For Christmas, a little girl gets wall bars instead of a hula hoop, which she asked for. Animated short film based on Zita Murányi’s poem.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Family
Technique
Cut-Out Animation
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Home is more than a place where we live. It is also a feeling of trust, being within your family. This feeling is transferred from generation to generation. This film follows a little boy losing his home through mourning and relocation.
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A young couple embarks inot a new life, dragging their old bathtub on their back. Hollow Land is a movie at the same time absurd, dark and full of humor which highlights the pressures which undergo the exiles, the refugees and all those who have difficulty in finding a place in the world.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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A short story about a long road. Two siblings try to find their grandfather’s house. During their hitchhike, they meet various people, but their real companion is a plant in a pot. What will happen when they reach their destination?
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Coming-of-Age
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This animated video clip is made using traditional animation using ordinary pens and cheap paper. Crumpled and forgotten. No one had taken it out of their backpack since the last summer vacation many years ago. Flipping through the pages, we find old confessions of love, leaflets warning against drugs and wild doodles.
- Drama
- Music Videos
- Tragedy
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn’t as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!
- Comedy
- Family
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Neo is a wild visual ride from two young animators and percussive poets Hello Marcel. The authors of the clip were inspired by their own surroundings and used a combination of visual techniques and psychedelic colors to emphasize the main leitmotif. Their work blurs the lines between impertinence and cool stuff.
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Heldenkanzler is based on a true story. Vienna 1993 – Parliament: Many delegates are talking. A tiny man lifts himself up on the speaker’s desk. It is Engelbert Dollfuss. The other parliamentarians make fun of him loudly. A fight breaks out in the parliament. The tiny man escapes from the troubled parliament and flees into the next cinema. As he recognizes that even a small Austrian man rides highly successful on the wave of victory in Germany, he also decides to take power.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Bio-pic
- Experimental
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In the midst of a heatwave of insanity, two children find a way to cool everyone down!I A playful stop motion short film animated in a hybrid techique between cut out, claynimation and thousands of replacements pieces.
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Hate for sale. All the very best. Hate for sale. Vintage stuff. Do my cries excite your interest? Lovely hate. Your life is rough.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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During an evening walk, Mr. Oscar witnesses an assault. To his great surprise, he finds that the victim is an authentic harpy. His interest has been aroused, but not without danger
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Story of a love triangle in which a girl is living her everyday life on the beach when Hanne appears. As unexpected as she is, she disappears as suddenly.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Pupils with their strict teacher go to the theater, where “Hamlet” is being performed. The kids get bored very soon.
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Based on Percy Shelley’s poem “The Dirge”, Ginevra depicts the aftermath of the murder of a young woman. As her distraught mother looks on, she learns that life after death involves a transition she never could have imagined.
- Drama
- Experimental
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The story of this cut-out animation movie is based on an old Chinese tale: an old man, Ginko, and his son Kinko lived in a countryside village. One day, his horse ran away but the next day it actually came back with another horse, even more beautiful. Kinko went on a ride on the new horse, but fell down and broke his leg. He could not walk for several months. At that time, a war started and all the young men of the village were drafted in and many of them lost their lives on the front. Only Ginko’s son escaped the horror of war because of his broken leg that forced him to stay back home. Whatever happens, good luck and bad luck often run together. That is old man Ginko’s attitude.
- Drama
- Tragedy
- Experimental
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Czech-Slovak video clip in which a woman sings about a man liking her the way she is. But the man, represented here only by a giant hand, tries to change the woman, on the contrary, as in some mobile application. The creators reflect the insidious desire to improve the partner, supported by the possibilities of modern technologies.
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Movie Force Of Attraction is parodying persistent stereotypes about Russians and Americans. Author used live-action movie storytelling method and traditional cultural elements. The movie is also using a lot of gags intended for adult audience. This movie was made in digital paper cut-out animation technique and visual was made in traditional artistic way.
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Romance
- Experimental
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Short stop motion film about different kinds of food. Story of food in three acts.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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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)
- Documentary
- Making of
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A web miniseries about a single finger, by Tomáš Rosputinský and Peter Budinský.
- Comedy
- Family