Dear Friends!
We express our special gratitude to all festival participants and spectators.
We thank our wonderful Jury for their work and for their difficult choice of the festival winners.
In total, almost 1,500 applications were submitted for the film selection.
All festival programs included 347 animated shorts from 63 Countries.
The festival is over, we are pleased to announce the results of the T-Short festival 2021.
PRIZES
Prizes awarded by the festival jury:
Grand Prix of the festival
SH_T HAPPENS
The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to absurd events, because... shit happens all the time.
Directors: Michaela Mihalyi, David Štumpf
Czech Republic, 2019
Best Storyline Film
A Heart of Gold
(Un Coeur d'Or)
Who wouldn't give their all for a child? A mother sees an opportunity to escape the hardships of a life of poverty by selling her organs to a sick, very rich, elderly neighbor. And she hands over her own flesh in exchange for gold. Little by little, necessity gives way to a craving for more gold.
Director: Simon FILLIOT
France, 2020
Best Experimental Animation
Serial Parallels
This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.
Director: Max Hattler
Hong Kong, 2019
Best Student Film
Space
The most important thing in a relationship is space.
Director: Zhong Xian
United Kingdom, 2020
Best Design
Shift Simmers Slips
"Shift Simmers Slips" is massively inspired by and freely adapted from Luigi Serafini's "Codex Seraphinianus", an illustrated encyclopedia created between 1976 and 1978.
My film represents a small fragmentary collage of some of his created worlds, lifeforms and activities.
Director: Lars Nagler
Germany, 2021
Special Jury Prize
SYMBIOSIS
(Symbiose)
After a failed experiment, a scientist finds himself sharing his body with a hundred people and seeks to regain his individuality.
Director: Paul Raillard
France, 2019
The Prize awarded by the festival spectators:
Audience Choice Award
Wheel of Life
(Točak života)
This movie is dedicated to all the cyclical processes of the universe and human beings being a part of the same oneness. The snake is eating her tail. She is consuming and regenerating herself as life does.
Director: Tamara Maksimović
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2021
Prizes awarded by T-Short:
Best Musical Motive
El Mago Georges
We aren’t only created with free will, but also with responsibility. The responsibility to listen to our gut feelings, follow our intuition, the wise part of us. According to the old definition, a magician is a wise person. So we can all be magicians if we are brave enough.
Director: Katalin Egely
Hungary, 2020
Best Film about Human
Soulpipe
(Hingetoru)
“Soulpipe” is a futuristic tale about the material world. The film tells a story of a clerk who is responsible for putting objects coming from a pipe onto a shelf. The clerk is used to his routine and happy with his work in a white box. He has no desire for a better life or questions about his mission or existence. Until one day a stranger knocks on his door. He has something that the clerk does not. It's something that turns the clerk's beliefs on their head.
Directors: Mari-Leen Üksküla-Eomois, Jelizaveta Mušnikova, Meeri-Ann Ostrov, Anna Semjonova
Estonia, 2019
T-Short Special Award
Beginning of the light
(Начало света)
The story is based on a tale about the creation of sun and moon.
The world is in twilight. There is no light and no shadow. The twins, brother and sister, grow a tree and one day the first leaf appears.
Director: Anastasia Melikhova
Russian Federation, 2020
Diplomas
Jury Diplomas:
Black Snot& Golden Squares
A little something for worried souls.
Director: Irina Rubina
Germany, 2020
For original visual solution
Beginning of the light
(Начало света)
The story is based on a tale about the creation of sun and moon.
The world is in twilight. There is no light and no shadow. The twins, brother and sister, grow a tree and one day the first leaf appears.
Director: Anastasia Melikhova
Russian Federation, 2020
For innovative and beautiful vision of the eternal theme
Winner
Art attack made with love.
Director: Samuel Chovan
Slovakia, 2021
For an accurate and highly artistic representation of the essence
Duodrom
We all have two sides. But if even the tiniest scare splits someone into a timid skin on the one hand and an overconfident skeleton on the other, that person has a lot of work ahead to bring their characteristics back into harmony again.
Director: Basil Vogt
Switzerland, 2019
For wittiness and playfully easy solution of the question of knowing yourself
Mr.Carreaux
(M. Carreaux)
He is Mr. Carreaux. He walks towards you imagined, he sees you, Blanche. He sees you. And, from the depths of winter, and from the city, he writes you in truth, for you to exist. You're here, reading his words. He is here, writing to you. You want what he offers you: at the end of the day, you answer him. You and he, between your voices, begin to exist. Mr. Carreaux, it's your winter tale: the real experience of an imagined love.
"Once upon a time there was your long and round white night. Once upon a time there was a beginning."
Director: Marie-Hélène Turcotte
Canada, 2020
For the brave confession of the impossibility of looking into the soul of another creature
Wish Me Good Luck
An old man discovers that his wife is having an affair with a young guy. A chaotic chain of mistake and anger make the situation getting worse. And someone will get a great chance from some other’s misfortune. They wish good luck on their future, but it won’t last long.
Director: Young Chan Jeon
Republic of Korea
For the special manner of telling an ordinary detective
Edge
A call and response.
Director: Steven Subotnick
United States, 2019
For a haunting choral meditation
The Thaw
(El deshielo)
A woman plays with time.
The instant becomes present, wraps her up, and disappears, but not without leaving a trace.
As she fades into space, only the words remain. In each place she searches for herself, only to realize when she finds herself, that it is now a new mystery.
Directors: Lucía López, Laura Malagón, Florencia Usuki
Argentina, 2020
For the untold secrets of young women
Grain in the Air
(Du Grain Dans l'Air)
Du Grain Dans l’Air is a short animated movie created upon the homonym song composed by Jean-Louis Clot and played by Andrea Ernest Dias and Charles Bascou. The video travels through visuals experimentations regarding the five elements.
Directors: Pedro Pedrosa, Andrea Ernest Dias
Brazil, 2021
For the mystery of the story, the novelty of the eternal question of 5 elements, as the basis of the universe
T-Short Diplomas:
Butterfly & Mouse
(Пеперуда и мишка)
People often say: “This one has a lion’s heart, and that one – a rabbit’s”. Some hide lions in their chests, other ones – rabbits, yet others – mice. There are also those who wouldn’t dare face their inner spirit animal. What could happen to someone so very afraid of seeing what he carries within. A short jazzy film about the fears that obstruct man's way to himself and to others.
Director: Mira Yankova
Bulgaria, 2019
Gratitude to fears for helping in self-knowledge
Earth³
This man has one goal : to prove that the earth is flat. He embarks today on his homemade rocket. Will his mission be a failure, forcing him on a trip further out into space? The secret lies in Earth³.
The film is freely inspired by "Mad" Mike Hughes who died on February 22, 2020 in the crash of his homemade rocket.
Director: Antoine Morineau
France, 2020
For denying the fact that the earth is flat
Villa Fiori
We follow a waiter as he travels through an Italian restaurant as he flows from table to table we see that he is idolised by his customers but everything is not as it seems.
Director: Sebaldo
United Kingdom, 2021
For the story about the hard work of the waiters in rich colors
Journey
Journey is the story of a man, who daydreams entering the minds of people around him, stealing their dreams, desires and personal experience in order to fill his own, empty mind.
Director: Marek Jasaň
Slovakia, 2018
For an unusual philosophical view
The Tulip King
(Le Roi Tulipe)
Once upon a time in a forgotten kingdom, a humble King living alone with his housekeeper. One day, while he was walking in his vast garden, he discovered a new flower, a tulip.
Directors: Chloé Chapart, Agnès Dejean, Dorian Douaud, Flavien Duramé, Audrey Rioux, Alexis Rousseau
France, 2020
For a beautiful story about that there must be the poise in everything
You Are Not a Kiwi
It's more than just feathers or a number of fingers... Mr. Notakiwi wants to join the community. Is society ready to accept the other and his song..?
Director: Maria Saveleva
Estonia, 2020
Never commit a crime to be accepted into society
Yawati
Yawati (turtle in Quichua) is the story of a little girl named Waira who finds a turtle on a beach full of garbage. Waira with the help of his grandfather clean the beach so that the turtle can return to the sea.
Director: Lucía Espinoza
Ecuador, 2020
For a dramatic call to save the environment
Poise
(Suspensão)
A sad and restrained man lying on the bed in his empty room. Hesitates, ponder hypotheses in a cycle without deciding, stuck. In exhaustion all anguish equals. Another man is sitting at the window: he looks at him and to the street. Characters in broken situations. The key positions, the suspended sequences, are shown. The man almost decides - and they almost return, inside and out, to them and to the city, time and movement. Infinite dawn.
Director: Luis Soares
Portugal, 2020
For graphic design
