Short Film Competition 3
Rating: 13+
Jury and Filmmakers in Attendance
Bytowne Cinema
Bytowne Cinema
Saturday, September 26, 9:30 am
Arts Court Theatre
Action Bog | Winston Hacking | Canada | Clay | Animated Short
Time stretches like soft polymer; metamorphoses creep forward frame by frame, suspiciously slow.
Winston Hacking
Winston Hacking is a moving image artist who combines found footage, collage, compositing, and tactile animation. While his materials and techniques are deliberately economical, his finished pieces achieve a remarkable complexity by transforming the mundane into the sublime through creative re-contextualization.
Daughters of the Late Colonel | Elizabeth Hobbs | United Kingdom, Germany | Ink on paper, Pastel on paper | Animated Short
After the death of their ill-tempered and controlling father, two middle aged sisters try to find the courage to begin their lives anew.
Elizabeth Hobbs
Elizabeth Hobbs is an award winning animated filmmaker based in London, UK. Her films have travelled widely to international film festivals and won many awards. I’m OK was nominated for a BAFTA in 2019, and in 2022, The Debutante won 15 awards and was shortlisted for an Academy Award.
地動き山揺れる時 (When The Mountains Shook) | Daiyu Li | Japan | Pencil on paper | Student Animation
One day, a man as unshakable as a mountain fell because of a toothache.
Daiyu Li
Adgwa-Ata | Zsuzsanna Kreif | Hungary, France | 2D Computer | Animated Short
Abducted into a jungle tribe’s brutal initiation, three adolescent girls enter a divine dimension.
Zsuzsanna Kreif
Zsuzsanna Kreif is a freelance animation filmmaker based in Budapest, graduated from MOME. Her first film, co-directed with Bori Zétényi was Limbo-Limbo Travel, a French-Hungarian co-production, selected to 100+ festivals and received a dozen awards including the Oscar qualifying Silver Dragon from Krakow Film Festival. She directed the 13 episode animated comedy series Candide with Balázs Turai and Nándor Bera. She is currently developing a feature sci-fi animation, Dino Doom on Desert Planet. She has worked with international clients like FX Networks, TED-Ed, HBO, HULU. She’s especially interested in environmental and ecological topics.
Street Race | Christopher Rutledge & Daniel Rutledge | United States | 3D Computer | Animated Short
A meatheaded man is stopped next to an innocent baby in a stroller. A race follows.
Christopher Rutledge
Daniel Rutledge
Fisheye | Łukasz Rygał | Poland | 2D Computer, 3D Computer, Puppets, Animated Objects, Photogrammetry | Student Animation
A gas station attendant unexpectedly forms a bond with an ordinary fish.
Łukasz Rygał
Łukasz Rygał (born in 1997 in Częstochowa, Poland) is a visual artist, a graduate at the Faculty of Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He specializes in video and animation, as well as traditional drawing and painting techniques. By rejecting the hierarchy of content, his works quote and deconstruct motifs from popular culture, often referencing video games and cinema. In 2023, he spent a six-month scholarship at the EKAA Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn.
A$AP Rocky ‘Helicopter’ | Daniel Streit | United States | 3D Computer, Motion Capture, Volumetric Performance Capture, Gaussian Splats | Commissioned Animation
A$AP Rocky and his constituents acquire a helicopter while being chased down by a SWAT team.
Daniel Streit
Dan Streit is a film and animation director based in Los Angeles and founder of GRIN MACHINE.
Uka-uka | Henri Veermäe | Estonia | 3D Computer, Puppets | Animated Short
Battling boredom, a little boy gets trapped in the trunk of a car.
Henri Veermäe
Henri Veermäe is an Estonian animator and director specializing in stop-motion and 3D animation. His debut short film, Uka-Uka (2026), is currently on the festival circuit.
Overwatch 2 x Street Fighter 6 ‘Collaboration Trailer’ | Barry Kelly | United States | 2D Computer | Commissioned Animation
Take your fighting skills to the next level when the legendary characters from Street Fighter 6 square off in Overwatch 2.
Barry Kelly
Barry Jan Kelly is a nerd from Nebraska, who also happens to be an Emmy award-winning artist working in animation for the past 15 years. A director at Titmouse, his credits include Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures, Son of Zorn, The Venture Bros, and Star Trek: Lower Decks.
The End | Niki Lindroth von Bahr | Sweden, France, Denmark | Puppets | Animated Short
A tale of death and existence set in a large, international airport.
Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Niki Lindroth von Bahr, born 1984 in Stockholm, is an artist and filmmaker focused on stop motion animation. Niki’s films have been awarded at festivals worldwide, such as Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto and Sundance. Since its premiere in 2017, The Burden has received 85 awards, including Cristal for Best Short Film in Annecy, Best International Short Film in Toronto and Guldbaggen for Best Short Film 2018. In 2026 The Burden was on the list of the Best 100 short films ever made, put together by 250 European film critics. Niki is a member of The Oscar Academy. Parallel to her film and art projects, she has designed and made costumes for artists like Fever Ray and David Bowie. She also directed one chapter of the animated anthology The House (2022) for Netflix.