FILM TITLE: Home of the Heart
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: France
NOMINATIONS: Best Short Film, Best Animated Film, Jury Prize
WINNER: Best Animated Film 2023
LOGLINE: Omid is an Iranian immigrant who came to France with his family. One evening, in the street, he is attacked and stabbed in the heart. But Omid gets back up! At the hospital, the diagnosis is formal: he has no heart. Has he left it behind in Iran?
DIRECTOR: Sarah Saidan
WRITER: Sarah Saidan
PRODUCER: Camille Condemi, Jérôme Barthélemy, Daniel Sauvage
KEY CAST: Saeed Mirzaei
FILM TITLE: The World Within
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: France
NOMINATIONS: Best Short Film, Best Animated Film, Jury Prize, Best Director
WINNER: Best Animated Film 2022
LOGLINE: While preparing for her first exhibition, a young painter commits so passionately to her creations that she loses touch with reality and descends into hallucinatory chaos. Confined in a clinic, she progressively rebuilds herself through painting and the daily observation of a squirrel under her window.
DIRECTOR: Sandrine Stoïanov, Jean-Charles Finck
WRITER: Sandrine Stoïanov, Jean-Charles Finck
PRODUCER: Jérôme Barthélemy, Daniel Sauvage
ANIMATION 2D: Sandrine Stoïanov, Odile Comon, Valérie Schaefer, Rayane Raji, Marianne Lebel, Jean-Charles Finck
PAINTING: Sandrine Stoïanov, Zaza, Zyk, Émilie Mercier, Urs Häberli
COMPOSITING: Sandrine Stoïanov, Christelle Soutif, Marc Koenings