AIFF 2017: Animation in Competition - A Very International Group

I've never been able to do overviews of the films in competition in all the categories before.  This one and the previous one - Made in Alaska - are a little short changed, but time's running out.

As I put this together I had a couple of thoughts:
1.  This is the most international category of the festival - Taiwan, Korea, Canada, Ecuador, Iran, Czech Republic, Turkey, Japan, Venezuela, and USA
2.  These will be the hardest to see - most are only shown once in slots that will be competing with longer films.

I'd note that the animated films are often the most original and beautiful.

So if you want to see these, you need to mark these dates and times and schedule them.

The animated films in competition are spread over three different programs - Animation 1, Animation 2, and Family Films - and that's how I've organized and color coded them for you.

Two of these films will also be shown at the Martini Matinee - I've marked them in green.

There's a mystery category called Animation at Night.  It's Friday Dec. 8 at E Street Theater, 7:45pm
The films in this program have not been posted yet.

Animation 1

Sat. Dec 2, E Street Theater 2pm

BAUMU
Shao-Chun Chung
Taiwan
9 min 30 secs
Animation 1
Sat. Dec 2, E Street Theater 2pm

he Realm of Deepest Knowing
Seeing Her Kim
Korea
3 min 30 sec
Animation 1

Animation 2

Sat Dec 9 E Street Theater, 7pm

Twice Upon a Time
Vojin Vasovic
Canada
15 min
Animation 2


Afterwork
Luis Uson
Ecuador
7 min
Animation 2
Sat Dec 9 E Street Theater, 7pm

Cigare
Tom Tassel
Canada
6 min
Animation 2
Martini Matinee

Genesis
Abtin Mozafari
Iran
10 min
Animation 2

Happy End 
Jan Saska
Czech Republic
6 min
Animation 2
Martini Matinee Fri Dec 8 Bear Tooth

RIPrivacy
Aycan Basar
Turkey
5 min
Animation 2

South Forest
Wenru Huang
Japan
7 min
Animation 2

Family Films

Sat Dec 9 Loussac 12pm

Bakiro
Miguel New
Venezuela
15 min
Family Films
Sat Dec 9 Loussac 12pm


Light Sight
Seyed Tabatabaei
Iran
7 min 30 sec
Family Films

Navajo Tales
Dallin Penmen
USA
4 min 2 sec
Family Films


Undiscovered
Sara Litzenberger
USA
2 min 30 sec
Family Films

I've done this post fairly quickly, with the help of a 40 minute delay (so far) of our flight back to Anchorage.  If you catch any errors, let me know.