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The plains are populated with beds. Growing Plains is a sensory snapshot of an uncanny landscape where humans have an alternative biology. There is a system, refined over generations, an exchange between human and bird. The relationship between birds and humans are crucial for both of their survival.
Four elderly women recall their youth, when relationships between men and women were very different. Their voices merge into one — that of Grandmother Vera, who tells her story. Her memories reveal the position of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century.
This music video is a computer-generated animation made in an open-source program Golly. The program is used as a simulation of cell growth. The background is made with animated objects in the scanner. The story follows the lyrics of the song. First, the growth seems unlimited, then a peak comes, we break and vanish and again and again, the game of life. Behind this circle, an everlasting nostalgia is present.
Good Resolutions talks about some weaknesses of human beings.The main characters are the tenants of a building who are busy satisfying their desires, often ridiculous. The different stories are connected by the tragicomic nature of the characters themselves.
The film follows the day of three young teens living in a neglected ghost town in post-Soviet Europe.
Fulfillmenot is a visual poem about the search for answers that turn into questions turning into answers and into more questions. In an associative chain of seemingly arbitrarily linked events, an ever-changing protagonist takes unexpected actions in strange sceneries. Throughout the course of the film she goes on to explore her personality and her body in new, different ways. As alternate versions of her start to emerge, escape and finally devour her, she is made to understand that linearity is an illusion.
Three authors, three different generations, three different perspectives on their own work. All three worked in the audiovisual industry, advertising and other commercial spheres. Through animated interviews, the film approaches their experiences and asks whether there is also a place for author’s work in their lives.
A life insurance company uses an AI algorithm to determine the risk of a new applicant. The subsequent denial sparks a period of introspection for the individual in question.
People get lost in the deep forest and the chances of getting out are minimal, but not hopeless. The only way to escape is to go on a journey and respect the forest. But the hero of this film failed to do that, who disrespected the deep forest and now he has to pay for it.
In an ordinary building, life goes on like in a beehive. Suddenly the geometry is broken by a leap into the void.
This tender interview between film director Jonas and his school friend Amin, years after they first met, blossoms into an extraordinary story of love, survival and resilience. Vibrant animation paints the story of Amin’s departure from what had been a happy childhood home in Afghanistan, subsequently fractured by war, to his current life as a successful academic in Denmark. As he prepares to take the next step in his commitment to long-term partner Kasper, Amin recalls his former fears of persecution and how there wasn’t a word for homosexuality in Afghanistan.
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)
In a world where nothing or no one escapes the law, the only loophole is to get drunk. And in this colourful, absurd and entertaining animation; getting drunk means getting down and running amok!
The film, which was made as part of the 70th anniversary of the animation studio at UMPRUM, is loosely inspired by the work of three graduates: Václav Mergl, Jan Souček and Vratislav Hlavatý. Motifs from their films, illustrations and paintings have been placed in new contexts to create a new work of authorship.
Camera is following the events that happened after two kids find a box of matches and decide to boil an egg.
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Elena is enjoying her life in clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed brings to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of doing so.
The holidays by the ocean are troubled by a tragic accident. From then on, the surrounding beauty takes on a tint of desperation until Frédérique finds the strength to cope with the loss, in her music.
An official music video for ECHT! - 500Gr.
The Chinese restaurant is empty. The exotic bird’s cage stands wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them. Catching the birds ain’t as simple as it seems.