The Leak

In the quietness of an apartment the irruption of a water leak leads to the encounter of the protagonist with her younger self and their blurry memories of an early loss.

Stopmotion animation, 7 min, 2023

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Credits

Direction Paola Cubillos

DOP Paola Cubillos

Photography advisors David Garcia I Jeroen Ceulebrouck I Jean-François Pauly I Alex Pistorius

Animation Paola Cubillos I Geertrui de Vijlder I Anouk Killian-Debord

Set, puppets and props design Paola Cubillos

Costume design Charlotte Dupont

Music Composition Tiago Tobias Cabral

Sound design Arzu Saglam

Sound editing Rebecca Glover

Foley artist Arantxa Oliver

Foley recordist Arnulfo Flores

Foley supervisor Maria Alejandra Rojas

Voice recordist Guillaume Rousseré

Colour grading Vladislav Chernolyasov

VFX Agathe Juvenez I Lucia Scansetti I Nicolas Gillard

Mentor Emma de Swaef

Festival selections

  1. Festival Premiers Plans Angers, France, January 2023, Official selection

  2. Ghent International Short Film Festival, Belgium, March 2023, Official selection

  3. Athens ANIMFEST, Greece, March 2023, Official selection

  4. Monstra Livre de Cinema, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 2023, Official selection

  5. Caribetoons Festival Internacional de animación, Colombia, June 2023, Official selection

  6. Framed | Animatiefilmfestival Forum Groningen, Groeningen, Netherlands, June 2023, Official selection

  7. TIFSS, Tel Aviv International Student Short film festival, Israel, June 2023, Official selection

  8. Cartoon Club Animated film festival, Rimini, Italy, July 2023, Official selection, International Panorama

  9. Boston Short Film Festival, United-States, July 2023, Official selection

  10. Animix International Animation film festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, August 2023, Official selection

  11. Short Shot Fest, Moscow, Russia, August 2023

  12. Flipbook Film Festival, Macedonia, August 2023, Best European Animated Student Short Film, Official selection

  13. AniMaji Festival, New York, United-States, August 2023, Official selection

  14. FICOT (Festival Internacional de cine de la Otredad), Guanajuato, Mexico, August 2023, Official selection

  15. ECCE! Short Film Festival, Antwerp, Belgium, August 202

  16. Cardiff Animation Nights, Cardiff, United-Kingdom, August 2023, Official selection

  17. KO:SH FILM FEST, Korça, Albania, September 2023, Official selection

  18. 25th Festival universitario de cine y audiovisuales Equinoxio, Bogota, Colombia, September 2023, Official selection

  19. ANIMAURA, Morelia, Mexico, September 2023, Official selection

  20. TrikFilm, Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 2023, Official selection

  21. Lisboa Indie Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2023, Official selection

  22. Anima Cinefest, New York, United-States, October 2023, Official selection

  23. International Short Film Festival, Un Festival C’est Trop Court!, Nice, France, October 2023, Official selection

  24. Cartoons Underground, Singapore, October 2023, Official selection

  25. International Student Animation Film Festival Animafantasia, Iassy, Romania, October 2023, Official selection

  26. Mobile Animation Film Festival - MAFF, Mobile, United-States, October 2023, International Student Animation - Official selection

  27. 3er Festival de Mujeres de Medios Audiovisuales, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, October 2023, International short film competition

  28. ArteNonStopFestival / BA2024 - International Film & Art Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2023, International short film competition

  29. Festival Internacional de Cine de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, October 2023, Official selection

  30. STOP MOTION MX FILM FESTIVAL, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2023, Official selection

  31. Future Film Festival, Bologna & Modena, Italy, November 2023, Official selection

  32. Animateka International Animation Film Festival, November 2023, Student Panorama - Official selection

  33. CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro, Mexico, November 2023, Official selection

  34. Animex Screen, United-Kingdom, November 2023, Official selection

  35. Anim!Arte, International Student Animation Festival of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2023, Official selection

  36. Sussex International Film Festival, Hailsham, United-Kingdom, November 2023, Best of student short films

  37. ICONA - Animation Festival, Icona, Greece, November 2023, International student short films competition

  38. Silence is golden - Silent Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, November 2023, International competition programme

  39. International Inter University Short Film Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2023, International competition

  40. International Filmschool Festival Tetouan, Morrocco, December 2023, Official selection

  41. LISBIFF, Lisbon Independent Film Festival, December 2023, Official selection

  42. BOGOSHORTS, Bogota, December 2023, Official selection

  43. SHORT to the point, Bucharest, Romania, December 2023, Official selection

  44. International 3.Bornova Short Film Days, Izmir, Turkey, December 2023, International Short Animation

  45. Napoli - CortiSonanti International Short Film Festival, Napoli, Italy, December 2023, International Animated Short films

  46. That’s ANIMATO! International Animation Film Student Awards @ Sottodiciotto Film Festival, Torino, Italy, December 2023, Animato4all

  47. Heroes International Film Festival, Rome, Italy, December 2023, International Graduation Film competition

  48. Golden Baklava Film Academy International Student Film Festival, Gaziantep, Turkey, December 2023, International Student Competition

  49. Cardiff Animation Nights, Cardiff, United-Kingdom, December 2023, Animated Short

  50. Festival Internacional de Cine Estudiantil Naranjal, Guayas, Ecuador, December 2023, International Competition

  51. Animakom Fest, Bilbao, Spain, December 2023, Student competition

  52. ANIMA Animation Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium, February 2024, Official selection

  53. Shortcutz Brazil, Santa-Catarina, Brazil, March 2024, Short films selection

  54. Montecito Student Film Festival 2024, Santa-Barbara (California), United-States, March 2024, Student short films

  55. Happy Valley Animation Festival, Pennsylvania, United-States, March 2024, International Animated Student Short Film

  56. VI Festival de Cine Universitario Render, Lima, Peru, April 2024, Fiction / Experimental selection

  57. KINOLATINO - Latin American Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium, Short films selection

  58. 11th Showreel: Effat International Student Film Festival, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, April 2024, International Student Animation film Selection

  59. Martinique Film Festival - Cannes International Film Week, Paris, France, May 2024, Online streaming from May 13 to May 30: https://www.cannesfilmweek.com/animated-films

  60. Premios Quirino 2024, Tenerife, Spain, May 2024, Graduation Film Finalist