25-28 April 2024
CAF 2022:
CARDIFF ANIMATION NIGHTS
Cardiff Animation Nights are free bimonthly screenings of great animation from around the world. We’ve been running them since 2014 – they’re where it all began! We started with an audience of a couple of dozen people (mostly our mates), and now Cardiff Animation Nights has been running for eight years, has 150+ regular attendees, and has given birth to an international animation festival.
Join us as we take things back to our roots with this special CAF22 launch edition of Cardiff Animation Nights. We’re taking over Depot, a warehouse in central Cardiff, home to bring you more space, more Cardiff Animation Nights friends, and street food! Meet other animation fans, meet filmmakers, meet us! Then settle in for an hour of the good stuff.
Mae Nosweithiau Animeiddio Caerdydd yn ddangosiadau am ddim bob deufis o animeiddiadau gwych o bedwar ban byd. Rydyn ni wedi bod yn eu rhedeg ers 2014 - dyma le dechreuodd y cyfan! Fe ddechreuon ni gyda chynulleidfa o ychydig ddwsinau o bobl (ein ffrindiau yn bennaf), a nawr mae Nosweithiau Animeiddio Caerdydd wedi bod yn rhedeg ers wyth mlynedd, gyda 150+ o fynychwyr rheolaidd, ac wedi rhoi genedigaeth i ŵyl animeiddio ryngwladol.
Ymunwch â ni wrth i ni ddychwelyd i'n gwreiddiau gyda'r rhifyn lansio arbennig CAF22 hwn o Nosweithiau Animeiddio Caerdydd. Dewch i gwrdd â chefnogwyr animeiddio eraill, gwneuthurwyr ffilm, a ni! Yna gwneud eich hun yn gysurus am awr o'r stwff da.
THE DIP
Dir. Simona Mehandzhieva | United Kingdom | 0:04:32
Where 'Paris is Burning' meets Hieronymous Bosch. A dip, a shablam, a death drop is when a dancer strikes a pose and dramatically falls on their back. The higher the fall, the spicier the dip.
MATTRICIDE
Dir. Gemma Rigg | United Kingdom | 0:02:40
A humorous stop motion thriller following one woman's fight with urban fly-tipping.
BRUNCH
Dir. Marnik Loysen | United Kingdom | 0:05:30
Brunch is a 2021 stop-motion animated comedy short film which looks at the generational disputes between millennials and baby boomers.
GODZALINA
Dir. Lucile Paras | France | 0:04:53
A young Parisian woman who's being harassed in the streets and a creature who can shrink her opponents by roaring join forces to deal with overly pervasive men...
HELMUT
Dir. Igor Kuzmic | Switzerland | 0:03:49
Being weightless can be a heavy burden, as Helmut knows. Every day, he makes sure there are enough pebbles in his boots that save him from drifting off into space. But sometimes it just won't work.
BYE, SUCKERS!
Dir. Catherine Garvey | United Kingdom | 0:02:33
Tired of her life, a young girl plans to leave Earth.
HENCH GIRL SUMMER
Dir. Beatriz Antunes | United Kingdom | 0:01:08
A body image obsessed teenager who recklessly works to achieve her summer body.
TO LOVE A LADYBUG
Dir. Mikael Trench | United States | 0:05:12
A dying cockroach in the alleyways of Paris reminisces of the time he fell in love with a ladybug and reflects on what that relationship means to him in his final moments.
ELEVATOR ALONE
Dir. Anastasia Papadopoulou | Greece | 0:03:38
Four people and the time they spend in an elevator. Inspired by everyday life and by the difference in people's behaviour when they are alone, in contrast to the socially acceptable behaviour that individuals adopt when in public space and especially in the confined and always awkward setting of an elevator.
KOYOTE KEVIN TEACHES RESPECT
Dir. Matt Ley | United Kingdom | 0:04:11
Two kids in detention are made to watch a cheesy PSA about an often-overlooked aspect of everyday life.
STACHE AND THE INNER WALK
Dir. Joanne Fisher | Canada | 0:03:30
Salvador Dali's moustache rises in the crypt and journeys into the world of its subconscious.
BLINK IN THE DESERT
Dir. Shinobu Soejima | Japan | 0:10:34
A young hermit finds a winged insect and crushes it out of disgust.
IN THE UPPER ROOM
Dir. Alexander Gratzer | Austria | 0:08:09
Every season a young mole visits his blind grandfather, who lives deep underground in a comfortably decorated burrow. As the two grow older their relationship becomes more intense and important questions arise.
SOUL OFFICE
Dir. Ryan Loughran | United Kingdom | 0:10:25
Soul Office is an animated comedy following two enterprising criminals who bite the dust when an ATM robbery goes awry.