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