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FOOD is an animated documentary that features interviews with a wide variety of eaters from around the world. Ranging from vegetarians, vegans, pescetarians to some seriously dedicated carnivores, the conversation raises many substantial issues about the environment and modern life. By pairing real interviews with stop-motion animation, the film presents a group of “edible characters” discussing themselves.
In a world where people’s hearts are on the outside and exhibit the qualities of a pet, Mary loses her lovable Skip only to rediscover herself and learn what it truly means to “follow your heart.”
In an ordinary building, life goes on like in a beehive. Suddenly the geometry is broken by a leap into the void.
A dirty lake bursts its banks and begins to flood the town. At last there’s a good reason to keep the son at home. But in isolation, nightmarish associations start to mix with reality.
On the cruise that he was supposed to take his annual break from life, Jadran experienced a tragic shipwreck during which he lost consciousness. Wake up in the middle of the ocean, all alone.
What if the roles of kids and adults were switched? The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of the relationship of grown-ups and children.
A cheeky muddy piglet is disturbing the flamingo‘s elegant hen party.
The music video for the song “I COULD NEVER LIVE WITHOUT YOU BY MY SIDE” by the Berlin based techno group FJAAK tells the story of one night in a Berlin techno club. Two lovers go on a drug induced trip with a fatal ending. During this trip they meander through different surreal spaces of their shared past and their distorted memories of those events.
The mother issues her decree: before you get back in the water, you have to take a break and sit quietly for five minutes. For the little girl, these five minutes are an ocean of boredom that stretches on forever and ever. She starts to watch the other bathers and how they spend their five minutes.
Frustrated at being the only straight flamingo in a gay flock, our hero falls in love with a lady stork who flies by. Unable to convince her of his serious intentions, he isolates himself and endures an identity crisis. An intensive encounter inspires him to make a bold move.
Fish Boy lives in darkness, his guilt about the past slowly consuming him. His girlfriend Laura is a light of hope in his dark world. But despite his efforts, his past continues to chase him, eventually putting them both in danger.
Jude and Ruby are out fishing for a legendary fish called Moby, they talk about Hemingway, Wild at Heart and Spinoza. They end up fighting the fish and accidentally catching it.
A metaphor of how the normal order of things sometimes goes awry, one night the fish take over.
The festival’s creative director Hämid Shajarian interviews the participants of the National Competition category of Animatricks 2021: Tove Johnson – Jumalolento by Juho Maurinen (2019), Left Behind by Minna Eriksson (2020), Rinse and Shine by Iiris Korjus ja Katariina Haukka (2021), The Things I Saw: Monday by David Graham (2020), Bad to the boner by Robert Lönnqvist (2021), Tiedänkö mitä etsin by Ylva-Lii Wahlström (2019)
An old man suits up his diver gear to dive into the nearby waters. During his research it brings back a memory of himself, which shows an important event from his early years. We are witnessing how he and his partner trying to catch a dangerous criminal, who then causes more problems than expected.
Don’t you hate it when your figure drawing model keeps shuffling?
Oil on glass, short animated film about changes in life, 2000.
It’s better not fall in love…
A young corporate executive is kidnapped from his apartment. He wakes up in the middle of a forest only to be stalked by a mysterious hunter.
Two friends, lovers, soulmates, a pair of two, searching and ultimately finding each other. This pair traveling between worlds and changing forms, expressed through 15 styles of animation, by 15 animators from across the world.