It seems that live at Over the Hill residence is boring, quiet and monotonous. But something different and exciting is up to happen. Three old women are about to have an amazing adventure to discover the secret that the residence is hiding.

Peter Baynton is an animator and film director, creator of the animation studio “Radish Pictures” settle in London. He studied architecture at Cambridge University and character animation at Central St. Martin. His short films “Over the Hill” and “Save our Bacon” have won awards in festivals around the world, included the Taipei Golden Horse, the McLaren at International Film Festival of Edinburgh, Cinanima in Portugal or Austin in EEUU. Between 2008 and 2013, he directed TV advertisements for Tandem Films, winner of an Oscar.
In addition, in collaboration with the New Yorker singer Benjamin Scheuer, Bayton created 4 animation films: “The Lion”, “Cookie-Tin Banjo”, “Weather The Storm” and “Cure”. The movies have been screened in festivals around the five continents and have received compliments as the Best Film Commissioned at Annecy Festival, two consecutive awards of the public for the best musical video at British Animation Awards and best music video at Bristol Festival.

“Not Mine” is a hypnotic and amazing short film. The author collected all kind of icons of pop culture to play with them. Made with 469 pictures taken from the Internet: From Rolling Stones logo, till Lego toys and Apple logo. The author chose a perfect soundtrack and used the perfect time length.

Guy Trefler realized the short film “Not Mine” as the graduation project in graphic design at HIT College of Israel. Currently he is a freelance designer in Tel Aviv with a strong inspiration in art pop, films and society.

An excited children choir in a hotel and their desperate director trying to control them. A musical persecution that experience with colors, forms and the illustration, while the soundtrack composed by Girts Biss its playing. 4 minutes full of sensorial explosion that convinced the jury of festivals as Animafest of Zagreb, the animation international festival of Hiroshima, the animation international festival of Londres or the Interfilm, 29 international short film festival of Berlin.

Edmunds Jansons was one of the founders of the Atom Arte film studio in 2001. He is a animation film director and graphic designer, but he is also knows as illustrator of children books. His filmography has been highly awarded. Among his most outstanding works, we can find films as “Little Bird’s diary”, “Springtime in Crom Street”, “How Shamma Bathed” or “International Father’s Day”.

Pic Pic tries to listen music in his gramophone, but the needle isn’t working. The pig will look for a crazy and stupid solution to his problem. That’s one of the episodes from the animated series of the adventures of the magic pig Pic Pic and the evil horse André.

Stéphane Aubier (1964) and Vincent Patar (1965), filmmakers and screenwriters, met at Cambre Art School of Brussels in 1985 where they created their mythic characters: Pic Pic and André. Thanks to their first short films they were already selected and awarded in some festivals as Annecy Festival or Anima Festival of Brussels in 1989. In 1995 the Pic Pic and André episodes were back and they produced several sequels. After this project, they took back an idea they had in the art school. It consisted in animated toys with stop-motion technique. “Panique au village” also gained a big popularity and reviews. In 2013 they both collaborated with Benjamin Renner to direct the awarded movie “Ernest and Celestine”. The feature film got three awards Magritte, included Best Movie and Best Director. It also was nominated for the Oscars in Best Animated Movie category.

Billy Collins, one of the most successful and best-selling poets in the United States, reads his poem “The Dead”, which is animated by Juan Delcan. The dead look at us in the most daily gestures. They observe us even when we close our eyes.

Juan Delcan was born in Madrid, she studied architecture and fine arts and started her career as a graphic designer and illustrator, but with her participation at Opera Soft, she explored the design of some video games that became cult. In the middle 90’s, she moved to the United Estates and directed Pittard Sullivan, Lee Hunt Associates (NY), V-12, Spontaneous, Nola Pictures Sullivan and Click 3X. Her illustrations called the attention of Bono, who ordered her the backstage animation of Vertigo Tour of U2.
Thanks to that she did animation projects for The Fashion Designers Council of America, De Beers, MAC Cosmetics, Sundance, Barnes & Noble and SpikeTV. Her documental, “AfriCOBRA” is an interesting historic tribute to artist collective of Chicago that created images to affirm the Afro-American community.
Juan also was responsible of the scenography for the presentation of the Grammys of U2.

At the end, everyone can contribute in its own way. A young stag wants to join the chorus, but the birds in his horns can’t sing. A tale about the necessity of being accepted and how the creativity can affront what’s homogeneous and considered “normal”.

Ned Wenlock is an animator, illustrator and designer from New Zeeland. He combines his commercial work with the creation of short films as “Spring Jam” realized with the producer Georgiana Plaister. This project won Best Movie at Show Me Shorts Festival in 2016 and was screened in more than 70 festivals around the world.

Wolf has a secret hobby. But a sassy goose discovers it and makes fun of him. Finally, both will leave their differences on a side to get along.

Julia Ocker is an animation director; designer and writer settle id Stuttgart. She was born in 1992 in Pforzheim, Germany, and grown up in Black Forrest. Between 2003 and 2005, she studied graphic design in Pforzheim and in El Cairo. And between 2006 and 2012, she did Animation at Filmakademie Baden – Württemberg.
Her movies cover a high range of topics, from her dark and scary drama “Kellerkind”, till her ingenious “Zebra”. In 2017, Ocker made a series of animated movies about animals called “Animaanimals”.

Octopus wants to bake a cake, a cake without chocolate. But its tentacles disagree and are going to rebel in order to change the recipe. But maybe, no one is going to expect what the final result is going to be.

Julia Ocker is an animation director; designer and writer settle id Stuttgart. She was born in 1992 in Pforzheim, Germany, and grown up in Black Forrest. Between 2003 and 2005, she studied graphic design in Pforzheim and in El Cairo. And between 2006 and 2012, she did Animation at Filmakademie Baden – Württemberg. Her movies cover a high range of topics, from her dark and scary drama “Kellerkind”, till her ingenious “Zebra”. In 2017, Ocker made a series of animated movies about animals called “Animaanimals”.

No more than 2 minutes of animation is what the author needs it to theorize about time and space relativity. A humor performance constructed with actions and reactions in an infinite cycle. Past, present and future are connected in the same space, without a clear start o an end. Neither a clear logic!
Things happen over and over again following the beat. A kind of a conceptual portrait replayed, accelerated and surrealist that incites to press play again in order to start the loop again.

CraveFX is a studio that has created this short film, with David Yoon and Joshua Tan as creative directors. The team composed of 12 artists that work in the Animation Company, graphic movement and visual effects of Singapur, presented the film at Pause Fest of Melbourne in 2016.

The memories of a love story, the distance and the despair of waiting… All these feeling are fragile, despite they endure in time and distance. They can break and hurt … But nothing is forever, as hope, they can be repaired.
This short film is part of the film “Liberté”, a poetic exercise made by thirteen young artists from large French animation schools that unite film and verse to remember the talent of Paul Éluard.

“Air Vif” is the latest film by Pierre Grille, a young French creator from the EMCA animation school. Before this, during his time at this art school, Grille has signed other short films such as “Cliquet”, “Tatie Tango” or “Étrez”.