust back into her traumatic past when her doll falls into the swimming pool, mirroring the shipwreck of the refugee boat where she was the lone survivor. Luna, her savior, steps in to help her overcome her trauma and rebuild her life.

JULES & JULIETTE
CHANTAL PETEN. ANIMATION. 7 mins. BELGIUM. U.
It's a beautiful summer day, Jules & Juliette are going to the beach.
They are carrying on their heads the dinghy with which they intend to sail.
It's already quite a deal! Of course, Jules is clumsy and doesn't fail to play the fool.
The beach is deserted. It's a bright day for the two friends, full of laughter and connivance

PINA
JEREMY. DEPUYDT. 23 minutes. Animation Belgium/France. 12A.
At the end of the 19th century, in a sicilian countryside village, the young Pina holds the power to regenerate the land. With each harvest, the village is prey to shameless mafia looting. Pina’s encounter with the mafia chief will plunge the hamlet into an era of starvation, endangering the destiny of the whole country.

CREASES (SURCOS)
CÉSAR. CÁRDENAS. 14 minutes. Ecuador. 12.
The Grandmothers of the Hidden Route unearth their past with memories and knowledge. Through their magical memories, they revive stories of traditions that have been lost over time, from ancestral recipes to the cure for bad air. We will remember the wisdom that our grandmothers carry and the importance of preserving our roots.
Documentary/Animation.

THE LEGEND OF GOLDHORN
LEA VUCKO. 13 minutes. Slovenia.
Possessed by greed a young hunter goes against the mythical power of nature, in hopes of winning back the heart of his beloved. Based on a Slovenian folk tale, with music made with traditional Slavic instruments is an analogy of human greed and the value of nature.
Animation 12A.

FALLIN’
Carlos Navarro. 10 mins. Spain Animation. U.
Awakening in a season not its own, the Winter Spirit must learn to discover beauty in the unfamiliar, confronting personal biases and embracing the ever-changing cycle

MIDDLE WATCH
JOHN. STEVENSON. 12 minutes. Czech Republic/UK 12. Animation.
A sailor must come to terms with the trauma of war and the mysteries of the deep, as he endures another shift on the Middle Watch.

WITCHFAIRY
CEDRIC. IGODT. 15 minutes. Animation. Belgium/Bulgaria. U.
Rosemary, a young fairy, leads a boring life at the fairytale castle. She’d rather be a witch so she can scream and get really messy. Her mother doesn’t allow that, so Rosemary takes her stuff and sets off to the mysterious witch forest.

Freudian Slippers
Kevin Pinel & Cy Henty. Animation / Comedy. 3 mins. London.12A.
BERN sings about his phobia of Slippers!

Zozimos Sings
Cy Henty & Kevin Pinel. Animation / Comedy. 1 min London. 15
‘Zozimos the Homunculus’ sings at a knees up in his local.

Perenne
Rubén Seca and Marc Algora Animation 3 mins. Italy 12
A Rose of Jericho that has never been flowered talking with her friend the Cactus about the injustice of her lack of decision power.

WILD TALE
ALINE QUERTAIN. ANIMATION. 16 mins. BELGIUM. U.
In the middle of a boreal forest, a lonely feline meets a small bird. These two beings that nature opposes surprise and attract each other. A relationship of friendship tinged with suspicion arises between them.

BEFORE DYING, THE WENDIGO’S SHADOW
Alvar Vielsa. 9 mins Spain. 12A. Animation
Set in the purest Japanese Spaghetti Western style, Before I Die is the story of Jack, a lone ranger who accepts a bank robbery, lone ranger who, by accepting a bank robbery, becomes embroiled in deceit, betrayal death. Fate becomes complicated for him when he comes in contact with a Wendigo or Indian demon that will change his life.

CIAO PESKAO
Guillermo González Fidalgo, Andrea García García. 6 mins Spain Animation. 12.
What does a pink cat do in a remote island? Well, starve to death, get stalked by creatures from the depths of the ocean and ride a boat five meters above the water, of course! And best of all: He does not even know he is not alone!

END?
David Calles García, Isabel Alcázar Pérez, Oscar Polo Aguilera. 7 min Spain animation. 15.
Jayden, a 28-year-old with anxiety and depression, contemplates suicide by jumping from his apartment. As he does so, a portal takes him to a void where an astral entity helps him realize he wants to live. Jayden returns safely, ready to continue living.

Dear Angela
José Luis Quirós, Paco Sáez. 8 min Spain. Animation. U.
The story of the short takes us to World War II and tells the moving story of Angela, whose world falls apart when her husband is called to fight and never returns. The story is an emotional exploration of love, loss and the power of memory.

FIERCE
Antoine de Bujadoux, Asghar Safar. 8 min Francia/Iran. Animation 12.
Franco’s dictatorship, Spain, 1945. Manolo, a famous bullfighter has to leave the country to find safety for his family. Before he leaves, he has one last fight to take up.

RED SNOW
Aurelia Gil Junco, Susana Olmedo Álvarez 5 mins Animation. 15.
A little girl and a vampire live in a village by the forest, where they pass time together. An incident and a memory from the girl?s past will challenge their relationship and the course of their lives forever.

The Boogey & The Witch
Jorge Turell. 5 mins Spain Animation 12.
Boogey, a kid that is always wearing costumes, and Mildred, a witch that desires to be pretty, they both go simultaneously inside another dimension where their obsessions will become their worst nightmare.

WAN
Victor Monigote. 13 mins Spain. Animation. 12A.
There is a Sunset in the forest. After a frantic chase, a fierce-looking hominid confronts an old man and his hyena-dog, with an unexpected result.

Go my way
Chelo Loureiro. 7 mins Spain Animation. U.
Elisa likes Martin, but Martin doesn’t seem to realise it. All the advice Elisa receives to make Martin fall in love with her is to change not only her appearance, but also who she really is. Will she give up being herself to get it? Will that be a good thing?

Kinderfilm
by Total Refusal| 11 min (Documentary, Animation). U.
It's a normal day in the game Grand Theft Auto V: the streets are full of cars, people go about their routines, barbecue in their gardens or sunbathe on the beach. And yet the world is marked by a grave absence: a missing future that has been cancelled for security reasons. Unable to name the blank space, protagonist Edgar follows the traces of what is missing in the code of his reality. He explores a beautiful, but deeply nightmarish normality.

The illustrated woman
Isabel Herguera. 8 mins12A. Animation.
Indian women. KIMUAK CATALOGUE

Sexuel Misery
Ingrid Heiderscheidt feminism, harassment (Animation/music video) 5 mins. Belgium 15
A hymn to women taking back control of urban areas.
Brussels. In some parts of the city, women are very familiar with a phenomenon which is as widespread here as
elsewhere: they attract attention, even if they do not want it, and then there are remarks, proposals, 'compliments' and finally insults.

Bouscueil
Thomy Laporte Experimental, archives, 8mm, animation 10 mins Canada 12
Bouscueil. Quebec word describing the chaotic piling up of ice floes from the effect of wind, tides or currents.

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