ANIMATION FESTIVAL/ 15.-18.10.2020/ HELSINKI

International Competition 3

Friday 16.10. 4.30.pm, Bio Rex
Duration 94 min

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Five minutes to sea

Director: Natalia Mirzoyan
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 7 min 7 sec
Year: 2018
Country: Russia

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.

Riviera

Director: Jonas Schloesing
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  15 min
Year: 2018
Country: France

At the Riviera residency, on a sweltering summer day, it’s nap time. The residents o about their business, sunbathing next to the swimming pool. Inside his dimly lit living room, Mr Henriet, bored, is spying on his neighbours.

The Porous Body

Director: Sofia El Khyari
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  6 min 15 sec
Year: 2018
Country: UK

A young woman who lives in her thoughts goes back to the sea to refocus on herself. As she dives into the water, she dives into her skin and penetrates her psychological and physical shell. A meditative poetic trip inside the skin.

Deep love

Director: Mykyta Lyskov
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  14 min
Year: 2019
Country: Ukraine

Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine

One of many

Director: Petra Zlonoga
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  5 min 32 sec
Year: 2018
Country: Croatia, France

I am one. One of many. One of everyone yet the only one. What is it that I am looking for, that always seems out of reach?

Sounds good

Director: Sander Joon
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  9 min 50 sec
Yeaer: 2018
Country: Estonia

Boom operator is trying to record the sound of mushrooms.

Love He Said

Director: Ines Sedan
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  5 min 40 sec
Year: 2018
Country: France

1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem LOVE in front of a wild audience who came to listen to the trash poet’s provocations. But that day, instead of the punk, they found a broken man hungry [more…]

Story

Director: Jola Bańkowska
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2019
Country: Poland

‘Story’ is a reflection about modern man in an age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories – a popular function in many social media platforms – we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them.

The Hunt

Director: Mateusz Jarmulski
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  8 min
Year: 2018
Country: Poland

North-eastern Polish village, surrounded by forests and lakes. That’s where the main character – an 11 years old boy spends his last month of summer. He explores the surroundings, equipped with a cassette recorder and a bow. His innocent adventure suddenly stops being a childish play – [more…]

Foreign Exchange

Director: Corrie Francis Parks
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  5 min 45 sec
Year: 2019
Country: United States

A multitude of mini-universes collide in this tiny world built with money and sand. What you observe, and the meaning you derive from that observation, depends on where you start your journey. Look closely, it’s all in the details…

A Mind Sang

Director: Vier Nev
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  6 min 11 sec
Year: 2019
Country: Portugal

A pregnant scientist becomes a mother, two men draw and a cat observes butterflies. Their stories merge to form a dreamlike celebration of rebirth and transformation.

Around the stairway

Director: Die Wimmelgruppe (collective)
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  5 min
Year: 2019

In a fantastic town, many mysterious things happen at once. A collaborative film produced for the 50 years jubilee of the Association of Swiss Animation Filmmakers.