INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION BLOCK 3 - SEAF 2021
Saturday, November 13, 2021 9:00 PM EST | Run Time: 78 minutes

​Pulling out hair, dealing with rejection, going through the motions, murder in a kiddie pool, therapeutic drawing, a handful of buzzing flies, a reanimated dog, dripping hair, searching for identity, the fish keep dying, improv parking lot dancing, birds birds birds and releasing the inner wolf.
TRICHOTILLOMANIA!
Director - Kelly Schiesswohl (USA)
Time - 4:02
“TRICHOTILLOMANIA” tells the story of one girl’s Google-search-gone-wrong to find out why she can’t stop pulling out her hair.
Conversations with a Whale
Director - Anna Samo (Germany)
Time - 8:20
In this love letter to artists, their art and its audience, one filmmaker is confronted with rejection after rejection until at last a beautiful fig tree bears sweet fruits. “Conversations with a Whale” was created directly under the camera lens, using various analogue animation techinques.
You Are Here
Director - Dena Springer (USA)
Time - 1:46
You Are Here is an experimental animation that plays on the idea of an instructional video. Through a series of montages, the film breaks down ideas around success and identity between Eastern and Western perspectives.
Horacio
Director - Caroline Cherrier (France)
Time - 10:00
Guillaume kills Horacio “because he was shouting too loud.” At his trial, the vacuity of the motive disconcerts. During his 10 years in prison, Guillaume gradually forgets this story which had convinced no one. When he gets out, someone starts shouting again…
drawn undrew draw
Director - Angel Wu (Taiwan)
Time - 3:36
Therapy part, self-questioning, Q1: Why did you draw? Q2: How did you begin to draw? Q3: Why did you stop drawing? Q4: How did you go back to draw? Q5: Will you draw on? The film is about creativity through drawing. 
Poise (Suspensão)
Director - Luís Soares (Portugal)
Time - 7:00
A sad and restrained man lying on the bed in his empty room. Hesitates, ponder hypotheses in a cycle without deciding, stuck. In exhaustion all anguish equals. Another man is sitting at the window. Characters in broken situations. The key positions, the suspended sequences, are shown. The man almost decides - and they almost return, inside and out, to them and to the city, time and movement. Infinite dawn.
Love is Just a Death Away
Director - Bára Anna Stejskalová (Czech Republic)
Time - 11:30
A tender story about finding love even amid utter decay.
A Little Too Much
Director - Martina Scarpelli (USA)
Time - 3:40
In an imaginary space a woman let go of herself and overcome fearing her own greatness. She discovers her body, she embraces her emotions, and learns to own all the parts that make her HER.
Internal Monologue
Director - Pepita Sandwich (Argentina / USA)
Time - 2:39
A short film about late night self-talk, sleeping and dreaming in a country where you are considered to be an alien. It's a flow of thoughts about trying to rediscover identity. A stream of consciousness about oneness while living life in a second language.
Butterfly Jam
Director - Shih-Yen Huang (France)
Time - 6:19
A young woman describes her father and his relationship to his many pets that he never managed to take care of. The animals consistently die one after the other in a context of a family being torn apart.
Soft and White
Director - Gina Kamentsky (USA)
Time - 3:12
Her hair was soft and white as a puppy’s.
Auto Bodies
Director - Jeff Cravath (USA)
Time - 2:40
A fantasy of subversive playfulness: improvisational dancing in a time and place least likely to occur, in the heat of a parking altercation. The character's kinetic identity is showcased, as the body's form is transposed into color, rhythm, and shape, reflecting the score.
Sheep, Wolf and a Cup of Tea...
Director - Marion Lacourt (France)
Time - 12:11
At night, while family members indulge in curious rituals before sleeping, a child invokes a wolf from the bottom of a box hidden under his bed. Disturbing sheep then besiege the door of his bedroom....