T-Short Festival 2022 Winners!

Dear friends!

We announce the results of the T-Short Festival 2022.

Slightly more than 1600 animation works were submitted to the selection of the festival.

296 animation creations from 52 countries of the world took part in all programs of the festival.

PRIZES

Best of the Best

Lizuna Fair (Japan)

Director: Sumito Sakakibara

Best Storyline Film

A Most Exquisite man (Üks imeline mees) (Estonia)

Director: Jonas Taul

Best Bizarre Animation

Vadim on a walk (Вадим на прогулке) (Russia)

Director: Sasha Svirsky

Best Debut

How My Grandmother Became A Chair (كيف تحولت جدتي الى كرسي) (Lebanon)

Director: Nicolas Fattouh

Best Student Storyline Film

Silvering (United Kingdom)

Director: Eilidh Nicoll

Best Student Bizarre Animation

The Odd Hour (Hodina divná) (Czech Republic)

Director: Michaela Duskova

Best Musical Motive

Clockwise (Spain)

Director: Toni Mitjanit

Best Humorous Short

The Sausage Run (Germany)

Director: Thomas Stellmach

Best Gripping Movie

Seen It! (India)

Director: Adithi Krishnadas

Special Prize from Vita Valdmane (Ceramic Master and Prize Creator) 

Luna Llena (Belgium)

Director: Isabel Garcia Moya 

Special Prize from Marat Barsky (T-Short Founder) 

Sphere (Poland)

Director: Nikodem Kłoś

 
JURY DIPLOMAS

The Pattern (Hungary)

Director: Péter Bogyó 

for the unusual walk among the patterns of the vast archetypal world

Alleswasichberühre (Switzerland)

Director: Marion Täschler  

for the frank exploration of vulnerability and the need for love, which is hard to acknowledge

Pore (Belgium)

Director: Clémence Pica Rogge 

for courageously looking into the abyss of traumatic experience that raises barriers in relationships with others

When the pudding crashed (Japan)

Director: Hiroki Kurasawa 

for the elegant approach and the subtle sensitivity in describing the substantial changes in the simple children's world

Hypno Tidoo (Italy)

Directors: Arianna Gheller, Matteo Burani 

for the excellent expression, the radiant re-creation of the fairy world of childhood and the bright long-lasting sensations that remain in the senses

Rubic's cube (Czech Republic)

Director: Ramanava Krystsina 

for its simple but elegant, narrating complex and deep concepts

The blind writer (France)

Director: Georges Sifianos 

for a unique experience and Great idea

The Habit (Привычка) (Russia)

Directors: Alexey Karaev, Alexander Rubtsov 

for creative use of technique

Drawn undrew draw (Taiwan)

Director: Angel Wu 

for virtuosity and faith in drawing as the best way to communicate with the world  

Now Listen (Poland)

Directors: KIJEK, ADAMSKI  

for its powerful visual storytelling and its plasticity of movement, scale and gravity

A Bite of Bone (Honekami) (Japan)

Director: Honami Yano 

for its well-written narration, lovely spatial transitions, and beautiful texture and color

Regular (USA)

Director: Nata Metlukh  

for its absurd humor, unusual timing and visual puns

Vampire (UK)

Director: Zhong Xian 

for its unusual editing, expressive timing, and collaged sound design

The Train Driver (Germany)

Directors: Christian Wittmoser, Zuniel Kim 

for the originality of the choice of topic and the desire to understand the inexplicable mysteries of life

Hope (Latvia)

Director: Zane Oborenko 

for beauty and organicity in the hope of the favor of the unknown - fate   

T-SHORT DIPLOMAS

Factory (Iran)

Director: Azar Mansoori  

for accurately conveying a sad story

That is life (C'est la vie) (Poland)

Directors: Jacek Olejnik, Rafał Sankiewicz, Wojciech Sankiewicz, Bartosz Terlicki 

for a serious attitude to the philosophy of life

Alexander Mosolov. Three Pieces (Александр Мосолов. Три Пьески) (Russia)

Director: Natalia Ryss  

for synchronization of motion with the sound

Bodies and Souls: Inertia (Corps et Âmes: Inertie) (France)

Director: Loqmane Bahri  

for a beautifully told of mystical story

Life’s a Bitch (Жизнь-паскуда) (Russia)

Director: Varya Yakovleva  

for the realism of the story

Open Grave (A Tumba Abierta) (Spain)

Director: Valentin Morato Ribera, Fernando Campillo Bravo, Álvaro Ortega Ochoa de Ocariz 

for the atmospheric picture of what is happening

The Tree Has Been Planted (El Árbol ya Fue Plantado) (Argentina)

Director: Irene Blei 

for interesting musical story

When it comes from the Earth (Si viene de la Tierra) (Hungary)

Director: Katalin Egely 

for a careful attitude to art and for an interesting look