Dear friends!
We express our special gratitude to all festival participants and spectators.
We thank our wonderful Jury for their work and for their difficult choice of the festival winners.
In total, almost 1,500 applications were submitted for the film selection.
All festival programs included 351 animated shorts.
The festival is over, we are pleased to announce the results of the T-Short festival 2023.
PRIZES
The Best Film of Festival
Dog Apartment
(Estonia)
Director: Priit Tender
The Best Storyline Film
Home of the heart
(France)
Director: Sarah Saidan
The Best Bizarre Animation
Sliver Cave
(China)
Director: Caibei Cai
The Best Debut
Tamgù
(Argentina, France)
Directors: Isabel Loyer, Luis Paris
The Best Student Storyline Film
there are two winner films in this category
Half Empty
(Poland)
Director: Katarzyna Orłowska
The Seine’s tears
(France)
Directors: Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Nicolas Mayeur, Etienne Moulin, Hadrien Pinot, Lisa Vicente, Philippine Singer, Alice Letailleur
The Best Student Bizarre Film
My Mother the Sea
(Estonia)
Director: Aspasia Kazeli
The Best Musical Motive
My Soul Walks with You
(Ireland)
Director: Paul O Donoghue
The Best Love Story
Oneluv
(Russian Federation)
Director: Varya Yakovleva
The Best Documentary Film
Holy Holocaust
(Israel)
Directors: Osi Wald, Noa Berman-Herzberg
DIPLOMAS
Til We Meet Again
(Estonia)
Director: Ülo Pikkov
for its inventive use of materials and sensitive portrayal of revisiting home
2009 January 19th
(United Kingdom)
Director: Liucija Vaisiunaite
for its unusual editing which collapses and rearranges time in a way that evokes a traumatic event
The Hour Coat
(United States)
Director: Amy Kravitz
for woolly hypnotic immersion in duration
Gilgamesh
(Iran)
Director: Hossein Moradizadeh
for unusual way to animate images
Green peas
(France)
Directors: Florentine Grelier, Francis Gavelle
for combination of poetry and sensuality
Night
(Palestine)
Director: Ahmad Saleh
for its pure storytelling, craftsmanship, and immersive environment
Whale’s song
(France)
Director: Adeline Faye
for its creative idea and the use of a poetic visual language
Pig
(Netherlands)
Director: Jorn Leeuwerink
for its simplicity and wit
Wind Whisperer
(Ecuador)
Director: Fernanda Caicedo
for the poetic impact and fusion of colors, textures, sound, light and shadow that saturate the senses
Black Reflection
(South Korea)
Director: Jaehyeon Kim
for the daring look into the abyss and therapeutic visualization of the dark matter in the psyche
Good Night
(South Korea)
Directors: Jung-seo Lee, Seo-bin Lee, Ji-yeon Yoon
for the skillful use of various techniques and excellent animation in a bright children’s film
Horse
(Estonia)
Director: Jass Kaselan
for its enigmatic universe, where sound is an actor of tension in its own right. For its surprising way of choosing and articulating scenes, reminiscent of writing with ideograms
Brother
(Germany)
Director: Marcus Grysczok
for its playful and inventive imagination, where the objects at hand change nature and become a support for the story
Love to death
(Taiwan)
Director: Yi-Xiang Lin
for the most terrible love story
Death at the bus stop
(Norway)
Director: Maja Kjellstad Aanonsen
for a visual material, how to understand that a person is not alive
Small Hours
(Ireland)
Directors: Marta Sniezek, Christian Spurling
for transmitting a relaxing atmosphere