Animation Shorts

Spirit of the Drowning Girls (China)

Norwegian Premiere

Directed by Runze Cao

The ghost story is inspired by a letter of the famous ancient Chinese poet / scholar Dongpo Su (1037-1101). A young Kongfu master falls into the trap of an evil old spirit who enslaves dead little girls drowned by their own parents.

616 (Mexico)

Norwegian Premiere

Directed by Hiram G. Rodriguez

A boy has a zombie in the basement, and he feeds it … for some reason!

Bellzebub (Spain)

Norwegian Premiere

Directed by Cesar Diaz Melendez, Isabel de la Torre

Who lives in the hermitage of the hill?

Division Series (South Korea)

Norwegian Premiere

Directed by Ho Kwon Kim

A Thirty-something couple attends a new friends dinner party where social anxiety gets the better of them.

Savage Death Valley (Netherlands)

Norwegian Premiere

Directed by Waldemar Schuur

Two cavewomen try to survive in a savage world where gargantuan beasts rule. Will they fight their way through in this prehistoric fantasy adventure?

Too Late (Canada)

World Premiere

Directed by Roy Stein

Deep into the small hours of the night, drenched in black coffee and paperwork, a lonely office worker’s sanity starts to slip away.

Rain (Poland)

Oslo Premiere

Directed by Piotr Milczarek

The Rain is a simple animated film on collective consciousness.

Malakout (Iran)

Norwegian Premiere

Directed by Farnoosh Abedi

Music was his passion… Love was his masterpiece …

Second to None (Ireland)

Norwegian Premiere

Directed by Vincent Gallagher’

Frederick Butterfield has always been runner up to his twin brother Herman. When Herman becomes the world’s oldest man with a mere minute gap between them, Frederick finally sees an opportunity to be first place.

The Haunted Swordsman (USA)

Norwegian Premiere

Directed by Kevin McTurk

In this handcrafted epic puppet film set in a world of demons and ghosts, a lone samurai and his odd companion, a cursed severed head, seek vengeance in a haunted world.