Genre

Making of

81–100 of 188 films

  • Lorraine Lordan talks from Ireland on her international career in animation. She explains how she has been able to balance making a short film with lead roles on features, and shares what she has learnt along the way.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
  • Masterclass with one of the undisputed geniuses of animated film and creator of Aardman Animations, the studio responsible for such unforgettable characters as Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and others, Peter Lord at Cineteca Madrid.

    • Making of
  • Actionlessness, wordlessness, slowness, alienation, transcendental cinema in the short animation format? Faiyaz Jafri talks about the importance of procrastination in the creative process and the deconstruction of linearity. Art is suffering, and that’s okay. This is a cinematic masterclass on making boring long films in short film format.

    • Making of
  • Gints Zilbalodis will share what he learned while making his feature debut “Away”, which won the Contrechamp Award for Best Feature Film at the Annecy International Animation Film festival in 2019. He will also reveal what goes on behind the scenes of the creative process of his upcoming film “Flow”.

    • Making of
  • Mao’s Mango Cult

    2022 16+ 7 min

    by Kayu Leung

    The history of the Cultural Revolution in the 60s in China…from the perspective of a mango…from a factory.

    • Documentary
    • Tragedy
    • Bio-pic
    • Making of
  • MAKING OF | Memoir of a Snail

    2025 All audiences 7 min

    Discover the making of the set of “Brunswick ST” from Adam Elliot’s heart-wrenching new film ‘Memoir of a Snail’.

    • Making of
  • The multiple award-winning Daniel Gray will present his newest short animation, HIDE which started its festival circuit at Ottawa and continued at Montreal, Clermont-Ferrand, Zagreb and Krakow. Now, Daniel, the writer and director and Bella Szederkényi, his producer will reveal what’s behind the door and will share the story of creating HIDE from its conception, development, finding partners, pitching failing, pitching succeeding, residencies, pre-production, production, post-production, sound recording challenges, life complications and its afterlife at the festivals.

    • Making of
  • Making of: Move Mountain

    2013 All audiences 3 min

    by Kirsten Lepore

    Behind the scenes on Move Mountain.

    • Experimental
    • Making of
  • Making The Eagleman Stag

    2012 All audiences 8 min

    A making of the 2011 BAFTA award winning short film from Mikey Please.

    • Making of
  • Making Of – 27 by Flora Anna Buda

    2024 All audiences 7 min

    by Flora Anna Buda

    Flora Anna Buda, the director of 27, the multi-award-winning film, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film. 27 won many awards including the Palme d’Or for a short film at the Festival de Cannes and the Cristal for best animated short at the Annecy Film Festival.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Experimental
    • Making of
  • During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from their restrictive coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
    • Non-narrative
  • This lecture will take us in space and time through the main contemporary art forum, the Venice Biennale. Every two years guest curators treat the international audiences to their own “cross-section of the world.” On the example of prominent projects starting from 2011 and up to now, we will explore the human image and its current ranking in the work of curators and in the imagination of artists. We will also try to establish why it is worth setting your “outlook clock” against the major arts exhibitions.

    • Making of
  • Living Matter

    2018 13+ 4 min

    by Bettina Boros, Brigitta Boros

    The experiences and thoughts of puppeteers and two animation students about how the dead material comes alive.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Making of
  • Join LALIFF and LatinX in Animation as we host LatinX short animation filmmakers from LALIFF Connect 2020. Moderated by Simón Wilches-Castro (Creative Director, Titmouse) and José Iñesta (CEO, Pixelatl), we will discuss the inspiration and structure behind the experimental animated shorts and explore the themes touched upon these shorts.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
  • Kiki of Montparnasse

    2012 16+ 14 min

    by Amélie Harrault

    ‘Kiki de Montparnasse’ was the unwary muse of major avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. Memorable witness of a flamboyant Montparnasse, she emancipated from her status as a simple model and became a Queen of the Night, a painter, a press cartoonist, a writer and a cabaret singer.

    • Drama
    • Bio-pic
    • Tragicomedy
    • Making of
  • Keep Festive and Create Safer Events

    2025 All audiences 56 min

    by Britt Raes

    CEE Animation Experience webinar dedicated to Keep Festive, a new international initiative committed to creating safer, more inclusive environments at animation industry events. Guest speakers Aneta Ozorek and Anastasiya Verlinska, representing member festivals behind the initiative, will present its core values, practical tools, and real-world protocols developed to prevent sexual harassment and unsafe situations. From establishing a Code of Conduct to training staff and managing sensitive cases, this session will explore ways organizers and festival professionals can foster respectful and supportive industry events.

    • Documentary
    • Making of