Dear friends!

We announce the results of the T-Short Festival 2022.

Slightly more than 1600 animation works were submitted to the selection of the festival.

296 animation creations from 52 countries of the world took part in all programs of the festival.

 

PRIZES

 

Best of the Best

Lizuna Fair
(Japan)

Director: Sumito Sakakibara

 

Best Storyline Film

A Most Exquisite man
(Üks imeline mees)
(Estonia)

Director: Jonas Taul

 

Best Bizarre Animation

Vadim on a walk
(Вадим на прогулке)
(Russian Federation)

Director: Sasha Svirsky

 

Best Debut

How My Grandmother Became A Chair
(كيف تحولت جدتي الى كرسي)
(Lebanon)

Director: Nicolas Fattouh

 

Best Student Storyline Film

Silvering
(United Kingdom)

Director: Eilidh Nicoll

 

Best Student Bizarre Animation

The Odd Hour
(Hodina divná)
(Czech Republic)

Director: Michaela Duskova

 

Best Musical Motive

Clockwise
(Spain)

Director: Toni Mitjanit

 

Best Humorous Short

The Sausage Run
(Germany)

Director: Thomas Stellmach

 

Best Gripping Movie

Seen It!
(India)

Director: Adithi Krishnadas

 

Special Prize from Vita Valdmane
(Ceramic Master and Prize Creator)

Luna Llena
(Belgium)

Director: Isabel Garcia Moya

 

Special Prize from Marat Barsky
(T-Short Founder)

Sphere
(Poland)

Director: Nikodem Kłoś

 

DIPLOMAS

 

The Pattern
(Hungary)

Director: Péter Bogyó

for the unusual walk among the patterns of the vast archetypal world

 

Alleswasichberühre
(Switzerland)

Director: Marion Täschler

for the frank exploration of vulnerability and the need for love, which is hard to acknowledge

 

Pore
(Belgium)

Director: Clémence Pica Rogge

for courageously looking into the abyss of traumatic experience that raises barriers in relationships with others

 

When the pudding crashed
(Japan)

Director: Hiroki Kurasawa

for the elegant approach and the subtle sensitivity in describing the substantial changes in the simple children’s world

 

Hypno Tidoo
(Italy)

Directors: Arianna Gheller, Matteo Burani

for the excellent expression, the radiant re-creation of the fairy world of childhood and the bright long-lasting sensations that remain in the senses

 

Rubic’s cube
(Czech Republic)

Director: Ramanava Krystsina

for its simple but elegant, narrating complex and deep concepts

 

The blind writer
(France)

Director: Georges Sifianos

for a unique experience and Great idea

 

The Habit
(Привычка)
(Russian Federation)

Directors: Alexey Karaev, Alexander Rubtsov

for creative use of technique

 

Drawn undrew draw
(Taiwan)

Director: Angel Wu

for virtuosity and faith in drawing as the best way to communicate with the world  

        

 

Now Listen
(Poland)

Directors: KIJEK, ADAMSKI

for its powerful visual storytelling and its plasticity of movement, scale and gravity

 

A Bite of Bone
(Honekami)
(Japan)

Director: Honami Yano

for its well-written narration, lovely spatial transitions, and beautiful texture and color

 

Regular
(United States)

Director: Nata Metlukh

for its absurd humor, unusual timing and visual puns

 

Vampire
(United Kingdom)

Director: Zhong Xian

for its unusual editing, expressive timing, and collaged sound design

 

The Train Driver
(Germany)

Directors: Christian Wittmoser, Zuniel Kim

for the originality of the choice of topic and the desire to understand the inexplicable mysteries of life

 

Hope
(Latvia)

Director: Zane Oborenko

for beauty and organicity in the hope of the favor of the unknown – fate   

 

Factory
(Iran)

Director: Azar Mansoori

for accurately conveying a sad story

 

That is life
(C’est la vie)
(Poland)

Directors: Jacek Olejnik, Rafał Sankiewicz, Wojciech Sankiewicz, Bartosz Terlicki

for a serious attitude to the philosophy of life

 

Alexander Mosolov. Three Pieces
(Александр Мосолов. Три Пьески)
(Russian Federation)

Director: Natalia Ryss

for synchronization of motion with the sound

 

Bodies and Souls: Inertia
(Corps et Âmes: Inertie)
(France)

Director: Loqmane Bahri

for a beautifully told of mystical story

 

Life’s a Bitch
(Жизнь-паскуда)
(Russian Federation)

Director: Varya Yakovleva

for the realism of the story

 

 

Open Grave
(A Tumba Abierta)
(Spain)

Director: Valentin Morato Ribera, Fernando Campillo Bravo, Álvaro Ortega Ochoa de Ocariz

for the atmospheric picture of what is happening

 

The Tree Has Been Planted
(El Árbol ya Fue Plantado)
(Argentina)

Director: Irene Blei

for interesting musical story

 

When it comes from the Earth
(Si viene de la Tierra)
(Hungary)

Director: Katalin Egely

for a careful attitude to art and for an interesting look