Explore the heartwarming journey of a little British orphan with Mummy Joe, filled with resilience and hope in this charming animation.
- Tragicomedy
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English
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The filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, best known for the documentaries Generation Wealth (2018) and The Queen of Versailles (2012), has been poking at the ugly underbelly of consumerism for more than 25 years. Through her unsparing lens, the latest incarnation of the American dream has been revealed in all its blingy, exploitative glory, particularly when it comes to its toll on women and girls. In an interview with Topic recorded in late November of 2018, Greenfield talks about the major themes running through her work, and what she calls "the ultimate cost, and degradation, of capitalism."
- Documentary
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Why is green filming the future of the film industry? What are the rules of green puppet making? Using their knowledge and expertise, we will talk about practical advice that can allow planning and practicing solutions neutralising the film industry's impact on the environment. The key point is a discussion about a unique green guide prepared as part of StopMoLab by MOMAKIN. Speakers: Paulina Zacharek (MOMAKIN / StopMoLab), Arturo Tornero Aceves, Birgit Heidsiek (European Center for Sustainability)
- Film about animation
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This video serves as a beginner’s guide to the very famous and influential Czech animator Jiří Trnka. His films include The Hand, The Czech Year, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Old Czech Legends, and Cybernetic Grandma.
- Film about animation
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We are glad that we could screen an extraordinary stop-motion piece, Antipolis by Kaspar Jancis in our Masters Competition Programme at the 11th Primanima. The Estonian filmmaker's clay figures are telling the story of an incompatible conspiracy theory about the shape of planet Earth. He worked on many audible and visual details of Antipolis with artists and friends from Hungary. At the 11th of Primanima Kaspar and Mattia Sinigaglia also gifted our audience with a surprise at the Award Ceremony.
- Film about animation
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Interview with the director Pablo Ballarin, interviewer Amin Abbasi. In this interview, you can get the answers to the following questions: Was there a personal experience or event that prompted the creation of this film? What was the biggest challenge with this film?
- Film about animation
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In this touching presentation, Pedersen describes the creative and visual processes behind three of his films produced by Mikrofilm.
- Film about animation
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This video serves as beginner’s guide to the world of Bulgarian animation.
- Film about animation
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Nikita Diakur got a special jury award for his film "UGLY" at Animafest 2017., and then a year later he came back with "FEST“ and won The Golden Zagreb Award for creativity and innovative artistic achievement: the jury praised his film for bringing fresh perspective, digital innovation and creative use of contemporary technology while referencing modern subcultures.
- Film about animation
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Meet Priit & Olga Pärn, directors of 'Life Without Gabriela Ferri' (2008), 'Divers in the Rain' (2009) and 'Pilots on the Way Home' (2014). Interview in English.
- Film about animation
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Joanna Quinn completed a foundation course in art at Goldsmiths College, University of London before studying for a BA in Graphic Design at Middlesex University. There she first discovered the magic of animation, quickly adapting her unique drawing abilities to produce beautifully fluid and dynamic animated passages. In 1985 she founded Beryl Productions with her partner, producer/writer Les Mills, and the couple have collaborated ever since. Joanna is now a highly acclaimed figure in world animation, having won over 90 international awards, including Emmys, Baftas and Jury prizes at all the major animation festivals. Two of her films have received Oscar© nominations. She has been honoured with retrospectives of her work in all over the world including Rome, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Toronto, Montreal, Gothenburg, Bradford, Cordoba, Tampere, Ottawa, Valencia and Taiwan.
- Film about animation
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Go behind the scenes with the real people that voiced your favourite Creature Comforts characters. Nick Park’s Creature Comforts took the classic documentary style and applied it to the lives of wild animals and pets, matching a cast of clay characters with human voices to charming effect. Originating from Nick’s 1989 Academy Award®-winning short film, Creature Comforts was unique for using unscripted vox-pop interviews with the British public in a stop motion series that has become an Aardman classic.
- Film about animation
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In this presentation, experimental animator and educator Amy Kravitz discussed the process of creating, embracing, fragmenting, abandoning, shattering, and obscuring narratives to find what feels genuine and truthful.
- Film about animation
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Aardman mainstays Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham visit BFI Southbank to talk about their work, including the new Wallace & Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. Four-time Oscar-winner Nick Park created the characters Wallace and Gromit at film school. He would go on to direct Creature Comforts, Early Man and, with Peter Lord, Chicken Run. He is a director of Aardman Animations and one the world’s leading stop-motion animators and filmmakers. The multi-talented Merlin Crossingham has worked on many of Aardman’s greatest films and is Creative Director of Wallace and Gromit at Aardman. He is also the director, with Nick Park, of the forthcoming Wallace and Gromit adventure Vengeance Most Fowl. They will discuss their careers at Aardman and share their insights into this glorious form of animation.
- Film about animation
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Marta Gennari and Giulia Martinelli about their friendship, creative process, prihodnosti and their film Merlot.
- Film about animation
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For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.
- Bio-pic
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Over the course of these two stop-motion films, made by Karen Yasinsky in 1999, a woman—with the help of a pair of ruby-red slippers—delves into her fantasies and confronts good and evil before returning safely to the reality of her life.
- Drama
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The fatal fall to Earth of heroic World War II pilot Andrew Mynarski is rendered with white-hot expressionist intensity in this stroboscopic collage of live action and animation.
- Action
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A father and daughter maintain their bond despite living in different countries through an imaginative nightly ritual where she suggests a title and he creates short animated films starring her as the hero.
- Family
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Guy Maddin narrates a surreal animated ode to the Métis freedom fighter and founder of the province of Manitoba.
- Drama
- Bio-pic
