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 347 animated shorts from 63 Countries.

The festival is over, we are pleased to announce the results of the T-Short festival 2021.

PRIZES

 

Grand Prix of the festival

SH_T HAPPENS
(Czech Republic)

Directors: Michaela Mihalyi, David Štumpf

Best Storyline Film

A Heart of Gold
(Un Coeur d’Or)
(France)

Director: Simon FILLIOT

 

Best Experimental Animation

Serial Parallels
(Hong Kong)

Director: Max Hattler

 

Best Student Film

Space
(United Kingdom)

Director: Zhong Xian

 

Best Design

Shift Simmers Slips
(Germany)

Director: Lars Nagler

 

Special Jury Prize

SYMBIOSIS
(Symbiose)
(France)

Director: Paul Raillard

 

Audience Choice Award

Wheel of Life
(Točak života)
(Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Director: Tamara Maksimović

 

Best Musical Motive

El Mago Georges
(Hungary)

Director: Katalin Egely

 

Best Film about Human

Soulpipe
(Hingetoru)
(Estonia)

Directors: Mari-Leen Üksküla-Eomois, Jelizaveta Mušnikova, Meeri-Ann Ostrov, Anna Semjonova

 

T-Short Special Award

Beginning of the light
(Начало света)
(Russian Federation)

Director: Anastasia Melikhova

 

Diplomas

 

Black Snot& Golden Squares
(Germany)

for original visual solution

Director: Irina Rubina

 

Beginning of the light
(Начало света)
(Russian Federation)

for innovative and beautiful vision of the eternal theme

Director: Anastasia Melikhova

 

Winner
(Slovakia)

for an accurate and highly artistic representation of the essence

Director: Samuel Chovan

 

Duodrom
(Switzerland)

for wittiness and playfully easy solution of the question of knowing yourself

Director: Basil Vogt

 

Mr.Carreaux
(M. Carreaux)
(Canada)

for the brave confession of the impossibility of looking into the soul of another creature

Director: Marie-Hélène Turcotte

 

Wish Me Good Luck
(South Korea)

for the special manner of telling an ordinary detective

Director: Young Chan Jeon

Edge
(United States)

for a haunting choral meditation

Director: Steven Subotnick

 

The Thaw
(El deshielo)
(Argentina)

for the untold secrets of young women

Directors: Lucía López, Laura Malagón, Florencia Usuki

 

Grain in the Air
(Du Grain Dans l’Air)
(Brazil)

for the mystery of the story, the novelty of the eternal question of 5 elements, as the basis of the universe

Directors: Pedro Pedrosa, Andrea Ernest Dias

 

Butterfly & Mouse
(Пеперуда и мишка)
(Bulgaria)

gratitude to fears for helping in self-knowledge

Director: Mira Yankova

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Earth³
(France)

for denying the fact that the earth is flat

Director: Antoine Morineau

Villa Fiori
(United Kingdom)

for the story about the hard work of the waiters in rich colors

Director: Sebaldo

 

Journey
(Slovakia)

for an unusual philosophical view

Director: Marek Jasaň

 

The Tulip King
(Le Roi Tulipe)
(France)

for a beautiful story about that there must be the poise in everything

Directors: Chloé Chapart, Agnès Dejean, Dorian Douaud, Flavien Duramé, Audrey Rioux, Alexis Rousseau

You Are Not a Kiwi
(Estonia)

never commit a crime to be accepted into society

Director: Maria Saveleva

Yawati
(Ecuador)

for a dramatic call to save the environment

Director: Lucía Espinoza

 

Poise
(Suspensão)
(Portugal)

for graphic design

Director: Luis Soares