Belgium, 2008, MINI DV, 5’ (Italian premiere)

Director: Louise-Marie Colon, Delphine Hermans, 12 Palestinian children
Actors: 12 Palestinian children (voices)
Editing: Delphine Hermans
Production: CAMERA-ETC (Jean-Luc Slock)

Synopsis
Everyday Warda brings food to her grandmother. But one day a giant wall has been built on her way…

Biofilmography
Born in 1981, Delphine Hermans has studied animation cinema at the Animation Cinema Department of the National Superior School “La Cambre” in Bruxelles. Since 2006, she works at Camera-etc (ex Caméra Enfants Admis), a Belgian animation workshop where children, teenagers and adults come to make their own animation short with the help of professionals.

Spain, 2008, HD stereo, 17’

Director: Samuel Orti Marti
Editing: Francisco Xosé Rodríguez
Musics: Ramon Giner
Production: IB Cinema, Jaibo Films, Confliltivos Productions

Synopsis
In a trip for the Galician geography, two American teenagers have a good time to their way, without respecting anything that surround them. Their irrelevancy to the traditions of the area will take them to a small house of sausages managed by two elders where, much to their regret, they will be actively involved in these traditions.

Biofilmography
Sam began his professional career in the field of the animation with Paul Llorensa at the end of ’90, working on very different projects such as TV series (“Doc Franky”, “Tickets”, “Capelito”…), shorts (“El enigma del chico croqueta”), advertisements and personal projects such as “Encarna”, “Hermetico” and “Semantica”.

Finland, 2009, Digital Betacam, 8’55’’ (Italian premiere)

Director: Milla Nybondas
Actors: Carl Alm, Simon Hager, Oskar Poysti, Daniela Franzel, Ragni Gronblom, Sophia Karlsson
Editing: Milla Nybondas
Musics: Frederic Chopin, Matti Strahlendorf
Production: Milla Nybondas,Turku Arts Academy / Eija Saarinen

Synopsis
After many years of travelling, Adrian arrives to dad’s birthday dinner. The family welcomes Adrian but pretend not to notice the tattoos he has got in his face during his travel. All family members draw electric plugs from their backs and plug them to points. A lamp lights for everyone in the ceiling chandelier, except for Adrian, who’s lamp twinkles. The confused family stares at him and Adrian feels like an outsider. The family gets even more confused when Adrian gives a weird sculpture to dad as a birthday gift. During the dinner Adrian escapes inside the sculpture. In the world of the sculpture he meets his dad as a tree being, who wipes off Adrian’s tattoos and gives him an adapter to his electric plug. Back at the birthday dinner table Adrian puts the adapter between the plug and the point and his lamp lights. He gets in contact with his family again, but loses something of himself in return.

Biofilmography
Milla Nybondas (1982) graduated in february 2009 from the animation department in Turku Arts Academy. Her earlier animations are The Elastic Barber (2005) and The Difficult Reflection (2009) in co-operation with Kristina Laine. The Unplugged Son (2009) is her graduation work.