ANIMATION FESTIVAL
20.–23.5.2021 ONLINE

Documentaries

These clever and insightful documentaries deals current topics. If you watch screening outside of Finland, you should select All Access screening. This screening is suitable for adults only. Buy your ticket here.

Let go

Director: Star Bazancir
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  2 min
Year: 2020
Country: Sweden

A story about people of flesh and blood, torn apart by illusions named border, nations and race.

Invisible Monsters and Tomato soup

Directors: Stevie Borrello, Marcie LaCerte & Meghan McDonough
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  5 min 25 sec
Year: 2021
Country: USA

The Things Around Us

Director: Magda Kreps
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  2 min 30 sec
Year: 2021
Country: USA, Germany

A hand-drawn animated film, in which I explore my relationship with my mother and her belongings.

Where were you?

Director: María Trénor
Technique: 2D, 3D
Duration:  20 min
Year: 2020
Country: Spain

The film challenges us to reflect on the transversal and universal reality that is violence against women.

Maalbeek

Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Technique: 3D
Duration:  16 min
Year: 2020
Country: France

Survivor but amnesiac of the attack at Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine is looking for the missing image of an over-mediatised event of which she has no memory.

Just a Guy

Director: Shoko Hara
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  15 min
Year: 2020
Country: Germany

An animated documentary film about love. Three women share glimpses of their affection, attraction and relationship with Richard Ramirez: A serial killer and rapist they contacted after his conviction in the 80s.

The Chimney Swift

Director: Frédéric Schuld
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  16 min
Year: 2020
Country: Germany

A chimney sweeper describes his everyday routine of forcing young kids to become workers. While we observe a kid cleaning a chimney, the master’s statement gets more personal with every sentence until we understand, that he is speaking about his own past.

Utopia – C

Director: Reinhold Bidner
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  12 min
Year: 2020
Country: Austria

“Utopia – C” is an experimental animated short film/animated documentary about a personal experiences and hometown-observations in this strange time that we are going through right now.

Flesh

Director: Camila Kater
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  12 min
Year: 2019
Country: Brazil, Spain

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.

Bach-Hông

Director: Elsa Duhamel
Tehnique: 2D digital, ink on paper
Duration:  18 min
Year: 2019
Country: France

Jeanne was born in 1959 in Saigon. She enjoyed a privileged lifestyle, protected from the war between North and South Vietnam. Fascinated by horses, Jeanne rode a mare called Bach-Hông.

Hijack139

Director: Joachim Berg & Sondre Johre
Technique: 3D
Duration:  6 min
Year: 2020
Country: Norway

An intoxicated man spontaneously hijacks a plane and in the process starts emptying the aircraft’s entire supply of beer.

We Have One Heart

Director: Katarzyna Warzecha
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration:  11 min
Year 2020
Country: Poland

After his mother dies, Adam comes across some letters his parents exchanged years ago. He uncovers an extraordinary family secret.

The Peacock in the Room

Director: Sanjana Chandrasekhar
Technique: Mixed media
Duration:  2 min 30 sec
Year: 2019
Country: United Kingdom

An intergenerational film that traverses the relationship between a mother and daughter, during challenging times.