Synopsis:
Theresa and Viktor, a middle-aged couple, are living in an apartment above a jazz club. They can’t sleep at night because of the music coming from the club. Perhaps it is a welcomed distraction from their mundane lives?
- Director:
- Izabela Plucinska
- Year:
- 2005
- Running time:
- 10 min.
- Technique:
- Claymation, Stop Motion Animation
- Production type:
- Student
- Producer:
- Jamila Wenske
- Script writers:
- Izabela Plucinska, Justyna Celeda
- Music composer:
- Raz Dwa Trzy
- Editor:
- Izabela Plucinska
- Production:
- Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
- Distribution:
- MAGNETFILM
- Genres:
- Drama, Tragicomedy, Abstract, Experimental
- Tags:
- Surreal, Festival Darlings, Mental health, Trauma, Identity, Relationships, Love, Humor, Poetic, Dreams, Shame
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin
- Awards:
- Jutro Film / 2005 / Best Animation ex aequo, International Film Festival Leipzig / 2005 / Silver Pigeon, FICA Algarve International Film Festival / 2006 / Best Animation Film
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