SET III - SMELL

A mother and son navigate their lust and loneliness in the queerest of ways. Winner of the Cristal for Best Graduation Short at Annecy International Animation Festival, Best Graduation Short Award at Animafest Zagreb, and Golden Horseman for best National Animated Short at Filmfest Dresden. 

Daniel Sterlin-Altman (he/him) is a Canadian animation filmmaker based in Berlin. Specialising in stop-motion animation, Daniel is a storyteller with an eye for nuance and emotion. His work explores family, sexuality and identity through a range of camp, absurdity, comedy and realism. A Master's graduate of Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam, Daniel has directed several independent short films as well as commissioned works that have screened at festivals around the world. 

While asleep, a woman is dragged from her town by a huge black mass and taken to the meadow of a group of wild women. In the strangeness of the untamed, she'll find herself awake. 

Andrea Muñoz – Her main field of work and exploration resides in experimental animation and audiovisual languages. She worked as an animator in the short film “La Perra” directed by Carla Melo which had its international premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2023. In 2021 she received funding to direct her first animated short film “Cuerpo de esta sombra” which premiered at Tricky Women Tricky Realities. She worked as a Production Coordinator for DINAMITA ANIMACIÓN, and she is a member of Porosa Animación (artist collective focusing on the investigation, screening and production of experimental animation). She is part of the teaching group for the Diploma in Experimental Animation of Xavierian University.  

fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation. 

Sunčana Brkulj (1997) earned her MA in animation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Her student films have been selected for screenings at prestigious festivals in Annecy, Ottawa, Zagreb, Stuttgart, and elsewhere, winning several awards. After graduating, Sunčana undertook a residency at Open Workshop in Viborg, where she made her first professional film, Butterfly. 

In a regulated system, different figures live isolated from each other in their boxes. They draw, cut, fold and stack the paper boxes on top of each other. As the stacks get higher and higher and collapse, the figures find each other and discover life together. 

Aline Schoch was born in Lucerne in 1996. After attending the preparatory course at the Lucerne School of Art and Design, she studied animation at the same school. Since 2020 she works as a freelance animator and is part of the sound design collective Noisy Neighbours. 

Living a lonely life of isolation, a girl dreams of luxury and beauty. She fantasises about possessing the looks of her celebrity idol and and winning the heart of her unrequited love, an oblivious worker at her local takeaway. In a surreal, dreamlike turn of events, featuring a moth-like spirit, she discovers that perhaps she should have been more careful what she wished for. 

London based artist, Alice Bloomfield, embraces human emotion, sex and love through illustrated and animated works. Her linear, figurative style is reminiscent of manga with cool hues and rich compositions. Describing her art as “opulent, perturbing and sleazy”, she finds inspiration in tacky 70’s interiors and anything dark and mysterious. She has been signed as a Director to Black Dog Films since 2021 and worked on a number of projects with clients including Gucci, Rihanna, Marc Jacobs and Netflix. 

A feeling of emptiness, a restless mind and two pieces of land. What is born from the void that unites them? “Wildflower” is a poetic essay about the undesirable, the lack of control and duality that seeks to explore the different possibilities of interaction between human beings and the uncontrollable side of nature. 

Carina Pierro Corso is a visual artist, animator and director. She has a degree in Visual Arts from IA-UNICAMP* and did a master’s degree in Sound and Image with a specialization in animation at EA-UCP**. She is the director of the short film “tudo que fica na superfície morre” (2021), winner of the Prêmio Nacional da Animação in 2022, as “best student film". She also created the animation “please touch / please touch”, shown as an artistic installation at Panorama #22 and Porto Femme 2023. 

Two creatures meet on a tree. Their encounter goes deep down to the roots and beyond. 

Anne Breymann is an artist, animation filmmaker and stop motion puppet fabricator based in Berlin. She invents phantasmagoric miniature worlds, bringing them to life in animation, sculpture and diorama art. Her animated short films have been screened and awarded at numerous film festivals around the world. 

After a fatal accident, a greenhouse owner uses her husband's dead body to fertilize a new plant. 

Augusto Sinay and Matías Sinay are two brothers born in Argentina who have been writing, directing, and producing films and narrative art for over 10 years. Together, they have created short films, feature films, music videos, documentaries, podcasts, and animated series.